Like promised, as soon as we would hit 1000 members within the NUI Group community, we were going to give away 50+ free NUI Group tshirts to members that have contributed a lot to the community.

We will also cover the shipping costs.

If you are not on the list, this doesn’t mean we don’t love you and appreciate your input Maybe you will be on the list as soon as we hit 2000 members.

In the future we intend to have cheap NUI Group tshirts for sale.

Can the persons in the list below, please contact me by email (harryvdveen at gmail dot com) and give me the shipping details (Name, Street, House number, Zip code, State, Country and size tshirt (xs, s, m, l, xl, xxl, xxxl etc.) Please don’t spam me, that you also want a tshirt, thank you

Thank you everybody for contributing and making this community so amazingly attractive, let’s hope we hit 2000 members before the mid of 2008.

nuiman
donovan_sa
whitenoise
falcon4ever
cerputcat
bushman
divesh
adi
solydzajs and his roommate
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joobs
thomas brand
AdmiralYOUDEE
seashadow/nighthawk
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bsquang
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Seeb
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Mikewags
Kamelisko
Ralph das
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Tim Roth
The illustrated life
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bengal
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damian
tzywen
tom
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nima
kyle A
bill evans
estengineer
build18er
sport4minus
coder

Tweak 2008 is a new interactive art and live electronic music festival taking place in Limerick City between the 23rd and 27th of September 2008. Its aim is to promote understanding of the use of technology within our culture and to explore contemporary issues (social, aesthetic and functional). The festival will consist of a 5-day exhibition, (interactive artworks, robots and installations) comprising of artworks from international and local artists.

Tweak examines the growing impact of digital technologies in the creation of art and aesthetic experience. Providing a space for Digital Artists to redefine the nature of technology within our lives, the festival intends to create public awareness of the complex nature of technology and explore the relationship technology has to our lives.

Tweak is calling for submissions:

Exhibition submissions:

Tweak invites architects, artists, designers, technologists, engineers, urbanists, or teams thereof, to submit artistic contributions for an exhibition that will critically explore new roles, contexts and approaches for design in relation to the social, cultural and ethical impact of existing and emerging technologies.

For submissions please include a 1-page description of the contribution, include photos or videos and a short bio.

Workshop submissions:

Tweak aims to educate and showcase alternatives methods of programming and hacking to produce creatively.  Current topics include:

- Arduino fun with microcontroller electronics

- Visual Programming for your inner VJ

- Circuit Bending and Music Making

- Making plants talk – “I’m thirsty, feed me!”

These workshops aim to alter the public perception of technology from being functional to something that is aesthetic and engaging and illustrate how programming and electronics can be used creatively to create music and art. 

Workshop proposals should include a 1-page description of the theme of the workshop, short CV of organisers, duration and schedule of workshop.

Deadline for submissions is June 27th
For more information visit: http://www.tweak.ie email:

Visit the NUI Group Community

Or check these blogs in the upper right corner: http://solydzajs.wordpress.com / http://www.multitouch.nl

This way you help us expand and making greater things possible in the future.

You can put your URL in this topic, once you have placed the banner on your website/blog.

Note: See attached vector source.

I will represent the NUIGroup @ the hacker space festival , introducing to the multi touch low cost techniques on Wednesday 18 June and Thursday 19.

We also will presenting the Polychroma audio app and few app we are working on Pd .
Hope to meet you there !

hacker space festival schedule
Hackerspace Festival

Jimi Hertz , Raphael Isdant,
SassExperience

We are pleased to announce that we are organizing a come-together workshop on “Multi Touch Surfaces”. In this workshop, we plan to explore and discuss the latest research and new paradigms of Multi Touch Interfaces, including hardware and software issues.

The impact of Microsoft’s Surface and an increasing number of videos of multi-touch surfaces available on YouTube, show that users’ expectations about using these devices in their daily lives have increased. The reaction to these natural interface implementations has been very dramatic. This is because people are still interested in a simpler way of navigating information and content where the computer interface is not a barrier, but enables them to accomplish tasks more quickly and easily.

