[HN Gopher] Blender Foundation Annual Report 2020 [pdf]
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Blender Foundation Annual Report 2020 [pdf]
Author : Tomte
Score : 60 points
Date : 2021-05-07 17:09 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (download.blender.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (download.blender.org)
| runningmike wrote:
| Great report, with very personal note from Ton. Watched Ton at
| https://archive.fosdem.org/2020/schedule/speaker/ton_roosend...
| for who like moving images.
| abdabab wrote:
| How do you generate a pdf like this? It's pretty.
| bserge wrote:
| You can do it with Adobe Illustrator and/or InDesign.
| fuzzer37 wrote:
| Presumably LaTeX
| rguetzkow wrote:
| You need to hire the highly skilled Mike Newbon to design your
| reports.
| krastanov wrote:
| I am a big fan of LaTeX for tasks like this, like the sibling
| suggested, but this looks more like something done in Scribus
| or similar software.
| immmmmm wrote:
| while i have almost no use of this software, it's one of the most
| powerful open source tool around. i wish there was a similar
| effort to make Freecad more reliable (my bad not helping btw).
|
| also this has already been discussed and seems technically hard
| to do, but if the UI toolkit would be standalone that would be
| gold .. rarely seen sth of such quality
| tomovo wrote:
| Happy user here. Thanks to everyone involved! Blender is getting
| so much better with every release, the magnitude & quality of new
| features is unbelievable. Looking forward to 2.93.
| tpmx wrote:
| I'm just a casual Blender user, but to me the Blender Foundation
| (run out of the Netherlands) is obviously a dramatically better
| model on how to run an open source foundation compared to the Bay
| area equivalents (e.g. Mozilla and Wikimedia).
|
| There's so little nonsense! So much focus on the essentials. It's
| incredibly refreshing.
|
| I hope they can keep this focus as they grow. I suspect that not
| being located in the Bay area may help here.
| skeeter2020 wrote:
| A CEO salary of < 80K also goes a long way to attracting the
| right type of people for this role as well. My biggest
| complaint about many leadership roles where the #1 goal is not
| financial (i.e. government and NFP) is that it attracts the
| wrong types of motives. I don't believe the typical defense
| that "we need to compete with for-profit for access to the best
| people".
|
| The future of organizations like this sure seems to be
| distributed, so global talent recruitment should be a real
| advantage.
| kevingadd wrote:
| It's unfortunate that a salary in that bracket can rule out
| some of the "right type of people" because they may have
| prohibitive living expenses. If you've got kids to look after
| or expensive medical bills suddenly that number ends up being
| a lot smaller, and if you're not living in the mountains your
| housing may eat the rest of it.
|
| Thankfully for the Blender Foundation this is less likely to
| be an issue, since based on the data they appear to largely
| employ people in countries that have a healthy social safety
| net. If expenses like health care don't come directly out of
| the employee's pocket you can pay lower salaries no problem.
|
| Personally as an American with health issues, I could never
| consider a job at that salary, no matter how much I wanted
| the job. Maybe if it came with a work visa so I could live in
| another country with functioning social and health services
| (but in some cases, non-citizens pay for that out of pocket).
| tomcam wrote:
| > My biggest complaint about many leadership roles where the
| #1 goal is not financial (i.e. government and NFP) is that it
| attracts the wrong types of motives.
|
| Stone cold, unapologetic capitalist here. I had never
| questioned that line of thinking until this minute. And,uh...
| I agree completely! It can't be a coincidence that Tom and
| the rest of the Blender people are doing such a spectacular
| job.
| jayd16 wrote:
| Why exactly is it obviously dramatically better?
| tomcam wrote:
| My intuitive answer is that the foundation is precisely
| focused on its mission and way less of a drama queen. Zero
| public politics, apparently far less focus on fundraising and
| raising of awareness on nonessential issues. Wikipedia, for
| example, has a huge war chest but continues to fundraise.
| That raises questions.
|
| Blender is a lean, mean fighting machine and it's hard to
| question a single Euro in its budget. That's pretty
| impressive, and comforting to those of us who have
| contributed.
| tomcam wrote:
| Well that made me read the report, which I had no intention of
| doing. You're right, it's a model of its kind. And it really is
| refreshing.
| aidos wrote:
| That's reminded me to check back in to see what the story is with
| Apple Silicon support and it's in Alpha! Just given it a go and
| it seems to work really well.
|
| I'm totally novice but being able to tinker with Blender on my
| laptop without it burning up is going to be amazing!
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