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In the spirit of Second Life, M Linden was on hand to answer questions in text chat on Teen Second Life!
Our Teen Residents’ enthusiasm is irrepressible. Upon our gathering at the TSL BIRTHDAY region, we were swamped in excited IMs, friendship offers, and bear requests! Numerous teens simply could not help but express their enthusiasm out loud.
If you missed it or are simply curious, here’s the chat transcript. M and moderators Blue and Mia have been colored for ease-of-reading. Enjoy!
Something for everyone today! M will make his appearance on the Teen Grid at 11am. Author Tom Boellstorff will be discussing his new book on SL5B Linked at 12pm SLT and there will be a Community Enlightenment roundtable at 3pm SLT, also on SL5B Linked.
M will be addressing teens in TSL, recognizing the great work they’ve been doing as well as organizations like Global Kids. Moderated by Blue Linden, he’ll also be answering some of their questions and concerns about TSL. The session will be done in chat, and transcripts will be made available as soon as possible
‘Coming of Age in Second Life’ shows how virtual worlds can change ideas about identity and society. Bringing anthropology into territory never before studied, Tom Boellstorff’s book demonstrates that in some ways humans have always been virtual, and that virtual worlds in all their rich complexity build upon a human capacity for culture that is as old as humanity itself.
Second Life is full of features and services ready to be explored. Our panel, which is a mixture of Lindens and Residents, will introduce information about Groups, Content Creation, as well as Educational Resources and how they relate. Join our casual gathering of Q&A and enhance your in-world experience.
As always, the full schedule is available on wiki
The Hippos return!
We are now accepting nominations for the second annual Linden Lab Innovation Awards. Also known as The Hippos, these awards honor open source community members who have had the most significant impact on the Second Life viewer project over the last year. Who are these folks? They are C++ developers who have submitted more than 200 patches that have been incorporated into the main Second Life viewer in the last twelve months. They are people with varied talents and backgrounds who have done an enormous amount of work documenting protocols, triaging bugs and contributing to the development of the viewer in countless ways. Linden Lab thanks all these contributors, and we look forward to honoring the community superheroes who are making the Second Life viewer project a success.
This year, we are honoring open source contributors in five categories. If you’d like to make a nomination, read about the work of current nominees or learn more about the Hippos, then please read on. (more…)
Tonight will bring together science outreach specialists to showcase how they are bringing real science into the community of Second Life.
In the form of an open discussion with audience Q&A, they hope to engage the everyday residents in science and inspire new ideas for science in Second Life for the future.
There will be presentation materials in the form of a video and slides as well as an open discussion format with a Q/A from the audience.
At the Second Sight blog are details on the scientists and their background. Location is here
..and not able to find what you want in search?
We’ve added a new live calendar that’s being updated by the exhibitors themselves. You can find it on the SL5B wiki under General Exhibitor Events
Enjoy the amazing density and diversity of what your fellow Residents have created. Wow.
Today we are releasing a new Release Candidate, 1.20 RC11. If you have already been using the Release Candidate (RC10), you will be required to update to RC11 with the latest bug fixes. But the Release Candidate is always an optional series of viewers that you may choose not to use — or use side by side on your computer with the main viewer offered on our Downloads page.
This new, more robust Release Candidate (RC11) brings the total to some 39 fixes for crashes in the viewer since the start of this 1.20 cycle!
Many of you asked for the Dazzle theme to be optional, and we are glad to tell you we have rearranged our plans and resources to now work on just that. We had wanted to do theme switching originally, but had been focused on stability. We realize now we don’t want Residents to opt for the older viewer just to keep the classic look– where you would continue to suffer from bugs that have been fixed in the newer viewer. See the Update below!
This Release Candidate (RC11) has four new crash fixes and a solution to one major source of memory leaks. We also repaired the broken sounds on the Mac PowerPC. And we have fixed the UI layer from appearing in Snapshots on some systems. Thank you for your patience while we investigated these elusive bugs!
