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UcanTu 2008.06.10

by Rob Stephenson last modified 2008-06-10 11:45

UcanTu meeting on June 10

[9:54]  You: Hi, Dancers
[9:55]  Dancers Yao: Hi Stephe - So sorry - tried to go to the Summit - but but kept getting bumped from the museum
[9:55]  You: hi, JedBue
[9:56]  JedBlue Wind: Hi , is this where the Tech Exhibit is?
[9:56]  You: sorry about that, we were SRO in both RL and SL
[9:56]  Dancers Yao: SRO?
[9:57]  You: yes, JedBlue, htis is the place
[9:57]  You: hi Viv
[9:57]  Shakini Parnass is Online
[9:57]  Viv Trafalgar: hi Stephe
[9:57]  You: come join us
[9:58]  JedBlue Wind: okay cool
[9:58]  You: hi, Shakini, welcome back
[9:59]  You: hi, Ulysse
[9:59]  JedBlue Wind: Where exactly is the Tech Museum opening in California (I live in the Bay Area currently) ?
[9:59]  Ulysse Alexandre: hello there :)
[10:00]  Shakini Parnass: hello everyone!
[10:00]  Viv Trafalgar: hello
[10:00]  Mars Voyager: hi
[10:00]  You: The RL tech Museum is in downtown San Jose
[10:00]  Ulysse Alexandre: hello Mars
[10:00]  You: hi, Mars
[10:00]  JedBlue Wind: Oh cool, I should drive down there and take a look.
[10:00]  Dancers Yao: Hi Shakini - Hope you had a good trip - Thank you for the email
[10:01]  Shakini Parnass: you're welcome -i'm still on my trip -- looks like mars is too!
[10:01]  JedBlue Wind accepted your inventory offer.
[10:01]  Viv Trafalgar accepted your inventory offer.
[10:01]  Dancers Yao: Steph - Will there be transcripts for the Summit?
[10:02]  JedBlue Wind accepted your inventory offer.
[10:02]  Viv Trafalgar accepted your inventory offer.
[10:02]  Viv Trafalgar accepted your inventory offer.
[10:02]  Shakini Parnass: maybe steph had to step away for a minute...but it would be great to see transcripts from the summit
[10:03]  JedBlue Wind accepted your inventory offer.
[10:03]  Shakini Parnass: i thought it might be nice to start out these sessions with a brief intro amongst ourselves so we know who everyone is and what their interests are in being here
[10:03]  You: hi, Frederic
[10:04]  Fredric Finkel: Hey!
[10:04]  Fredric Finkel accepted your inventory offer.
[10:04]  Shakini Parnass: a lot of you have tech exhibit builders over your head already, so I assume that means you were all previously involved with Art Film and Music?
[10:04]  Fredric Finkel accepted your inventory offer.
[10:04]  Shakini Parnass: were you also at the summit?
[10:04]  Fredric Finkel accepted your inventory offer.
[10:04]  Shakini Parnass: hi frederic
[10:04]  Viv Trafalgar: oh man. RL emergency. I apologize.
[10:05]  Fredric Finkel: Hey!
[10:05]  Shakini Parnass: hey steph, dancers wanted to know if there are going to be transcripts from the summit
[10:06]  Dancers Yao: /I'm Dancers - Here to work on the project related to Witness.org - human rights
[10:07]  Shakini Parnass: i'm the curator for this exhibit and worked with a team at the tech to select the projects that are posted here....
[10:07]  Fredric Finkel: i em electric
[10:08]  Lydia Milner is Online
[10:08]  Shakini Parnass: you are electric -- what does that mean??
[10:09]  sexy walk and pose [script:*Franimation Overrider v1.5]: Script run-time error
[10:09]  sexy walk and pose [script:*Franimation Overrider v1.5]: Math Error
[10:09]  Shakini Parnass: what brings you here mars?
