openEyA v5.2.1 for Ubuntu 11.10 (32 and 64 bits) – is now available for free  download!

As always, we thank you for using openEyA and look forward to your feedback.

Cordially yours,
The SDU Team

This new version openEyA-webcam 5.2.0 (Alopix);

• Fixes minor bug in the Save Config.

As always, we thank you for using openEyA and look forward to your feedback.

Cordially yours,
The SDU Team

2011 WINNERS ANNOUNCED

ICTP’s Science Dissemination Unit (SDU) congratulates the winners of its 2011 Grant programme “International e-Learning Grant using openEyA“. The Grant aims to support the automated production of on-line scientific content (via “webinars”) and e-learning and distance education (via “web lectures”).

This grant is meant to contribute to capacity building and development by implementing academic webcasting using openEyA. The grantees have agreed to publish recorded lectures on the web and distribute them freely in digital form for educational purposes.

The five Winners, selected by the SDU Team, will receive all USB essentials for implementing a set of the openEyA automated recording system (worth about 200 Euros in hardware each), including USB High-Definition Webcams and omni-directional microphones.

The five grantees selected for 2011 are:

• Facultad de Ciencias, Departamento de Fisica Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia, http://www.unal.edu.co
• Institute of Cybernetics, Mathematics & Physics (ICIMAF), Habana, Cuba, http://www.icmf.inf.cu/
• The Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Informatics, Mongolia, http://www.mas.ac.mn/en/
• School of Physics and Technology, V.N.Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine, http://www-htuni.univer.kharkov.ua
• Vietnam Auger Training Laboratory (VATLY), Institute for Nuclear Science and Technology(INST), Vietnam, http://www.inst.gov.vn/Vatly/Vatly.htm

Congratulations to the openEyA Winners and our sincere thanks goes also to all Grant submissions received!  We shall start to deliver all USB essentials by Courier to the above Winners Institutions at the earliest.

The SDU Team

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EyA (“Enhance your Audience”) is an innovative automated audio/video/slides recording system, developed by SDU to archive and share scientific lectures and talks carried out using digital presentations (PPT, PDF, animations, etc) as well as traditional chalkboards or whiteboards found in classrooms.  The EyA system has these main features:

• no human intervention during recording and post-processing;
• scalable architecture;
• no special requirements for the speaker or lecturer;
• Slides/images taken from screen captures or any Linux USB webcam (HD);
• low-cost implementation and fully automated;
• low-bandwidth friendly features (recordings saved as Zips).

For more details about openEyA see www.openeya.org
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This new version openEyA-webcam 5.1.0 (Alopix)

• Shows Slides during recordings;
• Allows zoom in the Preview Photo;
• Fixes minor bug in the Alarms.

You can now synchronize audio-video with zoomable images/slides taken from  screen captures or using any webcam (including High Definition HD-Webcams of 2, 8 or  Mpx!)

As always, we thank you for using openEyA and look forward to your feedback.

Cordially yours,
The SDU Team

The Science Dissemination Unit (SDU) of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy, is also offering in 2011 an academic webcasting grant to have an “off-the-shelf” solution for on-line Learning. The aim is to help non-profit institutions from countries that are members of the United Nations, UNESCO or IAEA to implement the automated production of digital scientific content (via, e.g., webinars) and e-Learning and Distance Education (via, e.g., webcasting of lectures).

This year SDU grant provides all USB essentials for implementing a set of the openEyA automated recording system (worth about 200 Euros in hardware each), including USB High-Definition Webcams and omni-directional microphones.

The 2011 openEyA Grant will be awarded to up to four different eligible organizations based in a developing country, and aiming to contribute more efficiently to capacity building and scientific development.

To find out more about this 2011 SDU International e-Learning Grant visit
http://www.openeya.org/?page_id=880

Applications must be received by Tuesday 17 May 2011.

To apply, an organization’s official representative must send a signed PDF letter by e-mail to: <sdu@ictp.it> (see details in the link above)  also including

• A snapshot (screen grab or photo JPG) of a PC screen (e.g., any “32 Bit” Desktop, Laptop, Netbook) with Linux Ubuntu 10.10 installed and showing that the latest openEyA software is also already installed!

About openEyA:
openEyA allows to archive (in Flash format) and share (via web, zip) traditional scientific lectures and talks carried out using, for example, chalkboards in classrooms and/or using modern presentations (PPT, PDF, animations, etc). All of this is done using low-cost hardware and with just one click!

You can now synchronize audio-video with zoomable images/slides taken from  screen captures or using any webcam (including High Definition HD-Webcams of 10 Mpx!)

This new version openEyA-webcam 5.0.0 (Alopix) has

• New webcam HD support for photos
• New easy installation process
• Warning if main and secondary webcams are not correctly configured
• New manual
• Fixed bug in alarms tab
• Removed  photocamera and vga2usb support to simplify the use and to use less hardware by geeting similar effects than previous versions of openEyA.

As always, we thank you for using openEyA and look forward to your feedback.

Cordially yours,
The SDU Team