IEA Leadership Meeting: October 21, 2003

Attending: Bonnie DeVarco (Hypatia), Patrick McKertcher (Patrick M),Alan Lai Chi Kong (HK AlaanLai), Rathish Balakrishnan (“rathish”), Rudiger Stiebitz (cybernaut), Susan Katarzis (Susan K), Larissa Gontjarow (Zola), Rafael Cecconello (Rafael C), Julie Chisholm (Dr. Chisholm), Richard Giles (Rich), Mark Arnold (Markus)

 

 

Chat Log (complete – key points underlined)

 

Rafael C:              hi mark

Rafael C:              i had arrange a meeting with a Senior adviser of OEA for next week

Markus:                Hi Rafael

Markus:                Please see if the babelfish translations are working

Rafael C:              great

Rafael C:              ok but i want to make some comments for today

Rafael C:              1 - Count on me for the Spanish contents for the website

Markus:                check :-)

Rafael C:              2- I can serve for the Spanish speaker at the summit

Rafael C:              I need the requirements and elements to be displayed for the exhibition display to tell Universia

Markus:                I will send that information with the chat log

Rafael C:              My invites will be Universia and OEA

Rafael C:              At the pre-summit I can help Spanish users

Rafael C:              that’s it

Markus:                great

Markus:                I will pass this on at the meeting and also talk with Rich about it in regards to setting you up to help with the workshops

Markus:                I just put a link that will open a Spanish version of the site

Markus:                open the Spanish version and then look for the tutorial links on that page

Rafael C:              but using babelfish for the translations is poor for technical references for installing AWEDU

Markus:                ok...then I will replace those with the ones you sent....I have them ready anyway

Rafael C:              sorry for today I would love to be here

Rafael C:              see u

Markus:                see you

Markus:                Hello gang

Markus:                Rathish do you have an image we could add

Markus:                We will wait a few more minutes to get going...several others have responded they will attend today

"Rathish":             I seem to like my anonymity :) But, should I have to send it to the mail address listed in the site?

Markus:                sure..or if there is a link to an existing one I can use that...if you want to be anonymous you can be :-)

"Rathish":             I've sent them to you by mail

Dr. Chisholm:      Greetings from Houston

Markus:                Patrick said he will be a few minutes late

Markus:                hehe

Patrick M:             sorry

Markus:                I did not hear back from Mark P today

Dr. Chisholm:      Sorry about my formal handle; I guess I'm still in teacher mode

Hypatia:               okay doctor, I am still the ancient librarian

Dr. Chisholm:      anyone need a flu shot? ;)

Markus:                Rafael cannot make it today

Markus:                He came in earlier and passed on some information I will share in a bit

Markus:                ok so how bout we get rolling today

Dr. Chisholm:      ahoy, Patrick

Markus:                Welcome all...glad you found the time to stop in

Markus:                this will be our last leadership meeting for a couple weeks....hopefully we can cover what we need to get the Summit rolling

Markus:                I would like to meet one more time on November 11 (3 weeks from today) to just have a last prep meeting

Dr. Chisholm:      time?

Markus:                the rest I hope we can cover through email and the IEA discussion board

Markus:                same time...same place

Markus:                I will mention it again when I send out the chat log later today

Markus:                anything from anyone before we head into agenda items for today?

Hypatia:               great... your notes from last meeting were very helpful too, Markus

Markus:                I will try to keep the summary shorter this time :-)

Markus:                I'm seeing a doctor about that

cybernaut:           hello all

Markus:                I would like to welcome one new participant today..opps make that two now

Markus:                the first is Rathish Balakrishnan

"Rathish":             Hello Everyone

Markus:                Rathish can you give the group a brief intro?

"Rathish":             Sure. I am here representing Center for Advanced Learning Technologies, INSEAD

Markus:                thanks

Dr. Chisholm:      where is that, Rathish?

Markus:                and the second is Rudiger Stiebitz

"Rathish":             We are put up at France Dr. :)

Markus:                Rudiger can you give a brief intro as well....

Markus:                sorry Rathish for jumping in

cybernaut:           I'm Ruediger Stiebitz from Germany , art educator, doing Children Building projects in Diverse world intercultural multi schools multi cultures projects, I've worked with Bea Ligorio

"Rathish":             that's ok Markus.

