It is with pain in my heart that I had to leave the 'after-party' of the Blender Conference in Café Cuba tonight. Talking to Bassam about his time in Buenos Aires with the Plumiferos team and our shared admiration for what they are accomplishing, discussing the Blender.org redesigns with Matt, learning about Colin Litster's history and aspirations with Blender, having some good laughs with Andy and Lee, finally meeting Rui and looking back on our time in Boston with Wybren - all of it came to an end because of one simple reason: tomorrow is just another day at the office, and I had to return home…

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Saturday was as exciting as Friday, if not more so. To start off, most of yesterday's streams are now available for download via BitTorrent. Please check the downloads page on Blender.org and remember to leave your client open when it's finished so other people can benefit from it. The Art Festival video will probably be online tomorrow - the guys here are working hard to make that a reality.

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The first day of the conference is over and Rui and I had a blast talking to people and getting an interview from Angela. It's 22:00 now, the Art Festival has started and we haven't had dinner yet so I'll only say - enjoy the Conference Journal!

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Don't ask my why the organisation didn't publish this, but you can follow the Conference LIVE via streaming video and the quality is *awesome*. Speakers use a microphone and they're mixing the camera stream with the computer display at the right times.

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Once again Colin Litster will be showcasing the flexibility of Blender. This time it will be at the Blender conference. If you are one of those lucky enough to get tickets to the conference then you will get to see Colin demonstrating how to use Blender's nodes in a workshop on Sunday 22nd October, from 1330 to 1500. Colin has given us an exciting preview of what to expect at his website, Cogfilms.

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The Blender Conference begins tomorrow and I'll be there for three days, armed with my videocamera, microphone and laptop. As the organisation has already found enough people to help them record the sessions, I will be free to focus on giving a general impression of the event and on interviewing the attending Blender superstars.

Take a look at the Conference Program and let me know who YOU would like to see on camera and which questions you want me to ask them.

Well, the title says it all, Elephants Dream (ED) has been nominated for the 3D Shorts category. The announcement can be seen at the official website and the competition is harder then one might think.

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For those not coming to the Blender Conference 2006, the next best thing is to have it recorded. Even if you are coming, I'm sure that with so much things being presented at the same time you will miss something you would like to see.

This is where Filipp Lepalaan comes to the rescue.

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If you haven't noticed, the Blender Conference 2006 Program is already online and I must say that this seems to be one of the best so far.

It will be my third Conference and believe me when I say, it will be one heck of a weekend !

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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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Ton has announced the call for content for the Blender Art Festival on Blender.org. The Blender Art Festival is a regular part of the Blender Conference program: everyone is invited to submit their work, and prizes (a Suzanne Statue and €250, rougly $320) are available for the best artists in the categories Best Online Art Gallery, Best Character Animation and Best Animation, original idea or story. The voting will be done by the visitors of the Blender Conference.

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After the highlighting of open source software at Siggraph, a conference is already scheduled in Argentina to focus on 3D animation with open source tools.

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We've had an amazing occurrence here at the booth. Well, actually Bassam just did.

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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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Are you anywhere close to São Paulo, Brasil?  Are you looking for Blender workshops for yourself or your children? Then Plan to attend the "Game Cultura" event!

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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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This summer (July 15-16th 2006) the Crystal Space team, together with the sponsers will hold the first ever Crystal Space Conference in Aaechen Germany.

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