From: Charles O Nutter Date: 2006-08-10T05:21:14+09:00 Subject: Re: RubyConf in Second Life? ------=_Part_36873_15114260.1155154870622 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Well, wouldn't it just be better to ask the Rubyists of Second Life if we can use their space? They have a 4-parcel island already available for Ruby meetings and conferences with seating and facilities built and ready to go. BTW, there's also pricin for nonprofits on parcels of land; I believe the folks hosting RoSL paid only about $150/parcel, far cheaper than the $1250 it normally costs. On 8/9/06, John Lam wrote: > > 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. > > -- Contribute to RubySpec! @ www.headius.com/rubyspec Charles Oliver Nutter @ headius.blogspot.com Ruby User @ ruby.mn JRuby Developer @ www.jruby.org Application Architect @ www.ventera.com ------=_Part_36873_15114260.1155154870622--