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title: Fiscal Development Meeting 7/21/21

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# 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