Charles O Nutter wrote:
There's actually already a SL rubyist community that meets every first and
third thursday of the month. I attended this past thursday, and it was
pretty cool.
Excuse my ignorance and uncoolness, but what is Second Life? Is it a
Sims-Online type of thing? Do I need an avatar? Where do I go? Duh?
Hal
That's really cool. I'll definitely drop by on the next meeting.
-John
On 8/9/06, Charles O Nutter <headius@headius.com> wrote:
There's actually already a SL rubyist community that meets every first and
third thursday of the month. I attended this past thursday, and it was
pretty cool. I even made a JRuby shirt for it.Casinonic Australia – how to get much pleasure?
Feel free to stop by, we're interested in having more folks attend, and
there's a nice big presentation screen and plenty of seating. There's even
an in-world IRB extension to play with Ruby while you're there.
John Lam wrote:
Doh! That's much more straightforward
Charles, can you broker this with the Rubyists of Second Life folks?
For Rubyists who have yet to enter SL, are there any tips or warnings to know?
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Hal Fulton wrote:
... Hmm. Now I'll be spending time here, too.
Is the book done?
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I think you're probably right about this David. The bandwidth
requirements of SL are really high. It would be hard to have RL
participants interacting with SL participants - it would become much
more of a 'broadcast' medium.
That said, playing recordings of RubyConf in SL would be a realistic
option, right? So while not simulcast, it could be a time-delayed
event in SL. Based on feedback from that we could see whether it would
be effective to try a simulcast sometime in the future (from someplace
with effectively infinite bandwidth like a University).
Cheers,
-John
On 8/10/06, dblack@wobblini.net <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:
Hi --
On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Jim Weirich wrote:
> John Lam wrote:
>> I think that if we do go ahead with this that it will have to be in
>> such a way that we set realistic expectations for folks attending in
>> SL as well as working within the constraints of the technology.
>
> I'm still wondering what exactly the SL folks will be getting out of the
> conference. I'm assuming there will be an audio feed. Will there be a
> video feed as well? How about slides, will they be visable? What kind
> of interaction will there be between attendees and the SL folk? Between
> presenter and SL folk?I think we're just going to be recording the event, not streaming it.
(See my other post regarding not having extra sets of AV equipment in
the venue.) As for interaction between people who are there and
people who aren't: the whole thing is conceived and planned and
executed as an in-person event (a format we do not consider obsolete
available in real time to people who aren't there. I could imagine
planning a "virtual" gathering, and that it could be quite
interesting, but RubyConf isn't it.David
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James Britt wrote:
Jim Weirich wrote:
As I said, the SL idea *sounds* cool, but I'm not sure what the advantages are.
?? Advantages? It's a COOL TOY!
Gosh Jim, what else is there?
And coming from a guy that used Zelda to teach
us continuations no less!
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Hal Fulton wrote:
Charles O Nutter wrote:
There's actually already a SL rubyist community that meets every first and
third thursday of the month. I attended this past thursday, and it was
pretty cool.Excuse my ignorance and uncoolness, but what is Second Life? Is it a
Sims-Online type of thing? Do I need an avatar? Where do I go? Duh?
--
James Britt
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge."
- D. Boorstin
James Britt wrote:
John Lam wrote:
Doh! That's much more straightforward
Charles, can you broker this with the Rubyists of Second Life folks?
For Rubyists who have yet to enter SL, are there any tips or warnings to know?
Plan on spending a couple of hours tinkering with your avatar so it looks like you -Tim
Tim Bray wrote:
Plan on spending a couple of hours tinkering with your avatar so it looks like you
Or doesn't.
~Nate