Markus:                ok...well let's look at the agenda (above) and I will kick off with an update on the IEA website

Markus:                The site is coming along www.aweduserve.org/iea and we will add many of the media components this week...as well as finish the Press Kit in the next day or two

Dr. Chisholm:      might be cool to have flags under our photos here, to show what country we're in...just a note

Dr. Chisholm:      very nice graphics!

Markus:                We hope the Press Kit will help you spread the word about the Summit

Markus:                As well we are working with James Burke and Patrick to get the word out to some media groups that might cover the event

Markus:                any ideas others have about this?

Rich:      Educational newsgroups or listservs perhaps ?

Markus:                check

Markus:                other ideas?

Hypatia:               All of the web3d lists too

Markus:                good point

Hypatia:               Actually there are a few edugames lists that are good for this too

Markus:                can you provide me with any of those contacts and i will add them to the target list :-0

Hypatia:               Do you have a pre-event interview set up with any online mags?

Hypatia:               okay

Markus:                not yet, but i was hoping to make such contacts this week

Rich:      That's a good idea

Dr. Chisholm:      listserv?

Rich:      mailing lists

Markus:                If anyone has former contacts that might be an in for this that would be helpful to know

Hypatia:               I have a number of groups I plan to bring in physically in N. Calif

Hypatia:               question...

Markus:                Also we have activated the IEA forum and the Summit forum on the website....If you could each register for them we can get ongoing dialogs going about these issues as well.

Markus:                yes Bonnie

Hypatia:               Can we get a list from your autoprereg with locations so I can get some GIS vizzes for event?

Hypatia:               just need density and locations ... demographics of participation

Markus:                yes

Dr. Chisholm:      GIS vizzes?

Hypatia:               might be able to pull off realtime demographics in gis on open source collab linked to your world

Markus:                we have just sent out the invitations so I will keep you updated on the rsvps

Hypatia:               cool

Markus:                I still think our greatest hope for attracting participants is standing here right now

Rich:      (not counting Rafael and the Spanish contingent) :)

Markus:                We have several people in the group that have already generated significant interest from those they have connection with.

Dr. Chisholm:      Some of my students have offered to translate in Spanish, if need be

Markus:                Right...Rafael is rounding up everyone in Latin America with a pc and Internet connection it sounds like :-)

Dr. Chisholm:      vale!

Hypatia:               brava!

Rich:      Translations on the day and in pre-conference workshops could be extremely valuable

Dr. Chisholm:      ok, I'll tell them to stretch their fingers...

Rich:      :)

Dr. Chisholm:      I can probably get translators in several languages, if you give me time.

Markus:                Great Rafael is also tackling translation issues for Spanish.  We have also tried to use babelfish to provide basic translations of the IEA website in German, Italian, Spanish, and French

Markus:                but these are likely crude...Rafael is directly translating the site into Spanish and we hope to do the same with other languages as we find the help.

cybernaut:           I could send you some German translations

Dr. Chisholm:      http://www.uh.edu/writecen/consultants/consultants.htm  Here's a link to our translation resources.  These kids are really good.

Hypatia:               Do you have a set agenda for inworld now? Did you need any world presentations added or is the agenda pretty complete? I notice student presentations is still open

Markus:                excellent Rudiger....I think the most important is the download and getting started tutorial

Markus:                Let's move on to item two on the agenda (Summit Itinerary) Bonnie

Markus:                On the boards to the SW is a rough listing of the events we have discussed for the Summit

Markus:                Dr. Chisholm and the Univ. of Houston will be having students serve as ushers inworld on the day of the summit

Markus:                I am talking with the Univ. of Michigan about doing the same, but having students help with the cultural islands we have created to show

Rich:      The actual schedule of events is not yet set though, and this needs to be addressed

Markus:                let's take a look at the items I have listed and get your input

Dr. Chisholm:      I have a few students who are in desperate need of extra credit; any chores you have can be passed on to them.

