{"id":708,"date":"2013-07-16T12:16:04","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T12:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conference.opensimulator.org\/2013\/?p=708"},"modified":"2013-07-16T12:16:04","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T12:16:04","slug":"opensimulator-community-conference-announces-keynote-panel-the-future-of-opensimulator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/conference.opensimulator.org\/2013\/opensimulator-community-conference-announces-keynote-panel-the-future-of-opensimulator\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenSimulator Community Conference Announces Keynote Panel: The Future of OpenSimulator"},"content":{"rendered":"

The OpenSimulator Community Conference 2013<\/strong> will open on Saturday morning, September 7, 2013, with a keynote panel of core developers, who will discuss the future of the OpenSimulator platform. \u00a0Topics will include a variety of issues including the future of the Hypergrid, content licensing and permissions, relationships with Linden Lab, third-party viewers, scalability, project maturity, and much more. \u00a0Expect a lively debate!<\/p>\n

Keynote Panel: The Future of OpenSimulator<\/em> will feature the following panelists:<\/p>\n

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Justin Clark-Casey | Avatar: Justin Clark-Casey<\/strong><\/p>\n

Justin Clark-Casey<\/strong><\/a> (@justincc<\/a>) is President of the Overte Foundation<\/a>, and one of the core developers of OpenSimulator<\/a>, working on many different areas ranging from asset and inventory to performance and infrastructure issues. Justin created some of the better known data persistence formats for OpenSimulator, such as OpenSimulator Archives (OARs) and OpenSimulator Inventory Archives (IARs).\u00a0 He also provides OpenSimulator-related consultancy services<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Crista Lopes | Avatar: Diva Canto<\/strong><\/p>\n

Crista Lopes<\/strong> is a Professor in the School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine<\/a>. Prior to being in Academia, she worked at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (1995-2001). She is co-inventor of AOP (Aspect Oriented Programming), a programming technology featured in the MIT Technology Review (2001) as “one of the 10 emergent technologies that will change the world.” She also serves on the board of the Overte Foundation<\/a> and is the creator of the Hypergrid protocol, which allows avatars to travel between Hypergrid-enabled OpenSimulator grids.<\/p>\n

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Mic Bowman | Avatar: Mic Bowman<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mic Bowman<\/strong> is a principal engineer in Intel Labs<\/a> and leads the Virtual World Infrastructure research project. His team develops technologies that enable \u201corder of magnitude\u201d scalability improvements in virtual environments opening the door to new levels of immersiveness and interaction among players.<\/p>\n

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Melanie Thielker | Avatar: Melanie Milland<\/strong><\/p>\n

Melanie Thielker<\/strong> is the founder of Avination<\/a>. As an OpenSimulator<\/a> Core Developer, Melanie has been one of the most active contributors to virtual world software in general, and OpenSimulator in particular. A long term Second Life\u2122 resident, she has gained much experience in using virtual worlds. Melanie has been involved in a number of virtual world projects and has created her own “spin” of the OpenSimulator software. Up to twelve developers have worked two years on creating the software which now powers Avination. Currently, Melanie holds the position of Director in Avination Virtual Limited, the UK based company which operates Avination. Melanie is known as “Melanie Milland” in both Avination and Second Life\u2122.<\/p>\n

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Be sure to\u00a0register for the conference<\/a>, including streaming of all keynote speakers, today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The OpenSimulator Community Conference 2013 will open on Saturday morning, September 7, 2013, with a keynote panel of core developers, who will discuss the future of the OpenSimulator platform. \u00a0Topics will include a variety of issues including the future of the Hypergrid, content licensing and permissions, relationships with Linden Lab, third-party viewers, scalability, project maturity, and much more. \u00a0Expect a lively debate! Keynote Panel: The Future of OpenSimulator will feature the following panelists: Justin Clark-Casey | Avatar: Justin Clark-Casey Justin Clark-Casey (@justincc) is President of the Overte Foundation, and one of the core developers of OpenSimulator, working on many different areas ranging from asset and inventory to performance and infrastructure issues. Justin created some of the better known data persistence formats for OpenSimulator, such as OpenSimulator Archives (OARs) and OpenSimulator Inventory Archives (IARs).\u00a0 He also provides OpenSimulator-related consultancy services. Crista Lopes | Avatar: Diva Canto Crista Lopes is a Professor in the School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. Prior to being in Academia, she worked at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (1995-2001). She is co-inventor of AOP (Aspect Oriented Programming), a programming technology featured in the MIT Technology Review (2001) as “one of the 10 emergent technologies that will change the world.” She also serves on the board of the Overte Foundation and is the creator of the Hypergrid protocol, which allows avatars to travel between Hypergrid-enabled OpenSimulator grids. Mic Bowman | Avatar: Mic Bowman Mic Bowman is a principal engineer in Intel Labs and leads the Virtual World Infrastructure research project. His team develops technologies that enable \u201corder of magnitude\u201d scalability improvements in virtual environments opening the door to new levels of immersiveness and interaction among players. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/conference.opensimulator.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/conference.opensimulator.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/conference.opensimulator.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/conference.opensimulator.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/conference.opensimulator.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/conference.opensimulator.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710,"href":"http:\/\/conference.opensimulator.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/conference.opensimulator.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/conference.opensimulator.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/conference.opensimulator.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}