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Conference: Use of Internet Technology for Video-Conferencing Across Cultures
I will be attending the conference on Wednesday... I will post my comments on the site later that day.
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Wednesday, October 20, 2004, 12:00 – 2:00 pm
SID/DIW Development Information Workgroup
“Use of Internet Technology for Video-Conferencing Across Cultures”
This brown bag lunch will feature Robin Yeager, U. S. Department of State Bureau of African Affairs, who will talk about a University of The Gambia and East Carolina University joint project using video-conferencing.Other projects will also be highlighted.
Location: Development Information Center (DIC), 1001 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Suite 300 South, Washington, DC. Please note that is a new location for DIC! Directions can be found on the website, www,sidw.org.
Contact: For more information please contact the DIC receptionist at 202-661-5800. No reservations required. Seating is limited; first come, first seated. Please bring a photo ID.
Comments
Good Conference Today
Thank you SID Washington ... Good conference. I was hopping for it to be a little more technical and talk about what mainstream and affordable applications they were using for online conferencing. A student e-exchange course talked about how cheep the $400 webcams were... maybe I am missing something here about video compression here but you can buy some great little webcams for 25-35 bucks with out looking hard... anyway doesn't software do the video compression???
I vaguely recalled reading ab
I vaguely recalled reading about this in Tech Review awhile back...err similar technology at least. Just re(searched) a bit further. It was out of Cornell and they were featured as a startup - SightSpeed that is. However, was/is this GPL software? From this page it looks like the algorithm was/is?
Welcome to the home page of the qVIX/CU30 project at the Discover Lab in Cornell University. To visit the sourceforge page on the project to get the gritty details click here. CU30 is a 30fps video conferencing algorithm that works in a low bit-rate environment, meaning cable, DSL, and above, at high quality video. qVIX is the Linux application written around CU30. Both components are GPL'ed.
But then there are dead pages at both Freshmeat and Sourceforge for the algorithm, as far as Google remembers them. Hmm?
Update: If you sell GPL, you
Update: If you sell GPL, you gotta say: http://www.qvix.biz/page.php?page=legal
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