A detailed agenda for the courses in August is now available.

Please take a peek into the program page to see updated descriptions of the courses and daily topics for each of them.

Deadline for applications to the courses,

“Advanced Blender Techniques” - 11-16 August 2008.
“Media Content for the Web” - 18-23 August 2008.

EXTENDED to June 30th !

application form

The dates for courses “Media Content for the Web” and “Advanced Blender Techniques” are moved in August as follows:
“Advanced Blender Techniques” - 11-16 August 2008.
“Media Content for the Web” - 18-23 August 2008.

The deadline for the course General Blender Techniques is changed to 25 Apri 2008.

Interspace organizes a promotion event for TOSMI. There will be presented the program and the methodology which will be used in the three courses. During the presentation those who are interested in participating in TOSMI, will be able to ask questions and to contact directly the organizers and  trainers.

In an informal environment with coffee and sweeties everybody will be able to exchange knowledge, experience, ideas with each other.

The event will be on 16th April, Wednesday from 17:30 to 20:30 in AIR.Space. The address is “Georgi Benkovski” street, ent.B, ap.17 (The entrance is from “Ekzarh Yosif” street).

Here is a video of the trainers who present TOSMI.

You can download it here:

Presenting TOSMI (~120MB, PAL, XviD + mp3)

or view a streaming here

1. Eligible participants - People from European Union and Norway, Switzerland, Iceland and Lichtenstein. For every module there are 14 positions as for the half of them there are scholarships from Media program of European Commission.

2. Price - 1000Euro per course. If you apply for more than one course, the cost is 800 per course. The price includes accommodations, a meal once a day (lunch), and coffee-breaks. There is an opportunity to apply for a scholarship to cover the expenses.

The traveling is responsibility to the participants.

3. The modules - Every module is 6 days, 8 hours mixed theory and practice. The experience is more than just studying some programs - there are a team work experience and a practical experience for creating a production.

The first module is about 3D with Blender and some other programs, to complete the production cycle, like image processor, video and sound editing and tools for improving collaborative work.

The second module is about distributing media content in Internet. It will cover topics like how to prepare the media for the web(choosing and converting among various formats and settings); server scripting for re-encoding automation; live streaming techniques and e-Marketing. All that using free and open source software.

The third module is for advanced Blender users. It covers the topics like dynamic simulation techniques; creating interactive content; using external rendering engines and their Blender integration; using Python modules and Python scripting; usage of Collaborative software for production optimization and team management; anaglyph and stereo rendering with Blender.

4. Dates and places

• 1st module - 25-30 May, Thessaloniki, Greece;
• 2nd module - 2-7 June, Sofia, Bulgaria;
• 3rd module - 9-14 June, Sofia, Bulgaria.

5. The list of the trainers.

6. Deadline 24^th April 2008.

7. The application form.

From 27th to 30th of March TOSMI trainers are meeting for a workshop at Papiotis, Thessaloniki to arrange the final details arround the training programme in 2008 and discuss the video manual that will be developed withing TOSMI 08 project.

The detailed programme of the training is to be expected online here on 31st of March.

TOSMI 2008 Programme has three modules:
- General Blender Techniques, Tips and Tricks.
- Media content for the web, Streaming techniques, e-Marketing.
- Advanced Blender Techniques, External rendering engines, Python scripting

Dates:
1st Module in Thessaloniki, Greece – May, 25-30
2nd Module in Sofia, Bulgaria – June, 2-7
3 Module in Sofia, Bulgaria - June, 9-14

Deadline for applications: 10 April 2008

See full program

The manual can be downloaded here.

The manual is distributed under cc-by-sa