[Opensim-users] Metameets 2012

Diva Canto diva at metaverseink.com
Sun Oct 14 14:38:54 UTC 2012


Fleep,

What is AvaCon?

Crista

On 10/14/2012 7:27 AM, Fleep Tuque wrote:
> We've added this to the agenda for our next AvaCon board meeting, and 
> I think that timeline sounds feasible.  Most people are pretty busy 
> with holiday stuff for the next couple months, so starting the serious 
> planning after the New Year makes sense.
>
> Will post an update after our meeting to confirm the rest of the 
> AvaCon folks are on board.  (I don't anticipate any issues!)
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Chris/Fleep
>
>
> Chris M. Collins (SL/OS: Fleep Tuque)
> Center for Simulations & Virtual Environments Research (UCSIM)
> UCIT Instructional & Research Computing
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>
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Justin Clark-Casey 
> <jjustincc at googlemail.com <mailto:jjustincc at googlemail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Thanks Fleep (and everybody else) for their comments.
>
>     I was envisioning something very simple, at least for the first
>     year, most preferably held on up to 4 regions of osgrid.  This
>     would be to make it simpler to control and troubleshoot, rather
>     than having to co-ordinate with a number of people and different
>     grid conditions.  I think that it also provides better focus,
>     though of course there's no reason people couldn't also just go
>     and visit other locations intergrid or hypergrid.
>
>     I would also try to squeeze as many avatars in a single
>     voice-enabled location rather than relay to other places.  This is
>     probably the major technical challenge - I guess the obvious
>     'normal' thing to do is to meet at the intersection of 4 simulators.
>
>     I will be leaning very heavily on people like Avacon and yourself,
>     Fleep, for organization since this is far from my strong point.
>      So help will be really appreciated.
>
>     My own mental timetable is to start the ball rolling in earnest
>     early next year (probably January) with a view to having the
>     conference in the last half or quarter of 2013.  So next year I
>     will create a Google group and ask interested people to join so we
>     can start talking further and get volunteers.
>
>     Of course, any early suggestions from yourself (or anybody else)
>     are very welcome since people have vastly more experience and
>     skill with this kind of stuff than do I!
>
>     Best,
>
>     Justin
>
>
>     On 11/10/12 06:21, Fleep Tuque wrote:
>
>         Hi Justin,
>
>         About a year ago, AvaCon discussed the possibility of
>         organizing an online Opensim Users Conference, but it seemed like
>         the timing wasn't good for many folks:
>         http://www.avacon.org/blog/events/opensim-users-conference/  
>         I'd need to check
>         with the rest of the Avacon board since we haven't discussed
>         it in a while, but I'm pretty sure we'd still be up for
>         organizing or sponsoring/partnering with others if this is
>         something the community would like to do.
>
>         Personally I think it's a great idea, I'm sure there are tons
>         of things we could all learn from each other, and I always
>         love an excuse to go visit other grids!
>
>
>         - Chris/Fleep
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>         On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 12:28 AM, Mic Bowman
>         <cmickeyb at gmail.com <mailto:cmickeyb at gmail.com>
>         <mailto:cmickeyb at gmail.com <mailto:cmickeyb at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>
>             Sounds like a great idea.
>
>             On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Diva Canto
>         <diva at metaverseink.com <mailto:diva at metaverseink.com>
>         <mailto:diva at metaverseink.com <mailto:diva at metaverseink.com>>>
>         wrote:
>              > On 10/10/2012 5:56 PM, Justin Clark-Casey wrote:
>              >>
>              >> On another note, I think it would be good to have an
>         OpenSimulator
>              >> conference at some point in OpenSimulator itself,
>         maybe next year.  Of
>              >> course the problems are avatar limits (maybe Intel DSG
>         could help with that)
>              >> and possible crashing (hence would have to be an
>         'alpha' free conference).
>              >> However, I don't think these would stop it from being
>         a really valuable
>              >> thing to do.
>              >
>              >
>              > I would support this very much!
>              >
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