[9:27]  Bjorlyn Loon: hi Shakini
[9:27]  Bjorlyn Loon: my voice isnt working
[9:27]  Bjorlyn Loon: let me grab delia
[9:41]  Bjorlyn Loon gave you SCIENCE FRIDAY River, Science Friday (189, 246, 13).
[9:51]  Bjorlyn Loon is Offline
[9:51]  Fountain Entrance Proximity Sensor: Welcome back to The Tech, Shakini Parnass! Check out some of the cool new exhibits in Parkside Exhibit Workshop if you get the chance...
[9:53]  CoolBeans Gausman: Hi Shakini!
[9:55]  CoolBeans Gausman: Howdy!
[9:55]  CoolBeans Gausman: Hi Shakini!
[9:56]  You: hey cool beans - i get a message saying you're not online
[9:56]  CoolBeans Gausman: I am online
[9:56]  You: i think i was im'ing you by mistake...sorry
[9:57]  You: hi!
[9:57]  CoolBeans Gausman: let me logg off!
[9:59]  You: hi again coolbeans, hi evus
[9:59]  You: i'm a cool bean too
[9:59]  Evus Mizin: Hi
[9:59]  CoolBeans Gausman: hi all
[10:00]  CoolBeans Gausman: Made it back
[10:00]  You: did you both have exhibits in art film and music ?
[10:00]  Evus Mizin: No
[10:00]  CoolBeans Gausman: Not yet!
[10:01]  CoolBeans Gausman: I love this place and the phylosophy behind it!
[10:01]  You: me too
[10:01]  CoolBeans Gausman: I believe that SL is a wonderful medium to learn
[10:01]  CoolBeans Gausman: Interaction is where is at!
[10:02]  You: indeed
[10:02]  CoolBeans Gausman: brb
[10:02]  You: okay
[10:03]  You: hi lydia
[10:04]  Lydia Milner: Hi :) sorry, I landed right in front of you :)
[10:04]  You: no problem!
[10:04]  You: you should see me bumble my way around
[10:04]  Lydia Milner: lol
[10:04]  You: i crash land all the time
[10:04]  You: literally and figuratively
[10:04]  Lydia Milner: as usual, I can only be halkf here at this time of night, so if I dont answer I am just running aorund
[10:04]  Lydia Milner: lol
[10:05]  You: okay
[10:05]  You: you got my message about the sets?
[10:05]  Lydia Milner: oh yes thanks
[10:05]  Stephe Roux is Online
[10:05]  You: i was really looking forward to seeing what people came up with
[10:05]  Lydia Milner: I'm glad you dropped that, I couldnt get my head around how it would work in practice
[10:06]  You: but didn't realize it would max out the server
[10:06]  You: so, it all worked out in the end, don't want to wrap anyone's head the wrong way!
[10:06]  Lydia Milner: yes, i was happy to build the school
[10:06]  You: the tech awards list is up now
[10:07]  Lydia Milner: but i couldnt figurehow I'd feel about building an exhib and then having to fit it into someone elses set as ppl visualise things differently
[10:07]  You: yeah, i hadn't thought about that
[10:07]  Bjorlyn Loon is Online
[10:07]  Lydia Milner: oh good, I;ll look at that
[10:07]  You: so many details, so little time
[10:07]  Lydia Milner: Hi Stephe :)
[10:07]  Lydia Milner: thanks for all that info last week
[10:07]  Stephe Roux: hi, Lydia
[10:08]  You: cool beans is falling over
[10:08]  Lydia Milner: So how do you want this to work, please remind me
[10:08]  You: people are coming in now
[10:08]  You: hi valimarian
[10:08]  Stephe Roux: hi, Rill & Coolbeans
[10:09]  Rill Oyen: Hi
[10:09]  Lydia Milner: if onyl we cold do that in RL, just take a rest :)
[10:09]  CoolBeans Gausman: Sorry! I am back
[10:09]  Stephe Roux: nice shorts, Lydia
[10:09]  You: All the Ucantu topics are posted at www.thetechvirtual.org
[10:09]  CoolBeans Gausman: Howdy all
[10:09]  You: they are posted by category
[10:09]  Lydia Milner: thanks :) I'm ready for summer hehee
[10:10]  You: that we were originally going to use for the set design
[10:10]  CoolBeans Gausman: aren't we all!
