The Blender Open Movie project's latest baby (in the making) is called Durian. It's going to be an action-packed animation with lots of cool effects and a female lead character. I'm a big fan of the Blender Open Movies because they show what free software can do in a cool way. A lot of their finances come from regular people. To get more funds for their movies, they provide two incentives (apart from the warm, fuzzy feeling of helping free software): a DVD and credits.
The DVD contains the movie in multiple formats, the source files for it, the script, tutorials and more. It is of course not copy-restricted with CSS. One disadvantage of it are the non-free formats: partly unavoidable to have an actual DVD, but apparently the HD version will also not be in a free format, even though it's just a file on the disk.
Anyway, for the second incentive, your name on the end credits, you have to pre-order the DVD early on. I missed the pre-order+credit window for Elephants Dream. Even though it was too late to get a credit, I pre-ordered the DVD anyway, to add to the funds for it or for the next project. I swore then that I wouldn't miss these opportunities again. So when Big Buck Bunny and Yo Frankie! were announced I made sure I was on time. Sadly, I let my attention drop a bit after that. It was only today, when someone mentioned Big Buck Bunny again, that I realized that pre-orders for the next project must have started by now. So I checked the Durian website and found out that the official pre-order period for credits ended a few days ago. I went ahead to the Blender shop anyway to pre-order and I could still choose to get my name in the credits. Maybe this is an oversight and my choice will be ignored. But there's also a chance that you can still get your name in the credits. I think it's a great way to end Software Freedom Day, don't you?
