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Add Foundation update blog post #940

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Announce the policies and procedures and provide short updates on other topics of interest.

Tentatively put for Monday, but can easily change the date.

For socials:

  • TL;DR: We've been quiet for awhile, but we have lots of things in the works! It may not be as exciting as shiny new engine features, but we are excited!
  • New policies and procedures posted
  • Update on hiring
  • Continue to expect the asset store
  • Working on a proper job board
  • Project priorities will be publicly listed
  • Trademark policy is in the works

Announce the policies and procedures and provide short updates on other topics of interest
@clayjohn clayjohn added the topic:blog New blogposts and corrections label Sep 26, 2024
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@Calinou Thank you! I applied your suggestions

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LGTM, besides the typo noted above. Spotted nothing.

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Looks really good, my only nitpick is that it's now past September (see title) :)

Thanks Clay!


## Key Policies and Procedures
The Foundation was formed approximately two years ago, but we have only been operating in a full capacity since last
summer. We initially adopted the [member project policies](https://sfconservancy.org/projects/policies/) of the Software
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Probably best to be more explicit than "last summer". Does that mean summer 2023 or summer 2024? And do you mean summer in northern hemisphere?

The Foundation has been working on a number of things behind the scenes that are important for the organization and for
the Godot ecosystem more broadly. We wanted to take the chance to highlight a few of them in this post.

## Key Policies and Procedures
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## Key Policies and Procedures
## Key policies and procedures


## Contractors
The Foundation has 9 contractors working on the engine directly (5 full time, 4 part time) and 3 contractors
working on administration + infrastructure right now. We are currently in the hiring process for 1-2 more positions.
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working on administration + infrastructure right now. We are currently in the hiring process for 1-2 more positions.
working on administration and infrastructure right now. We are currently in the hiring process for 1-2 more positions.

3. A public project priorities document
4. A public trademark policy

### Asset Store
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### Asset Store
### Asset store


We will have a dedicated announcement soon with more information!

### Job Board
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### Job Board
### Job board

contributors to fix high priority bugs that may be impacting your team.

In addition to a job board, we will be curating a list of service providers who have shown that they offer services in
the Godot Ecosystem to make it easy to find someone to contract with if you need support or any other services.
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the Godot Ecosystem to make it easy to find someone to contract with if you need support or any other services.
the Godot ecosystem to make it easy to find someone to contract with if you need support or any other services.

the Godot Ecosystem to make it easy to find someone to contract with if you need support or any other services.

Much of the foundational work for this has been finished, but it will likely be released after the asset store so we can
focus our efforts more on the asset store.
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focus our efforts more on the asset store.
focus our efforts on that first.

Much of the foundational work for this has been finished, but it will likely be released after the asset store so we can
focus our efforts more on the asset store.

### Project Priorities
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### Project Priorities
### Project priorities

with expected dates. However, we believe it will answer a lot of questions that the community has about the future of
the project.

### Trademark Policy
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### Trademark Policy
### Trademark policy

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