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.<div>
<br></div><div>Will post an update after our meeting to confirm the rest of the AvaCon folks are on board. (I don't anticipate any issues!)</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>- Chris/Fleep</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Chris M. Collins (SL/OS: Fleep Tuque)</div><div>Center for Simulations & Virtual Environments Research (UCSIM)</div><div>UCIT Instructional & Research Computing</div><div>University of Cincinnati</div>
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</div><div><a href="http://ucsim.uc.edu">http://ucsim.uc.edu</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Justin Clark-Casey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jjustincc@googlemail.com" target="_blank">jjustincc@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Thanks Fleep (and everybody else) for their comments.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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!<br>
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Best,<br>
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Justin<div class="im"><br>
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On 11/10/12 06:21, Fleep Tuque wrote:<br>
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Hi Justin,<br>
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About a year ago, AvaCon discussed the possibility of organizing an online Opensim Users Conference, but it seemed like<br>
the timing wasn't good for many folks: <a href="http://www.avacon.org/blog/events/opensim-users-conference/" target="_blank">http://www.avacon.org/blog/<u></u>events/opensim-users-<u></u>conference/</a> I'd need to check<br>
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<br>
organizing or sponsoring/partnering with others if this is something the community would like to do.<br>
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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<br>
love an excuse to go visit other grids!<br>
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- Chris/Fleep<br>
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On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 12:28 AM, Mic Bowman <<a href="mailto:cmickeyb@gmail.com" target="_blank">cmickeyb@gmail.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:cmickeyb@gmail.com" target="_blank">cmickeyb@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
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Sounds like a great idea.<br>
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On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Diva Canto <<a href="mailto:diva@metaverseink.com" target="_blank">diva@metaverseink.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:diva@metaverseink.com" target="_blank">diva@metaverseink.com</a>><u></u>> wrote:<br>
> On 10/10/2012 5:56 PM, Justin Clark-Casey wrote:<br>
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>> On another note, I think it would be good to have an OpenSimulator<br>
>> conference at some point in OpenSimulator itself, maybe next year. Of<br>
>> course the problems are avatar limits (maybe Intel DSG could help with that)<br>
>> and possible crashing (hence would have to be an 'alpha' free conference).<br>
>> However, I don't think these would stop it from being a really valuable<br>
>> thing to do.<br>
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> I would support this very much!<br>
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