Ground floor a restaurant/bar is housed. Yes, this an actual image!
The main conference room, the Theatrum Anatomicum, here Rembrandt painted his 'Anatomical Lesson'. Here artists/coders can work, the main presentations will be held, and the sources officially released.
De Waag, one of Amsterdams oldest monuments.

To celebrate the opening of Blender's sources, and the start of a new life for Blender, the stichting Blender Foundation organizes a three day event in Amsterdam. The Waag Society will host the event, in the 15th century building 'De Waag' at the Nieuwmarkt, city center. Almost all events will be broadcasted live via internet and reported on with articles and interviews at www.blender3d.com.
 

Expected number of participants: 25-50. Closing party: 40-100 people. There will be a three day artist/coder arena, with work stations available (incl. Windows, OSX, Sun, SGI, Linux, FreeBSD). But bring a laptop if possible. A video beamer for sessions and presentations is available as well.

Dutch radio and newspapers have expressed interest in covering the event.

Admission to the three day event is free for donating Members of the Foundation and for ex-employees of the NaN companies. For others: EUR 50. Admission to the closing party is free, and open for everyone. Please susbscribe as well, if you want to participate dinner.

Conference fee is excluding drinks and food.

Programmer sessions

  • GHOST, low level window/event library
  • Space/Screen Blender interface system
  • Render pipeline
  • Game engine drawing and logic
  • Physics (SOLID, ODE)
  • Python integration
  • adding new tools
  • keeping Blender cross platform
  • we'll end with making a release (2.26)

Art & Design

  • the history of Blender, NeoGeo video presentations
  • companies/individuals presenting Blender work (studio Zoo, ...)
  • character animation in Blender
  • interactive 3D tips and tricks
  • access to renderfarm, 66 dual G4 1 Ghz
  • Huge poster printer available (www.vrijschrift.org)

General sessions

  • Real-time stereo rendering for virtual reality
  • Verse 3D database, Loq Airou modeler by Eskil Steenberg
  • Future of Blender (2.5 -> 3.0)
  • Blender Foundation plans, strategy, license issues
  • Organizing documentation projects
  • Integrating with.. (Gig3d, Havok, Lightflow, Renderman...)

On-line

  • chat sessions with experienced Blender engineers
  • if possible: continuous streaming video/audio coverage
  • web cam coverage
  • articles and interviews online

BigBang closing party

19:00

  • official 'live' release of the source codes to the web
  • Blender 2.26 released

20:00-22:00

  • Dinner in Restaurant de Waag, please subscribe with the form to make a reservation.

22:00 - 01:00

  • music & drinks & have fun!

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