Minutes of April 17, 2009 ScienceSim Senate

In the meeting: Aaron Duffy, Charlie Peck, Jessie Puls, Mic Bowman, Shenlei Winkler, Tom Murphy, Wilf Pinfold

Next senate meeting: Apr 24, 2009 in SciSim at Galileo (181, 181, 32)

Inworld transcript from Keplar:

Next Up: Inaugural “Think Parallel” Blogcast Tuesday April 21st at 10:00-10:30 AM PST at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/TeachParallel and in-world
We have three talks for our lecture series ready to schedule

Art show in ScienceSim

Mic has been talking with Shenlei Winkler, who maintains a beautiful space in Second Life (Shengri La) about holding a Callipygian Christensen art show in ScienceSim, with music provided by another friend of hers
Two videos that reflect this beauty are http://www.wba-advertising.com/shengrila/duchess.html and http://shenlei.wordpress.com/2008/05/20/shengri-la-spirit/
This will both significantly bring attention to ScienceSim as well as push the edge on successfully handling larger numbers of avatars

Tuning number of avatars

After helping stabilize large numbers of prims, Mic is turning to stabilizing large number of avatars
The art show should not be directly part of that tuning; I suggested that Charlie's and my students might be able to help
Mic had the good idea of having a movie night with these students, starting with an early Jack Nicholson movie and a biological named Audrey 2.

ScienceSim Stability

Mic has reported Intel internal NAT problems in successfully relaying UDP packets both directions. This could easily happen with other ScienceSim users
It highlights we are still in early stages of this effort where many good additions are being made to OpenSim with the difficulty of he integration of all the features successfully integrating together.

                                             ... Tom Murphy