OpenSimulator Community Conference 2015: Full Schedule

OpenSimulator Community Conference 2015

The OpenSimulator Community Conference is an annual conference that focuses on the developer and user community creating the OpenSimulator software. Organized as a joint production by Core Developers of OpenSimuator and AvaCon, the virtual conference features presentations, workshops, keynote sessions, and social events across diverse sectors of the OpenSimulator user base.

More info at: http://conference.opensimulator.org and to register, go to: https://oscc15.eventbrite.com

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12:30am PST

Educator Showcase & Give-Away Content

Self-guided tours of educator showcase booths and give-away content (in the Tulane SCS Metaverse grid between December 3rd and December 7th). Attendees need to hypergrid jump from the OSCC grid (using an OSCC avatar) into the Tulane SCS Metaverse (@ http://209.126.208.161:8072/). "In Search of... (Turnkey Education Simulation Give-Aways)" panel members' booths are available for touring (on the SCS Resource Shop island). Four additional islands in the Tulane SCS Metaverse are open for tours (including [general] economics, health economics, ethics, and marketing college-level virtual world simulations).

Public or Invitation Only: Open to All
Maturity Rating: Appropriate for All Ages (G)

Grid Name: Tulane SCS Metaverse
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/content4educators/

HyperGrid Enabled?: Yes
HyperGrid URL: http://209.126.208.161:8072/
HyperGrid Region Coordinates:

Website to Create a Local Account:
Region Name: SCS Administration
Map Coordinates:
Parcel/Venue Name: Tulane SCS Metaverse

Any other instructions for attendees?: Important Note: Avatars need to hypergrid jump into the Tulane SCS Metaverse from the OSCC grid.

Speakers

Kay McLennan

Director of Online Learning, Tulane University

Dr. Kay McLennan is a Professor of Practice at Tulane University. Kay has been creating and using virtual world learning simulations in her online economics and business studies courses since 2008. In particular, Kay uses student feedback to continually refine and expand the educational... Read More →

Thursday December 3, 2015 12:30am - 11:30pm PST
External Grid, Tulane SCS Metaverse

Community Event, Content Development, Education

11:00am PST

AU's 3D Metaverse Presents a StudioX Tour of Flight at Squadron Officer College

Join us at Air University’s 3D Metaverse for the Squadron Office College Campus' tour of flight and design via the Port, Mars, the StudioX collaborative design space, Virtual Harmony and the Internet of Things on OpenSim. After the tour, feel welcome to explore the regions using the teleportation kiosks.

Grid: AU 3D Metaverse
Hypergrid info: http://metaverse.austudiox.com:9000

Public or Invitation Only: Open to All
Maturity Rating: Appropriate for All Ages (G)

HyperGrid Enabled?: Yes
HyperGrid URL: http://metaverse.austudiox.com:9000

Important Note: Attendees can hypergrid from the OSCC grid or from a Hypergrid-enabled location.

Speakers

Lyr Lobo / Cynthia Calongne

Professor, Colorado Technical University

Dr. Cynthia Calongne, aka Lyr Lobo, is a Professor of Doctoral Studies at CTU and in Computer Science at CCCOnline. She taught 52 university classes in virtual worlds and received the 2017 Thinkerer award from the Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education. Her team won the $25,000... Read More →

Toni Scribner

Learning Analyst, USAF

Toni Scribner has over 29 years of service with the Air Force and is currently serving The Air University as an Educational Technology Innovation Analyst. She consults and assists AU faculty in designing, developing, and implementing emerging learning technologies and principles... Read More →

Andrew Stricker

Distributed Learning Architect, The Air University

Dr. Andrew Stricker serves Air University by helping to design, develop, and implement advanced and emerging learning technologies into Air Force educational and professional military education programs. Prior to his arrival to Air University Andrew served Vanderbilt University... Read More →

Barbara Truman

Graduate faculty member & simulation researcher, University of Central Florida

Dr. Barbara Truman serves as a Strategic Advisor for Immersive Learning & Collaboration in the University of Central Florida’s Institute for Simulation & Training in Orlando. At UCF, Barbara founded an award-winning department representing Online@UCF. Her background is in Instructional... Read More →