A lot of researchers are working on different multi-touch solutions. The goal of this workshop is to bring researchers and developers together from Europe to share knowledge and expertise, to discuss all topics relevant to creating Multi Touch Interfaces, and to evaluate opportunities for close cooperation.

It is planned that each group will introduce their hard- and software set-up briefly and will describe their typical application scenarios. Then we should identify common interests and hot topics and discuss where and how we can engage in closer cooperation.

The detailed agenda will be defined after the registration (May 2, 2008) and we kindly ask you to send us the presentation title and brief abstract. We would be pleased to receive your planned presentation one week ahead of the workshop to facilitate the planning.

The workshop is free of charge and there will be no printed proceedings.
We are explicitly encouraging you in participating!
Important Dates:
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-) registration (incl. presentation title & abstract):  May 2, 2008
-) preliminary version of the presentation slides: May 12, 2008
-) Workshop: May 19, 2008

We are looking forward to seeing you in Hagenberg

If you are interested in participating, please send an email to or .

Cheers,
Michael Haller (Media Interaction Lab)
Felix Flentge und Max Mühlhäuser (Technische Universität Darmstadt)

While checking my blog I found out that I have already been blogging for one year.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank everybody for visiting my blog, commenting, sharing ideas, joining the NUI Group community, their support and feedback.

To celebrate this, I will be giving the money away, that was generated by Google ads, in one year, on my blog, 80 USD. I was thinking about donating it to the NUI Group community, however there are people who are in more need worldwide that can use the money better, even though it is not that much.

So I would appreciate your input on what you think is the best charity to give away this money to, should it for example be donated to fight AIDS, or help African kids get medication, or should it be donated to a charity that builds schools in Asia?

Thanks in advance for your input.

Best regards,

Harry

We are happy to announce that Natural User Interface Group (NUI Group) has been selected for mentoring organization in Google Summer of Code 2008.

Want to write open source code? Want to make money? Want to do both? Join NUI Group for this year edition of Google Summer of Code.

If you’re a student and maybe even a NUI Group member check out our projects ideas wiki page. Prepare your project proposal and apply ! Google is offering successful student contributors a 4500 USD stipend, enabling them to focus on their coding projects for three months. And this year you can code with NUI Group

We are looking for your participation and for innovative and creative projects proposal. If you don’t find interesting project at our ideas webpage feel free to send us your own project idea. Starting from today (March 17th) students have a week (till March 24th) to discuss projects ideas with mentors from NUI Group. The student application period begins Monday, March 24th 2008 and ends Monday, March 31st 2008.

If you don’t know what GSoC is, here is a little description from GSoC FAQ:

“Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source projects. Google will be working with a several open source, free software, and technology-related groups to identify and fund several projects over a three month period. Historically, the program has brought together over 1,500 students with over 130 open source projects to create millions of lines of code. The program, which kicked off in 2005, is now in its fourth year. If are feeling nostalgic or are interested in learning more about the projects we have worked with in the past, check out the 2006 and 2007 program pages.”

You can learn more about Google Summer of Code at http://code.google.com/soc , remember to check out programs FAQ before you ask questions.

Also here is the latest blog post at Google Open Source blog about GSoC: Meet your mentors.

Big request to NUI Group member: Spread the word about NUI Group participation in GSoC 2008 on your blogs

Just thought I would let you know that you can now set your profile photo and avatar on the left side of your ”Control Panel”…

You can have up to a 100x100 avatar and a 600x600 photo. Also while in your control panel you can add some general information about yourself such as location, interests.. and related links.

Here is a quick example of both in use : http://nuigroup.com/forums/member/1/

It will contribute to more understanding and a faster development.

We could start on March .(1st or 8th...)

This sessions could lead further this year to some more formal workshops with the most advanced members.

this is it , Paris on march !!