For those of you attending SIGGRAPH in Los Angeles this year, Animation Mentor will be hosting a panel discussion and tribute to the life and work of Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston on Wednesday, August 13, 2008.

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Tony Mullen will be hosting a series of Blender-related workshops and presentations in Bogota, Colombia this August. It seems like BlenderHeads are being invited to show up all over the world these days. Time to post my résumé somewhere ;-)

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From April 11th to the 17th of this year, a veritable boatload of people from all facets of the television, film, and radio production world descended upon Las Vegas to attend the National Association of Broadcasters Show. I was there for 3 days of the conference and got to experience and learn all kinds of interesting things. And yes, there were even some things there related to Blender! Fair warning: I forgot my good camera, so please forgive the blurry, low resolution camera phone images.

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Andy and Sacha will be talking at CGOverdrive in Singapore, Asia's biggest
Computer Graphics conference.

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LGM 2008 will be held from May 8-11th in Poland. This year, the Blender Institute will support Campbell Barton and Dariusz Dawidowsky to join the LGM and do a presentation there about Peach and Apricot. Schedule to be announced.

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Gaurav Mishra (gauravanim on the forums) will be giving a one-hour presentation on Blender at the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi, India tomorrow. The presentation is part of the  Coda-Voda workshop.

Good luck, Gaurav - don't forget to send pictures!

Nathan Letwory is integrating Blender and MySQL, which allows new ways of using Blender such as working with huge scene files or distributed/team work. If you though that is cool, wait for this: he has been invited by MySQL to present this at the MySQL Conference in Santa Clara on April 16! After the conference he'll be showcasing his work and for that he can use your help.

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The Alpha Channel School is preparing a Blender seminar in São Paulo this Saturday, January 12th.

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Joeri Kassenaar, former employee of Not a Number, will be hosting a full-evening session on Blender at the STRP Art & Technology Festival 2007 on November 24th in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

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The Blender conference videos are now available on Blender.org.

*Update 11/2/07 Conference videos are available as .torrents now. Please seed!*

*Update 11/3/07 Conference videos available at Google. See Blenderartists thread here.*

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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!

If you couldn't be at NYC for the Blender Conference 2007, don`t worry! The streams from the Conference are available for download. There are a lot of cool presentations and tutorials.

Torrent files now available

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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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This year's Suzanne Award winners have been announced last Saturday Night, and all the winners received a new and improved transparent Suzanne statue ('unbreakable', according to Ton ;-)

So far, none of the Conference's video material has been published to the web. From what I heard there were problems with the download.blender.org server - I'm hoping that as soon as that's solved all the material will be put online, including the full Suzanne Awards presentation.

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Today is the first day of the Blender Conference 2007. Unfortunately I'll only be able to attend on Saturday so for today and Sunday we'll turn to YOU, the audience for our report on the event.

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This is very last minute, for which I apologize, but if you live around Geneva this might be interesting for you: Benjamin Hodges will be giving Blender demos, a presentation and a tutorial on the 'Open Source Software for media professionals' in Geneva today and tomorrow.
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The Suzanne Awards team is working on a series of short videos that will announce the video clips and they need your help. Download the rigged robot character and submit your animation before Monday, October 1st.

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Once again, a parallel Blender Conference will be held on the North American continent during one week after the Blender Conference 2007 in Amsterdam on october 20th and 21st. This year it'll be in New York.

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