Original: On July 18 2002 , a Blender funding campaign was started by Roosendaal in order to collect donations and on September 7 2002 it was announced that enough funds had been collected and that the Blender source code would be released .
Simplified: On July 18 , 2002 , Roosendaal put money into a Blender funding campaign -- in order to collect donations . On September 7 , 2002 , the collected funds was given notice to the public .