The transcript of last week's planning meeting for the Grand Opening (slightly edited) appears below, but here are the principal points:
- The Grand Opening is scheduled for Saturday, October 14
- It will consist of a "ribbon-cutting" event of some sort at mid-day, with a number of other events at various library locations taking place at other times during the day
- Concerns were expressed about the potential for lag resulting from having too many people on Info Island at the same time. The related potential problem is that people wanting to attend events realted to the Opening might not be able to get onto the island if there are too many people.
- In light of this, it was suggested that there be fewer events, and that they be spread over a two day period, starting Friday October 13, when there will be a mixed realith event happening on the island for much of the day.
- There was discussion about the possibility of having an evening event on the Friday night at Mystery Manor, to take advantage of the opportunity to use a Friday the 13th theme.
- A number of things are being planned for the Medical Library, but most are continuous displays rather than discrete events. There is, however, the possibility of inviting a speaker or two to gve presentations.
- It was noted that if we want to invite anyone special to speak or even simply to attend the event, that they should be contacted soon in order to ensure their availability.
- Gonzo Mandelbrot will look into the possibility of inviting Philip Linden (RL: Linden Labs CEO Philip Rosedale) to be part of the main ceremony.
- We will have to give some thought to having volunteers present to answer questions and to give tours throughout the day; we may want to plan on having special directional signage as well.
- The next meeting of the Grand Opening planning group is scheduled for Tuesday, September 12 at 5:00 pm SL time.
- In the meantime, anyone with ideas, comments or suggestions should contact Gonzo Mandelbrot, either through the Google group, on the Drupal site, or by email to gonzoman@videotron.ca.
Grand Opening Planning Meeting
Transcript - August 30, 2006
[16:58] Lorelei Junot: the grand opening meeting lead by Gonzo Mandelbrot is about to start in the main library. Let me know if you need a tp
17:01] Gonzo Mandelbrot: Did everyone get my notecard with the agenda?
[17:01] Carolina Keats: yes, thanks
[17:02] Gonzo Mandelbrot: I think we should get started... there's another meeting here in an hour
[17:02] JJ Drinkwater: I don't think I did
[17:02] Carolina Keats: gee, just like rl!
[17:02] Lorelei Junot accepted your inventory offer.
[17:02] JJ Drinkwater accepted your inventory offer.
[17:02] JJ Drinkwater: Thanks Gonzo
[17:03] Gonzo Mandelbrot: Did anyone else need the agenda?
[17:03] Franja Russell: Agenda?
[17:03] Gerrick Gordimer: Gonzo I do
[17:03] Franja Russell accepted your inventory offer.
[17:03] Gerrick Gordimer accepted your inventory offer.
[17:03] Gerrick Gordimer: thx
[17:03] Franja Russell: Thank you.
[17:04] Gonzo Mandelbrot: I wanted to start with a quick recap of what we've done so far
[17:04] Gonzo Mandelbrot: We had originally started talking about a Grand Opening back in... May?
[17:05] Gonzo Mandelbrot: But it was early July by the time I was tasked with organizing it
[17:05] Gonzo Mandelbrot: I was able to meet with several people from different depts on the island, and I established the Planning Group to coordinate things
[17:06] Gonzo Mandelbrot: We had originally wanted the Opening to happen.. well, about now...
[17:06] Gonzo Mandelbrot: but that was too close to organize in the middle of the summer
[17:06] Gonzo Mandelbrot: The targte date is now Saturday Oct. 14
[17:06] Gonzo Mandelbrot: Lori, anything to add to that synopsis?
[17:06] Lorelei Junot: no sounds exactly on so far :)
[17:07] Gonzo Mandelbrot: Any question up to that point?
[17:07] Gerrick Gordimer: nope sounds good
[17:07] Gonzo Mandelbrot: Okay, so on to item 2, the general concept
[17:08] Gonzo Mandelbrot: What we're thinking in terms of is an all-day event with activities happening at various times in various places around the island
[17:08] Gonzo Mandelbrot: With the agenda I included my first crack at a schedule...
