From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2006-08-10T06:58:07+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyConf in Second Life?

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).

This sounds really cool ... but I have some questions

(1) I'm not sure what people are expecting.  Are you expecting attendees 
to be interacting with non-attendees during the course of the 
conference.  Remember that attendees will be fighting over limited 
wireless bandwidth and Obie's posting mentions "hefty bandwidth" 
requirements.  Given that, I wouldn't encourage attendees to be on SL.

(2) Wouldn't a live video webcast plus a conference IRC channel give 
much same experience with much lower bandwidth requirements?  Plus it 
would make it easier for attendees to interact (IRC has always been very 
active during the RubyConfs in the past).

As I said, the SL idea *sounds* cool, but I'm not sure what the 
advantages are.

-- Jim (willing to be educated) Weirich

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