Ben Fry Resigns from the Processing Foundation

Re:Ben Fry Resigns from the Processing Foundation by abhgh on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @11:46PM (#37760630)

Your comment prompted me to look up the Twitter/X thread. I had no idea that the Processing foundation was suffering from issues of mismanagement to this extent. It is sad to hear :(. I haven't used it for a long time, but I remember doing a few projects in 2007-2008 and appreciating the fact that this language existed. But I keep occasionally returning to it, even if that is the form of watching a random Daniel Shiffman video, e.g., [1], or looking up the gallery [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JzDttgdILQ

[2] https://processing.org/examples

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Re:Ben Fry Resigns from the Processing Foundation by acomjean on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @11:52PM (#37760667)

I did some poking too. It seems like they were puttering along with some donations ($165000 in 2018, $275000 in 2020)[1]. 2021 all of sudden they got 10 million dollars..it was crypto donations from artists..[2]so who knows what it’s worth now, if they’ll see another windfall. I can see an organization being befuddled (they hired a finance person). [2]

It makes sense a founder being upset the tech side isn’t getting more benefit. It’s not a good look. Hopefully they can manage it better.

[1]https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/460...

The funding update article:

“The majority of the donations in 2021 came from artists donating cryptocurrency to the Processing Foundation.”

[2]https://medium.com/processing-foundation/processing-foundati...

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Re:Ben Fry Resigns from the Processing Foundation by ozr on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @02:58AM (#37761757)

And, of course, now they aren't accepting crypto anymore to reduce their environmental impact.

Too much authority being given to people that aren't doing things.

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Re:Ben Fry Resigns from the Processing Foundation by thrown37291 on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @09:29AM (#37764836)

They still have crypto wallets accepting donations, Tezos and Ethereum do not have environmental impact today. The blog post was written before the merge.

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Re:Ben Fry Resigns from the Processing Foundation by whywhywhywhy on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @09:45AM (#37765098)

> Hopefully they can manage it better.

Why would I want them doing anything after seeing what they've done so far?

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Re:Ben Fry Resigns from the Processing Foundation by robertlagrant on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @10:08AM (#37765431)

> It’s not a good look

The look isn't the issue. The fundamental substance is what counts, and it seems terribly mismanaged to not spend most of this money on development and documentation, both of which scale extremely well.

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Re:Ben Fry Resigns from the Processing Foundation by jdboyd on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @02:14PM (#37769328)

That same document said their policy is to convert crypto to USD, so presumably they didn't suffer from later crashes.

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