# Fiscal Development Meeting 7/21/21

## Potential Projects to Fund
- glTF Blender Addon
- Original funding has ran out
- Work with Blender Foundation and Khronos to increase funding to this project
- Interoperable Art Day
- Encourage artists to build glTF environments / avatars / props / experiences that can be used for interoperability experiments, the OMI home space etc.
- Determine pain points in glTF tooling and get feedback from artists
- OMI can provide support and community for artists during the event
- Use funding for awards
- Open Marketplace
- Icosa: https://beta.icosa.gallery/
- pmndrs market: https://market.pmnd.rs/

## Next Steps

- Lightweight event ~1 month from now
- OMI Demo Day
- Possibly taking place in Jel
- Pros:
- High room capacity
- Screen sharing
- Cons:
- Voxelized glTFs for artists
- Hopping between experiences lets users see them first hand
- August 19th or August 26th
- Larger event in October
- Art Day / Hackathon
- Start conversation with first possible sponsors
- Prerequisites:
- OMI Website
- Send letter of inquiry
- OMI Slide Deck
- For meetups
- Presentations for possible donors