[10:09]  You: hi, Lydia
[10:09]  Ulysse Alexandre: hello Lydia
[10:09]  Shakini Parnass: hi lydia
[10:09]  Lydia Milner: hi stephe
[10:10]  Lydia Milner: hi everyone
[10:10]  Dancers Yao: /Do you know what size the exhibit space will be? Hi Lydia
[10:10]  Lydia Milner: onehanded again todat :)
[10:10]  Mars Voyager: I want to be up-to-date on whats happening here
[10:10]  You: hi, Lynkander
[10:10]  Shakini Parnass: stephe can you let us know if the summit transcripts will be posted online?
[10:10]  You: Hi, Lefresne
[10:10]  Ulysse Alexandre: hello <lefresne
[10:10]  You: Leresne
[10:11]  Ulysse Alexandre: Lefresne
[10:11]  You: LeFresne (sorry)
[10:11]  Lydia Milner: hi shakini, good trip?
[10:11]  Lefresne Bernard: Thank-you, Ulysse
[10:11]  Lefresne Bernard: And stephe
[10:11]  Shakini Parnass: si -- i'm still on it
[10:11]  Lefresne Bernard accepted your inventory offer.
[10:11]  Lydia Milner: ah, i got back home a bout 5 hrs ago :)
[10:11]  Lefresne Bernard accepted your inventory offer.
[10:11]  Shakini Parnass: lydia, you've been busy this week starting new projects!
[10:11]  Lefresne Bernard accepted your inventory offer.
[10:11]  Lydia Milner: yes, last week.
[10:12]  Lydia Milner: i had the ideas a little while but hadnt posted
[10:12]  Shakini Parnass: can you let people know about some of your ideas and what you are looking for in terms of collaborators?
[10:12]  Lydia Milner: i need to add more details also
[10:13]  Lydia Milner: that i'm not sure of right now
[10:13]  Lydia Milner: i have a couple timing things up in the air
[10:13]  You: About last week's summit, we will be posting the video later this week
[10:13]  Lydia Milner: i may not build all of them
[10:13]  Lydia Milner: is the timeline still the same
[10:13]  Dancers Yao: /thanks
[10:13]  You: We may or may not have a wrap-up for the breakout sessions -- I'm still waiting on the moderators
[10:14]  Shakini Parnass: as far as i know, the timeline is the same as what has been posted before - though there isn't really a first "review" since the projects are all still incubating
[10:14]  Shakini Parnass: is everyone okay with this session being posted online afterwards for others to read?
[10:14]  You: Lydia, I may have goven you the wrong timeline. Next judging is July 1 and July 31
[10:14]  Dancers Yao: yes
[10:14]  Ulysse Alexandre: yes
[10:15]  Mars Voyager: yes
[10:15]  Lydia Milner: ok thanks stephe
[10:15]  Lydia Milner: btw i have had about 3 hrs sleep so i am not too talky right now
[10:15]  Shakini Parnass: jedblue/ulysse/Lefresne -- since wehaven't met before, would you mind just letting me know a little about your interests?
[10:15]  You: and jet-lagged to boot!
[10:16]  JedBlue Wind: Hi, I just returned to SL a month or so ago, I work in maya and 3ds maya mostly modeling organics like trees and rock forms
[10:16]  JedBlue Wind: 3ds max
[10:16]  Ulysse Alexandre: I am a archaeologist in RL and I want to do some exhibit for RL museum in SL
[10:17]  Ulysse Alexandre: my first project will be the reconstruction of a Roman Villa
[10:17]  Shakini Parnass: Lefresne how about you?
[10:17]  Lefresne Bernard: I am mostly a programmer
[10:17]  Lefresne Bernard: I do a ;itt;e animation and sculpty
[10:17]  Lefresne Bernard: *Little
[10:17]  mac Coronet is Online
[10:18]  You: hi, Jim, welcome
[10:18]  Shakini Parnass: Mars --since you're electric, are any of the solar electric projects of interest to you?
