This group seems very new and i'm somehow the first one to post. That being said, what projects would we like to pursue? I would very much like to be a part of whatever we come up with on here.

It seems this all went live today. Based on a Variety article, the head of ILM, Rob Bredow, will be mentioning it in his Siggraph keynote on Monday. We're likely to get some more info from that, so we

I recall 3d blender started as proprietary then made open-source via buyout. Any chance this foundation could do the same with ToonBoom? Thank you for listening.

Yes – the group is literally only hours old. More info to come over the next few days of SIGGRAPH, Rob to speak Monday, and a BOF Tues 9am. Stay tuned and hope you find some interesting

Hi Jordan, Thanks for writing and your interest. One of the first items of business for the new ASWF will be to create the "project submission process". This will allow new and existing projects to

I'm told that IP hinders if not entirely obviates the possibility of creating a reasonable open-source DRM solution. That may well be the case. In addition to that, the point of security is to protect

I could be totally wrong and maybe this approach has already been considered but what about finding a way to put the content on a blockchain with multi-signature smart contracts? Granted the

Keep in mind that DRM isn't about encryption, that's just a means to an end. DRM is about preventing piracy and enabling flexible pricing models. If you come up with a better way of

High Fidelity recently (March 22,2018) announced an alliance for publishing assets such as identity, textures, 3D objects, animations and scenes over http using blockchain for the DRM. Content

Not likely. NaN (the company that was commercializing Blender had to go bankrupt first. The community stepped up and raised funds to free it from the holding company that controlled the IP after that

Hi there! After attending the BoF presentation at SIGGRAPH, it seems like a lead starting point for project inclusion is mostly on the library side of things (as opposed to the application side). That

Seems like a good idea to me. They are there so might as well use them.

Hi, are the slides or video of the presentation available by chance? (Sorry for jumping in on the thread, I only learned of this group yesterday.) Bryce

I've attached the slides here as presented in the BOF as a PDF. Enjoy, Rob

I definitely think that is a good idea, I imagine there is a ton we can learn from those projects.

ASWF Community: Thanks for your continued interest in supporting our community. The ASWF BoF at SIGGRAPH was a big success with more than 150 people in attendance and standing room only! For those who

Many of the previous mentioned projects have had very little interest in being given any guidance or direction from the vfx/film industry. Some actively went out of their way to dissuade any

When contributing to an Open Source project you have to build trust with the community around it before they will start to consider guidance and direction from you. It's an unfortunate fact

The goals for the ASWF will eventually need to be more concrete to help clear some of the confusion going on now. I am having a difficult time trying to understand who ASWF is trying to assist with

I agree with Scott, I feel like if we are looking to grow vfx open source we should be thinking about the points he listed especially since we have some of that structure already, the CI suite that