[17:09] JJ Drinkwater: As it happens, it's also William Penn's birthday
[17:09] Gonzo Mandelbrot: It's right after the agenda in the notecard
[17:09] Gonzo Mandelbrot: My vision at this point -- and everything's up for discussion -- is to start the day in Caledon
[17:10] Gonzo Mandelbrot: The Caledon event would be followed by an event to open Info Island....
[17:10] Gonzo Mandelbrot: essentially the opening of an information and celebration point in a central location
[17:10] Gonzo Mandelbrot: After that I thought we could move to the Med Library...
[17:11] Gonzo Mandelbrot: I wanted to time that early so that Namro could participate easily from the Netherlands
[17:11] Carolina Keats: good idea. he does intend to be here
[17:11] Franja Russell: Excuse me, you might be covering this later but, I scrolled down to the times of various events on the 14th. I don't understand the times. Are you using a 24 hour clock?
[17:12] Gonzo Mandelbrot: I left a couple of open slots before the Noon SL Ribbon-cutting
[17:12] Gonzo Mandelbrot: The times on th notecard are SL Time, EDT, and the Netherlands
[17:12] Gonzo Mandelbrot: So we start at 10 a.m. eastern time
[17:13] Franja Russell: I saw that, but ... are times like 13 to 23 for a 24 hour clock of some kind?
[17:13] Carolina Keats: yes
[17:13] Franja Russell: Thanks.
[17:13] Gonzo Mandelbrot: The ribbbon cutting would be at noon SL time, 3 pm eastern or 9 pm Europe... using the 24-hour clock
[17:14] Gonzo Mandelbrot: After that I've left a series of blank hours to be filled in before the 5 pm SL Mystery Manor bit
[17:14] Gerrick Gordimer: I have a question...does each of these events take an hour?
[17:14] Carolina Keats: so you envision this as a sort of grand tour?
[17:14] Gonzo Mandelbrot: I had understood that there was to be some kind of creepy aspect to their piece
[17:15] Carolina Keats: :) cool
[17:15] Gonzo Mandelbrot: I have set aside an hour for each area, but what happens at a given location doesn't have to take an hour
[17:15] Lorelei Junot: Gonzo will there be ongoing tours through the day too?
[17:15] JJ Drinkwater: Padding time, for people to wander around and explore, is a really good idea
[17:15] Gonzo Mandelbrot: The idea is to move people around to all the different places on the island
[17:16] Abbey Zenith: We have to be aware that we cannot have more than 40 or so on the island at once though...we will bog down.
[17:16] Gonzo Mandelbrot: I don't thinlk any given event should be planned to last more than a half-hour or so
[17:16] Lorelei Junot: right we had 60 for Tech Soup
[17:16] Lorelei Junot: and it was very laggy
[17:16] Lorelei Junot: right now we have it set for a max of 60 but we could lower it
[17:16] Abbey Zenith: ok
[17:17] Gonzo Mandelbrot: The lag factor is why we'll need different kinds of events throughout the day
[17:17] Gonzo Mandelbrot: Not everyone will want to go to everything or stay all day long
[17:17] Abbey Zenith: yes
[17:17] Gonzo Mandelbrot: We do run the risk of being too successful for our own good
[17:18] Gonzo Mandelbrot: In addition to the scheduled events, I also propose we have some central activities
[17:18] Gonzo Mandelbrot: That's where island tours, for instance, wpould come in to play
[17:18] Gonzo Mandelbrot: We had also talked about trying to have fun giveaways throughout the day
[17:19] Gonzo Mandelbrot: How does that overall concept sound, keeping in mind that specific scheduling can always be adjusted?
[17:20] Abbey Zenith: sounds great!
[17:20] Gerrick Gordimer: sounds good!
[17:20] Carolina Keats: very nice
[17:20] JJ Drinkwater: It sounds good
[17:20] JJ Drinkwater: How about some live music to fill in some time?
[17:20] Franja Russell: Excuse me, there was an event I was trying to get to last week. For about 40 minutes a blue card kept coming up on my screen saying the sim was full, try later. That's kind of discouraging.
[17:21] Gonzo Mandelbrot: That's a real risk we'll be running here too, Franja
[17:21] Franja Russell: If you limit the sim to as few as 30 to 40, will people keep trying to get here?
