Today we had a small group, in part due to the time change in the US, which was not evident to our friends in the UK (sorry, Lydia!).

We discussed:

• International Museums Day (May 18), with Carla from ICOM
• Anne's gifted free exhibit that changes sound when you move it (in the back corner of the exhibit workshop)
• upcoming judging this weekend.  You must notify us by 4pm today if you want to be judged.  Judging results will be announced on MONDAY.
• Upcoming staff transitions: Nina/Avi will be moving to focus more on the RL exhibition fabrication in April/May, and Rob/Stephe will move into more virtual museum management.  I will start blogging about the RL fabrication (and share some images of the RL exhibits as they are created) in April.
  
• Opportunity to create machinima for the June RL exhibition... we'd like to feature YOU and your work on the walls of the RL gallery in machinima (video) loops.  Please join the machinima project to get involved and start capturing and uploading content.  All content must be received by April 31 to be included, and we are looking for people who want to create footage as well as those who might want to edit it.  I will try to find an expert who can offer a class sometime soon to help people who are new to machinima but want to get involved.
  
• How to promote collaboration and reward participation in ways other than with contest money.  This was a freewheeling conversation, with people commenting that the RL build opportunity is the really compelling draw, but that people like to be compensated for their time.  There were requests to see the workshop become more collaborative in terms of sharing scripts and objects.