For the next three months two senior researcher by ELDY will be disseminating ELDY in two European Universities, as representatives of the Marie Curie Research project “VALUE AGEING”
Emma Dora Loeffelstiel, is at VUB University, [Vrije Universiteit Brussel] Brussels, disseminating Eldy in Flemish and working on a research focused on Seniors, Dignity and technology
Anna Bianco is at QUB university, [ Queens University of Belfast] working hard on project GANTT and work packages
Anna and Emma are preparing an article to share their experience.
If you ever come to Brussels or Belfast, pay a visit to Anna & Emma.
17/03/2011 | News, Progetti di inclusione |
Here’s the abstract of the 2010 annual letter to Eldy.net volunteer:
“dear All
thank you for all your efforts to localize Eldy in your languages, from the very first translation to the latest.
We’ve seen Brazilian, Mexican, Swedish, to mention a few. …
Training are going on in Switzerland, US, Ireland, UK, … every where.
It’s very strong feeling for us to see Eldy spreading so much in so far territories, as a software and as a social system with volunteers and people teaching seniors how to find their way into this brand new world interconnected, far yet one click away.
The last thought of the year is for you, dear volunteers: if you ever can please pay us a visit in Vicenza , it will be a pleasure to take you to Venice and spend a nice evening in front of a Pizza and a glass of wine.
Finally, I’ve just received latest translations contributions: here’s to you Eldy in Arabic, by Mohamed.
So, let’s recall one of the first translations (Ukrainian), by Vladimir and let’s preview the latest:
29/12/2010 | News |
A nice article on Eldy has appeared on MakeUseof.com
There are more than 6 million people over the age of 60 who aren’t familiar with the Internet, which is understandable since most operating systems available out there just aren’t exactly geared towards the elderly. There are things that will take some time to get used to, things like file browsers that hint at lots of folders that you’ll never touch and sometimes even cryptic error messages that don’t help much in resolving a problem.
The Eldy Association is an Italian non-profit organization looking to make it easier for new computer users to learn about email, browsing the web and more. According to its website, the Association’s goal is to “reach out to the elderly and disabled community with a simple computer program that can encourage their staying active and social, thus reducing their isolation and loneliness”.
What Is Eldy?
The resulting computer program that the Eldy Association came up with is Eldy, a bundle of essential programs in a easy-to-understand interface for the elderly, with big text and simple, recognizable icons, that has been translated to 22 languages. Think of it as a blown-up mini-operating system that contains an email client, chat system, web browser and even access to a simplified version of Notepad, Eldy TV, and Skype.
Read all at: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/teach-senior-email-browse-web-eldy/
30/11/2010 | News |
Die gemeinnützige Stiftungsgesellschaft Eldy Onlus http://www.eldy.org hat in Zusammenarbeit mit www.computerias.ch eine Schweizerische Version ihres speziell für ältere und behinderte Personen entwickelten PC-Anwenderprogramms bereitgestellt.
Das kostenlos erhältliche “Eldy 2.3CH” zeichnet sich durch seine besonders einfache Bedienung und speziell auf den Adressatenkreis abgestimmte Themen aus.
http://www.eldy.ch/
24/11/2010 | News |
Value Ageing European Project starts 11-11-2010!
Eldy is part of Value Ageing Project,
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VALUE-AGEING is a 48 month Marie Curie Industry‐AcademiaPartnerships and Pathways Action funded within the scope of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) of the European Commission.
VALUE AGEING aims to foster cooperation between non‐commercial and commercial entities on a joint research project about the incorporation of Fundamental Values of the EU in Info‐Communication Technology (ICT) for Ageing.
Good technology is not just about making something better; it is about doing something different and consequently making people think differently.
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more details at: http://www.valueageing.eu/
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11/11/2010 | News |
Eldy 2.3 is now available for linux (tgz) and multi user windows.
Go to http://www.eldy.eu/download-eldy/ for free download
23/09/2010 | News |
This news provided by our French Partner Christian Leroy , he makes some trial and experiment with our software Eldy.
He published this post:
“A free virtual machine with Eldy preinstalled on ubuntu 10.04 (linux) is now available on VMWare marketplace (http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/691203).
The “appliance” runs with a VMWare Player (free download from VMWare web site).
This a convenient way to use shared computers in some public places such as elderly houses (each user has his own virtual machine) and even a home computer where children and mother can have their own individual environment and data.
The bootable disk of the VM can be cloned to a 4 GB USB key (not copied) and thus you can boot from the key (then no need to use a VMWare Player). Personal data are on the USB key : no personal data are on the shared computer ! Eldy autoruns when starting the virtual machine. Free online help for eligible french users is available with “SOS SONIE” application.
The environment is configured with french language.”
2/09/2010 | News |
We are finalizing the Portuguese version of Eldy!!!
Thanks to our international volunteers of Eldy.net that translate our software in 24 languages of the world
25/08/2010 | News |
On 23/07/2010 was published an article of Eldy in a greek website
“Εφτιαξα λογισμικό για να παίρνω τα φάρμακά μου”
Read the article/ διαβάστε το άρθρο
30/07/2010 | News |
Eldy 2.3 is now available.
Thank to the efforts of our developers and the contributions from Eldy.net, we finally released Eldy 2.3.
Languages and localization are growing in number and quality.
This happened thank to the great cooperation of our volunteers on the Eldy.Net – the community for the global e-inclusion that helped translate our software in many other languages and localize Eldy in many countries all over the world. Thank all Eldy.net for this great achievement.
Eldy 2.3 has some new beautiful features:
- magnifier in browser, to allow user to increase the font size so that websites are seen and printed in larger fonts
- magnifier in email, so that email user receives can be magnified on screen and printed larger. Email now works POP and IMAP
- a large list of bug fixed
We had put a lot of work into fixing all cases on email, so any inconvenience is now under control!
You can both download latest Eldy and install it, or use the automatic update function that is activated clicking the “click” button that appears now on your right bottom corner.
24/03/2010 | News |