[17:21] Lorelei Junot: We want to focus on info island I
[17:21] Lorelei Junot: but we could have some fun events on II
[17:21] Carolina Keats: so do we invite & ask for rsvp?
[17:22] Gonzo Mandelbrot: Live music in the central quad might be a good draw
[17:22] Abbey Zenith: we'll be making announcements, right Lori, Gonzo? So it is hard to tell the numbers we will get.
[17:22] Max Batra: is the limit for both islands or do each have a limit
[17:22] Gonzo Mandelbrot: We have our club now too
[17:22] Carolina Keats: plus - when we limit to 40, does that include infoisland staff?
[17:22] Abbey Zenith: yes Carolina
[17:22] Carolina Keats: eek
[17:22] Gonzo Mandelbrot: The limit is all avatars
[17:22] JJ Drinkwater: That's a concern, then
[17:22] Gonzo Mandelbrot: and advance publicity will pull in at least some people
[17:22] JJ Drinkwater: I can easily see 20 librarians here!
[17:23] Max Batra: both islands or are each separate
[17:23] Carolina Keats: that's what I mean
[17:23] Gerrick Gordimer: but not everyone is going to come to all events; it is spread over a good period of time
[17:23] Gonzo Mandelbrot: I don't know how many denizens of SL will be itching to come to a library
[17:23] Carolina Keats: what if we had 2 tours - morning and afternoon?
[17:23] JJ Drinkwater: What if we spread the events out more, to make sure people come & go
[17:23] Abbey Zenith: I think it will be important to make sure the staff only comes when scheduled, no matter how much they want to come to others... tough I know, some of us will want to be here all day!
[17:23] JJ Drinkwater: Schedule one every *other* hour?
[17:23] Lorelei Junot: Abbey, I think that is true
[17:23] Lorelei Junot: get a group of staff for each event
[17:23] Gonzo Mandelbrot: Did anyone here go to the Suzanne Vega concert?
[17:24] Carolina Keats: what if grand opening took place over a week, with special events (after a ribbon cutting or whatever)?
[17:24] Gonzo Mandelbrot: I wonder how many people they had attending that
[17:24] Carolina Keats: no
[17:24] JJ Drinkwater: I was wondering what's done about large events elsewhere
[17:25] Gonzo Mandelbrot: I'll be able to ask the guy who organized the Suzanne vega concert.... I'm meeting him on other business on Friday
[17:25] Gonzo Mandelbrot: To go back to an earlier question... do we want to spread this over more than one day to reduce the risk of lag?
[17:25] JJ Drinkwater: That actually sounds pretty good
[17:26] Max Batra: duplicate events on both days?
[17:26] Carolina Keats: or special events throughout teh week - speakers, celebrations, music
[17:26] Carolina Keats: training sessions
[17:26] Franja Russell: Carolina's idea of spreading out the opening events makes sense.
[17:26] Carolina Keats: it could be mystery day, eg
[17:27] Lorelei Junot: you guys
[17:27] Lorelei Junot: another thing is that all day October 13
[17:27] Lorelei Junot: we will be having a mixed reality event
[17:27] Lorelei Junot: on libraries and virtual worlds
[17:27] Lorelei Junot: in real life and here on the island
[17:27] Lorelei Junot: that will be a large event too
[17:27] Carolina Keats: oh cool, Lori - I'd like to know more about that
[17:27] Lorelei Junot: do you want to consider starting Friday night and into Saturday
[17:27] Carolina Keats: perfect kickoff
[17:27] Lorelei Junot: instead of Sat. and Sun
[17:27] Lorelei Junot: or Sat. and Sun
[17:27] Lorelei Junot: I don't care
[17:27] Lorelei Junot: it is up to you
[17:28] Lorelei Junot: you just need to know about that event
[17:28] Franja Russell: At least using both Saturday and Sunday would help the people who have standing committments for one or the other day.
[17:28] Gonzo Mandelbrot: We targeted Oct 14 specifically because of the event on the 13th
[17:28] Carolina Keats: my concern (selfishly!) is that I cannot be here all day..
[17:28] Franja Russell: Friday through to Sunday is what would help me.
[17:29] Carolina Keats: but our staffing is really limited
[17:29] Abbey Zenith: I think two days at most, unless we have one specific event each night during the week before.
