Alliance mission and priorities

Alliance mission and priorities

Victoria Coleman 1193354463|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Hi,

It seems that the group has been a little quiet during my absence so I thought it’s time to stir things up a bit! J Let me put forward some suggestions regarding the questions I posed below:

Mission statement

n Work together to enable the successful adoption of open and interoperable virtual world technologies by:

n Developing open standards to support interoperable virtual worlds based on existing open standards

n Promoting open standards and protocols to support interoperable virtual worlds

n Driving industry adoption of standards into a range of device types

Organizational structure

n Steering Committee

n Working Groups

n Formal development process

n Task Forces

n Free membership (to begin with)

n Members agreement

Priority tasks

n Identify interoperability goals between worlds (content, identity, applications?)

n Identify existing standards addressing the above goals as well as gaps

n Define the virtual world “stack” (architecture and layers)

n Define a virtual world interoperability alliance marketing strategy

Does this sound like a reasonable start? I think it would be cool to meet in world to discuss this further. We can meet at our SL lab which is a private space – please let Mithun Sheshagiri have your avatar names so that he can give you access permission and coordinates. I would like to suggest October 30th, at 10am Pacific – this seems the time that would accommodate most folks on this list in terms of time zones.

As we move forward, we should probably establish an in world space for people to come together and continue the conversation and we should also try and connect this thread/space to the wiki that Peter has set up (http://vwinterop.wikidot.com/).

Please feel free to forward this invitation to other people that participated in the Oct 9th meeting and who would like to take part in the discussion. Looking forward to seeing you all in world,

Victoria (aka Niki Cohen)

Re: Alliance mission and priorities

Tony Parisi 1193684680|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Victoria

Any confirmation of this meeting time in SL?

My SL avatar name is Alien Greenspan. I will try to make the 10AMPDT on 10/30

Re: Alliance mission and priorities

pinfold 1193896424|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

The SC Conference which convenes in Reno next month is in its 19th year. It is the premier technical conference for high performance computing, networking, storage, and analysis. In addition to hosting almost 10,000 attendees each November, the SC community is active throughout the year in activities that include 1) evaluating papers and tutorials 2) outreach and education of the next generation of participants, 3) organizing conference activities, and 4) identifying future conference direction and priorities.
Visualization is an important tool for this community not only for understanding complex mathematical models, but also for education, and communication. Combined with other social networking services it offers opportunities for community building and outreach. You can see some of the SC communities visualization work on YouTube.
As general chair of SC09, scheduled to convene in November 2009 in Portland, we are interested in developing a 3D web presence that will support these scientific, educational and community activities.
We will be meeting at the conference on Tuesday 13th November to discuss this 3D web presence. If you are interested in participating or would like to be kept informed of developments please send me your email contact information and I will send you room and time information.
Wilf

Wilfred Pinfold
General Chair SC09

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