From: John Lam <drjflam@...>
Date: 2006-08-10T04:49:18+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyConf in Second Life?

I've got a response from the Linden folks. Each region (16 acre chunk
of land) is managed by 1 CPU, and the limit of avatars per region is
on the order of 50-60 (I believe the server limit in Wikipedia is
based on their current 2CPU per server configuration).

However, you can place the conference at the *intersection* of 4
regions, which can increase capacity up to 200+ in SL. They can rent
us a region at the rate of 3k Lindens per day (which is about $10 USD
on today's currency). So that works out to a cost of 4 * 10 * 3 days
or $120 to host 200 attendees in SL. I have no problem getting my
company (ObjectSharp) to kick in the funding for the space rental.

We could setup a registration page to limit the attendees in SL to a
capped limit. But that nearly doubles attendence assuming that we can
keep the number of real-life attendees in the SL space to a reasonable
limit.

Since this is rental of space, everything there will be torn down at
the end of the conference. But I think that's OK for the initial run
of this thing. Perhaps we could also get RubyCentral to buy some land
in SL so that the Ruby community can have a permanent presence in SL?

Thoughts?
-John
http://www.iunknown.com

> Sort of. I've heard about Second Life, but haven't really studied it.
> According to Wikipedia, Second Life tops out on a "private island" at
> 100 simultaneous users in the server. That means that of the 240
> attendees, only 100 could be there (if they wanted) -- and that
> external people would have even more problems.