Minutes of June 5, 2009 ScienceSim Senate

In the meeting: Aaron Duffy, Andrew FitzGibbon, Mic Bowman, Tom Murphy

Next senate meeting: June 12, 2009 in SciSim at Galileo (181, 181, 32)

Inworld transcript from Keplar:

ScienceSim Calendar

• Next Up: “Think Parallel” Blogcast with guest Professor Wen-mei Hwu from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Tuesday June 9nd from 10:00-10:30 AM PST at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/TeachParallel and in world in Galileo /178/201/32/

Metaverse U

• Successful presentation by Charlie, Mic, and I that has led to many follow-on conversations
• Video for whole conference will be up shortly

GalaxSee

• can start/stop
• working on restarting
• next step link to external source of computation, such as bobsced

Upgrade Time

• lots changed in opensim, so will be tough to get solid
• lots of performance fixes
• lots of infrastructure changes, which will ultimately yield stability

sloodle

• great externalization of testing component to sl
• very promising addition for pedagogical aspect of ScienceSim
• Mic going to forward pointer from reactiongrid / osgrid, where they already worked on it

                                             ... Tom Murphy