Sunday 4 July 2010

Getting ready for conference


Just putting the finishing touches to the presentation for the Greenwich University e-Learning conference on July 7. The OpenSim project, despite still being in Alpha release, has proved to be a useful development tool for our students and equally worthwhile experience for us in running a virtual world platform. We shall be including details of four separate projects that have been run this year, including feedback. The conference will also provide a good platform for us to advise others wishing to deploy the simulator, as we now have a not inconsiderable amount of experience in dealing with the daily running issues that come about when you decide to deploy mega regions or make use of functions that have at this stage remain not fully supported. Having said, this I feel that as the platform moves into Beta and then finally to stable release, most of our current advice is likely to simply become negated as a matter of course. I you are unable to make it along to the conference yourself; I shall be posting our presentation and student survey reports to this blog.

Regards Vega