The Melbourne Blender Society kicks off next Tuesday. Some famous Blenderheads will be making an appearance!

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Mike Pan has published a nice series of photos of the Blender workshop in Vancouver, BC, last Sunday. From the looks of it, everyone had a great time!

Mike writes:

We finally pulled it off! (Okay, maybe not spetacularly) The first ever Blender get-together in Vancouver, Canada was a lot of fun.  The turn out was better than I had hoped, and majority of the people attending are very competent at Blender.

The University of British Columbia Fisheries Centre is hosting a free, full-day Blender workshop on Sunday, the 24th of August in Vancouver, BC.  The workshop will be lead by Mike Pan and Dalai Felinto, both of whom are working with the Fisheries Centre on the underwater visualization. (We reported earlier on their Fish Population Data Visualisation project with the Blender game engine).

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The newly formed Bloomington Blender Users Group will be kicked off tonight at 7pm. That's TODAY, so drop your work and get in your car if you're in the area!

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Hazrul Tajuddin reports on three Blender presentations that were given in Malaysia at Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu and Universiti Malaysia Kelantan.

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Tony Mullen submitted the following report of the Blender user meeting in the Pink Cow cafe bar in Tokyo in September.

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Yuzupei reports on BlenderArtists about the presentation that he and Huanghai gave at the Beijing Software Freedom Day 2007. Check out their collection of pictures and the video report of the event - Blender @ 2:20. Xie xie ni, guys!

Satish Goda and Shrinidhi Rao will be hosting a 1-hour Blender presentation during the International Animation Day in Mumbai, India on Sunday, October 21st.

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The Blender Conference New York team is organising a Blender Dinner on Tuesday October 2nd. All interested Blender users are invited - this is a great chance to meet some fellow Blenderheads from your area!

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The Crystalspace developers know how to party! They're gathering in Spain for the next couple of weeks for an intense 'hackfest'. Project Apricot members will be present and workshops on graphics design for games using Blender will be given every Thursday and Sunday this month.

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The Sixth Blender Conference will be held in the new Amsterdam venue De Zwijger, which will offer us more space and very cool facilities, including a large theater. During the dinner and party of Saturday we will also celebrate that exactly 5 years ago Blender became Open Source. Dates: fri-sat-sun, 12-14 October.
Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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Students of the Innsbruck university have been using Blender for their course in experimental architecture this year. This Monday (January 29th)they will be presenting their work.

The event takes place at the Zukunftszentrum in Innsbruck and is hosted by Samo Korosec. Samo previously worked with the Zukunftszentrum and helped integrate Blender with their CAVE environment.

Blender is everywhere, you can see more and more users switching to Blender everyday. With this in mind the Animatu organization decided to ask the Blender Foundation for some Blender representation at the event, but there's more.

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The organization of the Montréal Blender Conference have opened a  website with new information and they're asking everyone to register. Attendance is free so if you live in the area I recommend that you pay them a visit!

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The call for proposals to the Blender Conference is here and people are getting hectic about it. Are you excited? If you are, now is the time to give your contribute, just continue reading.

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Enrike Hurtado and Andy Gracie are hosting a free three-day workshop at the Futuresonic 2006 festival in Manchester from Wednesday July 19th - Friday July 21st. They will be exploring the possibilities of using 3D environments as tools for sound generation, synthesis and control.

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The fourth Blender Conference will be held from october 20-22 in the Waag, Amsterdam. The Blender Conference is THE yearly event where Blenderheads meet for three days to share their stories and ideas, learn and party for three days. You can get an impression of the event by visiting the 2004 and 2005 archives.

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The Elephants Dream DVDs will hopefully be shipped during the next few weeks, and the excitement in the Blender community about this event is mounting. This leads to interesting new activities: I received an email from Paul Venezio who is planning to rent a small theatre to show the movie and have a Blender usermeeting.

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