[17:29] Lorelei Junot: I think one good day of events would be better
[17:29] Lorelei Junot: I know after Friday
[17:29] Gonzo Mandelbrot: I would still tend towards a formal opening ceremony mid-day on the 14th
[17:29] Lorelei Junot: I am going to be pushing it Saturday for one day of event
[17:30] Gonzo Mandelbrot: But the idea of a slow build to the main event is not necessarly a bad idea
[17:30] Lorelei Junot: ok
[17:30] Carolina Keats: I'm open :)
[17:30] Gonzo Mandelbrot: Trying to do it in one day the way I've conceived it will be very demanding
[17:31] Gonzo Mandelbrot: Lori, the event on the 13th is at what time?
[17:31] Lorelei Junot: from 9 a.m. central to 3:30 pm central
[17:31] Gonzo Mandelbrot: So we could do an evening event on the Friday
[17:32] Gonzo Mandelbrot: That might be a good time to do something like a concert
[17:32] Gonzo Mandelbrot: Or whatever is planned at Mystery Manor... it being Friday the 13th
[17:32] Carolina Keats: oh yeah
[17:32] Abbey Zenith: ooo
[17:32] Gonzo Mandelbrot: Max and Jenna, what were you thinking of doing?
[17:33] Jenna Darrow: we haven't made any specific plans
[17:33] Jenna Darrow: we wanted to see what everyone wanted
[17:34] Max Batra: Well, at the base level, a new exhibit
[17:34] Jenna Darrow: we have talked about a haunted house theme
[17:34] Gonzo Mandelbrot: A fun interactive event on a Friday the 13th theme might be a real draw
[17:34] Max Batra: also, Jenna and I have been working on learning how to publish so I'm hoping for something original
[17:34] Carolina Keats: perhaps a reading?
[17:35] Max Batra: are we going to do skype
[17:35] Gonzo Mandelbrot: How about something like an evening with Edgar Allen Poe... like the Henry VIII thing
[17:35] Jenna Darrow: should we plan for our part to last the full hour?
[17:35] Max Batra: I was planning to get a raven to sit on my shoulder
[17:36] Carolina Keats: repro of the pit and the pendulum
[17:36] Gonzo Mandelbrot: Seal somebody into a wall
[17:36] Carolina Keats: sound of a beating heart
[17:36] Carolina Keats: the monster mash :)
[17:36] Abbey Zenith: Can anyone "do" Poe?
[17:36] Carolina Keats: do?
[17:37] JJ Drinkwater: We can toast with amontillado
[17:37] Max Batra: Like Henry VIII. play
[17:37] Abbey Zenith: Reenact the character
[17:37] Franja Russell: What's a skype?
[17:37] Jenna Darrow: someone mentioned having everyone come in some sort of costume
[17:37] Max Batra: skype = voice over IP
[17:37] JJ Drinkwater: Black on black
[17:37] Carolina Keats: franj, web-based phone thing
[17:37] JJ Drinkwater: It will certainly draw the Goth crowd
[17:37] Jenna Darrow: we could do all black
[17:38] JJ Drinkwater: I wonder if there's a Lit professor in one of the universities that have an SL presence...who would do Poe
[17:38] Jenna Darrow: if anybody has further ideas for us please contact Max or me
[17:38] Gonzo Mandelbrot: Well, let's leave you guys some time to start thinking about what you could do and come back to this at our next mtg.
[17:39] Abbey Zenith: I was thinking that too JJ... we could ask on the SLED list.
[17:39] Gonzo Mandelbrot: I like the idea of starting the celebration on Friday and then continuing on Saturday
[17:39] JJ Drinkwater: I think, besides introducing the library, Caledon will highlight stuff that happened on that day...whatever it is
[17:39] JJ Drinkwater: Maybe only 19th C & earlier
[17:40] Gonzo Mandelbrot: How much traffic does the Caledon library get?
[17:40] JJ Drinkwater: Not much, yet
[17:40] JJ Drinkwater: But we're about to get a bigger library
[17:40] Gonzo Mandelbrot: Do you have any ongoing activities planned... readings, lectures, etc?
[17:40] Maxito Ricardo: Any idea when the new Caledon library will be ready?
