Here we go again! hugin/panotools has been accepted as a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code 2008.

If you’re a full time student and would like to apply for a paid summer internship with Google, mentored by our team on a project in this exciting area of image processing, read the story at:

http://panospace.wordpress.com/2008/03/17/google-summer-of-code-2008/

Although it may seem a bit early I would like to formally announce the 2008 Panotools meeting which will be held August 4 - 7 in Prague, Czech Republic.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=famu...

The meeting itself will have the usual 3-day format with a possible extra day on the end if necessary.

I have already received word that Professor Helmut Dersch may possibly attend the meeting. In addition the VR world's favorite lens hacker, the esteemed Michel Thoby, may also possibly join us.

One of the festival's main themes concentrated on "Second Life" and presented an interference of virtuality with reality.

http://austria360.at/ooe/linz/ars2007

We are very happy to announce that the videos of the sessions of this year's PanoTools meeting in Lucerne/Switzerland
are now online at http://www.panotools.org/talks07
Many thanks to Dario Sigona for recording the sessions and post processing them and to Thomas Rauscher for the converting of the movies into a streamable format.

Greetings from Switzerland,
Matthias

From August 8th to 10th the PanoTools Meeting 2007 takes place in Lucerne/Switzerland with a series of talks. There will be also two days of excursions to Zermatt which lies right in the heart of the Swiss Alps, on foot of the famous Matterhorn.

We are very happy to announce that Prof. Helmut Dersch will hold the keynote speech at our PanoTools Meeting 2007 in Lucerne/Switzerland. You can find a detailled and up-to-date time schedule at http://panotools-meeting.com/lucerne07_schedule.html

The preparations for this meeting are just starting at the PanoTools Meeting discussion list. If you're interested in attending the meeting please come and join us there. You can find more information about how to join the mailing list at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/panotools-meeting/

It went well into the night, it was full of tension and suspense, but when Google finally revealed the list of accepted students to this year's Summer of Code, it was good news for panoramic photography.

This is the biggest Summer of Code ever and Google has shown tremendous generosity by massively increasing the number of accepted applicants - from 600 (last year) to 800 (this year's budget), then to 900 during preliminary allocation to end up at "over 900 from a pool of over 3,000 student and nearly 6,200 applications". [1]

Professor Helmut Dersch, author of the Panorama Tools programs that form the core of current VR panorama technology, has accepted the invitation to speak at the International VR Photography Conference in Berkeley.

The conference will be held June 15-20 at the University of California Berkeley. Professor Dersch will give the keynote address on Sunday, June 17. Details about Prof Dersch's talk will be posted to the IVRPA conference site when available.
http://conference.ivrpa.org

Registration is now open for the largest ever VR Photography conference presented by the The International VR Photography Association (IVRPA) 15-20 June 2007 at the University of California at Berkeley campus.

PanoTools/Hugin has been approved as a mentoring organization in the Google Summer of Code http://code.google.com/soc/pano/about.html
Now we are recruiting students. Each student completing successfully a project will be paid up to 4500$ by Google!

http://wiki.panotools.org/Google_SoC_2007#Students
http://code.google.com/soc/student.html