[10:18]  Lefresne Bernard: Mostly in the form of 'teleporters', 'shuttles', and 'robot greeters'
[10:18]  Jim Howley: hi @ll
[10:18]  Ulysse Alexandre: hello Jim
[10:18]  Jim Howley accepted your inventory offer.
[10:18]  Jim Howley accepted your inventory offer.
[10:18]  Lefresne Bernard: Greetings, jim :-J
[10:18]  Jim Howley accepted your inventory offer.
[10:18]  Shakini Parnass: hi jim - we're just sharing a little about our interests and what brings everyone here
[10:18]  Lydia Milner: i'm sorry i have to go, I will pick up the text off the web
[10:19]  Lydia Milner: bye everyone :)
[10:19]  Lydia Milner is Offline
[10:19]  Mars Voyager: Shanki, I think Fredric Finkel is the electric one
[10:19]  Dancers Yao: bye
[10:19]  Shakini Parnass: bye lydia -- sleep well!
[10:19]  Ulysse Alexandre: bye Lydia, have
[10:19]  Shakini Parnass: oh sorry!
[10:19]  Mars Voyager: the projects you mentioned sounds interesting though
[10:19]  Mars Voyager: I mostly do scripting
[10:19]  Lefresne Bernard: I presently am doing a project of greeter robot with the monash university simulator, chinese wing
[10:19]  Shakini Parnass: does everyone have one of the ucantu cards with info?
[10:20]  Shakini Parnass: cool, lots of scripters, programmers and modelers!
[10:20]  You: I think i gave one to everybody new
[10:20]  Shakini Parnass: dancers, how are things going on your project?
[10:21]  Dancers Yao: Good - been working on building - that's why I wondered what size the exhibit space will be
[10:21]  Shakini Parnass: the entire exhibit space is 3000 square feet
[10:22]  Shakini Parnass: we haven't figured out yet how much each exhibit within that will get since it will likely vary quite a bit depending on the final experiences and artifacts that get integrated
[10:22]  Dancers Yao: ok thanks
[10:22]  Shakini Parnass: within SL, i don't think real estate is a problem at this point...
[10:23]  You: As soon as Shakini has some sketches of the exhibition space, I'll post them in Parkside Workshop
[10:24]  Lefresne Bernard: (( Yes, I am ok for the session to be posted, just back-read ))
[10:24]  Dancers Yao: thx
[10:24]  Shakini Parnass: i don't know if you have all had a chance to peruse the current project list, but Lydia has started half a dozen and certainly won't be able to take them all on by herself
[10:24]  Shakini Parnass: i know she is looking for help with modeling, scripting and animating if any of you are interested in helping out with an existing project
[10:25]  Ulysse Alexandre: Is theTech Museum involved in the celebration of the 5th Anniversary of SL ?
[10:26]  Shakini Parnass: dancers -- are you looking for some assistance as well?
[10:26]  Shakini Parnass: maybe you could share a little about what you have in mind
[10:28]  You: JedBlue, one of the UcanTu projects is about bioremediation of salmon farming with seaweed. Would that interest you as a 3D modeler?
[10:28]  You: http://thetechvirtual.org/projects/ucantu/technologies/fundacion/
[10:29]  Dancers Yao: Yes I will be. But I still need to have permission from Witness.org - waiting to here back. Thenn once I have perrission - will want to learn how to use machinima - like a video camera to take pictures of the avatars to be used in the exhibit interaction
[10:29]  You: no, Ulysse, when is the 5th anniversary?
[10:29]  Ulysse Alexandre: the 23 June
[10:30]  Shakini Parnass: maybe we should email offline about who you are trying to contact there -- i just found out that the person we were trying to get in touch with is no longer there
[10:30]  You: hi, SC
[10:30]  You: welcome
[10:30]  SC Ireland: hi hi
[10:30]  SC Ireland: thanks
[10:30]  Shakini Parnass: hi
[10:30]  Lefresne Bernard: Hi SC and all
[10:30]  SC Ireland declined your inventory offer.