Hypatia:               Yes I have two physical groups coming in on a big screen to watch and need to know how to orchestrate that

Rich:      right so we need a precise timetable

Markus:                over here...we can set this up now

Dr. Chisholm:      Right.  My students will be wearing UH usher uniforms, and we can farm them out like parking lot attendants

Markus:                hehe

Rich:      so we have 3 hours in total, for which the last hour will be hooked up to SIETAR

Markus:                right their job will be to help people get around and answer basic questions

Dr. Chisholm:      When is Burke's address?

Dr. Chisholm:      Is SIETAR going to see him?

Markus:                We thought the cultural island displays would be a good place for folks to just mill about for the first portion of the conference and mingle...

Rich:      That would be best placed at the beginning of the SIETAR hookup i would think

Dr. Chisholm:      I hope so.

Rich:      we've asked James to do about 10-15 minutes

Rich:      just checked, the SIETAR hookup is at 5.30pm Texas time, whatever that is

Dr. Chisholm:      central time.

Dr. Chisholm:      3:30 PST

Rich:      yes, i think we need a complete timetable, including time zone differences

Dr. Chisholm:      how does the U.N. do it?

HK AlanLai:         It's better to create a gobal timetable like http://www2.hkedcity.net/sch_files/a/mds/mds-aru5/public_html/vtr-time.htm

Hypatia:               Good question, Doctor

Hypatia:               we should have time/space coords for everyone :-)

Hypatia:               Lat/Long plus virtual GPS plus TimeZone coords

Dr. Chisholm:      a big globe with nice, friendly lettering...

HK AlanLai:         The VRT time is good for user meeting in AW.

Dr. Chisholm:      yeah, but us Texas are kinda thick

Hypatia:               yeah, sort of but not for newbies and hard to learn oldies like me

Markus:                ok...I put the time on the boards over here

Hypatia:               coola

Markus:                let's make sure I got it right :-)

Rich:      errr

Patrick M:             Times Own is a nice utility if you can track daylight savings time changes

Hypatia:               but don't forget, time changes in another week and Indiana is one of the states that does not do daylight savings time... PST changes to PDT

Dr. Chisholm:      aaaaaaah!

Rich:      *bang*

Markus:                So the first two hours will be taking place only here in Unite (8:30 – 10:30 GMT)

Dr. Chisholm:      *hides head under desk

Markus:                *slap*

Hypatia:               It's a timezone nightmare

Hypatia:               :-)

Zola:      Why not just use the Virtual Time...VRT....and everyone can do the math from there.

Dr. Chisholm:      math?!

Markus:                Indiana hasn't posted an RSVP yet :-)

Dr. Chisholm:      aaaaaah!

Hypatia:               no I beseech you

Zola:      heh, yep.

Hypatia:               GMT is better than VRT for newbies

HK AlanLai:         VRT time is a common time for all user in AW.

Rich:      I'll just be here all day, it's safer

Zola:      exactly

Hypatia:               but not for newbies to AW truly... I know this from experience

Susan K.:              http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/full.html gives a good listing of cities around the globe and keeps up-to-date on changes.

Rich:      that is a good point, the vast majority of people coming will be complete newbies and will want to work on their own time zones

Markus:                Right...I think we need to stick with GMT when promoting this and I will email a time chart out to invitees after time changes

Hypatia:               good link, Susan

Rich:      yes, with big red letters Markus :)

Hypatia:               good plan, Markus

Rich:      ok, so we have 2 hours.. Pre- SIETAR to plan

Dr. Chisholm:      ok

Markus:                ok so...two hours with just inworld events  (8:30 – 10:30pm GMT)....then the last hour we will join up with the SIETAR conference in Austin, Texas (10:30 – 11:30pm GMT) This is the correct time – please note

Dr. Chisholm:      you are going to need at least 30 minutes for people to stop flying around and karate chopping everything

Rich:      for which we should assume i guess that the first 20-30 minutes is wasted in mingling, saying hello, and getting stuck in trees

Markus:                right

Hypatia:               not if you do a 1/2 hour pre-show navigation party

Dr. Chisholm:      good idea

Hypatia:               hand holding fiesta

Rich:      yes, i will be doing much more that that

Hypatia:               with all of us ol timers

Markus:                so let's say events start at 9:00pm GMT (everyone calculate time now)

Hypatia:               and student helpers

Rich:      2 weeks of pre-conference workshops will be available

Hypatia:               nice

Dr. Chisholm:      are we going to have voiceover chat for this thing?

