I didn't catch the names of all the people on the call, they will need to be updated.

On the call: Andrew Fitz Gibbon, Charlie Peck, Johan Berntsson, Mic Bowman, Tom Murphy, Wilf Pinfold

visitors: RobinG2 from Reactiongrid and KyleG from Reactiongrid

Next senate meeting: Feb 6, 2009 in SciSim at Kepler (193, 191, 45)

Inworld transcript from Keplar: was composed of primarily related side conversations. A more integrated transcript will be enabled by in-world voice, and we won't need the conference bridge

Status of OpenSimulator birthday party:

• Mic said there was a steady stream of people who Hyperlinked in, he ran into around 10 people
• We now have ~50 accounts, 25 created the day of the party

Youth in ScienceGrid: we spent the bulk of our time talking about how to handle under 18 people in the adult environment of ScienceSIm.

• Nothing inappropriate: It was made clear several times that we intend anything could be viewed by young adults. However there are assists and mitigating factors.
  • Mic baked underwear on all the avatars. However, it can be circumvented, as I did in using my own skin.
  • Some content, such as Biology displays, might be viewed as innapropriate by some parents.
  • After the call, I realized there could also be religious groups that could find fault.
  • There is always the possibility of innapropriate or illegal Instant Messages betwen avatars. It is not going to be wise, or possible, to police that

• Reactiongrid: RobinG2 from Reactiongrid (http://reactiongrid.com/) rezzed into Keplar and had some discussion there, but the bulk of the conversation was on the phone bridge, to which she was not connected. They are working on a teen/adult friendly metaverse
  • They highly recommend enabling connections across age barriers
  • They have an abuse reporting facility
  • They also have avatars walking around who help police things.
  • They have also posted email and phone numbers

• Griefing: this was a big concern. We have the ability to drop an avatar from the user table that will stop teleporting from the server they are on.

• Mainland residents: Having mainland residents adhere to a set of protocols will help with this effort
  • Agree to monitor content and behavior
  • It seems reasonable that we could extend the OpenSim server to ban an avatar from a server, if they marked as banned in the global user database. Adding this patch to a server, might also be required to be part of the mainland
  • It seems we have a larger problem of griefer management. Are we tracking IP numbers, to prevent someone from coming right back in as another avatar

Not clear about the resolution of these action items from the Jan 23 meeting. We need to be sure to quickly go over these at the beginning of the meeting.

These are the action items that surfaced during the Jan 23 meeting

1. Everyone: create an account (http://sciencesim.com/wiki/doku.php/gettingstarted), enter the world and ask to make my avatar your friend (everyone needs friends). I will give you a landmark to the senate site.
2. Tom Murphy: set up a first draft of code of conduct for our review for next meeting
3. Charlie Peck: locate gromacs data to drive Johan’s simulation. Longr term it is going to be how do we allow users to drive the simulation with their data or with a collection of canned data sets.
4. Earlham team: get OpenSim plumbed up and on SciGrid. Lets also document the process since we will be repeating many times to populate SciSim
5. Mic Bowman: clarify name of packaging/migration tool for assets
6. Mic Bowman: Arrange for links on HypreGrid to SciSim.
7. Mic Bowman and Johan Berntsson: get pendulum, protein folding, and other cool science examples not already on SciSim to Earlham for inclusion on their server

                                             ... Tom Murphy