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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Hi all, I'm back at home in Portugal, it is always great to come back after a long fun journey to see things haven't changed much, but I myself, on the other hand, have. Now I am packed with some more knowledge :) .

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Last day, almost didn't make it today, just fall asleep in the morning, luckily my aunt woke me up just in time. It was actually pretty good today because the train only left at 7:55 AM and arrived at the station at 9:23, the bad thing was that I had the first modeling workshop starting at 9:00AM.

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Rui is reporting in from his second day at the Libre Graphics Meeting in Lyon, France.

Today was a pretty intense day. I was really tired from yesterday and I had a hard time keeping myself awake during the whole day. This is the side effect of having to wake up at 5AM and go to sleep at 11PM for two days.

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Besides me having to wake up at 5AM to get at LGM at about 9AM, everything is going nicely.I'm staying with some family in Lons le Saulnier, although it is near Lyon it is still almost 2 hours away by train.

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As many of you may be aware, there will be a three day event in Lyon France called Libre Graphics Meeting, it will be a three day conference around Open Source graphics, and Blender as an Open Source graphics related tool will be there.

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Rui Campos is looking for people to do an Animation / Rigging, Game Engine or Python workshop at the Libre Graphics Meeting in Lyon.

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The first Libre Graphics Meeting will be held on 17, 18 and 19 March 2006 in Lyon, France. It will be a melting pot, with free software graphics developers and artists meeting each other, exchanging ideas and tips, and planning the future of free graphics. The meeting will bring together developers and users of the best of free software graphics applications – GIMP, Inkscape, Scribus, Blender and more.

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