[17:41] JJ Drinkwater: And I've been in & out of town so much I've hardly done anything there yet
[17:41] Maxito Ricardo: I'll be leading a book discussion of the novel Hard Times
[17:41] Maxito Ricardo: Hopefully it will evolve into a series of discussions
[17:41] JJ Drinkwater: I was planning on having Maxito's event being our first one
[17:41] Gonzo Mandelbrot: So that would likely be happening well before the "Opening event
[17:42] Gonzo Mandelbrot: What about the Med Library?
[17:42] JJ Drinkwater: No, it's october 19th...tentatively
[17:42] Gonzo Mandelbrot: Oh, perfect!
[17:42] Maxito Ricardo: We need to give people time to read or re-read the novel
[17:42] Carolina Keats: for the med library, we have a number of thoughts
[17:42] Gonzo Mandelbrot: The Grand Opening could promote the upcoming event at Caledon then
[17:43] Maxito Ricardo: yes, it may be good timing
[17:43] Gonzo Mandelbrot: Sorry Carolina... what ideas have you had?
[17:43] JJ Drinkwater: I need to talk to our patroness about when the library will be ready
[17:43] Carolina Keats: an historic image display from nlm, the unveiling & demo of pubmed access, notecards for consumer health
[17:43] Maxito Ricardo: great
[17:43] JJ Drinkwater: Will you wear a lab coat?
[17:44] JJ Drinkwater: Scrubs?
[17:44] Gonzo Mandelbrot: So most of the things you'd be doing would be ongoing all day rather than single events
[17:44] Carolina Keats: and maybe, a talk by moriz gupte, who is working on bioterrorism sims - he has stuff prepared already and it will help to intro our plan to have
[17:44] Gonzo Mandelbrot: That sounds great!
[17:44] Carolina Keats: a collection /display of med research focused on sl and other virtual communities
[17:45] Carolina Keats: haven't talked to moriz yet about doing a talk, but he has agreed to display
[17:45] JJ Drinkwater: Can I make a suggestion, Carolina?
[17:45] Carolina Keats: of course
[17:45] Gonzo Mandelbrot: It would be good to have at least one or two speakers during the course of the day
[17:45] JJ Drinkwater: One potential health issue all SL folk have in common is....
[17:46] JJ Drinkwater: ...sitting at a computer for hours
[17:46] Carolina Keats: carpal tunnel?
[17:46] Maxito Ricardo: eye fatigue?
[17:46] Jenna Darrow: gaming addiction....lol
[17:46] Carolina Keats: mm, ergonomics, armchair exercises, yes - eye fatigue
[17:46] Maxito Ricardo: split personality?
[17:46] Carolina Keats: hehe
[17:46] JJ Drinkwater: Not a serious medical condition, but something on ergonomics might be appreciated
[17:46] Carolina Keats: great idea
[17:47] Carolina Keats: I can develop notecards on that easily
[17:47] JJ Drinkwater: Hey, we like our split personality!
[17:47] Gonzo Mandelbrot: Are there any other island departments represented here?
[17:47] Carolina Keats: and maybe visual display
[17:47] Maxito Ricardo: Do we want to highlight the virtual ref service in some way, or did you already discuss that?
[17:47] JJ Drinkwater: A timer that pops up a display every 15 minutes that says "Stand up and stretch...no, in REAL life!"
[17:47] Gonzo Mandelbrot: We haven't discussed VR yet
[17:48] Gonzo Mandelbrot: Any thoughts?
[17:48] Maxito Ricardo: Maybe we should try to staff the desk most of the hours during the grand opening
[17:48] Abbey Zenith: yes at least one staff
[17:49] Carolina Keats: in all the libraries?
[17:49] JJ Drinkwater: That's something librarians could do without being on the island, too
[17:49] Gonzo Mandelbrot: I had suggested to Michael the notion of doing some kind of trivia game or trivia scavenger hunt
[17:49] Maxito Ricardo: We could demo the various ref resources available
[17:49] JJ Drinkwater: Be available via QP
[17:49] Carolina Keats: we were thinking more of demos since things may not be fully developed yet
[17:49] Franja Russell: ?? QP ??
