This seems to be the season of Blender Conferences! Today: Germany.

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This years Blender Conference in the Tri Cities of North East Tennessee is planned for August 1 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and August 2, from 9 a.m. to 12 noon, 2009.

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The first Argentinian Blender conference will be held from May 29th – 30th in Córdoba.

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Andrew Schomin and 6 friends are in the process of developing a game using Blender. The game is for the Computer Gaming Entrepreneurship Competition from the university of Texas at Dallas.

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Registration for SIGGRAPH 2009 is now open! There are several registration options available to help you customize your experience at SIGGRAPH in New Orleans.

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Alexandre Prokoudine writes:

The Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) is an annual workshop for developers and users of free software graphics applications to collaborate and advance the cause of high-quality free graphics software.

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Octavio Augusto Méndez Sánchez wrote:  The Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Azcapotzalco organizes the National Congress of Free Software (CONSOL) in Mexico City, Mexico.

The objective of this congress is to gather eminent personalities wich are memebers of the free software community, as well as professionals, university professors, students, supporters and any interested party on this matter.

During this event, three Blender workshops and three Blender conferences will be held.

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Ton Roosendaal has some great news about the upcoming Blender conference in October! Check out what he has to say:
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The schedule for the GDC 2009 (The Game Developers Conference) includes a session about using the Blender Game Engine for Rapid Prototyping.

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(Chicago, IL) – In response to a successful expanded format in 2008, the SIGGRAPH 2009 Computer Animation Festival will again be open to the public and feature a comprehensive collection of juried and invited screenings that will showcase the most recent advances in computer-generated imagery. In addition, the Festival will feature presentations and panels that focus on the art, science, and technology that are used to create the latest advances in production and projection of digital cinema and visualizations. The festival is also expanding its general call for submissions to include Visual Music and Real-Time Rendering.

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Recently a seminar was held in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.  Go ahead and read the report from Gumanoed!

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Francisco Ortiz sent in the following report: Brazilian institution SESC SP hosts a serie of events about Game Creation and Do It Yourself "D.I.Y".

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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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Two Blender presentations are planned for SIGGRAPH Asia 2008, which is from December 10-13: 'Migrating and Integrating Blender into your Pipeline' by Victor Yap, and 'Blender Education and Certification' by Tony Mullen. Details on Blender.org.

News Release: ACM SIGGRAPH 2009 invites you to Network Your Senses as a contributor or volunteer at the 36th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, 3 – 7 August 2009 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in festive New Orleans, Louisiana.

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The Kingsport Art Guild is again organising a digital art show from November 27th – December 22nd. They're accepting artwork submissions.

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Fabianne Balvedi writes: Blender Pro is a conference that happens every year in Brasil, bringing together researchers, artists, students, animators, gamers, architects, designers and computer graphics specialists who love Blender and use it as their main tool.
The best Blender works made in Brasil will be presented at this conference through Technical Papers, Posters, Lectures, Video Art Festival and Forum.

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The first batch of Blender Conference videos has been published. More will be added when postprocessing is complete. A big thanks to Kaveh Bazargan for processing & hosting the vids!