The first edition of Lab Chat, a new Q&A show in Second Life, will take place on Thursday November 19th at 10:30am SLT :
Lab Chat is an opportunity for you to ask Lindens your questions during a live taping that will be recorded and archived for everyone to view.
The first Lab Chat will be Thursday, November 19th, at 10:30am SLT at the Linden Endowment for the Arts Theatre – with guest Ebbe Altberg, CEO of Linden Lab.
Now since that initial blog post, a complimentary website has appeared : https://labchatsl.wordpress.com . This website contains a lot more information about the production. For example in a post; Thank you for your Questions for the first Episode of Lab Chat! The Lab Chat team explain why the questions were selected :
We had a great many great questions from you all for the first episode of Lab Chat – so thank you all for contributing!
Sadly, there won’t be time to ask all your questions on the show, so we have selected a number of questions that the Team thought were important, relating to Second Life, the Marketplace and Sansar.
If your question wasn’t asked this time, you can:
Come to the show and, if there’s time at the end of the set questions, submit your question in text chat – we hope to get to a few of them!
Ask your question again, next time we call for questions
How will you know if your question has been selected for inclusion in this show? Well, there’s going to be a big clue there.
If your question has been selected, you will be invited to the show to ask the question in person. However please bear in mind that there may be several reasons as to why your question has not been selected, including the fact that someone else may have asked a similar question.
Whereas the aim is to get as many people as possible to view Lab Chat live, many people will not be able to attend for a variety of reasons. Fear not, a transcript of Lab Chat will appear on the Lab Chat website. On top of that, the video will be published on YouTube and AView TV, keep your eyes on the Lab Chat website for further details.
Now if you do plan to attend, there will be quite a lot of room as audience seating will be taking place in three different regions, each with their own theatre entrance.
LEA2 – http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA2/214/214/21
LEA3 – http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA3/43/42/21
LEA4 – http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA4/40/214/21
This should mean that fewer people than usual are faced with the frustration of region full messages and trying to cam in from a neighbouring region.
This is an interesting concept and I hope it goes well. However the continued success of a show like this is dependent upon people being interested in its existence. I’m certainly interested, although the time is a little early for me. However there are plenty of people who will be interested in hearing Ebbe Altberg’s answers to questions residents have submitted.
The Lab Chat team have even made a short trailer, very short, it could do with a song if you ask me! Can Saffia Widdershins sing?
There are two things that it is generally accepted Saffia can’t do. One is sing. The other is pilot of Second Life vehicle.
This showed up in my Linked In News the day after it happened, but as a person who works 9 to 5 each day, I couldn’t have attended anyway. Music Island still exists as a regular live music series and venue in Second Life. We started in 2007 and some people log on just to attend the series. Lindens have not paid us much attention in all that time!
Yes, I used to hear this when Linden Lab office hours were far more popular, they suited a lot of us in Europe as they took place in our evening but for those based in the states, where the meetings took place in their day, it was far more difficult to attend.
I shall have to take a look at Music Island though.