Blender Usermeeting: Seattle, August 7th
The Seattle Blender User Group is meeting again this Saturday. Reserve a seat now!
Seabug: The Seattle Blender User Group. One of the best places in the Pacific Northwest for hands-on learning about Blender, the premiere open source 3D software package. Oh yeah.
The next Seabug is coming up on August 7th, and man what a lineup! We will (tentatively) have three different huge names of the Blender community, all in one classroom, handing out life lessons from on high!
First: Nathan Vegdahl, the pro rigger of Big Buck Bunny and the highly anticipated Sintel. One of the elder samurai of the Blender Institute
Second: Tony Mullen, who’s written almost half the books in the Blender e-shop. Quite possibly the greatest Blender educator in the world.
Third: Ian Hubert, director and VFX mastermind behind Project London, one of the most highly anticipated Blender projects there is.
When it rains, it pours. Get more info and RSVP at www.seabug.eventbrite.com.
If there’s one Seabug you don’t want to miss, it’s this one!!!
NOTE: Previous Seabugs were held in Room #104. We’re moving to #102 this time for more up-to-date equipment!
Man, why does SeaBUG always get together when I’m out of town? =/
@thenoviceoof It’s worse for me. SeaBUG usually meets on the first weekend of the month, and that’s when I have to meet up for national guard drill. There was one time when drill was pushed back a week and I had the opportunity to go to SeaBUG, but it wasn’t until after I got there that I found out it had been cancelled.
The link does not work. I’d like to know where and if there is a cost for this. I’m in Auburn.
Tansunn, I still feel horrible about that! The school was shut down for maintenance, and although I got clearance from all levels of authority to host Seabug that weekend, nobody remembered to tell me :( Hope to get you down to a Seabug another time soon though :D
Mike, there is no cost. I ask people to RSVP at seabug.eventbrite.com, as I give the RSVP list to Art Institute security to cover any liability issues. But if the site isn’t working for you, I can just manually write your name onto the list and there’s no worry.
I’ve fixed the Eventbrite link. Sorry about that!
Cool! It’s been a while since I’ve seen Nathan and I’ve always hoped to have the chance to meet Ian, so this should be a lot of fun!
What are the rules around bring a class of kids 7th grade and up? Maybe 10-18 kids?
I will try to attend by myself this weekend Aug 7th and meet some folks. I’m new to the Blender group but am interested in seeing what folks are working on. I will be teaching a general computer gfx class to homeschoolers and would like to have them start w/ Blender at some point for some basic exposure to 3d.
Steve: I would hold off on the kids for now. Your RSVP puts us at 26 attendees, and the classroom capacity generally hovers around 30, and even that’s a bit on the edge. I would still encourage you to come, because you can probably ask around about volunteers who would be able to assist your class. I did a volunteer class at the Yesler Community Center teaching beginning blender to some kids, and it was lots of fun! If you’re interested, I can contact the guy I was working with, and if he’s cool with it I can give you the syllabus we used.
A disclaimer to all Seabug attendees: Eventbrite, the free site I use to organize this, has some certain quirks. Namely, events that occur at regular intervals don’t delete past dates, or the invites. As a result, to make it look like it wasn’t 98 people attending I had to go through and manually delete the old RSVPs from previous seabug. So just a heads up: if you’re a regular, and you got a message saying your invite was deleted, don’t worry. I was just deleting your invite from 2009 or something.
@Oscar Don’t worry, I’ll get there eventually. No idea when since my schedule regularly conflicts with it, but I should be a bit more open in 2011.
Additionally, I received a refund notification for the cancelled event in my email today… a $0.00 refund for a free event. Seems a little unnecessary (and a little late) but I suppose it’s the thought that counts.
Oscar
Thanks for the heads up, good thing I asked! I will try to make it this Sat for some\all of the event and observe and maybe get a chance to talk to you about a syllabus.
thanks!
@Tansunn (and all old RSVPers, actually), disregard that. It’s just that EventBrite sucks, so I’ve had to manually delete all the old ones. If you RSVPed for the August 7th event, nobody worry, your RSVP is still valid.
Additionally, we’re filling up, so I put in a max capacity for Seabug now, of 32. So RSVP quick if you want in! ONE ticket left!! (our special guests need not worry, I RSVPed on your behalf.) I probably won’t turn you away, but you won’t get a computer….
Well, I tried to RSVP but there are no more tickets. If I bring my laptop to use, can I still attend?
We can take extras beyond the ticket amount, but you gotta definitely bring a laptop. Email me (that goes for other laptop dudes as well) with your name and I can add you to the list manually. [email protected]