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July 27, 2007
Open Source Second Life
First keynote of Friday morning at OSCON 2007 is Philip Rosedale (Founder/CEO Linden Labs) talking about Second Life. The Second Life client is now open source, the server is not. They are working toward open sourcing the server, but want to make sure that there aren't ways to do serious damage in Second Life from having the source or running a server.
Demonstrates a new feature of Second Life, now has audio so as you're walking through the world a person who has a small audio indicator over the person. Allows you to talk freely using your voice. At Linden they have all of their meetings within Second Life.
Philip talks a lot about their move to open source and how they could really use help with moving things forward. In Second Life (on the presentation slides) Philip walks over to a large flat screen and uses that to show his presentation slides. At the same time he's got a co-worker (in San Francisco) standing next to him who can make comments about the slides.
Posted by mike at July 27, 2007 8:50 AM