Welcome to the fun world of open source.

For instructions on building and installing Blender, please see the file named
INSTALL.


---------------------.Blanguages and the .blender directory---------------------

The .blender directory holds various data files for Blender.
In the 2.28a release those are the .Blanguages file containing a list of
translations, the translations themselves and a default ttf font.

Blender checks for the presence of this directory in several locations:
	- the current directory
	- your home directory
	- On OSX, the blender bundle is also checked 
	- On Windows, the installation dir is checked.

If you get a 'File ".Blanguages" not found' warning, try to copy the .blender
dir to one of these locations (your home directory being recommended).



-------------------------------------Links--------------------------------------

Getting Involved:
http://www.blender.org/community/get-involved

Community:
http://www.blender.org/Community

Main blender development site:
http://www.blender.org

The Blender project homepage:
http://projects.blender.org/projects/bf-blender

Documentation:
http://www.blender.org/education-help

Bug tracker:
http://www.blender.org/development/report-a-bug

Feature request tracker:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Requests