In the meeting: Aaron Duffy, Charlie Peck, Mic Bowman, Paul Steinberg, Shenlei Winkler, Tom Murphy, Wilf Pinfold
Next senate meeting: May 8, 2009 in SciSim at Galileo (181, 181, 32)
Inworld transcript from Keplar:
ScienceSim Calendar
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We have three talks for our lecture series ready to schedule
We also have the Callipygian Christensen art show Shenlei Winkleris setting up for us. Callipygian is buy taking pictures. I put one of them up on the easel in the senate area. It is just plain beautiful.
Voice
Teach Parallel
First blogcast with Dan Garcia was a great success
I was in Galileo
Wilf is going to be encouraging some folk to attend in-world
Paul has concerns that since only a 1/2 hour session, we may have insufficient time for questions and answers, since we effectively only have 20 minutes with the given speaker with all the introductions and goodbyes.
Mic had the good suggestion of taking questions after the 30 broadcast is done.
Blogcast radio actually will cut broadcast after 1/2 hour, but will keep recording the blogcast for another 1/2 hour so we could keep the Q&A going for a reasonable amount of time.
I will also record the chat session in Gallileo, if there is discussion there, and will also let it guide my discussion with the guest
Paul will be monitoring the blogtalk radio phone lines and controlling questions from there
A key to this success, will be asking our guests to available for up to an hour, rather than just a 1/2 hour
Avatar customization and identity
Shenlei brought some folk in from SL, but it was not an altogether pleasant experience because people could not represent themselves as they are used to in SL
This is an important issue without an immediate perfect solution
Shenlei has offered to make some well crafted basics be available for people in ScienceSim. Many thanks.
Mic, had the good suggestion of having a device to touch which will give new users folder with all the goodies.
There are some permission problems with the existing goodies. I am hoping to rustle up some of my students to resolve the problems
There are also hard issues involving intellectual property, in having material be available.
Ensuring good behavior
Discussion of avatar identity led to enforcing appropriate behavior
Banning folk by IP address was discussed for egregious troublemakers. Mic suggested an IP tables solution (har, har)
Volunteers needed
... Tom Murphy