[Insight-developers] ITK -TCON 2.0 : Second Life : Friday August 22nd : 1pm EST

[Luis Ibanez]

The ITK Weekly phone conference has been for the past nine years
one of the main vehicles of communication and coordination among
developers.

However, given the growth, and particularly the internationalization
of the developers team. The phone conference is no longer being
inclusive enough to fulfill its original purpose effectively.

We are therefore experimenting with new technologies hopping to find
a new method of communication that can effectively include developers
from different geographical zones.

In a first experiment, we will hold the ITK Tcon of

                Friday August 22nd, 2008
                   1:00pm  - 2:00pm
                  EST (New York Time)

In the virtual World of

                    "Second Life"
               http://secondlife.com/

The location for the meeting will be the

          "Linden Open Source Project HQ"

You can *teleport* to this location by clicking on the following link:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Hippotropolis/238/14/24/?img=http%3A//public.kitware.com/Insight/Doxygen/html/itkLogo.jpg&title=ITK%20Tcon&msg=Insight%20Toolkit%20%28ITK%29%20Tcon


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Second Life is a virtual environment that is currently used by many
academic institutions including:

     * MIT
     * Princeton
     * Harvard
     * Stanford
     * Duke University
     * UNC-Chapel Hill
     * University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.


For a full list, please see following link:
http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Institutions_and_Organizations_in_SL#UNIVERSITIES.2C_COLLEGES_.26_SCHOOLS

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In order to visit Second Life, you must install a the Second Life Client
in your computer. The Client is Open Source software, distributed under
a GPL License, [ and it is configured with CMake :-) ]


You can download binaries for Windows, Linux and Mac from:

            http://secondlife.com/support/downloads.php


Then, you must create an account (it is free of charge), at:

         https://secure-web23.secondlife.com/join/index.php


If you already have a Second Life account for you personal purposes,
you may want to consider creating a second account, so you can customize
it better for participating in a professional setting.


         a) Skip the step of joining a community
         b) Select an Avatar
         c) Select a First Name
            (these names are fictitious, please feel free to express
             yourself, but be sensitive to what other cultures may
             consider offensive).
         d) Your Second Life Last name will be selected from a limited
            list. Again, it is up to your preferences.


Once you have a First Name, Last Name and Password, you will be
able to launch the client and to log in. After logging in, you can
click on the SLURL (Second Life URL) listed above, to teleport to
the "Linden Open Source Project HQ".


You will need speakers (or headphones) and a microphone, to be able
to participate in the discussions of the Tcon. There is also a text
messaging capability that we can use for coordination, but we mostly
anticipate to be using voice communication.

For more details please see:

      http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK_in_Second_Life


We will run a preliminary test this Friday August 15th at 1pm EST

Please join us on Friday August 15th if you want to test your
installation and audio equipment, so you will be prepared for
the Tcon of August 22nd.


Draft agendas for these Tcons are now in the Wiki at:

   August 15th:   http://www.itk.org/Wiki/Agenda%26Status_082208
   August 22nd:   http://www.itk.org/Wiki/Agenda%26Status_081508


   Please let us know if you find any difficulties joining in.



         Thanks


            Luis