Meeting+Minutes+(2011.03.14)

=2011.03.14 - Pixel Mountain Meeting (iED OpenSim)= iED Pixel Mountain Region --( Last minute move to Second Life, Memorial Union on Beaver Island: http://bit.ly/BeaverIsland-MU) 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PDT

In Attendance

 * Wrenaria Antiesse
 * Wainbrave Bernal
 * MonicaMarlo Martinek
 * Cooper Macbeth
 * Ute Frenburg
 * Ruby Sol

Action Items

 * Start mapping out what content and where it should be located on Oregon sim via Google Docs

Transcript
(Note: Tried to meet on iED region but had no access do to not accounting for daylight savings in our schedule which shifted our designated time slot by an hour - meeting moved to the Memorial Union on Beaver Island in Second Life).

[09:26] Ruby Sol: good morning :) [09:26] Monica Marlo: howdy [09:27] Wrenaria Antiesse: hi hi [09:27] Monica Marlo: Just sent TPs to Cooper and Ute [09:27] Monica Marlo: And wow, as if it isn't difficult enough to schedule this group! [09:27] Wrenaria Antiesse: I know, right? [09:27] Wrenaria Antiesse: oh well [09:27] Monica Marlo: Making 25 bucks a month for a sim on Reaction Grid look pretty tasty [09:28] Wrenaria Antiesse: yeah [09:28] Monica Marlo: How's finals week going Ruby? [09:28] Monica Marlo: so far so good? [09:28] Ruby Sol: pretty well so far :) [09:29] Monica Marlo: Oh so happy it's here. [09:29] Ruby Sol: yeah, a little break from those pesky students and instructors :) [09:29] Monica Marlo: Hi Cooper [09:29] Cooper Macbeth: Hi [09:30] Ruby Sol: hi cooper [09:30] Monica Marlo: Little chaos for your Monday morning. :) [09:30] Wrenaria Antiesse: :D [09:30] Cooper Macbeth: 3" of snow, dentist appt that I have to leave for in 10 minutes, the normal. [09:30] Wrenaria Antiesse: fun fun [09:31] Cooper Macbeth: How is Oregon these days? Windy, I hear. [09:31] Monica Marlo: So you're probably pretty happy to see the beginnings of spring with the time change. [09:31] Monica Marlo: Yeah, we've had some wind over the last couple of days. [09:31] Wrenaria Antiesse: be back in like 30 sec [09:31] Cooper Macbeth: Wed 67, and Thu 73. Yeah!!!!

(Logged out briefly to switch computers.)

