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As mentioned previously, 3pointD held its first Think Tank event last night in the new »Dirty sim« to discuss issues of sustainability as they relate to the broader metaverse. We had a gratifying turnout of 40+ people, with around half staying more than two hours until the proceedings were done. Thanks to everyone who showed up and contributed ideas, or just showed up to listen. A handful of really nice ideas came out of the meet. You can read a full chat log of the session, posted by SL resident, SignpostMarv Martin, but I’m going to sum up and extend a couple of the ideas that came up below. And look for our next Think Tank coming soon! (more…)

The »3pointD Think Tank« in the virtual world of Second Life held its first ever meetup last night, to discuss issues surrounding sustainability in the metaverse and try to dream up some initial projects people could perhaps push forward. As far as I’m concerned, the event was a smashing success. We had almost 40 avatars who showed up for at least part of the discussions, and more than 20 who toughed it out to the bitter end, over two hours later. A bunch of great ideas came up, which I’ll summarize later this morning, but for now I’ll just link you to the chat log posted by SignpostMarv Martin. Big thanks to everyone who showed up. It seemed like everyone who stayed to the end had a great time swapping ideas and being in the same place with a bunch of other people who were focused on similar concerns. I for one really had the feeling, which I get occasionally when at a good conference or real-world meeting, that there was a critical mass of thought power in the room that could dream up some great initiatives for us to take forward. I’ll highlight some of these in a follow-up post, as they don’t all appear in the chat log. [UPDATE: Read the complete wrap-up in this post.] It was also great to have a half-dozen-strong hard core of SL hackers hanging out in Dirty for another three hours after the meetup was over, talking about how to accomplish various things, rezzing huge clocks and megaprims and generally giving the place an air of usefulness. I’d love to have a scripting sandbox there or something, some way to make it a place that attracts metaversal “makers” (in the Phil Torrone sense) on a regular basis, but that’s a subject for another post. For now, thanks to everyone for making the historic first-ever 3pointD meetup a great success! See you next time.