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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Ton Roosendaal will be participating in two panel discussions at the PICNIC '07 festival in Amsterdam on September 26th.

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Ton has posted the program of the Blender Conference 2007 and it's LOADED! There are so many cool people speaking that I'm already breaking out in a sweat over who to interview… Check it out.

This year the Brazilian Blender users will be organizing a conference, called Blender PRO 2007. The main objective and theme for this conference will be the use of Blender as a professional tool.

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More news from SIGGRAPH, now it`s an interview with Roland Hess. The video was published by David Basulto, in his personal Blog.

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We're quite late to report this, but there's still time to submit your work for the Blender Conference 2007 Animation Festival and Suzanne Awards.

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Registration for the sixth annual Blender Conference in Amsterdam is now open. Come and join us to celebrate Blender's 5th anniversary as Open Source software!

SIGGRAPH 2007 has recognized the media coverage by BlenderNation of Blender development and CG news by approving us as an official media company to cover any of the events at this years show.

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The Blender Conference 2007 Call for Participation is now online; the deadline for submissions is September 1st. More information on blender.org.

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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On Thursday, may 24th, Dolf Veenvliet, Sacha Goedegebure and Ton Roosendaal will be speaking at the Blender Event 2007, at the Selexyz bookstore in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

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German animation studio Die Versilberte Eitelkeit and Arroba Films S.A. de C.V. have recently finished their 8 minute short movie 'Cosmic Balance', based on Francisco Athié's short novel. Much of the work was done in Blender.

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I just received confirmation from Ton that there will be a Blender Birds of a Feather [BOF] meeting at Siggraph 2007 in San Diego. There's not much info to share yet, except that it's on Monday, August 6th in Room 29A.

Blendiberia 2007 will be celebrated in Castellón de la Plana from the 13th to the 15th of April. Blendiberia is a Latin fan Blender meeting. This year it will take place during iParty9. There will be a lecture about animation movies by one of the creators of Plumíferos.

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There's going to be a new twist at this year's SIGGRAPH conference in San Diego. In addition to all of the other excellent events going on, there's going to be a intense 32-hour animation competition called FJORG! (pronounced "forge"… and, yes, the exclamation mark is part of the name).

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From today until Friday (March 5th-9th) the Uni-Verse team will be demonstrating Verse and Blender at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.

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Bassam Kurdali and Andy Goralczyk were invited to speak at the Future Film Festival in Bologna, Italy last January. It looks like they had a blast - here is their report.

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Well, seems like it was yesterday that I was in Beja to give some Workshops in the Animatu Festival.

And now we have the announcement that Animatu 2007 is already kicking off, having a call for entries.

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