In spite of the distortion, both Blender and VLC appear to have significantly more contributors. Also our use of SVN means we don't track indirect contributors such as contributions to non-Audacity build tools. More, and up-to-date stats and data from here.Īudacity excludes 3rd party libraries in the stats we show in OpenHub, which may lead our stats to be lower than other projects. Project Stats from OpenHub Stats as of Sept 2014 In part this was to pave the way for an Android version which could be adapted, for a fee, for proprietary versions for OEMs. Significant work was done to track down past contributors or re-write to achieve this. VLC has automatic update reminders which increase the download count.

Videolan raised £47,000 on Kickstarter to make a Metro/Windows 8 version of their user interface. There is significant interest from industry in the most popular of these, as reducing encoding time and increasing compression reduce compute and bandwidth requirements. A great deal of the project involves work on codecs, that is video encoders/decoders. Website, but not download page, are free of advertising. VLC has around 80 million downloads per year.There was also a Kickstarter that raised $42,000, not by Blender, but that involved import/export to Blender as a reached stretch goal. Funding from EU media fund, from artistic and tourism grants are also used in these films. For example funding to improve hair/fur was done this way. There are occasional projects to make a film using Blender that are crowdfunded by pre-purchase of the DVD and that act as development sprints. There is a development fund which is contributed to by industry, notably by Valve. Most revenue for developer funding appears to be generated by the Dutch animation studio that develops and uses Blender as a tool. There is an invite to donate on the splash screen.

Website and downloads are free of advertising. Blender has about 4 million downloads per year.Examples include a karaoke version and a custom version to distribute with a stethoscope. There are very occasional commercial software developer contracts to adapt Audacity to specific needs. Advertising on the website brings in enough for hosting and conferences, but not enough to pay for one full time developer. Audacity gets a minimal level of donations. Audacity has around 18 million downloads per year.

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