Every time we announce a user meeting somewhere, I see many people who wished there was one near them. It's a tricky thing I guess, not knowing how many others there are in your area.
So today I want to ask you: would YOU like meet other Blender users? Leave a message here and mention the nearest city (or leave a reply to someone else) - maybe you can find some like minded people and get your own meeting going. And remember: starting your own user meeting is as simple as agreeing on a date, time and a place!
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Yes! Toronto,Canada (or Markham even better!)
Oh yes, +1 for GTA! :D Tried to get a blender thing going at my school a while ago, but that never worked.
+1 for GTA, I'm in the West-End of city.
I live just North of San Francisco. There are actually a few people at work who use Blender but other than them (and Colin Levy now that here works over at Emeryville) I don't know anyone else in the Bay area. But I doubt we are alone.
I'm in north Oakland near the Rockridge BART station. I went to one SF gathering some 10 or so years ago. Happy to go to, or host another. I work at the California College of the Arts.
I'm in the East Bay/Hayward area and would like to get up to speed as I'm a noob.
I'm in San Francisco and would like to meet up with Blendroids anywhere in the City.
I am in san fran too, working near giants stadium at a small animation studio. I use blender a ton, mostly for smaller projects. Would love to meet other blenderheads.
I am also in SF, and terribly frustrated with Blender. I have used trueSpace successfully for over 15 years, but now I need a modeler that can export STL files, so I wanted to give Blender a try. I have not been successfeul at accomplishing even the simplest of tasks like Booleans. etc. I need some help getting going, so far it been a disaster. I am on Potrero Hill, so not far from the ballpark. If possible, I would like to meet with you a few times.
I'm in Berkeley over by Emeryville, I'd love to meet up :) I <3 Blender
alewis at geeks-911.com - probably should set up a meetup.com thingy?
I live in livermore, I'm down to get together with other blender users. So how do we do this?
you can e-mail me at [email protected]
something in north-north west cal would be nice! i'm back and forth between mendocino county and humboldt. anybody in arcata, maybe? or ukiah, lakeport, etc? (yet another reason i miss oakland!) ---y'all have fun!
Ah!! Sounds like there's a good bunch of us in the area. Yeah, I've settled down in Oakland and I'd definitely be up to go anywhere in SF or the East Bay for a meetup!
Wow, I forgot about posting here. Lots of responses. Maybe start a thread on ba.org and see where it goes?
Or start a thread and point them here?
er http://www.blenderartists.org/forum/ or org, didn't know the new board would create a link out of that
Does it make sense if I setup a Bay Area meetup on meetup.com? Can't seem to find an existing Bay Area blender group ...
I live in Los Gatos, and work in Mountain View. I have only started using Blender since November 2011. Done about 3500 lines of Python programming in Blender so far, and I am still a noob.
I live in San Francisco and work on the motion tracking component.
I'm looking for people near SF too! Can't find anything on meetup. I would love to meet some blender artists!
You should check out our 'Meetup Everywhere page':
http://www.blendernation.com/usermeetings-near-you/
There's a group forming in SF:
http://www.meetup.com/Blender/San-Francisco-CA/
I'd like to meet some users in Montreal!
I am (Boisbriand_rive nors)
Chambly les gars!
Sherbrook, un peu loin mais c'est nice de voir qu'il y a du monde dans la province.
If someone is in Queretaro, México count with me
Dude, I'm from guanajuato
I'm from Guanajuato too, but I work in Queretaro
LA California, USA.
+1! whereabouts are you?
Los Angeles too. El Segundo area
LA too...
I'm in the Miracle Mile Area
Burbank here.
Anybody want to get a Connecticut group going?
Yes! Yes! A thousand times yes! I'm in the Norwalk/Westport area. I've schlepped down to the city for a couple meetups, but it would be so nice to not have the 2+ hours of commuting...
MOST Definitely!!! I'm in central ct near hartford and can't find any groups or meeting that are within an hour of travel time/distance.
MOST Definitely!!! I'm in central ct near hartford and can't find any
groups or meeting that are within an hour of travel time/distance.
Im in the Danbury area, and would love to meet up with other users
Frankfurt, Germany
Areandres - some comments later also askes for Frankfurt/Main(I don't life there - I just saw you both are searching for the same)
Hi Dudeplayer,
thats great we can meet if you have time.
Maybe we will find more from Frankfurt area.