Hypatia:               Talkspace is avail

Rich:      possibly, Rick did mention it, but it will be in a limited fashion

Dr. Chisholm:      I'm just wondering how I'm going to give a talk and participate inworld at the same time

Hypatia:               logs and chat are better

Hypatia:               for full expereince

Rich:      an Alpha version of the browser, with which he may want to speak to the audience

Hypatia:               Doctor, chalk it up to experience... it is very difficult to do phys/virtual presentations

Hypatia:               Have some helpers there both physically and virtually

Markus:                so 30 minutes of goat herding and then we move into event 1

Rich:      right, virtually will be covered

Dr. Chisholm:      Mark and I will have to do some choreography

cybernaut:           yes - backing persons

Markus:                We thought we would start with the cultural islands

Hypatia:               have someone cut and paste your prepared text inworld while you talk to your physical audience... works well

Dr. Chisholm:      check

Markus:                don't worry I will help you out Dr.

Dr. Chisholm:      Ok nurse Mark

Markus:                these cultural islands are just a way to show learning content in an interesting visual display

Hypatia:               are there presentations for each one or open tour style?

Markus:                ..get folks jazzed up about the idea of intercultural sharing

Markus:                Well, I am working with a group of students from Univ. of Michigan to serve as sort of tour guides for each cultural display

Dr. Chisholm:      ...have a sauna

cybernaut:           hehehhwe :-)

Rich:      Plus we could have someone from each culture represented present to answer questions :)

Dr. Chisholm:      Nice.  Zola, you going to translate into Suomi?

Markus:                but they are intended to just let people wander...we were thinking of having a cultural presentation on one of the islands...sort of one of those "movie starting every 10 minutes" kind of thing

Zola:      so, you'd be the Finn?;)

Zola:      I wasn't planning on it, no ;)

Rich:      Kiitos Rakas :)

Zola:      hehe, thanks, Rich :)

Rich:      see, i'm a part time Finn

Markus:                ok...so let's say we allot 30 minutes for the island tours...that sound ok?

Hypatia:               I suggest you definitely have structured 10 min presentations or q and a... are the islands all chat protected?

Dr. Chisholm:      what about a sound clip when you enter the zone?

HK AlanLai:         Sorry for leaving.  I have to sleep now.  see you all later.

Markus:                Ok...how about we start on one island and move to each

Markus:                ..they aren't very big :-)

Zola:      If the island are to be zoned, instead of a sound clip, there will be a message in blue text on the chat area.

Dr. Chisholm:      it would be neat to have a sound clip of the native languages when you enter

Dr. Chisholm:      but I do like the music too

Zola:      the islands themselves will have sound clips, so it might get too heavy if the bot produced a sound as well...?

Markus:                We can work on this issue...there are four islands and we can mix up the media content to be diverse

Zola:      there will be music, though...markus has found some great clips :)

Rich:      yes, but couldn't the individual organisation of that be left to whoever is in charge of that point, we have to find presentations to fill the other hour of the pre-SIETAR conference as well

Hypatia:               yes, what is needed for the other hour?

Markus:                Ok 8:30-9:00 goats, 9:00-9:40 cultural tours,....

Markus:                so we have 9:40-10:30 to cover next

Rich:      that's 50 minutes, how about a 20 minute presentation, followed by a 30 minute series of breakouts prior to the SIETAR hookup ?

Markus:                I suggest we have an IEA overview at the main stage area next

Markus:                I am not sure what they will do in breakouts yet?

Markus:                if we do we need to explain what they are

Rich:      we could have 2 or 3 breakouts on specific topics giving people the choice of which to attend

Dr. Chisholm:      are we doing tours of other worlds?

Hypatia:               I could do a GIS breakout in BioLearn world

Rich:      how about for the breakouts we do something related to the technology and in the other something related to an ongoing intercultural collaboration ?

