Nov 9th, 2006 First SL Meeting

We did it! We had our first official meeting inside the Second Life world. On November 9, 2006, around 8:00 p.m., I initiated a Second Life meeting from my office. I called DI, who was in Massachusetts, through Skype and asked him to join me in Second Life. Soon thereafter, Jean, Nic, Alberto and several SGD students joined the meeting. Some were in their offices, others in the SGD lab. All attendees had headphones and were interconnected through Skpe, so they could talk to one another and interact with one another's avatars inside Second Life's 3D environment. Soon, we invited Cathy from USDU and Caroline and Ian from Nova Scotia, Canada. The meeting lasted for more than two hours. Attendees changed avetars and engaged in interesting actions/interactions. We all took turns leading the group on tours of the SL world through teleporting to the areas with which we were familiar.

Attendees: Farhad Javidi, DI vonBriesen, Jean Hardy, Ian MacLeod, Carolyn Campbell, Caroline Burrell, Cathy Arreguin, Alberto Botero, Nic Colley, Marc Tucker and several SGD students.

Audio Network: Skype