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March 30, 2008

Multitouch.nl 1 year old

Filed under: multitouch — Harry van der Veen @ 12:03 pm

While checking my blog I found out that I have already been blogging here 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

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March 24, 2008

Visited Reactable

Filed under: multitouch — Harry van der Veen @ 12:34 pm

Last Thursday I flew to Barcelona to meet my friend Martin Kaltenbrunner from Reactable to finally check out the Reactable in real life, which is a great tangible multi input music instrument.
I really like their concept. I’m sure it will be a successful concept, as already famous music artist worldwide make use of the Reactable prototype.

I shot a couple of quick videos with my camera.

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Another video of the Digitale Interactive Table (DIT)

Filed under: multitouch — Harry van der Veen @ 10:19 am

Another video of the Digitale Interactive Table (DIT) at Campus party in Brasil.

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Virtual DJ on NUI-Box

Filed under: multitouch — Harry van der Veen @ 10:10 am

Though not true multitouch, but single touch with the mouse driver. Divesh and Hiep playing around with Virtual DJ on the NUI-Box.

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March 18, 2008

Project with Google

Filed under: multitouch — Harry van der Veen @ 9:18 am

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.

Comment and contributed to this discussion on the forums.

You can read more about the project here:
http://nuigroup.com/log/comments/nui_group_and_google/

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