Markus:                um...I think we should use the time remaining after Jame's keynote to let folks wander the exhibits area and mingle more

Dr. Chisholm:      e.g. "Bus Leaves for Art2Unite in Five Minute"

Hypatia:               The gis breakout I am suggesting is to see the gis of who is at the conf in real and virtual world

Hypatia:               and connect it to cultural issues

Markus:                maybe it would be good to do the breakouts in different worlds??? thoughts

Dr. Chisholm:      That's important:  it's hard for people here to understand exactly how huge this thing is...

Hypatia:               and environmental sensitivity, global activism, etc.

Dr. Chisholm:      we might need to show them who is where, doing what...

Rich:      I think we could do breakouts similar to last years Vlearn, that would work well, as long as we have CT rights in the worlds on the tours to make sure people are back in time for the SIETAR hookup

Dr. Chisholm:      We're going to have Houston and Austin groups watching via big screen

Markus:                If we do this we should just gather after the cultural tour session at the main stage area, explain this and have teleports to those locations from there

Rich:      So whichever worlds are used on Breakouts need to have their respective world owners running that breakout

Hypatia:               got it

Rich:      right

Hypatia:               where is James speaking? what world? what venue?

Rich:      here , in the main conference arena

Hypatia:               where we are now?

Rich:      over by GZ

Hypatia:               okay...  perhaps better to do the gis by 2d web page to bring up from any venue>?

Rich:      good idea

Zola:      what is gis?

Hypatia:               Geographic Information Systems

"Rathish":             Markus, I don't want to interrupt the proceedings. But I would have to leave now.

Zola:      as a map of a world? pardon my simplicity.

Hypatia:               It allows you to visualize the density of various areas around the globe that participants of the conference are coming from

Hypatia:               so you see how global it really is

Dr. Chisholm:      that would be terrific

Hypatia:               we can do it in a globe or on a map

"Rathish":             I am sorry I couldn't be of much help. I would get back to you with my thoughts on the log soon.

Rich:      nice

Markus:                bye Rathish, thanks for coming

"Rathish":             Bye.

Hypatia:               2D 3D you say potato, I say potahhhtoe

Zola:      very easily.

Hypatia:               I prefer toggling between both

Zola:      i would suggest an inworld map, though.

Hypatia:               and flying around the world

Dr. Chisholm:      can we do both?  I globe here at GZ and a web page?

Hypatia:               we have the globes of all sizes in biolearn

Zola:      a globe perhaps, with pins sticking out..

Hypatia:               can do globe in biolearn

Hypatia:               and map on a web page linked to gz in here

Rich:      or even a nice moving chart inworld, something that would be tricky to do, but be extremely impressive

Rich:      like an updated barchart

Hypatia:               well possible but we need realtime specs for that

Rich:      right

Hypatia:               or do it with DEM files

Hypatia:               Data elevation models

Hypatia:               This would be a first

Rich:      mm, yes

Rich:      we might be able to pull something like that off

Hypatia:               Well I have eth viz folks for that if interested but if you can do it better with bar charts...

Rich:      we can run some tests and see how we can get it to work

Zola:      I'm not sure why charts of any kind would be required...educators see such things every day..we are offering them something completely different.

Dr. Chisholm:      globe globe globe...

Hypatia:               Yes basically I prefer to use 3D globes to do this and have done it successfully in the past... just not in AW yet

Hypatia:               we built the globes but have not populated them yet with the GIS data

Hypatia:               I could try it for this event if interested

Zola:      Sounds rather interesting.

Dr. Chisholm:      please do! (not that I have any idea how much work it would take or anything)

Hypatia:               but need data in advance

Markus:                what Data?

Markus:                :-)

Zola:      3d in an environment such as this is always better than 2d.

Rich:      Demogrpahics, who's coming from where

Zola:      heh, yes, which data?;)

Hypatia:               demographics of participants

Hypatia:               of course we need some large numbers

Rich:      assuming anyone's coming :)

Markus:                This might be tricky to get accurately....might we just use some existing data....like internet connections in different countries, etc.

Patrick M:             there is a wiki globe that wd allow participoants to add themselves?

Zola:      i think we'd have to wait for the responses to come in first...?

Markus:                Start making calls :-)

Rich:      :)

Dr. Chisholm:      do you mean online participants, or in the flesh ones?  What if they're all watching it on a screen?

