DI's Update

- I'd like to represent the island as a collection of opposing things: north south, east west, hi low, sand forest, old new, to create an interesting and rich environment where anything we can imagine has a place (futures institute could be a floating building, geology could be an ancient fossil on the beach).

- the compass metaphor with symbolic "campus building avatars" is a focal point, integrated with the flag and fountain symbolic of the current quad - but is NOT meant to be a duplicate of all the campuses. Based on his list we then begin to incorporate buildings that serve the necessary functionality, but do not attempt to replicate anything just for it's own sake, except perhaps the overcash building (which will symbolize central campus) and the statue in front of it.

-Immediate quick wins should be the gallery, the 4 other buildings i've agreed to purchase, and perhaps a number of the freebies we've collected, along with various plants, landscaping, etc... that we've already aquired.

-We have a planner/designer (Liam Kenno) who's eager to help and is looking at the big picture.

-Farhad is planning to work with 3 star students to put some things together. I hope to get online with them if they still plan to meet thursday night at 6. We will jump on the island as soon as we hear from them.

Farhad, if you can go ahead and meet, buzz me during the day and we can check my status as far as computer/skype setup - if we can skype and meet in SL, it'll be good practice. Also, i'd love to participate in the program chair meeting if you can do speaker phone - could you call me when you guys meet?

If you can get Antonio, Nick, etc.. to go on this, here are a few things we need on the more technical side:
- how to easily create scripts that get you from one sim to another (not a normal teleport- it must load the map, or window, and then the user choosed to teleport).
- how to apply a photo to an avatar (want to build zeiss' face, and maybe rod's and others)
- how to mimic the sculpture in fronnt of overcash- can maybe take photos from differnet angles and create with just 2 interlaced (Gary knows a bit about this)
- find some really cool building for the futures institute, and how to buy it with right to edit- and tweak for that purpose.
-anything else you can think of...

Jean, what you could really help with is a few specific things in second life- i'll lay out, and maybe you can call or reply by email with thoughts/questions.

We need art, digital, and lots of it. I'm hoping you can do the following:

contact elizabeth ross, and (gallery named after her) and explain what we are doing (she might remember me) and ask if we can have digital copies of her work. How much? Whatever she's willing to give us- but not less than 10 or 20 pieces. My intention is to name the gallery in SL after her, as it is here - and so want her work to start as the center.

Then, or in parralel, and maybe with her help, contact other art folks (start with director or whoever) and get some more art, and find digital copies of the student submitted artwork - if we can get each page as a jpg (jen in student services is connected to that, as is robert mungo, who i believe has a cpcc account) we can easily make books of them.

this all shouldn't take much time, but would be easy to get bogged down in- my target is to have 50+ pieces ready to work with - gary or I can give you money in SL to allow you to upload, or you can put the pix on a website we can access and we can upload them. Then we can start putting them in-world.

We also need headshots of all key players - zeiss, drumm, malik, rod, you, me, etc... anyone who is a key decision maker, or who may be interested. I'd like to get marj orell and david goble in on things (I think goble would look dapper as an avatar).

So that's a big priority, and would help us immensely if you could pursue it - the key is delivery.

Other things we need:
- a tall flagpole to match that of the quad
- a fountain like the quad one
- you to be familiar with all the teaching tools- search on thinc, check out NMC, join SLED, join SLOODLE, and check out the ITC (??) library.
- you to be familiar with how to get around, look at objects from all sides, zoom in and out, pan, etc... can all be had thru the tutorials.

That's what comes immediately to mind. I'm envisioning a multi-themed island, that goes from one extreme to the other- we have 4 pts on the compass, four seasonal themes, sea level to mountains, sand to forest, and in architecture old (ruins representing something like a roanoke era ship) to new (futures insitute).

d.i.