See invitation. Any ideas before I talk to him? I can propose him
anything; I can tell him to make a panel, a talk, invite the whole
group, whatever. Let me know who is interested and what you think is
best, by tomorrow preferably.
Thanks.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Proposal for an OpenSim session at Metaverse U conference
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 15:13:40 -0700
From: Henrik Bennetsen <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
References: <[email protected]>
Hi Christa,
thank you very much for your email. I do remember you well and you were
on list of people to contact about this and beat me to writing you :)
You may have seen from whoever alerted you to Metaverse U that this
conference will have a focus on open virtual world platforms so an
Opensim presentation would be great. I have pasted my usual blurp below
in case you haven't seen it.
You may also be interested in the new Sirikata
<http://www.sirikata.com%20> platform I am involved with. We are very
open to collaboration with Opensim as well.
Do you have some availability to talk on the phone about all these things?
Henrik
The blurpy thing:
On May 29th and 30th my group is putting on the second iteration of
our Metavese U conference <http://metaverse.stanford.edu/>. The main
purpose of this conference is to define a strategy for advancing open
source virtual world platforms and explore their potential in a broad
variety of contexts, including scientific research, education, private
enterprise, and cultural programming. Our mission statement is as follows:
/The Metaverse U conference will explore the cutting edge applications
of virtual worlds and the open platforms that drive them.
/
We are using sponsorships to keep the cost of attendance down to $50 for
two full days of conference. Should this present a barrier to anyone
then let us know and we will figure it out. We also realize that not
everyone who should be a part of this conversation has the opportunity
to make it to Stanford so we plan to have a free live video stream for a
remote audience.
We are in the process of building the agenda with speakers and topics.
There is still lots of room for your input so please write us with any
ideas you may have. For the right speaker we would also consider remote
options.
We plan to open registration around mid April and have lots of
announcements coming so watch http://metaverse.stanford.edu/ for updates.
Hope you can make it!
Cheers,
Henrik
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Cristina Videira Lopes
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi Henrik,
We meet about a year ago at a workshop at NASA about virtual worlds,
not sure if you remember me. Last year I couldn't go to the
conference you organized, but this year, I think I might, if there
is interest in talking about OpenSim (http://opensimulator.org/).
I've been on sabbatical this year, 100% dedicated to OpenSim and
applications with it. If you're still looking for ideas for
sessions/panels/etc I would like to propose one of those about OpenSim.
Let me know.
Regards,
Crista
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Cristina Videira Lopes
Associate Professor
Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
University of California, Irvine
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Stanford Humanities Lab
Stanford University
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