Thursday December 3, 2015 11:00am - 12:30pm PST
TBA

Community Event, IoT, Tour | Education, IoT, Tour

12:00am PST

Educator Showcase & Give-Away Content

Public or Invitation Only: Open to All
Maturity Rating: Appropriate for All Ages (G)

Grid Name: Tulane SCS Metaverse
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/content4educators/

HyperGrid Enabled?: Yes
HyperGrid URL: http://209.126.208.161:8072/
HyperGrid Region Coordinates:

Website to Create a Local Account:
Region Name: SCS Resource Shops
Map Coordinates:
Parcel/Venue Name: Tulane SCS Metaverse

Any other instructions for attendees?: Important Note: Avatars need to hypergrid jump into the Tulane SCS Metaverse from the OSCC grid (using an OSCC avatar).

Speakers

Kay McLennan

Director of Online Learning, Tulane University

Friday December 4, 2015 12:00am - 11:58pm PST
External Grid, Tulane SCS Metaverse

Community Event, Content Development, Education

12:00am PST

Educator Showcase & Give-Away Content

Self-guided tours of educator showcase booths and give-away content (in the Tulane SCS Metaverse grid between December 3rd and December 7th). Educators interested in setting up a booth need to write to vw.educator.showcase@gmail.com. (including a description of your educational simulation and the content you want to display). Also, two complete island-sized simulations will be available to tour -- the Data Detectives island (see https://sites.google.com/site/fvc13mclennan/) and the Economics for Health and Wellness island.

Public or Invitation Only: Open to All
Maturity Rating: Appropriate for All Ages (G)

Grid Name: Tulane SCS Metaverse
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/content4educators/

HyperGrid Enabled?: Yes
HyperGrid URL: http://209.126.208.161:8072/
HyperGrid Region Coordinates:

Website to Create a Local Account:
Region Name: SCS Administration
Map Coordinates:
Parcel/Venue Name: Tulane SCS Metaverse

Any other instructions for attendees?: Important Note: Avatars need to hypergrid jump into the Tulane SCS Metaverse from the OSCC grid.

Speakers

Kay McLennan

Director of Online Learning, Tulane University

Saturday December 5, 2015 12:00am - 11:58pm PST
External Grid, Tulane SCS Metaverse

Community Event, Content Development, Education

6:00am PST

OSCC15 Speaker Poster Expo

Visit the posters in the Speaker Booths on Expo Region 3 to view the images, collect free gifts and click on the media links to obtain additional information on the OSCC15 sessions and additional content.

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Saturday December 5, 2015 6:00am - 6:00pm PST
OSCC Expo 3 Region Hypergrid address: http://cc.opensimulator.org:8002/

Posters, Expo

7:00am PST

KEYNOTE: The Future of OpenSimulator - A Conversation with the Core Developers

A panel of core developers will discuss the future of the OpenSimulator platform. Expect a lively debate! Topics will include a variety of issues including the future of the Hypergrid, content licensing and permissions, scalability, project maturity, and much more. Find out where the platform is headed and learn more about the developers who make the software happen!

Moderators

Joyce Bettencourt

Founder / Vice President of the Board, AvaCon Inc.

Joyce Bettencourt (Rhiannon Chatnoir)Joyce Bettencourt is an artist, interactive designer and digital media producer whose focus is where creativity, community, social good and the future converge online. She is the Online Community Manager for TechSoup Global’s NonProfit Commons... Read More →

Speakers

Michael Cerquoni

Planning Committee, OpenSimulator Core Developer

Michael Cerquoni is a core developer for the OpenSimulator project and 3D Content Developer for Encitra & 4Dialog. Michael has been involved with the OpenSimulator project since July of 2007 and is one of the original founders of OSgrid. His primary interest in OpenSimulator has been... Read More →

Kevin Cozens

Core Developer, OpenSimulator

Kevin has been coding for open-source projects since 1992 including being a member of the OpenSimulator Core Developer team since March of 2014, and created, or maintains several add-on modules including the OpenSimSearch, OpenSimProfile, and OpenSimMutelist modules which are use... Read More →

Crista Lopes

University of California, Irvine

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... Read More →

Melanie Milland

Avination

Melanie Thielker is the founder of Avination. As an OpenSimulator 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™ resident, she has gained much experience in using virtual worlds. Melanie has been involved in a number of virtua... Read More →

