Tony Mullen has posted a set of pictures from his latest workshop in Tokyo.

The Japanese Blender community is planning a party on Saturday, November 29th.

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The first Colombian Blender event (as far as we're aware) is coming up on November 13th! The 12-hour 'Dia Blender' has free entry to the workshops, shows and conferences.

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A handfull of videos from the Melbourne Blender Society meetup have been posted. No images of the audience and atmosphere (I always like that), but some nice excerpts from the presentations.

David Macara wrote:

I've just made the recordings from October's MBS meeting available over at http://www.melbournebs.com/.  Should provide some entertainment for Blenderheads that couldn't make it.

"Own-it in cooperation with Open Rights Group have invited a panel of independent and corporate video games developers, joined by a specialist lawyer, who will discuss alternative business models based on open source technology and whether or not they could influence the future of the games industry."

More information on this free event and registration here. At the moment of writing there are still 31 seats available.

Remember the Blender Conference in Kingsport last August? It took the organization a massive amount of work, but they have now published 11 videos of the sessions – over 7 hours of material in total!

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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

Click here to check for updates.

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.