Ranjith Hegde

Fund dedicated onboarding infrastructure for first-time contributors: detailed starter tasks, code review mentorship, API documentation expansion, and community coordination. Target: enable 1-2 sustained contributors per quarter from underrepresented regions (India, Southeast Asia, Africa).

Support for hosting regional workshops and live performances (India, South Asia, East Asia) to build visibility, train artists/researchers, and attract contributors. Format: 2-5 day intensives combining live-coding demos, Vulkan graphics exploration, and spatial audio performance. Target 2-3 per year in major tech/art hubs.

Expand tutorial series ('Sculpting Data', 'Time as Material', temporal control), create beginner onboarding across disciplines (composers, visual artists, game developers), produce recorded demos, and build educational case studies. Includes HTML production, video editing, and community translation coordination.

Travel and registration for ICMC, NIME, LAC, CppCon, ADC25, and emerging music tech conferences. Position MayaFlux at intersection of research, practice, and tooling. Includes live-coding performances demonstrating unified audio-visual paradigm. Goal: 2-3 talks/year with live component.

Formalize curriculum modules with music/art/tech institutions (Srishti Manipal, Sonology, IIT/NIT labs). Paid workshops for students, research residencies, and cross-institutional case studies. Fund institutional coordinator role to manage partner onboarding and feedback loops.

Help sustain MayaFlux development, cover infrastructure costs, and fund highest-impact work as prioritized by community feedback. No strings attached. Direct impact on 0.4 release cycle (agent system expansion, computer vision pipeline, Kinesis analysis namespace).