[09:33] Ruby Sol: this place looks beautiful [09:33] Wrenaria Antiesse: thanks :) [09:33] Monica Marlo: really nice build! [09:33] Cooper Macbeth: I like the opensim Oregon shape. Heehee, Couldn't resist temporarily adding Mt. Hood and ranges. Easy to flatten back out. [09:33] Wrenaria Antiesse: nice! [09:33] Monica Marlo: HI Ute :) [09:33] Cooper Macbeth: There's Ute. [09:33] Cooper Macbeth: Ute, I confessed to Mt. Hood-ing. Heehee [09:34] Ute Frenburg: haha...hello everyone [09:34] Wrenaria Antiesse: good morning :) [09:34] Monica Marlo: Welllll, shoot. We can't even build items here for export to OpenSim. [09:34] Ruby Sol: howdy [09:34] Monica Marlo: Did you photo source from the MU Wren? [09:34] Wrenaria Antiesse: yes [09:34] Monica Marlo: nice [09:35] Monica Marlo: The fireplace- thought it looked really familiar [09:35] Wrenaria Antiesse: everything is custom texture from photosourcing and a lot of photoshopping [09:35] Ute Frenburg: The oregon sim is very nice! :-) [09:35] Cooper Macbeth: Snowglobe won't let you export but imprudence will. However, current login to Opensim doesn't allow imprudence viewer. Argh [09:36] Monica Marlo: Well, that brings up one thing we can talk about. Production pipeline. [09:36] Cooper Macbeth: Be nice to change the access so we could come in via imprudence or snowglobe, then we can import SL items. [09:37] Wrenaria Antiesse: the limitations in the iED opensim instance are pretty annoying [09:37] Monica Marlo: I think I was going to do a lot of building out in Blender and then import, so that I can keep the geometry free of any given platform, but I know that can be challenging, something easier for most stuff would be better [09:37] Monica Marlo: Hear hear. [09:37] Monica Marlo: (limitations in virtual spaces..... stink.) [09:37] Wrenaria Antiesse: indeed [09:38] Monica Marlo: The key here I think is whatever work we do we need to be able to keep the content interoperable.. if it's placed on the iED grid we'll want the freedom to place it elsewhere if need be too [09:38] Monica Marlo: Hi J! Crazy morning, huh? [09:38] Wainbrave Bernal: aiyeee [09:38] Cooper Macbeth: Hi Wainbrave. [09:38] Wainbrave Bernal: heya Coop [09:39] Wainbrave Bernal: hey everyone [09:39] Wrenaria Antiesse: hi :) [09:39] Wainbrave Bernal: nuts today [09:39] Wainbrave Bernal: final class in 20 minutes [09:39] Monica Marlo: must be finals week for most of us or something. [09:39] Monica Marlo: Well, sounds like we need a new Doodle. [09:39] Cooper Macbeth: Ute's going to take great notes as I have to leave for a dentist appt. She'll let you know what we did Friday and some issues we ran into. [09:39] Monica Marlo: (focused on the times we can actually use the Sim) [09:39] Wainbrave Bernal: article for Educause Review due today too [09:39] Wainbrave Bernal: sorry to interrupt [09:40] Monica Marlo: There's nothing to interrupt ;) [09:40] Wainbrave Bernal: have we build Virtual Oregon yet? :) [09:40] Monica Marlo: getting our avatars in one spot (hooray for the group being flexible!) has taken us most of the hour. We're still missing a few. [09:41] Wrenaria Antiesse: I shaped it like Oregon [09:41] Wainbrave Bernal: thanx Wren!!! [09:41] Wrenaria Antiesse: Coop added mountains [09:41] Ute Frenburg: Looks fantastic. Coop did a little mountaineering on Friday [09:41] Cooper Macbeth: They can easily be flattened. Couldn't resist. Heehee [09:41] Wrenaria Antiesse: there's a photo of the oregon shape on the front page of our wiki, Wainbrave [09:41] Wainbrave Bernal: wow - I'm so glad that Coop and Ute are "in" [09:41] Wainbrave Bernal: yay [09:42] Cooper Macbeth: Well I'm off to the dentist. Have fun. [09:42] Monica Marlo: Indeed! Have fun...? Cooper. [09:42] Ruby Sol: cya, coop [09:42] Wainbrave Bernal: you too, Cooper [09:42] Wrenaria Antiesse: speaking of the wiki [09:42] Monica Marlo: Maybe we need to post the times we can access on the wiki? [09:42] Monica Marlo: (speaking of) [09:43] Wrenaria Antiesse: I was wondering if we wanted to change the url from immersiveoregon2010.wikispaces.com to pixelmountain.wikispaces.com ? [09:43] Wainbrave Bernal: yes - I think it's Monday, Wednesday, Friday 11:00 to 6:00 [09:43] Wainbrave Bernal: should check the server calendar tho [09:43] Monica Marlo: I like the change. [09:43] Monica Marlo: Less date specific is good [09:43] Ute Frenburg: !"§$%&%$§"!___JA! GEIL! GEIL! GEEEEIIIILL!!!__ _ ENDLICH BIST DU WIEDER DA! :o WIE GEHTS DIR?_!"