[vicsireland] Galway Open Day
- From: "Tony Murray" <tony.g.murray@xxxxxx>
- To: "VICS" <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 09:11:57 -0000
Hi VICS Members,
It's fast approaching, and everything is set up thanks to the hard work of
the Committee - Thanks Guys!
Here are the details.
The VICS Open Day 2006 will be held in Galway on Saturday November 18th.
The event will take place at the Victoria Hotel Eyre Square, from 11:00 AM
until 5:00 PM.
We have a busy and interesting day planned. In the morning, from about
11:00 until 1:00, we will hold seminar style presentations on various
technologies. These will include GPS, Accessible MP3 Players, Braille
Displays, Notetakers, Text to DAISY software, Screen Readers, Magnification
Software and much more.
Just before lunch, we will hold a Q&A session, where VICS members can ask
specific questions of the committee, or seek clarification on any aspect of
VICS business. This will be fairly informal, and will afford members a
chance to make their concerns known, and to give feedback on the day and
VICS in general.
We will break for lunch at 1:30, and resume at 2:30.
In the Afternoon session, the theatre style seating will be removed from the
conference room. It's now your chance to get hands-on! All the cool things
you heard about in the morning will be freely available for you to examine
for yourself on stands set up around the room, with people at each to give
you one-to-one demonstrations and to answer your questions.
We are privileged to be welcoming Humanware and Dolphin UK to our event this
year.
Humanware will be presenting all their cool Bluetooth Braille Displays,
Notetakers (I want a Braillenote PK badly!), and the rest of the cool things
in their inventory to us. They have some really nifty things, I'll be
hanging round their stand for a long while.
Dolphin are coming to demonstrate their really impressive Text to DAISY
software. Brian and I saw this in Sight Village this year, and it is really
fantastic. In addition, they will be presenting their new version of
Supernova, which is a combination screen reader and magnification package.
On their stand in the afternoon, they will have a range of their products
available for examination by you all.
The presence of large technology companies at our open day is a first for
VICS. It proves that we are being recognised world wide for the work we do;
it makes me so proud!
We are publicising the event well. Our press release has been accepted
widely, and we are getting quite a bit of airtime on radio etc. A big
thanks to Marian Nolan and Tom Langan for their help on this. These are our
contacts on the ground in Galway.
I think there are rooms still available at The Victoria Hotel. The
Committee are travelling to Galway on Friday, and staying until Sunday. So,
if you fancy a weekend away packed with technology and a bit of craic with
your fellow VICSonians, get yourself there.
To contact The Victoria hotel, call 091567433. Let them know that you are
with the VICS conference, and you can avail of the special room rate we have
worked out. It is E99 per room, per night. This works out at E44.50 per
person sharing, per night.
As always, if anyone has any questions, feel free to call me on 0872211491,
or email me at tony.murray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
See you there!
Tony Murray
VICS Chairperson
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