New local dev group: Boston Blender User's Group

[Darren Torpey]

Hi everyone,

Local awesome-dude and game jam veteran K. Adam White has started the Boston Blender User's Group. I've included his announcement email below.

Blender is a very popular tool at game jams and has been used many times in 2010 jams, so I know this group might be very welcome to many of you.

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Man, announce something at Indies and shit gets DONE! Last Monday at our monthly Boston Indies meeting at the Asgard I announced my plans to start a Blender 3D user's group (If you weren't there, Blender is a robust, free & open-source 3D modeling & animation tool). Many thanks to everybody who has talked to me about the project since then--it hasn't even been a week, but we already have a venue and a date for our first meetup!

BOSTON BLENDER USER'S GROUP KICKOFF

@ Bocoup Loft (a fantastic hackerspace at Congress and A St, between South Station & the Innovation District)

7:00 PM, Thursday April 7

We're starting the group in April to avoid the GDC/PAX crunch, but I will be hosting an informal planning get together in late March--if you want to be involved with running the group, or have ideas for presentations or projects, please get in contact with me off-list and we'll figure out when to meet. At our first meeting we will be screening "Sintel", the latest Blender-made film from the Open Movie Project, and then discussing the future of the group. You can RSVP for the meetup and join the group at Meetup.com through www.bostonblender.com. I am super excited to see this group launch, and if you are interested in 3D I hope you will join us!

Lastly, I hope to have a few demos lined up, but haven't received final confirmation on anything yet--if you have something you'd like to show off, bring it!