<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body style="line-break:after-white-space"><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px">Hi all,</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px">After some discussion with the admin group, as well as the USD module stakeholders, I shared an update on the status of USD at <a href="https://devtalk.blender.org/t/usd-project-update/29440">https://devtalk.blender.org/t/usd-project-update/29440</a>.</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px">TL;DR: Blender is still looking for a dedicated developer to coordinate USD related topics, and for now we rely on volunteer contributions from the module (special thanks to Sonny and Michael for their efforts in this area). </div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px">We are starting to move development discussions over to the Developer Forum, so I would appreciate if any feedback or follow up would happen there.</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px"><br></div><div class="gmail_signature">
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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Francesco</font>
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<font face="monospace">Francesco Siddi - <a href="mailto:francesco@blender.org" target="_blank">francesco@blender.org</a>
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