[10:30]  Ulysse Alexandre: hello SC
[10:30]  SC Ireland accepted your inventory offer.
[10:30]  SC Ireland accepted your inventory offer.
[10:30]  SC Ireland: hi hi hi :)
[10:30]  You: hi, Mac
[10:30]  Ulysse Alexandre: hello mac
[10:30]  mac Coronet accepted your inventory offer.
[10:31]  Shakini Parnass: hi mac
[10:31]  mac Coronet: Hi
[10:31]  Lefresne Bernard: Hey, mac ( love those personnal computers )
[10:31]  SC Ireland: heh i'm already in the group :)
[10:32]  You: great - sorry!
[10:32]  SC Ireland: np :)
[10:32]  Dancers Yao: Yes - there is witnessorg group on SL - but first contacted the international group - working on stories for guardianship issues - one has been sent to the witness.org HUB. Will contact you with more details - thanks
[10:33]  Shakini Parnass: SC and Mac -- what are you both up to in SL or otherwise?
[10:33]  SC Ireland: learning mostly... I work for a college who bought an island recently and we're working on ideas of what to do with it/how to design it etc...
[10:34]  mac Coronet: yes little bit
[10:34]  Shakini Parnass: since most of you are already tech exhibit builders, you have an idea as to what is involved in prototyping exhibits here
[10:35]  Shakini Parnass: there have been quite a few projects started already, but so far all of them need some help with a variety of skillsets
[10:35]  Shakini Parnass: many of which it sounds like you have!
[10:36]  Shakini Parnass: our hope is to be able to generate some ideas in SL that will carry through to RL but in a different way than AFM
[10:36]  Shakini Parnass: does anyone have any questions about the process itself?
[10:37]  Lefresne Bernard: Not really :-J
[10:37]  SC Ireland: uhm ... yeah... :)
[10:37]  Dancers Yao: many!
[10:37]  SC Ireland: sorry :)foops
[10:37]  Shakini Parnass: hi vince
[10:37]  SC Ireland: how exactly does the process start? someone just has an idea and rolls with it?
[10:37]  Ulysse Alexandre: hello Vince
[10:38]  Vince Ragu: Hi Shakini
[10:38]  You: in a nutshell: sign up on http://thetechvirtual.org, start a project or join a team on a project, work together and build museum exhibits in SL
[10:38]  Vince Ragu: HI Ulysse
[10:38]  Shakini Parnass: there are a number of projects posted already there, these are all based on RL projects that we would like to integrate into the exhibit
[10:38]  SC Ireland: ok... cool...
[10:38]  You: then the best of these get REALLY built for the RL Tech Museum in San Jose
[10:38]  Shakini Parnass: there are quite a few projects that have already been started, but most of them need a push to get going
[10:39]  You: hi, Vince
[10:39]  Shakini Parnass: at the moment, dancers is the only one here who has already started a project and that one is about "witness.org" that deals with human rights abuses
[10:39]  Vince Ragu accepted your inventory offer.
[10:39]  Vince Ragu accepted your inventory offer.
[10:39]  Vince Ragu accepted your inventory offer.
