[Opensim-dev] Fwd: OpenSim - "Global-scale Virtual Worlds" Standardization Meeting invitation

[Justin Clark-Casey]

Hi folks.  Below is an e-mail from Aaron Walsh, director of the Immersive Education Initiative (IEI) [1], a non-profit 
consortium that brings together people enaged in virtual worlds, learning games, simulations, etc. in education.  I've 
been talking with Aaron by e-mail on and off for a number of years now and the IEI has held a number of conferences on 
these topics.

The institute is holding a meeting concerned with open-standards in virtual worlds.  Personally, I think it's too early 
for this to be very productive - the various projects involved are simply too immature - but this is just my own point 
of view and I'm sure it would be interesting to hear what other people have to say on the topic.  And there may be room 
for some kind of standardization in specific areas.

If any developer engaged with OpenSimulator does want to go along then please contact Aaron at the addresses below.  I 
have to assume that Realxtend ppl are going since it's being held on Meshmoon.

[1] http://members.immersiveeducation.org/

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	OpenSim - "Global-scale Virtual Worlds" Standardization Meeting invitation
Date: 	Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:55:51 -0500
From: 	Aaron Walsh <aaron.e.walsh at gmail.com>
To: 	Justin Clark-Casey <jjustincc at gmail.com>, Justin Clark-Casey <jjustincc at googlemail.com>



Hi Justin, while in transit I sent you a voice note reply (but to a different email address of yours, I think; hopefully
it arrived?). Below is the invitation which includes details on how to participate. Please do feel free
to circulate this to your OpenSim community. Cheers, Aaron

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IMMERSIVE EDUCATION INITIATIVE : OPEN STANDARDS MEETING
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MEETING: "Global-scale Virtual Worlds" Standardization Meeting
DATE: January 30, 2013
TIME: 12:00PM USA Eastern Standard Time [Boston / New York]

Convert to your own time zone:
http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc

LOCATION: This meeting will convene in a virtual world. Details
will be posted to the Immersive Education OFF.TWG (Open File Formats)
group. Visit http://ImmersiveEducation.org/groups to participate or contact
the Director at http://MediaGrid.org/people/aew


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AGENDA:

1. Welcome, overview and introductions
2. Open Scene Description vs. Scene Graph
3. Open Avatar (file format, animation, storage)
4. Open Inventory
5. Open Scripting
6. Open Repository
7. Open iED WebGL viewer

BACKGROUND MATERIALS:

1. "Create Once, Experience Everywhere" 3D/VR Format Unveiled for iED
http://mediagrid.org/news/2010-11_iED_Create_Once_Experience_Everywhere.html

2. Open File Formats Technology Working Group (OFF.TWG) CHARTER:
http://mediagrid.org/groups/technology/OFF.TWG


LOCATION: This meeting will convene in a virtual world. Details
will be posted to the Immersive Education OFF.TWG (Open File Formats)
group. Visit http://ImmersiveEducation.org/groups to participate or contact
the Director at http://MediaGrid.org/people/aew
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