[10:10]  You: so, education topics are under "school" header
[10:10]  You: i'm ready for summer 2
[10:10]  CoolBeans Gausman: it has been a though winter!
[10:11]  You: should i start over?
[10:11]  Stephe Roux: you're doing fine, I think
[10:11]  You: okay
[10:11]  You: so stephe has graciously posted all the subtopics
[10:11]  CoolBeans Gausman: You are doing fine
[10:11]  You: at www.thetechvirtual.org
[10:12]  You: this was on the notecard from last week
[10:12]  Lydia Milner: just looking...
[10:12]  You: did you get one coolbeans?
[10:12]  You: if not, i can give them to you again
[10:12]  CoolBeans Gausman: no
[10:12]  CoolBeans Gausman: please
[10:12]  CoolBeans Gausman accepted your inventory offer.
[10:12]  CoolBeans Gausman: got it ty
[10:13]  You: lydia did you just get a notecard?
[10:13]  You: it looked like i dropped it on you
[10:13]  Lydia Milner accepted your inventory offer.
[10:13]  You: cool
[10:13]  Lydia Milner: yes thx
[10:14]  You: you can browse through all the topics by set category
[10:14]  CoolBeans Gausman: I am all set!
[10:14]  You: school, park, bank, etc.
[10:14]  You: click through to ready about each topic and see videos, etc.
[10:15]  You: stephe is going to explain how to create a project
[10:15]  Lydia Milner accepted your inventory offer.
[10:15]  Lydia Milner: ok
[10:15]  Stephe Roux: right now the site is still evolving
[10:16]  Stephe Roux: there are 14 Tech Awards topics listed, out of 24 that will be there 'real soon now'
[10:16]  CoolBeans Gausman: That is the beaty of this place!
[10:16]  Lydia Milner: ok theres masses of info on here if you just clikc through, great Stephe
[10:16]  CoolBeans Gausman: nice job stephe
[10:16]  Stephe Roux: to create a project, look through the possible topics and choose one you like
[10:16]  You: yes, many thanks to stephe for getting these up!
[10:16]  You: it was a big job
[10:17]  Stephe Roux: it was a headache, but it wasn't Shakini's fault
[10:17]  Lydia Milner: :)
[10:17]  Stephe Roux: once you pick a topic you like
[10:17]  CoolBeans Gausman: I have been recommemding this place as an example of what good interaction could be in sl
[10:18]  You: for the people who were involved with art film and music
[10:18]  You: we're keeping the format of creating the projects basically the ame
[10:18]  You: same
[10:18]  Stephe Roux: go back to ucantu projects, and then click 'create a project'
[10:18]  Lydia Milner: ok
[10:19]  Lydia Milner: do we build in frame agiain?
[10:19]  Stephe Roux: yes, I think so
[10:19]  Lydia Milner: ok thx
[10:19]  You: another thing we can do, is just brainstorm some ideas around projects at these meetings
[10:20]  You: to get input from everyone
[10:20]  Lydia Milner: good idea
[10:20]  You: hopefully, since this isn't a "competition" people will be open to that
[10:20]  Lydia Milner: yes :)
[10:20]  You: we've already been bouncing around a number of ideas for each one of these at the tech
[10:20]  CoolBeans Gausman: By all means!
[10:20]  You: but we're excited about all the new input from you
[10:20]  You: yeah!
[10:21]  You: next week we will announce the official launch
[10:21]  Stephe Roux: Lydia looks all fired up
[10:21]  You: with press releases, etc.
[10:21]  Lydia Milner: i must admit to not have looked at them in any deyail
[10:21]  You: and hopefully get the word out
[10:21]  You: maybe rather than stand around here
[10:22]  You: we can use this time to browse through topics instead
[10:22]  You: there's a lot there to see!
[10:22]  CoolBeans Gausman: sounds like a plan
[10:22]  You: any questions?
[10:22]  You: you can always email me too
[10:22]  You: tblaine@thetech.org
[10:22]  Lydia Milner: lol trying to type thru a non transparent child :)
[10:22]  You: ha ha
[10:23]  Stephe Roux: how's Amelia?
[10:23]  You: is that your daughter?