[17:49] Maxito Ricardo: QuestionPoint
[17:49] Maxito Ricardo: from OCLC
[17:49] Carolina Keats: virtual ref
[17:49] Franja Russell: What's that?
[17:50] Maxito Ricardo: A virtual reference system from OCLC
[17:50] JJ Drinkwater: Franja -- questionpoint.org
[17:50] Franja Russell: That's a website, I guess.
[17:51] Gonzo Mandelbrot: We will need to give some thought to staffing various points on the island throughout the day
[17:51] Gonzo Mandelbrot: Not just ref, but the other areas as well
[17:51] Franja Russell: I don't understand how you can be in SL at a library desk, but not be there because you're on a second Internet link of some kind.
[17:52] Maxito Ricardo: yea, just have some folks wandering around and trying to be helpful
[17:52] Teleporter Beam whispers: Materializing Michael Maitland from pattern buffer...
[17:52] Teleporter Beam whispers: Transport successful.
[17:52] Gonzo Mandelbrot: Lori, are we continuing to draw new library friends?
[17:52] Michael Maitland: Sorry I am late :)
[17:52] Carolina Keats: hi michael
[17:53] Gonzo Mandelbrot: The friends might be a good source of volunteers for the opening day
[17:53] Abbey Zenith: YEs Gonzo
[17:54] Gonzo Mandelbrot: What about the "ribbon cutting" event... any thoughts about that?
[17:54] Carolina Keats: seems like special attention needs to be paid to signage and notecards so that less staffing is needed after the main events
[17:54] Gonzo Mandelbrot: I agree about the signage, but that should be part of the standard island setup...
[17:55] Gonzo Mandelbrot: I'd suggest having notecard givers in every building sign
[17:55] Maxito Ricardo: Are fireworks possible in SL?
[17:55] Maxito Ricardo: For the ribbon cutting moment?
[17:55] Lorelei Junot: My boss and president of our board will want to do some introductions
[17:55] Lorelei Junot: do we want to invite Pathfinder too
[17:55] Michael Maitland: You can have particle displays which are much like RL fireworks
[17:55] Maxito Ricardo: Yes, it would be good to have Pathfinder represent Lindon
[17:55] Franja Russell: I've seen fireworks in SL...on Dreams Island. You can ask The Sojourner who orchestrated it.
[17:55] Abbey Zenith: Yes!
[17:56] Carolina Keats: for that day, thought there might be special signage - this way to the med lib, or 'come to the talk on ... at the caledon library'
[17:56] Gonzo Mandelbrot: I was thinking of having the senior Linden play a part
[17:56] Carolina Keats: ooh, yes, for the ceremony
[17:56] Carolina Keats: that would be lovely
[17:57] Gonzo Mandelbrot: The closest thing SL has to a President or Monarch is the head of Linden Labs
[17:57] Maxito Ricardo: Grand Poobah
[17:57] Gonzo Mandelbrot: That's Gilbert & Sullivan lol
[17:58] Gonzo Mandelbrot: If we go that direction, I'd want The Mikado
[17:58] Maxito Ricardo: If you want to know who we are....
[17:58] Maxito Ricardo: We are avatars of SLL
[17:58] Gonzo Mandelbrot: We'd better move on before we start populating Ko-Ko's list
[17:58] Lorelei Junot: do you want to see if you can get Philip Linden Gonzo
[17:59] Gonzo Mandelbrot: I can check into that
[17:59] Gonzo Mandelbrot: I'd guess that he'd be happy to do it
[18:00] JJ Drinkwater: In his capacity as Lord High Everything Else
[18:00] Gonzo Mandelbrot: Lori, will you or someone from your org. want to handle the scripting of the ribbon-cutting event?
[18:00] Gonzo Mandelbrot: I mean the scenario, but I guess we'd also need LSL-scripted scissors
[18:00] JJ Drinkwater: Heh
[18:01] JJ Drinkwater: Giant ones, for the giant ribbon on the main building
[18:01] Maxito Ricardo: yea, just an order of events and welcome speakers
[18:01] Gonzo Mandelbrot: It's 6 pm and I believe there's another mtg scheduled here now
[18:01] Lorelei Junot: yes we will
[18:01] Gonzo Mandelbrot: When do we want to get together again?