Greets Andy
I think i will meet a User tomorrow in Berlin B-)
Well the User Base in Berlin is big, but somehow it is still hard to find a time and place. Offen it needs a personal taking the burden to organisiert...
Indeed! Should we invite other people? :)
Berlin is a great spot *thumbs up*
Berlin Blenderheads are already organizing themselves: http://www.blendpolis.de/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=26996&p=404685 :)
Berlin would be awesome. I'd really like to meet some other blender users.
Kaunas, Lithuania ;)
Rennes or Caen in France.
Győr, Hungary
Some other day in Budapest? :)
South Carolina
I'm from Greensboro, NC, and someone else posted from Charlotte
Mulhouse, France
Quebec anybody?
La ville ou la province ?
Province, je suis dans le coin de Sherbrook
Amarillo, Texas
Has anyone checked out this users map?
Map Link - http://g.co/maps/8e7vz
blender artists thread where you can leave your details
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?209333-Where-are-the-Worlds-Blender-Users&p=1789767#post1789767
User groups have been established and work has been found through this initiative.
Subotica, Serbia
Nashville Tn
Sigh, according to the map, the closest blender users are about an hour of freeway driving away. :(
Roeselare, Belgium
Beervelde, Belgium
Orale!
Aqui estamos desde Moncho de Tiquicia, buscando gente que le guste el Blender.
Saludos!
Desde donde? :P
Licata - Sicily (Italy)
Un Saluto da Davide
Parma (Italy)
Terni, Italy
Hello to all the blender fans all over the world!:)
Pisa, Italy.
Roma - (Italy)
A.
Milan or Lecco or Bergamo or Como (Italy)
Luca
Sterling Heights, Michigan
hey, I live there too
Biloxi, Mississippi!
Cape May County, New Jersey.
Christchurch, New Zealand
Me too
Excellent! I'm an ex CPIT student. I have a friend who also uses Blender. I am very interested to see what blender users in Christchurch are up to.
I'm in Hamilton.
It seems most Kiwi Blender users are in Christchurch or Auckland.
Figures, though Aukland isn't too far away from Hamilton if they had a user meeting there be a good couple of hours drive though.
st.paul, mn
Just went back through, thinking I might find TC folks I missed - and here you are! I was going to test the waters for starting a BUG somewhere in the cities maybe after the new year. Was thinking I'd put out a call on Blenderartists, Blender facebook group. Do you belong to either?
I met with John Teisberg a couple of weeks ago. I'm always up for a meeting.
I work at the University (Twin Cities campus)
Cool! I've started a thread on Blenderartists - that can be our main place to communicate. It's here: http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?235858-Blender-User-Group-Twin-Cities-Area-MN
Alice springs Australia
Brisbane Or Toowoomba, Australia
And on the 3rd of January to the 10th i'm in Melbourne.
Perth, Australia
Frankfurt/Main - Germany
Dudeplayer posted a request for Frankfurt earylier in the comments.(Just saw you both are searching for Frankfurt)
Hey cool.
We can meet together.
Great to hear.
Vila do Conde, close to Porto, Portugal
I'm in Porto. :)
Cork, Ireland
Costa Rica? Alguien? :O
2 por aca viejo ;)
Bakersfield, CA anyone?
Western Maryland
I live near Baltimore, but work in Frederick.
Salt Lake City, UT. 1st and 3rd Tuesdays @ SLC public library. Check out the site: http://blenderusergrouputah.blogspot.com. Been up and running for the last three months. Check it out if you are in the neighborhood.
Awesome, I live in Pleasant Grove, might be able to make it to some of the meetings when work permits.
I too am in Pleasant Grove. Might try to make it to some of the meetings if time allows.
Will, I'm over by the police station, maybe we could get together one day.
Curtis, I'm 5 minutes away up the hill at the end of Center Street. Email me at [email protected]
Awesome, contact me if you'd like me to write about it!
San Antonio Texas -
Join our Facebook group San Antonio Blender Users Group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/114963008562927/
or Our Hackerspace : http://www.10bitworks.com/
I really want to get into use Blender for VFX.
-Greg
Can't this be managed via google groups or something?
SORRY!! Meant to add, I am from Leicester UK
Snap, Im from Derby UK. close enough!
Hey! Leicester blender nerd reporting!
Thordwilk
(cgden.com)
Has anyone checked out this users map?