[10:40]  Shakini Parnass: all of these topics are based in RL needs and they were selected for tech awards because they have had a major impact
[10:40]  Shakini Parnass: the idea of technology benefiting humanity is one that we would like to honor in the exhibit as well
[10:41]  JedBlue Wind: That is very important idea that needs to be circulated more with all the Neo-luddite ideas floating around
[10:41]  Shakini Parnass: we think so as well
[10:42]  You: nicely put, JedBlue
[10:42]  Shakini Parnass: that being said, a number of these technologies are very low-tech but still use technology as a way to address serious issues in RL
[10:43]  You: for ex., there is a foot-driven pump for irrigation -- looks like a stairmaster exercise machine, sort of
[10:43]  SC Ireland: yeah... "Kickstart our Economy"
[10:43]  Shakini Parnass: they have a new pump now called the hip pump
[10:43]  You: http://thetechvirtual.org/projects/ucantu/technologies/the-kickstart-pump/
[10:44]  Shakini Parnass: its half the price of the kickstart pump
[10:44]  You: cool, we need picstures
[10:44]  You: pictures
[10:44]  SC Ireland: cool
[10:45]  Shakini Parnass: stephe-- hopefully we will be getting a new kickstart pump sometime this week
[10:45]  You: good, we need a kickstart
[10:46]  Shakini Parnass: does anyone else have any questions about the projects or how to get involved?
[10:46]  Shakini Parnass: i really appreciate your time and want to take advantage of your being here and make sure you have whatever information you might need
[10:46]  Shakini Parnass: stephe -- are there any workshops coming up that you could let people know about?
[10:47]  JedBlue Wind: Thank you, i must run, important call at 11am to take, but are these meetings every week?
[10:47]  Shakini Parnass: yes, every week at 10 am PST on tuesdays
[10:47]  You: well, we have meetings regularly on Fri at 11 as well as today (Tues) @ 10
[10:47]  Shakini Parnass: thanks for coming jedblue
[10:48]  JedBlue Wind: ok great thank you, be safe all
[10:48]  You: and classwes on building and scripting every Wed. @ 11
[10:48]  Ulysse Alexandre: bye JedBlue
[10:48]  mac Coronet: Do you have any photos at AFM exhibits in RL?
[10:48]  SC Ireland: Thanks guys... i'll definitely pass on the site and this museum... :)
[10:48]  Shakini Parnass: thank you SC
[10:48]  You: also Thurs at noon? i believe
[10:49]  SC Ireland: Hey Stephe, can i hit you up w/a couple questions once everything is done here?
[10:49]  You: sorry , exhibit builders meetinn on friday is now @ 9 AM SLT
[10:49]  SC Ireland: or shakini :)
[10:49]  You: sure SC
[10:49]  Jetpack Sphere: All Go
[10:50]  You: Hi, Quirky
[10:50]  Ulysse Alexandre: hello Qzurky
[10:50]  Quirky McArdle declined your inventory offer.
[10:50]  Dancers Yao: hi
[10:50]  Quirky McArdle: Oh, hi, am I crashing a party?
[10:50]  Quirky McArdle accepted your inventory offer.
[10:50]  Ulysse Alexandre: Quirky sorry
[10:50]  Quirky McArdle accepted your inventory offer.
[10:50]  You: not at all, welcome!
[10:51]  Quirky McArdle: *smiles*
[10:51]  Shakini Parnass: hi quirky -- we're just wrapping up a meeting about a new exhibit for the RL tech that we are prototyping in SL
[10:52]  You: Quirky, we're talking about building museum exhibits in SL and maybe even in RL
[10:52]  Dancers Yao: Thanks for the meeting. Shakini - enjoy your trip.
[10:52]  Shakini Parnass: thanks dancers -- keep me posted about witness
[10:52]  Quirky McArdle: cool
[10:52]  Dancers Yao: will do
[10:52]  Lefresne Bernard: See=you, shakini and all :-J
[10:53]  Shakini Parnass: stephe -- can you give quirky an info card?
[10:53]  Shakini Parnass: by lefresne
[10:53]  Quirky McArdle: (our comapny build the site here and I just thought I'd stop by and see what's happening)
[10:53]  Quirky McArdle: *built
[10:53]  Dancers Yao: bye everyone
[10:53]  You: yes, I did already
[10:53]  Quirky McArdle: laters
[10:53]  Shakini Parnass: what company are you with?
