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

[Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com>]

On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, emiddleton@example.com wrote:

> If we can get it working seamlessly so that the slides and demos display
> quickly and the voice is clear then it is potentially less fiddly on the
> client end.

I dunno. VNC is not terribly hard to install and use, probably easier
than Second Life, and if we can stream the video in a Flash (or maybe
QuickTime) format, I think most users will already have the software,
as opposed to having to install Second Life. As well, the Second Life
client seems to be a bit more limited under Linux; does it do video yet?

> The big issue with IRC, as I see it, is that it distracts from the
> presentation. If we reserved IRC for questions to the speaker and have
> someone relaying the questions it might work better.

That is the standard way of doing it at every presentation I've ever
seen that accepted questions from the net.

> I guess one of the hopes of using something like Second Life was that
> we would give a sense of presence to/for remote participants.

Personally, I find that watching a real person move about and talk on
a small, flat screen gives me much more of a sense of presence than
watching a cartoon character stand and do nothing on a small, flat
screen.

cjs
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