[10:23]  CoolBeans Gausman: Rl needs attention
[10:23]  Lydia Milner: good, thx, drawing
[10:23]  You: i think we'll make tuesday mornings at 10 a regular meeting time
[10:24]  Stephe Roux: we need artists
[10:24]  CoolBeans Gausman: I was taking care of lunch while I was gone!
[10:24]  Stephe Roux: hi, Dancers
[10:24]  CoolBeans Gausman: Hi Dancers
[10:24]  You: where are you?
[10:24]  You: hi dancers
[10:24]  You: we're still doing breakfast on this end
[10:25]  CoolBeans Gausman: shakini, I can not attend meetings in the morning because of rl work
[10:25]  Lydia Milner: hi guys, can you ask Avi if she is ok with robbie signing the paimnting?
[10:25]  CoolBeans Gausman: right now I am on break
[10:25]  You: avi says thats fine lydia
[10:25]  Lydia Milner: thx
[10:25]  You: she'll get recognition on a label
[10:26]  Dancers Yao: /good morning!
[10:26]  You: dancers, did you get the note card?
[10:26]  CoolBeans Gausman: Good morning Dancers!
[10:26]  Stephe Roux: hi, Dancers
[10:26]  Dancers Yao: /Thanks for the note card
[10:26]  Dancers Yao accepted your inventory offer.
[10:26]  You: that explains where to go and our process for moving forward
[10:27]  Dancers Yao: /Thank you
[10:27]  You: lydia and coolbeans, you are welcome to stick around, but i don't want to take up your time unnecessarily!
[10:27]  Stephe Roux: Shakini, can you send me a nc, too?
[10:27]  CoolBeans Gausman: ok ty
[10:27]  You: i can explain things to dancers if you want to go off and browse the projects
[10:27]  Stephe Roux accepted your inventory offer.
[10:28]  CoolBeans Gausman: I will keep on visiting and maybe come up with a project!
[10:28]  You: excellent!
[10:28]  CoolBeans Gausman: Bye all!
[10:28]  You: dancers, were you involved with the art film and music exhibit?
[10:28]  Stephe Roux: bye, all, we need to get some projects started
[10:29]  Dancers Yao: /not yet.
[10:29]  You: no problem
[10:29]  You: i was just asking cuz we're trying to keep a similar format
[10:29]  You: the way to get started
[10:29]  You: is to visit www.thetechvirtual.org
[10:29]  Lydia Milner: thx robbie is on phn, she has
[10:29]  You: click on "ucantu projects"
[10:30]  Lydia Milner: finished the painting
[10:30]  Lydia Milner: i putting on disk
[10:30]  Lydia Milner: to post
[10:30]  You: you will see a list of topics
[10:30]  You: school, bank, park, farmers market, etc.
[10:30]  Dancers Yao: /Thanks. Is there a way to save this chat for future reference?
[10:30]  You: clicking on those images will take you to subtopics
[10:31]  You: yes
[10:31]  You: we can definitely save this chat
[10:31]  You: i can give you last weeks chat as well
[10:31]  You: we will post these chats
[10:32]  You: anyways, you can brose through the topics
[10:32]  Stephe Roux: I'll also make sure we get a faq on UcanTu in the help section of the Website
[10:32]  You: and see videos, read info, etc. about each topic
[10:32]  Dancers Yao: /thanks again. I'm still learning the basics
[10:32]  Stephe Roux: thetechvirtual.org/help
[10:32]  You: if you find one that resonates
[10:32]  You: and want to start a project
[10:33]  Lydia Milner: sorry was pn phn
[10:33]  You: there will be a link that says "create project"'
[10:33]  You: the direct link isn't up yet,
[10:33]  You: you need to go back to "projects" tab and click on uncantu
[10:33]  Stephe Roux: ucantu projects
[10:33]  You: i'm a newbie too and am still learning as well
[10:34]  You: i think it will make more sense once you visit www.thetechvirtual.org
[10:34]  Lydia Milner: just catching up
[10:34]  You: welcome back
[10:34]  Lydia Milner: faq and posting chat good ideas
[10:34]  You: i passed your messages along to avi
[10:34]  Lydia Milner: wonderful thx
[10:34]  You: she's happy
[10:34]  Lydia Milner: good :)
[10:35]  Dancers Yao: "technology benefitting humanity" sounds great!
