We don't have many developers who are available and want to work on stuff at the moment - whether we had funding or not.

I'd be more interested in fixing that bottleneck personally.

Masterpiece is a whole VR drawing app funded this way

SANDDE predates VR 2.0 entirely, it was CAVE-based. They folded in 2012 just before Oculus

(and "hiring" is not a good answer because who would manage and validate the work? People need to be self-managing - which is trickier)

--yeah, I've heard it said the virtuous circle for an organization like this starts with the first full-time employee to serve as administrator and institutional memory

And I'd add this also needs at least a part-time person handling infrastructure, to make it low-friction to contribute, because usually that's a very different skillset than administrator

--oh and while I'm thinking of Canadian XR app history there's E.D. Films in Montreal. They're a small traditional animation service studio but they hired a head of open-source development, she applied for all this funding and hired developers to make tools they needed. I think they eventually stopped doing this but a couple interesting projects came out of it

There are provincial initiatives too...individual provinces in Canada collect a lot bigger share of taxes and have a lot more autonomy than UK or U.S. equivalents

(Masterpiece is in Ontario; SANDDE and E.D. Films in Quebec)

--so if developer time is getting scarce, what are the upcoming problems that will need attention?

Btw have you also been hearing those rumours about a stylus for Apple Vision

Oh just everything! 😉

We're trying to get 2.4 out the door and then it's multiplayer preview in 3.0

I put a spreadsheet up with my unfinished tasks on it here: https://docs.openbrush.app/alternate-and-experimental-builds#beta-release

I've nearly got an update to the Icosa Gallery ready and it will support uploads from directly within the app. If you know any web devs who want to help get that across the line!

I'd really like my Plugin system to make it into 3.0 also.

I guess 10:00am est https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/784175199770640414/1198242060390637608/IMG_5581.png?ex=65be30e1&is=65abbbe1&hm=bd627fac1f7befa3358cb47b25dde01fb4472293f3887b9425dad4ec618fc5e8&

Wrong channel? (Although I too am waiting for CitraVR to drop!)

That's 3am here. Dammit.

Yea lol guess I’m still half asleep 😴

I have send your wish for warm bodies to someone I met on Immersive Techweek. Also next week I have a meeting with a person who is very well connected in the industry in Multibrush (sorry to name them 😊) so she gets her own experience and from there sharing your wish(es) has more potential.

Thank you!

Thank you @TeeDee for the donation!! ❤️

thanks @Yea Chen for the github sponsor!

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