[Bf-committers] Valve Steam Workshop donations - 2 devs get hired

[Sean Olson]

I started a google doc that filled up rather quick after posting on
polycount - Enjoy the years of work!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AuS_F0ZKX-zTdGxKOEMtRmI2Tno4UUlPZzVfNXB6RHc#gid=0

-Sean


On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Jonathan Williamson
<jonathan at cgcookie.com>wrote:

> Fantastic news!
>
> Jonathan Williamson
> http://cgcookie.com
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 4:22 AM, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Thanks to the first Steam Workshop donation payment, we can now invest
> > quality developer time for getting Blender work better in game creation
> > pipelines. I'm happy to announce that Blender developers Dalai Felinto
> and
> > Bastien Montagne have accepted a 6 month contract to work half-time on
> > supporting game artists! Their contract will become effective this week.
> >
> > First thing Dalai and Bastien will do is investigate with artists out
> > there (via Steam Workshop too) a nice priority list of topics to handle.
> > This will be publicly reviewed in our many channels and become part of
> the
> > weekly meetings in irc too.
> >
> > Valve expects that Steam Workshop is going to be earning us a sizeable
> > share. We'll learn more about this during the next months though. But if
> > this continues, more projects for developers can be funded this way. Main
> > focus will be on good tools for game artists though, including features
> > that benefit everyone well too. This also opens up an opportunity to
> > realize a bigger project related to our Game Engine. That's something
> we'll
> > discuss with the current GE team first though.
> >
> > Exciting times ahead! Many many thanks to Valve and to the Steam Workshop
> > members who decided to support Blender Foundation this way!
> >
> > Also posted on code blog:
> >
> >
> http://code.blender.org/index.php/2013/09/valve-steam-workshop-donations-2-devs-get-hired/
> >
> > -Ton-
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------
> > Ton Roosendaal  -  ton at blender.org   -   www.blender.org
> > Chairman Blender Foundation - Producer Blender Institute
> > Entrepotdok 57A  -  1018AD Amsterdam  -  The Netherlands
> >
> >
> >
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