Re: [tlug] Instructions for Attending the tech meeting in Second Life

[Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com>]

On Sat, 10 Nov 2007, Edmund Edgar wrote:

> OK, well if we liked the concept today we could come up with another way of
> doing the sound in future; We don't necessarily have to use the Second Life
> voice client - or indeed put the sound through SL at all.

Indeed. I'd suggest simply streaming the video and audio. We frequently
do this at Japanese BSD user group meetings.

> The other thing to think about if we do do this again would be making what
> the speaker types into a terminal, and its output, appear in Second Life. Is
> there some kind of  simple terminal/screen/shell-related witchery we could
> use to capture whatever would normally be displayed in the presenter's
> terminal in real-time so that we could send it to an object in-world?

It would probably not be too difficult to write shim program that would
insert a pty between a user and a shell session, and siphon off the
output to be sent somewhere else. Or possibly you could even configure
Gnu Screen to do this for you.

However, I think that vnc would probably provide a better solution.

I guess I'm not really seeing what Second Life gets us over video
streaming, vnc for the slides and demos, and IRC or whatever for
feedback from the remote people.

cjs
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