+--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | __ __ ___ _ _ _____ _____ | | | \/ | |_ _| | | | | | ___| |_ _| | | | |\/| | | | | | | | _____ | |_ | | | | | | | | | | | |_| | |_____| | _| | | | | |_| |_| |___| \___/ |_| |_| | | | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ [ Apologies for cross-posting. Feel free to forward around ] Florence, 21 September 2004 +++ Media Innovation Unit Workshops at Firenze World Vision Information for streaming On Sep 23/24/25, 2004, Media Innovation Unit - Firenze Tecnologia will host three workshops (on "Audio/Video streaming with Free Software", "Custom Debian Distributions" and "Migrating to Free Software") during Firenze World Vision 2004, which will be held in Florence (Italy). It will be possible to remotely follow the workshops connecting to: http://stream.bononia.it:8000/miu-fwv04.ogg starting from 9:00 a.m. During all seminars an IRC channel (server: irc.freenode.net, channel: #miu-fwv04) will be open, where you will be able to ask your questions to the speakers. Special thanks to the Bononia team (http://www.bononia.it/) for their technical support and for offering otheir bandwidth. All presentations will be given in the english language. An italian-english translation service will be available for the Q&A session, after each talk. Further information on the workshop will be published on: http://www.miu-ft.org/what/events/20040923.fwv.str/ For more details, feel free to contact: Nicola Giosmin &lt;n.giosmin(a)miu.firenzetecnologia.it&gt; and/or our office in Florence: Media Innovation Unit - Firenze Tecnologia Borgo Albizi 15/a 50122 Firenze Italy Tel. no: +39 055 2001561 Fax. no: +39 055 2345762 +++ About Firenze Tecnologia: Firenze Tecnologia is the special agency of the Chamber of Commerce of Florence devoted to study and facilitation of technological innovation in the florentinian and tuscanian areas. Please check: <http://www.firenzetecnologia.it/>. About Media Innovation Unit: Media Innovation Unit is the research unit of Firenze Tecnologia, devoted to research, development and promotion of Free Software, Libre Content, Open Networks and New Media. About Firenze World Vision: Firenze World Vision is the event which annually gathers the protagonists of innovation and of contemporary communication processes, who compare their "visions" of the future. Firenze World Vision deals with theory and practice, with ideas and products, with global change and the ways our daily life is going to change, well aware that the keys to read the contemporary world can be found only through a multiform approach, without preconstituted views. Please check: <http://www.firenzeworldvision.it/>.