participants
We tinged about:
The wiki-engine without link markup. Impressions from the web-3d-camp in second life. Gobby for the web-Montag
ma: What did I say interested me? A wiki-wednesday in second life. After the web-3d-camp I’m most convinced that would be a success. Well, and the wiki engine that doesn’t reqire markup for creating links. You write “This requires clean linking”. You preview the text and it says this requires clean linking giving you the option to accept the link before saving or preview it again leaving the words as plain text. I think mutante liked the idea when I told him about it recently but he was wondering if that would need a lot of processing, sice it has to compare every word in the “editable title database” with every word in the text. It’s some years ago yet when I came up with it on http://www.communitywiki.org/cw/EditableTitles.
The web-3d-camp was my first “camp”, kinda. Had been on web-Montag in Berlin before (and will go to another tomorrow, probably I’ll meet people who were in second life on the web-3d-camp). You write in the wiki on beforehand if there’s something you’d like to present. On the camp there are mostly prewritten proposals for speeches, maybe more are added. They had these white boards, it didn’t take more than 15 minutes til all proposals were on them with the rooms they take place in. You move to the room you want to listen in, it starts and half an hour after beginning you’re in the middle of an interesting speech. Questions at the end. Voice in second life worked astonishingly well. Sometimes someone forgets to turn off his mic and you have a bit of disturbance but all over the understandability was almost better than in a real camp. The virtual world is of literary no importance anymore once the speech started. Very sympatic, at the end of the speeches was applause, all turned their mics on and clapped.
sh: I liked the world-building aspect of sl better than the people-meeting one.
ma: true, but that was in the time before voice. To my sensation it gained x 1000 by voice. It was a gimmik before, it covers an essential part now. Has push to talk too, somehow important for discipline. Just saying “Oh, no, bullshit” is quite different from turn mic on, say it and turn mic off again.
sh: Well, since I have absolutely no way to check it, I can’t tell if there is any difference for me. Personally this project is finished for me and I’m not going to come back to it ever.
ma: You can really keep the colors now when exporting to wiki. I can’t believe it yet.
Well, if wasn’t much of meeting people for me, it were three fairly well prepared 40 minute speeches in a professional setup. One was about e-learning. A woman reported on her business in second life. A php course was 69 Euro I remember. I urgenly felt like collab editor would be an essential tool all the time. Second day we were only five people, it was some more chat like. On the first day it started in English but then it turned out all speak German and we continued in German.
Maybe for the web-Montag tomorrow evening we can write a live summary on a gobby page. Last time, when I spoke there in May 06, I couldn’t connect to gobby from their wlan. Let’s see. Just added the proposal on http://www.webmontag.de/doku.php?id=berlin