You have to throw a free poutine party. :)<br><br>Well, that's actually a very tough one, because Softimage is headquartered in Montreal with about 100 employees. It's a source of pride to have a local company go really big. I think it would take a blockbuster game or movie + a production ready release of blender a few months before the softimage:autodesk launch. Plus a ton of old-fashioned community building - boot camps, socials... and you have to be fashion-sexy in montreal.<br>
<br>k<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 5:00 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bf-education-request@blender.org">bf-education-request@blender.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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From: Ton Roosendaal <<a href="mailto:ton@blender.org">ton@blender.org</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [Bf-education] Bf-education Digest, Vol 73, Issue 5<br>
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Hi,<br>
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Montreal has a huge 3d industry... many studios there. It would be<br>
interesting to find out what we can do to break the Autodesk dominance<br>
there.<br>
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-Ton-<br>
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On 25 Nov, 2011, at 19:01, James Halliwell wrote:<br>
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> No plans to visit LA, but on the Blender 3d education side of<br>
> things, working with the City of Montreal, I have arranged to begin<br>
> a Blender 3D club with the use of the resources and space they will<br>
> provide. If the popularity and interest of the Club is good, they<br>
> are open to adding Blender 3D courses to the list of computer<br>
> courses that are currently provided. Planned start is Jan 2012.<br>
><br>
> A sad thing I find in Montreal is that some places advertise Blender<br>
> courses but do not give them. This inculdes The National Film Board<br>
> and a place called Centre NAD. Centre NAD has not given a Blender<br>
> courses after the last ones give by Jean Francois Guillmette.<br>
> Blender is being used to attract students and then 3D Max other are<br>
> promoted and taught. I am sure this is hurting Blender overall in<br>
> Montreal. I have written to these groups in the hope that they would<br>
> stop this practice, but to no avail.<br>
><br>
> Blender Rocks!<br>
><br>
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> James Halliwell<br>
> Montreal QC<br>
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> > From: <a href="mailto:bf-education-request@blender.org">bf-education-request@blender.org</a><br>
> > Subject: Bf-education Digest, Vol 73, Issue 5<br>
> > To: <a href="mailto:bf-education@blender.org">bf-education@blender.org</a><br>
> > Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:00:01 +0100<br>
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> > Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:33:40 +0100<br>
> > From: Ton Roosendaal <<a href="mailto:ton@blender.org">ton@blender.org</a>><br>
> > Subject: [Bf-education] Siggraph educator Birds of Feather<br>
> > To: Blender Educators and Trainers <<a href="mailto:bf-education@blender.org">bf-education@blender.org</a>><br>
> > Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:14AD15DD-6DBB-44F2-A1D0-0165D2C6C120@blender.org">14AD15DD-6DBB-44F2-A1D0-0165D2C6C120@blender.org</a>><br>
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> > Hi all,<br>
> ><br>
> > Marc Barr, SIGGRAPH Education Committee Chair, has asked me if<br>
> Blender<br>
> > Foundation would be interested organizing a "Birds of a Feather" for<br>
> > educators.<br>
> ><br>
> > It could be about free/open learning of 3D creation at schools/<br>
> > colleges. Stuff that's by-default not possible with Adesk sw :)<br>
> ><br>
> > Although I think it's cool to have educators meet there and discuss<br>
> > matters, it would be much more interesting if such a BoF would be<br>
> > presented/hosted well, with use cases and some presenters.<br>
> ><br>
> > Anyone on this list interested, and already planning to visit<br>
> Siggraph<br>
> > LA 2012?<br>
> ><br>
> > Thanks,<br>
> ><br>
> > -Ton-<br>
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From: "Adamson, Thomas" <<a href="mailto:T.Adamson@snhu.edu">T.Adamson@snhu.edu</a>><br>
Subject: [Bf-education] My Input<br>
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Folks,<br>
I am currently teaching game design and development at Southern New Hampshire University (<a href="http://snhu.edu" target="_blank">snhu.edu</a>). We introduce UDK3, Unity, and Blender as well as Maya and Z-Brush. I will not be attending any conferences, however if there is anyway I may contribute to this project, please let me know. Currently we are working on Interactive Story Telling (IS) using HTML5. I think Blender with its Python programming base would be an excellent candidate for IS. If you wish, you may view my YouTube training videos in C++, HTML5, and Blender (prof.t.adamson).<br>
Keep up the excellent work with Blender.<br>
Tom Adamson<br>
Visiting Assistant Professor<br>
Computer Game Design and Development<br>
Southern New Hampshire University<br>
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