Introduction to Open Allure DS

[John Graves]

The Open Allure Dialog System project (http://openallureds.org) began
on 27 November 2009 when Brian Thorne and John Graves started
brainstorming for a project name on Google Wave. Brian then created
the code repository site.

The idea for the project combined Brian's interests in computer vision
and augmented reality games with John's interests in voice
applications and educational software--all of which had been showcased
at Kiwi PyCon 2009 in Christchurch, New Zealand on 7-8 November 2009
(http://nz.pycon.org/ with slides at http://www.slideshare.net/tag/kiwipycon
"Python in Computer Vision" and "Voice Interaction in Python").

A series of introductory and demo videos were produced and posted to
YouTube: http://bit.ly/openallure

By 18-24 January 2010, the first prototype tutorial software was shown
at LCA in Wellington, New Zealand during the education miniconference
(http://www.lca2010.org.nz/wiki/Education_talk_3d).

This discussion list was created 25 January 2010.