[Opensim-users] Introduction

[Fleep Tuque]

The last time this came up, I suggested that those organizing events use
something like Google Calendars since they can be aggregated independently
based upon interest, and the work is distributed among all the
groups/grids/people who are holding events.  For an example, see the
calendar at http://homepages.uc.edu/secondlife2/?page_id=45.

In my experience, it's very hard to get people to update "your" calendar,
but they can be encouraged to get in the habit of updating "their" calendar
and if it's in a format where others can subscribe or aggregate the data and
easily embed it, all the better.  Many educational groups on the SLED list
used this system for years since the Second Life Events system was so
spammy.

Once the information is available and public, then some dedicated person(s)
can help publicize that in a variety of ways, but the real rub is trying to
get people to submit the information in a way that can be easily aggregated.


My pennies in the bucket..

Sincerely,

- Chris/Fleep


Chris M. Collins (SL: Fleep Tuque)
Project Manager, UC Second Life
Second Life Ambassador, Ohio Learning Network
UCit Instructional & Research Computing
University of Cincinnati
406E Zimmer Hall
PO Box 210088
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0088
(513)556-3018
chris.collins at uc.edu

UC Second Life:   http://homepages.uc.edu/secondlife
OLN Second Life: http://www.oln.org/emerging_technologies/emtech.php



On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 12:17 AM, Justin Clark-Casey <
jjustincc at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On 16/07/11 19:36, Garrett Lynch wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>  For my view of the lack of community in the OS, I think there is plenty
>>> going on but a central calendar would be a boost when it comes to finding
>>> out about events, exhibits, content, etc. Also, for the calendar to be of
>>> maximum use, my view is that it needs to be attached to the <
>>> http://OpenSim.org>OpenSim.**org <http://OpenSim.org>
>>>
>>> site (rather than attached to any of the individual grids in the OS).
>>>
>>
>> Yes a calendar of events would be a huge help and I agree completely that
>> it should be at opensim.org
>> <http://opensim.org> to be impartial to all grids or it should be run by
>> a group who are not connected to any single
>> initiative.
>>
>
> I'm not sure that having it on opensimulator.org would be that good since
> that could favour that site more than anywhere else, discouraging a
> diversity of ideas.  Also, one could argue that people at
> opensimulator.org could be equally biased, against alternative simulator
> software if nothing else.
>
> Having said that, I don't personally have a problem if someone wanted to
> set up an events page on opensimulator.org similar to the existing grids
> page.  A wiki might not be the best format but at least everyone would have
> a chance to edit.
>
>
> --
> Justin Clark-Casey (justincc)
> http://justincc.org/blog
> http://twitter.com/justincc
> ______________________________**_________________
> Opensim-users mailing list
> Opensim-users at lists.berlios.de
> https://lists.berlios.de/**mailman/listinfo/opensim-users<https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://opensimulator.org/pipermail/opensim-users/attachments/20110718/acb7b990/attachment.html>