Re: [Linux-aus] In the news today

["Kelly Daly" <kelly@somewoman.com>]

hey Marco,

glad you brought this up  =)

there's a few locations around secondlife where the LCA08 penguin is already out and about and visible from the maps  =)

Donna and her partner both have secondlife accounts, and doing something for LCA08 is definitely under discussion.  The Australian Open build by IBM mentioned briefly within that article was actually built by two of the people on the organising committee (or flying monkeys) for LCA08 - so it's looking strongly as if we may have something running there (please, Donna, please!!).  We certainly have the enthusiasm, if not the time!

I'd personally like to see something bigger than LCA - I for one would be very excited to see Linux Australia gain a presence within secondlife.

If you're keen on helping out or pushing some ideas for this, please let me know.  We're keen on doing what we can to get a strong open source presence in there - should be easier now that the client has been GPLd, and hopefully easier again if/when they GPL the server (as they claim they want to).

btw - thx for the warnings re. the Rome district - think i'll avoid it  =)

Regards,
Kelly

On 1/30/07, Marco Ostini < m.ostini@uq.edu.au> wrote:

Hi All,

> It's the 'Cover Story' for today's Next Section in the Business Pages.
> (P7) but it doesn't seem to be appearing at http://next.theage.com.au/
>
> The main article is headlined as "Opening Minds in the Office" and
> continues on page 10 with callouts on ODF and Developing for OOo.

While looking for the above article online I came across this story instead:

"Australians in virtual world stampede"
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/01/30/1169919283914.html

Last night when exploring the lovely "Rome" district in second Life I was
horrified to discover that most of the public places were covered with
advertising for the immanent MS Vista release. Then upon arriving in the
main square I was further dismayed to see that MS had a huge stage set up
with all kinds of eye candy ready for the big launch.

A quick search for Linux & FOSS related material in SL didn't reveal much.

Would it just be a 'knee jerk' reaction to set up an LA / linux.conf.au
presence, or are we missing an important opportunity to evangelise and
provide a counter argument to the Vista hype?

Granted the Linux Second Life client is in early development, but it's
certainly usable in my experience.

Given that it need not cost us any significant funds, but some time and
skill of our community, should we make an effort to be heard in Second
Life, and soon?

Cheers,
Marco
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