TIMELINE UPDATE: We are pleased at the progress from the Crash Hunters project so far… RC11 brings some firm gains in stability. Of course, we are always evaluating the best focus of our engineering for the viewer given your concerns about crashes, bug reports, and feature requests. Adding all the feedback to the mix, we have decided to extend the Release Candidate cycle FURTHER! We would now like to direct more development on the first stages of the Skinning project (this is the UI flexibility that brought a new Dazzle look to the viewer). To start, we are now developing a solution to VWR-5059 - “Ability to switch between the new/old theme” - and will ship that before finalizing the official Second Life Viewer 1.20. [EDIT TO CLARIFY 18:09 PDT]: VWR-5059 will be fixed in a future RC iteration, but it is not yet fixed in this RC11.
- Therefore, in the coming weeks please look for a couple other iterations of this Release Candidate, but perhaps not as frequently. We will deliver an RC12 and RC13 before finishing this 1.20 Release Candidate cycle. [EDIT TO CLARIFY 18:09 PDT]: As with other late-stage iterations, we will focus on Critical bug fixes and maintaining the stability of this viewer.
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Friendly greetings celebrants, I was flying around the SL5B regions with my wife yesterday and wowza, there were a lot of visitors! Regions packed left and right. To give you an idea of awesome scope, Prad Prathivi shared this picture of architecture he contributed to; click-through for OMGYOMZBBQ EPIC HIGH-REZ:
I’ll be sharing more memories from the events soon — but I wanted to let you know for all who requested, we now have a TEXT TRANSCRIPT of yesterday’s Opening Keynote by Philip & M Linden… beneficial for our hearing-impaired Residents and those who’d prefer to parse words.
This comes in addition to the video and audio recordings because we love <3 making this stuff accessible if you couldn’t make it in-avatar.
We’re also archiving/linking to future Event Recordings on the SL5B wiki page, so please bookmark it for your sheer convenience.
Severely hope to see you inworld!
-Torley Linden 
Resident Enlightenment Manager… I… share… stuff…
The opening speech is now available for download. You can play in iTunes or other media players–it is a little over 16 minutes in duration.
We will have have the video archive available later today, and we will update this post when it is available.
We’re excited to announce the initial list of Keynotes and Confirmed Roundtables for SL5B. We’ll be updating this list throughout the event, so to keep up to date, keep looking here for updates and exact times.
Keynotes (Main Stage):
June 23: M Linden and Philip Linden opening speech
July 3: M Linden speech in Teen Second Life
July 7: Mitch Kapor closing speech
Roundtables (Locations TBA):
June 23: SL Musicians building RL Careers: featuring Nexeus Fatale, Keiko Takamura, Hep Shepherd, Cylindrian Rutabega, Slim Warrior, Dizzy Banjo, Benton Wunderlich
June 30: Starting Corporate Training Program in Second Life: featuring Alex Heiphetz, Glenn Linden, Erica Driver (ThinkBalm), Dolf Wittkämper (Philips), Paul Smith (Principal Financial Group, Gina Schreck (Synapse 3Di), Mitzi M. Montoya (North Carolina State University), Anne P. Massey (Indiana University), Claudia Smith (Wells Fargo Home Mortgage)
June 30: What’s Next for SL Learning: featuring Larry Johnson of NMC
July 1: Urbanism, Architecture, Planning: How Second Life Can Help Build the Urban Landscape of the First Life–and Vice Versa: featuring Eric Gordon and Terry Beaubois
July 2: German Education: featuring Hanno Tietgens
July 3: ‘Coming of Age in Second Life’ Author Discussion: featuring Persis Trilling and Tom Boellstorff
July 5: Resident Help Groups and the New User Experience: featuring Karl Metropolitan
July 6: Social Network Panel: featuring Nosh Contractor and Eytan Bashi
July 7: Education Spotlight: featuring Intellagirl Tully and ISTE
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