[10:35]  Lydia Milner: they shoudl beposting in couple days , just got ot xfer to disk
[10:35]  You: the idea of "ucantu" is to hopefully inspire people to be active as well
[10:35]  You: and know that one person can make a difference
[10:36]  You: thus, You can too
[10:36]  You: UcanTu
[10:36]  You: YouCan2
[10:36]  Lydia Milner: its a loveliu idea :)
[10:36]  You: it seems very apropos here in SL
[10:36]  You: lydia, rather than taking up your time here, feel free to go browse the topics if you'd like!
[10:37]  Lydia Milner: thx, i think i will stay logged in and go put the little one to bed
[10:37]  Lydia Milner: hopefully wont get logged out
[10:37]  Dancers Yao: /UCantTu - Has a certain rhythm to it
[10:37]  You: we wanted it to have a universal appeal
[10:37]  You: the Tu can be you as well in espanol
[10:38]  Stephe Roux: cool, I never thought of that
[10:38]  You: sounds so of african, looks vietnamese
[10:38]  Dancers Yao: /Great
[10:38]  You: so we're planning to announce the launch of this officially next week
[10:39]  You: but these earlier meetings were for people who wanted to get going on projects before then
[10:39]  Lydia Milner: oh can you remind me when the exhbis need ot be biult by?
[10:39]  You: ideally, in the next 2 months
[10:39]  You: but we can go as long as the end of july
[10:39]  Stephe Roux: june-july?
[10:40]  Lydia Milner: great
[10:40]  You: may/june/july
[10:40]  Dancers Yao: /I appreciate your time and know you're busy. How do I access this chat to view later?
[10:41]  You: i will save the chat and give it to stephe to post
[10:41]  You: is that okay stephe?
[10:41]  Stephe Roux: good question. Maybe I will IM it to everybody here?
[10:42]  You: is that preferable or do people want to sort through these long chats later?
[10:42]  Stephe Roux: and put the essence of it on the help section of the Website
[10:42]  You: there's a lot to sort through to get to the heart of what people really need to know
[10:42]  You: but maybe some people like that
[10:43]  Lydia Milner: i gues syou could cut out the key points and post that?
[10:44]  You: definitely
[10:44]  Stephe Roux: I'll do that
[10:45]  You: dancers, we'll be meeting on tuesdays at 10
[10:45]  Lydia Milner: i can look at the web later this eve, shall I email you any questions? as other ppl may have the same q's, they could go on page too?
[10:45]  You: yes
[10:45]  Lydia Milner: ok
[10:45]  You: mt email is tblaine@thetech.org
[10:46]  Dancers Yao: /Thanks!
[10:47]  Stephe Roux: hi, SmeAnd
[10:47]  Stephe Roux: Shakini is on a phone call in RL. Any other QQ?
[10:48]  Lydia Milner: i sent you STephe a sep IM about the rezzer?
[10:48]  You: thanks for coming everyone!
[10:48]  Dancers Yao: /The meetings will be here?
[10:48]  You: yes, all meetings will be here until further notice
[10:49]  Lydia Milner: thanks for having us :)
[10:49]  You: our pleasure!
[10:49]  Dancers Yao: /Thank you very much
[10:49]  Stephe Roux: class dismissed ;-)
[10:49]  You: thank you for coming!
[10:49]  Stephe Roux: hi, Debbane
[10:50]  You: hi debbane
[10:50]  DebbaneMuseum Lax: hi
[10:50]  DebbaneMuseum Lax: my name is Monique
[10:50]  You: we're just wrapping up a meeting about our next project here at the tech virtual
[10:50]  DebbaneMuseum Lax: great
[10:50]  You: i'll give you a notecard with info
[10:51]  DebbaneMuseum Lax: I am new and don't know really whay to do
[10:51]  You: no problem
[10:51]  DebbaneMuseum Lax: cool
[10:51]  You: click accept on the notecard
[10:51]  Dancers Yao accepted your inventory offer.
[10:51]  DebbaneMuseum Lax: I don't see it
[10:51]  You: woops, i gave it to dancers by mistake
[10:51]  DebbaneMuseum Lax accepted your inventory offer.
[10:52]  You: this card has info about the upcoming project
[10:52]  You: if you go to www.thetechvirtual.org
[10:52]  You: and click on ucantu
[10:52]  You: you will see a number of topics
[10:52]  You: we're planning a set design for these in RL
[10:52]  You: based around the idea of a school to house education projects from the tech awards
[10:52]  You: a bank for the economic development projects
[10:53]  You: a park for environmental projects
[10:53]  You: and so on....
