{"id":10466,"date":"2020-08-05T14:13:31","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T12:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=10466"},"modified":"2020-08-05T14:13:35","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T12:13:35","slug":"microsoft-joins-the-blender-development-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2020\/08\/05\/microsoft-joins-the-blender-development-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Joins The Blender Development Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"96\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/microsoftblender.jpg?resize=600%2C96\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/microsoftblender.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/microsoftblender.jpg?resize=300%2C48&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft<\/a> makes use of Blender to generate synthetic 3D models and images of humans that can be used to train AI models. For researchers, having access to high quality free\/opensource 3D software has proven to be of great benefit for scientific projects. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2019\/09\/2019-10-01-Synthetic-Data-with-Digital-Humans.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">You can check some of their work here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>To express their support, Microsoft is joining the Blender Foundation\u2019s Development Fund as a Corporate Gold member per July 1st, 2020.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>We at Blender are very proud of this support statement, it\u2019s another important signal that the industry migrates to open source and finds ways to contribute to it.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ton Roosendaal,<br \/>Chairman Blender Foundation<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What is the Blender Development Fund?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Blender Development Fund accepts donations to support activities to provide free and open accessible services for all Blender contributors \u2013 including professionals and corporations \u2013 on the blender.org websites. Support activities include bug fixing, code reviews, technical documentation and onboarding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fund will also provide grants and subsidies to developers on generic and widely agreed development projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft makes use of Blender to generate synthetic 3D models and images of humans that can be used to train AI models. For researchers, having access to high quality free\/opensource 3D software has proven to be of great benefit for scientific projects. You can check some of their work here. To express their support, Microsoft&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2020\/08\/05\/microsoft-joins-the-blender-development-fund\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft Joins The Blender Development Fund<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[228,237],"class_list":["post-10466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-blender","tag-microsoft","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}