§$%&%$§"! [09:43] Ute Frenburg: - that's your time not SLT [09:43] Ute Frenburg: haha...oops sorry [09:43] Monica Marlo: LOL!!! [09:44] Wrenaria Antiesse: hehehe [09:44] Ute Frenburg: dang shortcuts [09:44] Ute Frenburg: :-) [09:44] Ute Frenburg: isn't it 10-5 PST? [09:44] Ruby Sol: i like sudden unintelligible outbursts! [09:44] Ruby Sol: :) [09:44] Ute Frenburg: That was german, btw [09:44] Wainbrave Bernal: oh - it might be - the google calendar might adjust for me [09:45] Monica Marlo: it IS on the wiki (blush) [09:45] Monica Marlo: <-- dork [09:45] Ute FrenburgUte Frenburg laughs [09:45] Wainbrave Bernal: and thereby mess up my communication strategy across time zones [09:45] Ruby Sol: i think it says 9am start in opensim is ok [09:45] Wainbrave Bernal: hee hee ahem [09:45] Ruby Sol: on the wiki [09:45] Monica Marlo: So what we really need (at least I do) is to shave my schedule needs down to have time. Likely something I share with the rest of you as a need. [09:45] Wainbrave Bernal: guh [09:45] Wrenaria Antiesse: well [09:46] Wainbrave Bernal: oof [09:46] Monica Marlo: it does [09:46] Wrenaria Antiesse: I think originally it was actually fine [09:46] Wrenaria Antiesse: but daylight savings [09:46] Wrenaria Antiesse: ... [09:46] Ruby Sol: yeah [09:46] Wrenaria Antiesse: gmt time doesnt account for that [09:46] Ruby Sol: oh right [09:46] Wrenaria Antiesse: and I forgot about it [09:46] Monica Marlo: sheesh, you thought about it in the first place. I didn't. ;) [09:46] Wainbrave Bernal: England takes another week before they go into their summer hours [09:46] Wrenaria Antiesse: i actually did check to make sure the times were fine with our slot [09:46] Wrenaria Antiesse: just spaced daylight savings [09:46] Wrenaria Antiesse: lol [09:46] Wainbrave Bernal: heh heh [09:47] Wainbrave Bernal: ok [09:47] Ute Frenburg: happens [09:47] Wainbrave Bernal: well, what are a few critical things that we should be sure to represent on Virtual Oregon? [09:47] Wainbrave Bernal: ~ our institutions [09:47] Wainbrave Bernal: ~ some animals [09:47] Wainbrave Bernal: ~ land forms [09:48] Wainbrave Bernal: ~ ? [09:48] Monica Marlo: We can help add indigenous flora and id tags for them from our Botany project. [09:48] Wainbrave Bernal: yeah! [09:48] Ute Frenburg: cool [09:49] Ute Frenburg: We put St. Helens on the map on Friday [09:49] Ute Frenburg: (made it smaller) [09:49] Monica Marlo: <-- wants Ute and Coop to work SubQuan into St Helens :) [09:49] Wainbrave Bernal: It would be cool to get a barebones description of what we'd see there - and be sure to figure out an active sense for what visitors could actually do when they come [09:49] Ute Frenburg: hmm....kk, can do [09:49] Monica Marlo: what if we make a sketch of the layout to share in Gdocs and roughly map it out? [09:49] Wainbrave Bernal: a treasure hunt / map matching game [09:50] Monica Marlo: take this fabulous pic on the wiki and import and mark it up? [09:50] Wainbrave Bernal: that would be a logical place to start, Monica - good idea [09:50] Wainbrave Bernal: great [09:50] Wainbrave Bernal: ok [09:50] Wainbrave Bernal: um [09:50] Monica Marlo: (will send link to doc shortly) [09:50] Wainbrave Bernal: sorry to dash in and dodge out [09:50] Wainbrave Bernal: but i gotta go to my Final class at Lane [09:50] Wainbrave Bernal: :) [09:51] Wainbrave Bernal: next meeting? [09:51] Wrenaria Antiesse: nah, you can skip [09:51] Wrenaria Antiesse: :p [09:51] Monica Marlo: Good luck!! [09:51] Ute Frenburg: good to see you, Wainbrave [09:51] Wainbrave Bernal: anytime to meet over Spring Break? [09:51] Wainbrave Bernal: really good to see you [09:51] Wainbrave Bernal: kk [09:51] Wainbrave Bernal: gotta blaze [09:51] Wrenaria Antiesse: bye wainbrave [09:51] Ute Frenburg: I'm available in there, monday or friday [09:51] Monica Marlo: Bye Wainbrave! [09:52] Ute Frenburg: I like the markup idea and using local flora/fauna [09:53] Monica Marlo: your gmail is ute.frenburg@gmail, right Ute? [09:53] Ute Frenburg: no dot [09:53] Monica Marlo: ah, got it [09:54] Monica Marlo: Ok, folks. Doc is up, add people at will. I don't have the whole list, just folks that were here [09:54] Monica Marlo: (and Jim, Gloria and Robin since I know their emails easily ;)) [09:54] Ute Frenburg: Bummer the pic is missing the red dots :-( [09:55] Ute Frenburg: Can we get a more updated pic? [09:55] Monica Marlo: this one can be subbed out once I can log in ;) [09:55] Monica Marlo: or anyone that gets to it. [09:55] Ute Frenburg: kk...cool [09:55] Monica Marlo: ok, I have a 10 AM I have to get logged in for. [09:56] Ute Frenburg: Thanks for figuring all this out guys. [09:56] Ruby Sol: thanks all [09:56] Monica Marlo: SOrry there were challenges this morning and we couldn't move forward quite yet.. it's just the world telling us we need a little more planning. (And that chaos will always win.) [09:56] Wrenaria Antiesse: :) [09:56] Ruby Sol: :) [09:56] Ute Frenburg: haha [09:56] Monica Marlo: :) Thank you Kimmy, everyone!! [09:56] Wrenaria Antiesse: thanks Moncia [09:56] Ute Frenburg: Yeah, thanks Kimmy for all your hard work! [09:56] Ruby Sol: see you all next time [09:56] Monica Marlo: Good luck with finals everyone [09:57] Ute Frenburg: You, too Monica!! [09:57] Ute Frenburg: See you! [09:58] Wrenaria Antiesse: thanks for being flexible with the last minute location switch [09:58] Wrenaria Antiesse: :D [09:58] Ute Frenburg: this was great agility practice. Sorta liked it. :-) [09:59] Ute Frenburg: Nice to know I can handle the stress of versatility! You are so on the ball with the back up! Thank you! [09:59] Ute Frenburg: See you soon! :-)