Map Link - http://g.co/maps/8e7vz
blender artists thread where you can leave your details
http://blenderartists.org/foru...
User groups have been established and work has been found through this initiative.
Qingdao, China.
Constanta, Romania anyone?
North Carolina?
Greensboro, NC, and someone below posted Charlotte
(near Charlotte maybe..)
I'm from Greensboro, NC. Bit of a drive, but I have family in Charlotte
Yes, Portland, OR.
Portland Oregon as well
If you're willing to make the drive, there's Seabug in Seattle. http://seabug.eventbrite.com
I am so sorry I every subscribed to this link. I have no reason to contact all groups in the world as I thought I was contacting people local to me. I am so sorry and will block all the stuff now hitting my email.
It's a sad day when what you think is good and all for what you hope to be an then you discover that you are bullied by countless other contacts.
I will certainly be more selective and more cautious before I link to a news feed in the future, blender or what ever.
ron
Hey Ron, why not just switch off the notifications for this post? Click on 'unsubscribe' just above the comment form.
*realised he probably won't read this. Oh well.. *
Las Vegas, NV?
Por supuesto Jonathan ,
Aqui estamos desde Tiquicia.
Felicidades por tu trabajo en BlendSwap. Esta nítido la página.
Luego, sigues trabajando en La máquina, o esta en standb-by?
Yo he intentado ayudar en el projecto Pop-Wuj, http://www.facebook.com/popwuj, pero no he podido ayudar mucho por mi horario.
Saludos,
LC
Twin Cities area, Minnesota USA?
I live in Kansas City Missouri. Jonathan Williamson is from here (the Kansas side), but he moved to Chicago. It would be a cool to have a user group here, but i'm not sure there are many users here.
Oh wow, that's not too far from Indiana/Indianapolis.
Yeah I'm in the Western Chicago suburbs now! It's not too bad of a drive from KC, though, if we were to organize a couple days of Blender action.
I've got a lot to learn about Blender and actually not much experience animating. However, I'd love to support this in the Kansas City community and I always love absorbing some knowledge being around others. If there is anyway for me to help this grow I'd definitely be interested.
Twitter
Viborg. Denmark seems like forever alone :P
Yeah, 3rd one for Frankfurt/Germany :D
Lets meet together.
Mexico, Edo. De Mexico
YOOOOOO
Indianapolis, Indiana. I've talked with some individuals who have made a user group in the past and then got wrapped up in other assets of their lives. Currently I'm trying to gauge interest in something in the Downtown Indianapolis area.
I'm from indiana. Currently in muncie but Indy isn't far. about an hour. actually heading to Indy tomorrow for the Ed Hooks masterclass at IUPUI
I'm between Muncie and Anderson. A user meeting would be interesting but difficult for me to find the time.
http://www.meetup.com/Blender/Indianapolis/685692/?a=bn5_l1#1229652
Inaugural Indianapolis Blender User Group Meetup.
http://www.meetup.com/Blender/Indianapolis/685692/?a=bn5_l1#1229652
Inaugural Indianapolis Blender User Group Meetup.
Hartford Ct USA,any one?
Phoenix, Arizona.
PHX az baby! Yeah. I was starting to think I may be the only one!
Lakeside, MT
Lausanne, Switzerland
Portland Oregon!
Toledo, OH
Bogotá, Colombia
I am sure nobody i cambodia Phnom penh :(
Sometime we need SEA users group :)
Bangkok, Thailand
how 'bout Lake George, New York? very historical town. There is a convention center at Fort William Henry as well as a hotel. There are many other hotels in this town as well.
Victoria British Columbia Canada North America Western Hemisphere Planet Earth... anyone?
Oh man... I used to live there!
we will be having another Sydney meeting before the end of the year
but for those who want to "see" where other users are
make sure you add yourself to the Blender users Map
(just follow the instructions)
http://www.blendernation.com/2011/03/02/blender-world-wide-user-map/
Hey Waylow - it is currently not possible to add yourself to the blender 3d world user map - due to map vandalism (it's still a google hosted map).
All requests can go through the various forum links listed to the left of the map at this address http://g.co/maps/8e7vz
I am looking for a programmer to develop the map to where it should be. thought i had found my guy but alas, he got away and never came back to me. (read open cry for paid help)
El Paso, Texas/Las Cruces, New Mexico
Santiago, Chile -- We just had our first!, pictures coming soon, bbq, good people and workshops!!!
and by "just" i mean i arrived from it about an hour ago!