[10:53]  You: clicking on each one of the topics will bring up an array of subtopics
[10:53]  You: these are all RL innovations from our tech awards laureates
[10:54]  You: we sorted through 175 of these
[10:54]  You: and will post a total of 24
[10:54]  You: we are inviting the SL community to help us come up with interactive experiences for these subtopics
[10:54]  You: that will then become part of our RL exhibit to open in january 2009
[10:55]  DebbaneMuseum Lax: very interesting
[10:55]  You: all of the projects use technology for the benefit of humanity
[10:55]  You: we are calling this exhibit "ucantu" because we want to inspire people to take action themselves
[10:56]  CoolBeans Gausman: Sorry hatching drogon's egg
[10:56]  You: you can too
[10:56]  You: hi again coolbeans
[10:56]  You: this will probably make more sense when you visit the website
[10:57]  You: we will meet here on tuesday mornings at 10 each week to brainstorm and share ideas
[10:57]  You: and invite people to create projects that they can prototype experiences based on the topic ideas
[10:57]  You: this will be a little different from the art film and music exhibit since it is not a competition
[10:58]  DebbaneMuseum Lax: you mean 10 like now ?
[10:58]  DebbaneMuseum Lax: it is your time
[10:58]  You: yes, except its 11 now -- i'm in PST
[10:58]  You: are you in LA?
[10:59]  DebbaneMuseum Lax: no I am in Lebanon
[10:59]  You: what time is it there?
[10:59]  DebbaneMuseum Lax: it is 9h pm for me
[10:59]  You: so our meetings would be at 8 pm yourtime
[10:59]  You: its tuesday april 22 are you on the 22nd or the 21st?
[11:00]  DebbaneMuseum Lax: tuesday 22nd
[11:00]  You: so you're ahead, same day
[11:00]  DebbaneMuseum Lax: wright
[11:00]  You: i thought you were in LA cuz the la airport is LAX
[11:00]  DebbaneMuseum Lax: lol
[11:01]  DebbaneMuseum Lax: I chose this name because it was easy to remember I didn't know the criteria to choose
[11:01]  You: my name was the only one that didn't sound germanic!
[11:01]  You: dancers -- do you have any questions?
[11:02]  You: debbane, we will be announcing our official launch of this project next week
[11:03]  DebbaneMuseum Lax: fine with me
[11:03]  You: i just sent you an invitation to join our group so you can get announcements in the future about events, workshops, meetings, etc
[11:04]  DebbaneMuseum Lax: where I can find this announcments ?
[11:04]  DebbaneMuseum Lax: I am new in 2nd life and don't know much
[11:04]  You: you can sign up on thetechvirtual.org
[11:04]  You: i am a newbie myself!
[11:05]  You: we are all floundering around together...
[11:05]  You: if i open my browser to give you more info, i will probably crash
[11:05]  You: but i will try that now!
[11:05]  You: so if i disappear, i'm not being rude
[11:06]  You: in the right corner of the thetechvirtual.org website is an icon that says "join"
[11:06]  You: just click on that and fill in your name, email and avatar info
[11:06]  You: you can forget about the rest unles you want to fill it all in
[11:07]  You: then you will get announcements about everything happening here at the tech
[11:07]  You: debbane, have you seen the art, film and music projects yet?
[11:07]  You: if not, go inside the building behind you!
[11:08]  You: that will give you an idea as to some of the amazing things people just did for the last exhibit
[11:08]  You: clicking on each exhibit will give you a notecard that explains what is happening
[11:08]  You: dancers, you might want to check that out as well, since these are all int he process of getting packed up int he next week
[11:08]  You: lydia has a project in there as well
[11:09]  DebbaneMuseum Lax: I have seen some of the exhibits
[11:09]  Dancers Yao: /thank you so much for the invitation. My computer needs upgrading but I'd love to submit an exhibit. Thanks for your patience and help.
[11:09]  You: my pleasure -- we look forward to seeing yu again!
[11:09]  You: debbane, i need to get going now, do you have any other questions?
[11:10]  DebbaneMuseum Lax: thanks for now and see you next tuesday then
[11:10]  You: great c you then!