[18:01] Lorelei Junot: We have a vr meeting at this time
[18:01] Lorelei Junot: should those of that just meet somewhere else
[18:02] Lorelei Junot: and let Gonzo continue in here
[18:02] Lorelei Junot: I hate to miss out
[18:02] Abbey Zenith: we'll need to meet more often as we get closer...
[18:02] Gonzo Mandelbrot: I'm not sure how much more we need to do on the Opening here tonight
[18:02] Gonzo Mandelbrot: I'd suggest another meeting in a couple of weeks time
[18:02] Lorelei Junot: I think if we want any special speakers or programs
[18:02] Carolina Keats: is there somewhere the decisons can be tracked & accessed, like a wiki?
[18:03] Lorelei Junot: we should contact them as their calendars lineup quickly
[18:03] Gonzo Mandelbrot: Good point, Lori
[18:03] Lorelei Junot: do you want anyone besides PHilip Linden
[18:03] Lorelei Junot: is there a celebrity we could get?
[18:03] Gonzo Mandelbrot: I'm going to start using the drupal site to keep track of developments
[18:03] Maxito Ricardo: How about Larry Pixel from NMC
[18:03] Carolina Keats: good
[18:03] Lorelei Junot: he would probably come too
[18:04] Gonzo Mandelbrot: Does anyone here listen to Secondcast?
[18:04] Lorelei Junot: some of the medical communities Carolina?
[18:04] Michael Maitland: I do
[18:04] Cerulean Vesperia: I listen to secondcast
[18:04] Carolina Keats: yes, I was thinking about sojourner
[18:04] Gonzo Mandelbrot: Johnny Ming et. al. might be willing to come
[18:04] Lorelei Junot: should we send ideas to you Gonzo
[18:04] Lorelei Junot: and you will send out a draft schedule
[18:04] Lorelei Junot: thanks for coordinating this
[18:04] Lorelei Junot: you are doing a great job
[18:05] Gonzo Mandelbrot: Yes, anybody who has ideas about anything should sendthem to me and/or post them on the drupal site... under marketing
[18:05] Carolina Keats: by the way, they have some amazing educational posters (about sl buiding skills) at sojourner's area
[18:05] Gonzo Mandelbrot: I'd like to suggest we meet again on Sept. 12 (Tuesday) at 5 pm SL
[18:05] Gonzo Mandelbrot: I won't be available on WED. OR Thurs. that week
[18:05] Carolina Keats: should be fine
[18:06] JJ Drinkwater: Iffy for me, but I'll come if I can
[18:06] Gonzo Mandelbrot: As Lori did with the general meeting, I'll put together a recap of this meeting and post the transcript
[18:06] Lorelei Junot: Cerulan did that - thank you Cerulean
[18:06] Lorelei Junot: I forgot to save the transcript lol
[18:07] Gonzo Mandelbrot: I'll also put together a list of to-do's/assignments
[18:07] Carolina Keats: appreciate that very much, cerulean
[18:07] Carolina Keats: ty, gonzo
[18:07] Cerulean Vesperia: oh, you're welcome!
[18:07] Gerrick Gordimer: thanks so much Gonzo!!!!
[18:07] Gonzo Mandelbrot: I think that's it for now!
[18:08] Carolina Keats: it's sounding great!
[18:08] Gonzo Mandelbrot: Thank you all for coming
[18:08] Cerulean Vesperia: I thought it we had volunteer opportunities at the beginning, people might pick small projects to help with.
[18:08] Carolina Keats: be well, all
[18:08] Franja Russell: Bye. Take care.
[18:08] Carolina Keats: mm, good idea
[18:08] JJ Drinkwater: See you later, carolina
[18:08] Carolina Keats: franja, you got a minute?
[18:09] Maxito Ricardo: Okay, let's morph this mtg into a discussion of the upcoming VR service
[18:09] Gonzo Mandelbrot: I'll head outside and leave the VR folks to their meeting
[18:09] JJ Drinkwater: I need to go, too
[18:09] Lorelei Junot: thank you Gonzo
[18:09] JJ Drinkwater: Goodnight, all
[18:09] Gonzo Mandelbrot: I'll be around for a few minutes more outside
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