DAO votes to join Blender Development Fund as Patron member
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Re: DAO votes to join Blender Development Fund as Patron member
#2Take the money and run!
Re: DAO votes to join Blender Development Fund as Patron member
#3For context, Patron member is at €120K+ per year, and this puts them as the 7th one. Other patron members are GPU manufacturers (Nvidia/AMD), game engines (Epic/Unity), Facebook (pre-Meta, but presumably for VR reasons), and AWS (no idea, publicity move to promote AWS use by game studios?). Decentraland fits in there alongside Meta.
Re: DAO votes to join Blender Development Fund as Patron member
#4Anyone tried decentraland? Any good?
Re: DAO votes to join Blender Development Fund as Patron member
#5For context, Patron member is at €120K+ per year, and this puts them as the 7th one. Other patron members are GPU manufacturers (Nvidia/AMD), game engines (Epic/Unity), Facebook (pre-Meta, but presumably for VR reasons), and AWS (no idea, publicity move to promote AWS use by game studios?). Decentraland fits in there alongside Meta.
AWS might be because of Lumberyard, their fork of CryEngine
Re: DAO votes to join Blender Development Fund as Patron member
#6Always glad to see funds go to a great and well managed Open source project like Blender!
That said, looking up what the hell is 'Decentraland' and how it works is to dive into a dystopian nightmare. Cutesy illustrations tell you: 'Decentraland: it's like a second rate RPG, except instead of in game currency you have to use your actual cash to participate in a tech-bro pyramid scheme where each coin has the climate impact equivalent to burning down a substantial area of rainforest'.
Blender foundation should insist on getting cash up front ;)
Re: DAO votes to join Blender Development Fund as Patron member
#7I really need to find the time to go and learn what DAO is. But if anyone could do a ELI5 would be great.
Re: DAO votes to join Blender Development Fund as Patron member
#8Anyone tried decentraland? Any good?
Yes and No. Reminded me of Second Life but worse.
Good video overview here
Re: DAO votes to join Blender Development Fund as Patron member
#9For context, Patron member is at €120K+ per year, and this puts them as the 7th one. Other patron members are GPU manufacturers (Nvidia/AMD), game engines (Epic/Unity), Facebook (pre-Meta, but presumably for VR reasons), and AWS (no idea, publicity move to promote AWS use by game studios?). Decentraland fits in there alongside Meta.
AWS might be because of Lumberyard, their fork of CryEngine
Right, that makes sense. It's now evolved into O3DE, but last year when they joined the BDF Lumberyard's license required games to use AWS for servers.
Re: DAO votes to join Blender Development Fund as Patron member
#10I really need to find the time to go and learn what DAO is. But if anyone could do a ELI5 would be great.
Decentralised autonomous organization.
Picture a corporation, but instead of a board and CEO the shareholders vote on what to do directly. I'm sure someone more knowledgeable than I could come up with a better analogy.