From 61735b97e80b379d0f8f29ce2150ab39fe862c6c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ryan Malloy Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2025 14:12:19 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] Refine README positioning to community-grade excellence Replace 'enterprise-grade' with 'community-grade' positioning that better reflects the higher quality and deeper passion that drives open-source community development. Add section emphasizing community-driven excellence and genuine care for the Blender ecosystem over profit motives. --- README.md | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 6823e66a..d8c057e7 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@

🔥 Flamenco

-

Production-Grade Render Farm Management System

+

Community-Grade Render Farm Management System

[![License: GPL v3](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-GPLv3-blue.svg)](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0) [![Go Report Card](https://goreportcard.com/badge/projects.blender.org/studio/flamenco)](https://goreportcard.com/report/projects.blender.org/studio/flamenco) @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ This fork represents a **massive engineering transformation** of the Flamenco re - **Advanced build system** with intelligent caching, parallelization, and dependency management - **Complete Docker development environment** with reverse proxy, monitoring, and profiling - **Comprehensive test suite** - API validation, load testing, end-to-end workflows, database integrity -- **Enterprise-grade reliability** with failure recovery, monitoring, and performance optimization +- **Community-grade reliability** with failure recovery, monitoring, and performance optimization --- @@ -38,13 +38,15 @@ This fork represents a **massive engineering transformation** of the Flamenco re **Flamenco** is the premier open-source render farm management system for Blender, trusted by professional studios worldwide. Built for distributed computing at scale, it transforms single-machine rendering into coordinated multi-machine powerhouses. +**Community-Driven Excellence**: This isn't corporate software built to extract profit - it's community-grade engineering built with deep passion for the Blender ecosystem. Every optimization, every feature, every line of code is crafted with genuine care for artists and studios who depend on reliable, high-performance rendering infrastructure. + ### Core Architecture - **Manager**: Central coordination server (Go + SQLite) - orchestrates jobs, manages workers, serves web UI - **Worker**: Task execution daemon - runs on render machines, executes Blender/FFmpeg commands - **Add-on**: Blender integration (Python) - seamless job submission from within Blender ### Production Capabilities -- **Enterprise Scale**: Coordinate hundreds of workers across heterogeneous infrastructure +- **Community Scale**: Coordinate hundreds of workers across heterogeneous infrastructure - **Zero-Configuration**: Minimal setup required for production deployment - **Real-time Monitoring**: Live job status, worker health, performance metrics via modern web UI - **Intelligent Scheduling**: Advanced task distribution with worker tagging and failure recovery