Hypatia:               yep there is actually, Patrick

Hypatia:               and we use it

Hypatia:               and there is a globe interface

Hypatia:               in realtime

Rich:      then they would add their location and how many people watching at that location ?

Markus:                well is this something that you can extrapolate that data from the time they come in

Hypatia:               only if people are gps literate

Hypatia:               lat/long coords

Hypatia:               but I know we could do this

Zola:      my guess would be no

Patrick M:             there must be a site that gives you your lat long based on city query?

Markus:                I'm not sure that was a question :-)

Zola:      How about offering them that knowledge?

Hypatia:               good, yes patrick

Hypatia:               if folks could get their general latlongs

Markus:                and we do need to be somewhat careful about making this too complex for newbies

Hypatia:               actually there is a page that does that

Rich:      yes, we could get that knowledge to them

Markus:                let's help them out anyway possible :-)

Hypatia:               if you have a registration program that allows for folks to put in city/state/country

Hypatia:               we can get that data

Markus:                we have four weeks....

Hypatia:               but you don't have an automated system for reg yes?

Markus:                maybe some could pre-enter this at the workshops

Hypatia:               we did for vlearn last year and year before but did not include city

Markus:                no we don't have autoreg

Patrick M:             (we could seed the globe with some olks we know are coming?)

Markus:                just a submission form on the website that asks for name/institution/email

Hypatia:               oh okay then best to do general map if at all

Hypatia:               that would work

Rich:      But we do now have a general layout for the summit :)

Markus:                I can change it to ask for other information

Hypatia:               yes ... sorry to diverge from the virtual plan

Rich:      oh no, it was very interesting

Zola:      yes, i aggree.

Hypatia:               yes if you can collect location data, we can try to do something self-reflectively mahhhvalous

Markus:                look over here on the chart and see if you think this timeframe is good

Rich:      looks good

Markus:                If experience is any guide...i would say this will be a very tight schedule to keep

Rich:      yes

Rich:      which is why i think it is important to ensure the breakout participants are got back here promptly

Markus:                you need to leave 5 minutes for any transition time....and it is key Dr. that the ushers help move people on when it is time to transition

Rich:      we can help move stragglers along if need be

Dr. Chisholm:      Houston:  29:45:47 N 095:21:47 W; Austin 30:16:01 N 097:44:34 W

Rich:      I can work on the details with the Dr and her team of Ushers if need be

Markus:                yeah! now we just need some humans from those locations to show up

Dr. Chisholm:      zip code to lat/long URL:  http://zip.langenberg.com/

Markus:                does it work with international zip codes :-)

Dr. Chisholm:      no, it's Americentric, I think

Dr. Chisholm:      can we teach my ushers how to warp people?

Rich:      with bots yes, and with the respective rights in the appropriate worlds, yes

Dr. Chisholm:      ok

Rich:      or get them to point out stragglers to a coordinator who will take care of it for them

Dr. Chisholm:      that's the biggest problem:  "I would go there, but I don't know where I am"

Markus:                ok, well we can carry on with these itinerary details in the Summit discussion forum and through email.

Rich:      I'll help them with that and prepare documentation

Dr. Chisholm:      ok

Dr. Chisholm:      brb

Markus:                We want to mention a couple items before you all run off

Zola:      we have been discussing about having a bot inworld during the conference. A bot whose only reason to be there is to teleport people to different locations when that location is whispered to it.

Markus:                Zola has created a space for groups to set up an exhibit for their organization....

Zola:      Yes. The Exhibitors Area.

Markus:                We would like to have each of us come up with a example display

Dr. Chisholm:      good idea

Markus:                something that represents your organization affiliation

Zola:      The Exhibitors Area is for organizations, Universities, World owners, who wish to display information about themselves to the visitors.

Hypatia:               is that here in this world?

Rich:      yes

Markus:                Zola will explain what items are needed for those displays...take it away boss

Hypatia:               auto on web page to generate?

Zola:      it is right here in Unite world.

Markus:                shall we go see

Hypatia:               okay

Hypatia:               yup

Markus:                ok, join me in just a second

Zola:      we could go there now...if you go to GZ...and then limb up the stairs..

