Three more Blender workshops have been announced:

• Kingsport, Tennessee, USA. Weekly, starting on January 9th.
• Porto, Portugal - Feb 2/3, March 15/16
• Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Weekly, starting on March 8th.

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The Blender Institute has started offering Blender courses. The teachers are selected from the artists who are working on Peach and Apricot, and the trainings are held in the Blender Institute training room in downtown, Amsterdam.

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Neal Hirsig, a professor at the prestigious Tufts University, has created an online course to teach students to use Blender. The course is available to all for free on Hirsig's website.

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Chris Smailis (SmaTheGreek) is hosting two Blender classes in Athens, Greece tomorrow and next wednesday.

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Arondix Animations is preparing a series of Blender workshops in Groebenzell, Germany. The first one is on on Friday, December 14th. You may remember Arondix from their short 'Flupps' which we covered six months ago.

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This is a follow-up to the article we posted a few days ago about a free Blender compositing tutorial available through an agreement between CG Channel and cmiVFX. The .blend file for that tutorial has been released! The demand for that tutorial has been the highest of any other tutorial on cmiVFX's on-demand player.

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The first version of the TOSMI trainer's manual is available for download. All the experience acquired along the TOSMI classroom was gathered together for this manual, it will work as a guide for anyone interest on develop courses on open source media.

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Byron Kindig reports on the Blender classes that were recently held in Kingsport, Tenessee. He writes:

We had a great group of people attend. I put up a short page about last Saturday's class at the Renaissance Center. Also the Kingsport Art Guild has approved more classes for January, February, and March. They will be weekly classes on Wednesday evenings from 6:30 to 8:30. I should have more information about these classes soon.

There are so many Blender workshops and presentations being announced that we have to start bundling them. Here's a list of events for the next two months:

• Barcelona, November 5-9
• Kingsport Tennessee, November 9,10
• Vienna, Austria, November 24
• Porto, Portugal, December 8/9 and 15/16

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Starting October 2007, 23rd Allan Liddle will be hosting a Blender workshop in Cape Town, South Africa. Spread out over six evenings, he will be teaching the basic Blender techniques.

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Luís Belerique is hosting three introductory Blender workshops in Porto, Portugal in October and November.

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Austrian Blender users are in luck! Next to the four upcoming Blender trainings in Vienna, there will be two free Blender trainings in Graz the next two weeks.

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In July, we reported about the two Blender trainings in Vienna that Karl Kühberger was planning. The first one will be held next week, so if you're interested be quick to register. Also, Karl has prepared two additional trainings and is working on a third one.

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The Crystalspace developers know how to party! They're gathering in Spain for the next couple of weeks for an intense 'hackfest'. Project Apricot members will be present and workshops on graphics design for games using Blender will be given every Thursday and Sunday this month.

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Byron Kindig is organising two Blender classes in Kingsport, Tennessee, USA on Saturday, September 15th and Saturday, November 10th.

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Back, by popular demand, are the Blender training class offered by Karl Kühberger.

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Last week, the second Red Hat High technology camp ended. You may recall that we reported around this time last year about 3 members of the Blender community traveling to Raleigh, North Carolina to teach at the first ever Red Hat High technology camp. This year, we had 4 Blender instructors from the community, and based on the incredible work produced by students last year, we had a better idea of what to expect. We decided to put greater emphasis on animation this year and the students rose to the challenge, blowing all of us away.

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The second session of TOSMI is drawing near (6th - 12th of August).

If you missed the deadline to submit your application you are in luck, seems like there are two more scholarships available.

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