Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Announce: GnomeMeeting wins Belgian IT Prize

[Kenneth Rohde Christiansen <kenneth gnu org>]

Congratulation! This is really cool! Way to go Damien!

fre, 2002-02-22 kl. 15:22 skrev Craig Southeren:
> GnomeMeeting, a H.323 videoconferencing application for Linux and 
> FreeBSD by PhD student Damien Sandras, wins this year's Belgian
> Information Technology prize for the best University Project. 
>
> -----------------------
>
> The Belgian Journalists on Information Technology award the IT prize
> each year to the four best University projects and is sponsored by major
> IT and  Telecoms companies including Microsoft, IBM, Orange, Siemens, 
> and Oracle. 
>  
> GnomeMeeting (http://www.gnomemeeting.org) was written by Damien Sandras
> as his final year project for his degree in Computer Science Engineering
> at Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL, http://www.ucl.ac.be),
> Department of Computing Science and Engineering (INGI,
> http://www.ingi.ucl.ac.be/) in Louvain-La-Neuve.
>
> This program allows Linux and FreeBSD users to video conference with 
> industry standard H.323 applications such as the Microsoft NetMeeting program
> for Windows. The program has proved extremely popular with users, and is now 
> included in many Linux distributions as well as with FreeBSD. 
>  
> GnomeMeeting uses the GNOME desktop or the popular KDE environment. 
> Audio is supported via standard sound cards and video can be used 
> from capture cards or USB cameras. ILS and LDAP directories can be used,
> and H.323 protocol support is provided by the OpenH323 library written
> by Equivalence Pty Ltd (http://www.openh323.org). 
>
> Damien is pleased to receive this prize, which comes just as he and a 
> team of volunteers are preparing the next version of GnomeMeeting for 
> release. You can find out more about GnomeMeeting on at 
> http://www.gnomemeeting.org or on the #gnomemeeting channel at 
> irc.gnome.org
>
>  -------------------------------------------
>  Craig Southeren, 
>  Managing Director, Equivalence Pty Ltd
>  Director, MicroTelco Gateway, Quicknet Technologies, Inc. 
>  Voice: +1 415 864 5225 x 700    Fax:   +61 2 4367 3140        
>         +61 2 4365 4666          H.323: phone.craig.southeren.com    
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Kenneth Christiansen  -  Math and CS student  -  University of Copenhagen. kenneth gnu org   -  http://www.bergsoe.dtu.dk/~pbk1807