Minutes of May 8, 2009 ScienceSim Senate

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

Next senate meeting: May 15, 2009 in SciSim at Galileo (181, 181, 32)

Inworld transcript from Keplar:

ScienceSim Calendar

• Next Up: ”Think Parallel” Blogcast with guest Dan Reed Tuesday May 12th from 10:00-10:30 AM PST at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/TeachParallel and in world in Galileo /178/201/32/
• Shenlei has meeting planner friend who may be willing to administer scheduling and promoting our lecture series about ScienceSim. We have three talks pending.

Voice

• Mic has in-region voice running
• Takes a lot of tuning to get working
• Stay tuned

Other ScienceSim upgrades

• avatar
  • 39 Avatars in OS grid meeting
  • some troubles with shapes
• groups have been added
• stability increased by one simulator per region, so one region failing doesn't take entire simulator down
  • simulator has been running 3 days without reboot

Teach Parallel

• Series going well, overcoming minor blips
• Wilf will have crowd inworld to participate with Dan Reed talk next week

Field trip to Shengri La

• Shenlei took us to Shengri La and talked of design principles and experiences of the islands
• Very friendly and helpful orientation for the new avatar
• beautiful space with well implemented land/ocean elements reminiscent of Point Lobos in California
• Great inspiration for Pt Reyes project on which CCC is embarking

                                             ... Tom Murphy