The Bevy Foundation

Hi! I'm the fabled "project manager" that we'd like to hire! Helping run Bevy has been an incredible experience, and I'm very excited about the idea of being able to do this full-time. There are a ton of efforts I'd like to lead, and even more that I'd like to be able to help nudge along.

Re: The Bevy Foundation

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Post by OtomotO » Mon, Mar 11, 2024, 8:54 PM UTC

Any particular reason these 501(c)(3) non-profit public charity designations are no longer granted as freely as before?

Re: The Bevy Foundation

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Post by rahkiin » Mon, Mar 11, 2024, 9:00 PM UTC

_cart wrote: post #3

Bevy's creator, project lead, and now president of the Bevy Foundation here. Feel free to ask me anything!

How does it feel to have a small project where you are the only programmer turn into such an organization which asks very different things from you?

Re: The Bevy Foundation

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Post by CooCooCaCha » Mon, Mar 11, 2024, 9:10 PM UTC

Great news!

Re: The Bevy Foundation

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Post by tekacs » Mon, Mar 11, 2024, 9:16 PM UTC

_cart wrote: post #3

Bevy's creator, project lead, and now president of the Bevy Foundation here. Feel free to ask me anything!

Nothing to ask right now, just -- thank for your (and Alice's) work!

The (non-game) things that I do would be infinitely more painful without Bevy ECS, so I sponsored personally at Diamond for now.

Very excited for relations and I'm hoping that the Bevy Foundation can attract the support it's looking for (and I'll switch over to corporate in a few months if things don't go unexpectedly sideways with my company). :)

Re: The Bevy Foundation

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Post by alice-i-cecile » Mon, Mar 11, 2024, 9:25 PM UTC

OtomotO wrote: post #5

Any particular reason these 501(c)(3) non-profit public charity designations are no longer granted as freely as before?

From what we could tell, not really! It seems like a slow policy change, basically dictated at the level of the individual bureaucrat.

That said, the Zig Foundation got status in 2020, and the Amethyst Foundation (another Rust gamedev group) also got status recently, so we figured it was worth it to apply since we really do feel like it's the best-fitting designation for how we want to run things and what we want to do.

Re: The Bevy Foundation

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Post by _cart » Mon, Mar 11, 2024, 9:29 PM UTC

rahkiin wrote: post #6

_cart wrote: post #3

Bevy's creator, project lead, and now president of the Bevy Foundation here. Feel free to ask me anything!

How does it feel to have a small project where you are the only programmer turn into such an organization which asks very different things from you?

It has certainly been a wild ride. Running an organization is certainly a different skill set. I've learned that I'm pretty good at that side too, but it drains me in a way that programming does not. Bevy's success has definitely been a mixed bag for me. It has been extremely fulfilling and a dream come true. But things were also much simpler, calmer, and pleasant when I was building Bevy alone incognito.