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See invitation. Any ideas before I talk to him? I can propose him
anything; I can tell him to make a panel, a talk, invite the whole
group, whatever. Let me know who is interested and what you think is
best, by tomorrow preferably.<br>
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Thanks.<br>
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<td>Re: Proposal for an OpenSim session at Metaverse U conference</td>
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<td>Mon, 6 Apr 2009 15:13:40 -0700</td>
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<td>Henrik Bennetsen <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:bennetsen@gmail.com"><bennetsen@gmail.com></a></td>
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<td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:lopes@ics.uci.edu">lopes@ics.uci.edu</a></td>
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<td><a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:49CEE3F7.2040803@ics.uci.edu"><49CEE3F7.2040803@ics.uci.edu></a></td>
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<div>Hi Christa,
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<div>thank you very much for your email. I do remember you well and you
were on list of people to contact about this and beat me to writing you
:)</div>
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<div>You may have seen from whoever alerted you to Metaverse U that
this conference will have a focus on open virtual world platforms so an
Opensim presentation would be great. I have pasted my usual blurp below
in case you haven't seen it.</div>
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<div>You may also be interested in the new <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.sirikata.com%20">Sirikata</a> platform I am involved
with. We are very open to collaboration with Opensim as well.</div>
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<div>Do you have some availability to talk on the phone about all these
things?</div>
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<div>Henrik</div>
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<div>The blurpy thing:</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span
style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">On May 29th and 30th
my group is putting on the second iteration of our </span></span><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://metaverse.stanford.edu/"
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);" target="_blank"><span
style="font-size: small;"><span
style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Metavese U conference</span></span></a><span
style="font-size: small;"><span
style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">. The main purpose of
this conference is to define a strategy for advancing open source
virtual world platforms and explore their potential in a broad variety
of contexts, including scientific research, education, private
enterprise, and cultural programming. Our mission statement is as
follows:<br>
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</span></span><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span
style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The Metaverse U
conference will explore the cutting edge applications of virtual worlds
and the open platforms that drive them. <br>
</span></span></i><span style="font-size: small;"><span
style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br>
We are using sponsorships to keep the cost of attendance down to $50
for two full days of conference. Should this present a barrier to
anyone then let us know and we will figure it out. We also realize that
not everyone who should be a part of this conversation has the
opportunity to make it to Stanford so we plan to have a free live video
stream for a remote audience. <br>
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We are in the process of building the agenda with speakers and topics.
There is still lots of room for your input so please write us with any
ideas you may have. For the right speaker we would also consider remote
options.<br>
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We plan to open registration around mid April and have lots of
announcements coming so watch </span></span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://metaverse.stanford.edu/" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);"
target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;"><span
style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">http://metaverse.stanford.edu/</span></span></a><span
style="font-size: small;"><span
style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> for updates.<br>
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Hope you can make it!<br>
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Cheers,<br>
<br>
Henrik</span></span></span><br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Cristina
Videira Lopes <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:lopes@ics.uci.edu" target="_blank">lopes@ics.uci.edu</a>></span>
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Hi Henrik,<br>
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We meet about a year ago at a workshop at NASA about virtual worlds,
not sure if you remember me. Last year I couldn't go to the conference
you organized, but this year, I think I might, if there is interest in
talking about OpenSim (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://opensimulator.org/" target="_blank">http://opensimulator.org/</a>).
I've been on sabbatical this year, 100% dedicated to OpenSim and
applications with it. If you're still looking for ideas for
sessions/panels/etc I would like to propose one of those about OpenSim.<br>
Let me know.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Crista<br>
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<font color="#888888">Cristina Videira Lopes<br>
Associate Professor<br>
Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences<br>
University of California, Irvine<br>
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Henrik Bennetsen<br>
Associate Director<br>
Stanford Humanities Lab<br>
Stanford University<br>
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