Zola:      the Exhibitors area is on the left.

Zola:      This part of the meeting will not take long... i simply wish to show you the area and then tell you the details what is needed if you wish to display Your world/organisation here.

Dr. Chisholm:      what kind of things do you want here, Zola?

Zola:      We have prepared a few separate areas/corners in this Area....each corner can have two exhibitors.

Zola:      Just getting to it, Dr.;)

Dr. Chisholm:      sorry, too much coffee

Zola:      Each exhibitor will get the following:

Zola:      2 signs, 1 picture, 1 teleport or URL to their website

Hypatia:               okies

Rich:      he vanished

Zola:      1. sign will tell the name of the World or organization.

Zola:      Once it is clicked, the #2, sign will appear with a short description of that world/organization...along with a picture object.

Dr. Chisholm:      I have my info now if you want it, Zola

Zola:      If you wish to have your world or organization displayed here.. I need:

Zola:      1. name of the world/organization

Zola:      2. a short description of it (for the 2. sign)  (one sentence, no longer)

Zola:      3. a screenshot of the world or a picture of the organization logo...or any other picture you wish to have here.

Zola:      4. if you are a world owner, I need the coordinates where people will be teleported to, inside your world.

Hypatia:               thanks, Zola. we can send this info via the forum? 

Zola:      the glowing triangles you see around you are to be the clickable teleports.

Zola:      certainly.

Zola:      a few more things though.

Zola:      please, the picture should be 128x128 or 256x256 in size...and try to make it as small in filesize as possible.

Zola:      no less than 13k. if this is something that causes too much trouble, just send the picture to us as it is and we will reduce the filesize for you.

Markus:                (to Rich) we may have to take care of picture sizing

Rich:      yeh

Zola:      Also, if you wish to have your website displayed here,  please send the full web address for it :)

Zola:      ....and that concludes the requirements list.

Zola:      :)

Hypatia:               Well folks, I gotta run to next meeting... will participate asynchronously for next steps... but everything looks good and congrats to all

Zola:      I will ask any question you might have...and will explain how it all works in detail, if you wish :)

Dr. Chisholm:      can the signs be images?

Hypatia:               great, Zola!

Mark R: cya Hypatia

Rich:      Cya Bonnie :)

Dr. Chisholm:      bye Hypata!

Zola:      no, the sign will only take text...everyone will get one picture :)

Dr. Chisholm:      ok

Zola:      bye bye Hypatia :)

cybernaut:           bye bye Hypatia

Markus:                bye Bonnie...see you Thursday

Hypatia:               bye doctoro, markus, cybernaut rich zola, markr

Zola:      so, does anyone have any questions about the exhibitors area... i have time to answer any questions :)

Rich:      heheh, eject.... eject :)

Dr. Chisholm:      sent you sign, etc. info on aweduserve

Zola:      a bit repetitive, there ;)

Dr. Chisholm:      I don’t have any

Markus:                When will you start setting these up Zola?

Zola:      As soon as  I get the info.

Zola:      I will start filling them up as I get the pictures, and the descriptions from people.

Markus:                Also, encourage groups that you are inviting to create exhibits

Markus:                lots of exhibits is a good thing :-)

Zola:      We will create a detailed info about the exhibitors on the IEA site, right?

Dr. Chisholm:      I hope so.

Markus:                Yes of course

Dr. Chisholm:      Is there a place where we can put photos of the ushers in real life?

Dr. Chisholm:      or at least their names?

Markus:                For the right price

Rich:      well I only have a short piece for the end of the meeting

Markus:                Rich...go ahead and add the part about the workshops...

Rich:      right

Markus:                I will summarize in the log and send out to all later

Rich:      Well the current plan goes something like this

Rich:      the week before the Summit itself, unite will close for final navigation and alterations prior to the summit

Dr. Chisholm:      what about the ushers...can they get in to get a feel for it?

Rich:      in the 2 weeks before that happens I will run daily workshops here on Unite for anyone who will be attending the conference

Rich:      yes, just getting to that :)

Dr. Chisholm:      sorry

Dr. Chisholm:      I guess I"m typing at hyperspeed today