If EndgagetExpand doesn’t tickle your fancy then there’s another conference taking place this weekend that is well worth keeping an eye on, it’s the OpenSimulator Community Conference, which takes place on November 8th-9th. Unfortunately inworld tickets are already sold out for the conference but you can register for a free streaming ticket.
The basics of the conference can be found on the about page of the conference website, but I’ll give you a brief snippet :
The OpenSimulator Community Conference is an annual conference that focuses on the developer and user community creating the OpenSimulator software. Organized as a joint production by the Overte Foundation and AvaCon, Inc., the conference features two days of presentations, workshops, keynote sessions, and social events across diverse sectors of the OpenSimulator user base.
The OpenSimulator Community Conference 2014 features four themed tracks and a Learning Lab for hands on hackerspaces, speedbuilds, and more:
- Business & Enterprise
- Content & Community
- Developers & Open Source
- Research & Education
- Learning Lab
This conference features a lot of speakers whom followers of Second Life and virtual worlds will be familiar with. They include :
- Philip Rosedale – High Fidelity
- Nara Malone – Greyville Writer’s Colony
- Steve LaValle – Oculus VR
- John “Pathfinder” Lester – Reaction Grid
- Maria Korolov – Hypergrid Business
- Ilan Tochner – Kitely
- Caledonia Skytower – Seanchai Library
- Tranquillity Dexler – Inworldz
- Latif Khalifa – Radegast, Singularity
- Jessica Lyon – Phoenix Firestorm
- Kim Anubis – The Magicians
There are many more speakers whom some of you will be familiar with, it’s a jam packed schedule full of interesting looking discussions.
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