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