PRO THOUGHTS
Blender’s Ecosystem
Ton Roosendaal, chairman of the Blender Foundation, on how the software maintains its independent, decentralized community
E very open source project establishes a relationship with its users and contributors – often called ‘the community.’ Community building is approached differently depending on the nature of the project. For example, a community of mostly end-users (Mozilla) and a community of software developers (Apache) require separate approaches.