Anahuac,Texas,
Its near Houston, Texas
But I am deaf.
Lexington, KY
Canton, Georgia
I live in West Georgia, but Atlanta is not too far.
Yes. In Moscow, Russia.
Binghamton, NY? (Yeah right...)
Mechelen Belgium. I made a Meetup group.
Has anyone checked out this users map?
Map Link - http://g.co/maps/8e7vz
blender artists thread where you can leave your details
http://blenderartists.org/foru...
User groups have been established and work has been found through this initiative.
The user map is a cool initiative, but as far as I know it's all maintained by hand. I added myself to it a while ago and later it had vanished.. Maybe we need something better!
I like it how this site is managed and presented:
http://igolocal.net/
Maybe something similar for Blender would be nice.
Brt - this is really great. there are loads of people giving details here of where they are in the world, but there is no ability to communicate with most of them.
And it is great as they will be new to the Blender World Map started back in Mar this year (http://g.co/maps/8e7vz), at present it allows for each individual blender user to contact an other individual blender user through their individual forum groups - currently French, English, Russian, Portuguese/Brazil, Spanish
Communication for a user group is essential. And whilst the current map isn't perfect it does allow for that.
As I said above to Waylow, i need help to get this map to where it needs to be. Database, programming, UI design, help. I'd like to see it as a page every blender users toolbar toolbox.
Anybody who wanst to talk further, contact m via email ;
toweyed at yahoo.com (i live in Sydney, Australia)
Joensuu, Finland?
STUTTGART GERMANY
Sure! Long for it!
Dongguan, China!!
The north of Chile ! Copiapó.
Exchange Quay, Manchester, UK
Anybody from London?
Kosice, Slovakia!! :D
Phillidelphia PA
Ennis, County Clare, Ireland
Düsseldorf / Krefeld Germany
Phoenix, Arizona area? (aka The Valley of the Sun!)
I'm in the Scottsdale area.
Central PHX here
There's several AZ people here. How do we start a group?
I'm in North Phoenix Area
Gothenburg, Sweden? :)
Copenhagen, Denmark
Toledo, OH, I guessing probably no one close. I'll keep my fingers crossed.
Leuven, Belgium
Hey, anyone in Colombia?
Hi everybody!. I'm in Murcia (south-east of Spain). It would be wonderful to meet someone here to share my passion for Blender world!
Hola a todos; estoy en Murcia (España) y sería genial conocer a alguien por aquí con quien compartir mi pasión por el "mundo Blender" ;-D
Dnipropetrovsk
or
Dnepropetrovsk
Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
User group meeting November 12th
http://www.funkboxing.com
Yeah.... I'm in Barcelona or in Dubai on november...
Happy blendidea!
Interested to meet people in Mexico City, Mexico.
Interesado de contactar usuarios de Blender en Ciudad de México.
YOOOOOOO !!! DF tambien
SyriaDamascus !
Searching for ppl from Warsaw, Poland : )
Los Angeles, Burbank
Washington DC/NoVA area, haven't seen anyone post up here yet...
Mexico City, Mexico?
Yea!!!! How about Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia?
Eifel - Germany
St. Louis, MO, anyone?
HOUSTON TX!!!
I'm in Fort Lauderdale, FL and only know one or two other blender users, but would love a local meeting.
Is there no one on this end of the country? atlanta ga..
Anyone in Johannesburg or Midrand or Kyalami, South Africa?
Am interested.
Where are you?
Edinburgh, Scotland. I know of at least one other Blender user who would come to a BUG meeting.
Somebody in Las Vegas Nevada??
Anyone in Albuquerque, NM?
Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Hey Campbell, you can now add your location to our new Meetup page and see if anyone's interested in joining you for a meetup:
http://www.meetup.com/Blender/
Paris, France
Hey Lorembolo, you can now add your location to our new Meetup page and see if anyone's interested in joining you for a meetup:
http://www.meetup.com/Blender/
Yes! Iasi, Romania.
i am interested to meet blender user in vienna, Austria
maybe at the metalab? :)
I am living to Le Mans ( 24 hours)
Houston, Texas
Anyone living in the Warren, Roseville, Mt Clemens area of Michigan. If u want to have a blender meeting email me at [email protected]
YES! HOUSTON!!!
Hey what's going on in Bali tonight girls x
Mt. Vernon WA anyone