[aaloa supporters] Annoucing AALOA to the press during the Passau Event Nov 16th

[Francesco Furfari]

Hello,
here a first version already reviewed by  Joe.

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*A new Ambient Assisted Living  community is born and wants you.
*
Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) is a new term referring to one of the most 
important societal challenges facing us in the coming years. Starting 
from the problem of population aging, AAL is about intelligent systems 
that use technology to provide assistance for a better, healthier and 
safer life in the preferred living environment. Starting in 2006, 
various research projects funded by the EU FP6 and FP7 research 
programmes have been developing ideas in this field. Seven of these 
projects have now joined forces and decided it is time to start a 
convergence process to build a consensus on the standardization of AAL 
systems. To do so, the projects now support the incorporation of an AAL 
Open Association -- known as AALOA.

The mission of AALOA is to provide a shared open framework for 
developers, technology and service providers, research institutions and 
end user associations to discuss, design, develop, evaluate and 
standardize a common service platform for Ambient Assisted Living.

The call for action is expressed in the AALOA Manifesto 
(http://www.aaloa.org/manifesto ),   and was distributed publically for 
the first time in September 2010 at the AAL Forum in Odense, Denmark 
(http://www.aalforum.eu/). It has attracted subscriptions from more than 
fifty individuals coming from the academic world and industry. The first 
project initiated by the AALOA community is EvAAL 
(http://eval.aaloa.org), an international competition aimed at 
evaluating AAL systems and creating recognized benchmarks for the 
assessment of the research results in this field.

AALOA invites you to join the community, and to participate in its 
activities: to bring fresh ideas, to propose workshops and new projects 
and to contribute actively to the growth of the association. For details 
of how to join, please visit: http://www.aaloa.org or write to 
info at aaloa.org_
_

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  Francesco Furfari from CNR, Italy the first subscriber of the 
Manifesto says:

   "It's the first time that independent research projects have decided 
to join their efforts and share their findings before the projects have 
even finished. This is possible  thanks to a common  Open Source policy  
which may produce a strong impact on the market. Several industrial 
alliances have recently demonstrated how OSS can quickly open new 
markets, especially when the costs of developing a platform are spread 
over a multiplicity of stakeholders".

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  Joe Gorman coordinator of EU project universAAL says:

"As the latest and largest AAL project in the series funded by the EU, 
one of the main objectives of the universAAL project is to work towards 
establishment of a standard platform for AAL. And not just the platform 
itself: also a community of people and organisations contributing to its 
development and uptake. We see AALOA as playing a central role in this, 
by putting us in touch with key stakeholders in the field, and providing 
a forum for real discussion and synergy with them".

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*Gunnar Fagerberg coordinator of EU project MonAMI says:*


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*anybody else ????*



- Francesco



Il 20.59, Antonio kung ha scritto:
> Dear all,
>
> Next week we will have one of the big days : announcing AALOA to the 
> press.
>
> Here is a list of actions that are pending:
>
>     * Francesco to provide a text. Note that Gunnar Fagerberg will
>       provide a quote for inclusion (something like /MonAMI supports
>       the AALOA initiative and we are delighted that this workshop is
>       the event where AALOA is announced/)
>     * At least 3 translations in French (Trialog), Italian (CNR) and
>       German (Rainer/Saied)
>     * Contacting the press. France (Trialog), Italy (CNR), Germany
>       (Fraunhofer), Sweden (SIAT) will announce the event to
>       Journalists and inform them that a facebook videostream will be
>       available
>     * Gerald, can you provide the details on the facebook videostream
>     * Press release to be make public on AALOA, UniversAAL, MonAMI
>       websites on tuesday afternoon
>     * A joint statement to be provided concerning AALOA/OpenURC (see
>       e-mail that follows)
>
> Cheers
>
> Antonio
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