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The Open Source Days call for proposals closes this Sunday, May 24, and we want to hear from you! If you're an engineer, artist, or contributor doing real work on open-source projects in the VFX and animation industry, this is your chance to share it with a room full of peers. We're expecting 500+ attendees at this year's event, co-located with SIGGRAPH in Los Angeles on July 19–20. Submit your talk at https://lnkd.in/ekjkPm9U #OpenSource #VFX #Animation #SIGGRAPH

Open Source Days 2026 is heading to Los Angeles this July 19-20, and we want to hear from you! The call for proposals is open now for both days of the event. If you're working on something in open-source VFX, animation, or adjacent tooling, this is the place to bring it. Submit your talk before May 24 at https://lnkd.in/ekjkPm9U. #OpenSourceDays #VFX #Animation #SIGGRAPH

Thank you to everyone who participated in Dev Days last week. Whether you contributed remotely or joined one of our in-person gatherings in Los Angeles or Vancouver, you made it happen. Dev Days is our twice-yearly event where contributors across the VFX and animation industry spend a dedicated day working on ASWF open-source projects together. It's one of our favorite days on the calendar, and it only works because people show up. Our next Dev Days is September 17. We hope to see you there. https://lnkd.in/ekjkPm9U #ASWF #OpenSource #VFX #Animation #DevDays

We're thrilled to welcome MoonRay, DreamWorks Animation's open source production renderer, as our newest hosted project! DreamWorks Animation's CTO Bill Ballew will give the keynote at our annual Open Source Days event, July 19, to discuss MoonRay's journey from a proprietary DreamWorks tool to a cornerstone of open source rendering. Get all the details here: https://lnkd.in/gQFXjeqk

The Open Source Days 2026 Call for Proposals is open, and we're looking for engineers and developers building the open source tools that power modern VFX and animation. If you've shipped a new project, solved a tough interoperability problem, or have hard-won lessons from deploying open source in production, that's exactly what our community wants to hear. We'd especially love to see proposals covering pipeline tools and technologies, AI and machine learning, cloud and virtual production, and open source in production. Session formats range from 10-minute lightning talks to 30-minute presentations, so even if you've never spoken at a conference before, there's a format that fits. Open Source Days takes place July 19 in Los Angeles. The CFP closes May 24. Submit your proposal at the link below. https://lnkd.in/eCiHd4D6 #ASWF #OpenSourceDays #VFX #Animation #OpenSource #CFP

Dev Days is tomorrow, May 14! And registration is still open. If you've wanted to get involved in an ASWF project but weren't sure where to start, this is your answer. Dev Days is a virtual, one-day event where developers of any experience level pick a task from an open-source ASWF project, work alongside project maintainers, and make a real contribution to the software the industry runs on. Tasks are scoped to fit a single day, maintainers will be there to mentor you throughout, and first-time contributors get extra support. All you need is familiarity with your project's language and one working day to give. ASWF projects include OpenColorIO, OpenEXR, MaterialX, OpenTimelineIO, and more: software embedded in the pipelines studios rely on every day. Register before tomorrow: https://lnkd.in/gDzE-hEZ #ASWF #DevDays #OpenSource #VFX #Animation

Dev Days 2026 is this Wednesday, May 14, and registration is still open! It's a virtual, 24-hour global development event where contributors of any experience level spend one day working on an Academy Software Foundation open-source project. Maintainers will be there to mentor you, tasks are scoped to what you can finish in a day, and first-time contributors get extra support. If you've been curious about the open-source software running production pipelines across the industry, this is where to start. Register now at https://lnkd.in/eMwfky7c #ASWF #OpenSource #VFX #Animation #DevDays

Dev Days is this week! Participate by contributing to one of our new ML projects, Dailies Notes Assistant! Register for Dev Days at https://lnkd.in/gDzE-hEZ!

🥳 I’m happy to announce that I have been accepted as a Student Volunteer for SIGGRAPH 2026! 🎥 I’m so grateful to Academy Software Foundation for making this opportunity known to me and providing a hub for myself to satiate all my curiosities in the creative industry. 🌅 If you’re attending SIGGRAPH in Los Angeles, I’d love to meet you there. Excited to contribute and learn with you all! #SIGGRAPH #ASWF #SIGGRAPH2026

This year's Google Summer of Code includes two ASWF projects within Blender's accepted cohort: MaterialX and OpenTimelineIO. Blender Foundation was accepted into GSoC 2026 with 8 projects total. Two of them connect directly to open source projects we steward here at Academy Software Foundation. MaterialX is an open standard for representing rich material and shading networks, widely used across production pipelines to move look development between applications. OpenTimelineIO is an interchange format and API for editorial timelines, built to make it easier for different tools to share and understand edit data across a production. Seeing ASWF projects represented in Blender's GSoC cohort is a sign of how this ecosystem keeps growing. Developers from around the world will spend the summer contributing to tools that matter to the motion picture and animation industry, and that's something worth celebrating. GSoC is a global program that brings new contributors into open source software development. Find the full project listing at the link below. https://lnkd.in/ektW7z8D #OpenSource #Blender #GSoC #ASWF #MaterialX #OpenTimelineIO #VFX #Animation