[10:53]  Shakini Parnass: thanx
[10:53]  Quirky McArdle: Involvwe
[10:53]  Quirky McArdle: Involve
[10:54]  You: they built the museum behind us
[10:54]  Quirky McArdle: and the mechanism for submittng exhibits
[10:55]  mac Coronet: Bye everyone
[10:55]  Ulysse Alexandre: bye mac
[10:55]  Shakini Parnass: bye mac
[10:55]  Quirky McArdle: Oh, how are you Rob? Good to see you again.
[10:55]  Shakini Parnass: i've got to run as well, thanx for coming everyone!
[10:55]  Shakini Parnass: see you next week...
[10:56]  Ulysse Alexandre: bye Shakini
[10:56]  You: good , thx
[10:56]  Quirky McArdle: great! don't mind me, am just going to do a walk-through
[10:56]  mac Coronet is Offline
[10:57]  You: the transcript of this meeting will be posted on the Website: http://thetechvirtual.org/projects/meeting-transcripts/
[10:57]  SC Ireland: cool
[10:57]  Shakini Parnass is Offline
[10:57]  Ulysse Alexandre: thx Stephe
[10:57]  You: thx for coming, everybody
[10:58]  Ulysse Alexandre: ok, bye
[10:58]  Ulysse Alexandre: can't be there next week
[10:59]  Ulysse Alexandre: I have an opening of exhibit in RL at the same time :(
[11:01]  Ulysse Alexandre: anyway see you soon
[11:02]  You: hi, quirky, welcome back
[11:02]  Quirky McArdle: the new exhibit submission sounds really exciting!
[11:03]  Quirky McArdle: this has turned out to be such a wonderful space ... just shows how much difference it makes when a client is committed to building community around the space
[11:03]  Quirky McArdle: you folks deserve so much credit
[11:03]  Quirky McArdle: *beams proudly*
[11:04]  SC Ireland: hey quirky?
[11:05]  Quirky McArdle: yes?
[11:05]  You: thanks, quirky!
[11:06]  SC Ireland: do you do the actual design/building or do you do the consulting?
[11:06]  Quirky McArdle: you are very welcome. it is genuine pride in how well youn have used the platform
[11:06]  SC Ireland: and actually, either way its good stuff :)
[11:06]  Quirky McArdle: I'm EVP and a producer
[11:06]  Quirky McArdle: I do project management and new business/envisioning
[11:06]  SC Ireland: coool
[11:06]  You: EVP?
[11:07]  SC Ireland: executive VP?
[11:07]  Quirky McArdle: exec vice pres
[11:07]  Quirky McArdle: nods
[11:07]  SC Ireland: nice
[11:07]  You: got it
[11:07]  SC Ireland: i gotta get a job like you :)
[11:07]  SC Ireland: hehe
[11:07]  Quirky McArdle: we have genius creative and tech folks working with us
[11:07]  SC Ireland: or maybe a boss like you.... hmmmmmmmmmm ;)
[11:07]  Quirky McArdle: hey if you're looking drop a resume!
[11:07]  Quirky McArdle: anyway, I need to run... again, Rob, great work
[11:07]  Quirky McArdle: bye all!
[11:08]  SC Ireland: see ya
[11:08]  You: solong Quirky
[11:08]  Ulysse Alexandre: bye Quirky
[11:08]  SC Ireland is Online
[11:08]  Ulysse Alexandre: bye all too
[11:08]  SC Ireland: see ya all...
[11:08]  You: see you later, SC
[11:10]  Autopilot canceled
[11:10]  You: bye Mars
[11:10]  Mars Voyager: ok, see you
[11:10]  Mars Voyager: where are the new exhibits?
[11:11]  You: only on the Website, at this point, we need some to get built in SL soon
[11:11]  Mars Voyager: ok
[11:12]  You: would you be interested in building one?
[11:12]  Mars Voyager: I could help with scripting
[11:12]  You: great


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