Ubit Umarov

Saturday December 5, 2015 7:00am - 7:50am PST
OSCC Keynote Regions Hypergrid address: http://cc.opensimulator.org:8002/

Keynote, Future | Technical, Future

8:00am PST

Virtual Reality: Port your OS build to Stereo-scopic view for Oculus Rift and Google Cardboard

Virtual Reality is becoming mainstream. The community of OpenSimulator builders and the great builds they have made should be seen by this mainstream. Including the several million people that have Cardboard viewers as well as the soon to be release Oculus consumer version in Q1 22016. Unity3D now includes ability to output to the VR stereoscopic format for use with Oculus Rift headset. The presentation will build on how to move OpenSimulator builds to Unity, and show how to make thsse builds view-able with both the Rift and Google Cardboard.

Moderators

Michelle Gatchell

Communication Consultant

Speakers

Paul Emery / avatar: Casias Falta

Paul Emery along with his collaborators in 3dColab.com has been building and hosting regions in OS grid for 5 years.This includes the popular entertainment venu Maritime Club Belfast Ireland at which he performs on a regular basis as Casias Falta. He has been working with Unity3d... Read More →

Saturday December 5, 2015 8:00am - 8:25am PST
OSCC Keynote Regions Hypergrid address: http://cc.opensimulator.org:8002/

Technical, Content Development, VR

8:30am PST

AU Metaverse Simulations Using the Internet of Things, BulletSim and Raspberry Pi

Air University's Metaverse incorporates BulletSim physics and the IoT at Squadron Officer College's 3D Campus to fly the P51, a Pod on Mars, a Cable Lift and use the Alexa Echo in OpenSim. Real world objects connect with 5th Generation IoT-supported learning simulations to launch the campus of the future. Join us as we share our discoveries, present our schedule of events, and find out how you can get involved.

Moderators

Michelle Gatchell

Communication Consultant

Speakers

Lyr Lobo / Cynthia Calongne

Professor, Colorado Technical University

Toni Scribner

Learning Analyst, USAF

Andrew Stricker

Distributed Learning Architect, The Air University

Barbara Truman

Graduate faculty member & simulation researcher, University of Central Florida

AU Metaverse IoT BulletSim Raspberry Pi slides pdf

Saturday December 5, 2015 8:30am - 8:55am PST
OSCC Keynote Regions Hypergrid address: http://cc.opensimulator.org:8002/

Technical, Government, Identity, IoT | Training, Government, Identity, IoT

9:00am PST

BREAK

A scheduled break in the conference proceedings.

Saturday December 5, 2015 9:00am - 9:30am PST
OSCC Expo 1 through 5 Regions Hypergrid address: http://cc.opensimulator.org:8002/

Break

9:30am PST

SUNY Graduate Program: Designing Worlds for Professional Uses

Who is Irene Cruz? My presentation was connected to the Empire State College (SUNY) MALET Program. Entering this program has been life-changing for me. My initial career path was in Graphic Design and for many years I provided this service as a Consultant within companies such as; SONY, PEPSI, IBM and McGraw-Hill. I enjoy the creative atmospheres, however, something was lacking. That something was to be an Educator. I have a long line of educators in my family and much like the movie, "My Cousin Vinny", I must have this abilty in "the blood." So, I went back to school and became an Adult Educator for Higher Education. Now it seems, I have another itche, and that is to mesh my creative ability with my teaching/training abilities. Fully entering the VW (VLE) environments was what it took! I am now completing my MA degree this month of December, 2015. I am currently looking to pursue another career avenue that lends itself into Instructional Media Design for VLEs/MOOC and so forth. I would love to connect with those who have the same passions and interests in an effort to produce a collaboration of ideas and products. Please contact me through esolefllearning@gmail.com. Thank you for this tremendous opportunity.

ESC INFORMATION - Taking advantage of the affordability, OAR uploads, repurposing, and export features now available with open-simulator-based islands, an emerging-technology graduate program at SUNY Empire State College developed a concentration in virtual-environment design. Here adult students are scaffolded through basic island construction, sharing work with course colleagues as they progress through a theory-and-practice based program where they conceptualize, construct, pilot, and evaluate islands to meet their own professional needs. After highlighting core elements of this program, the instructor will have four students share their island outcomes, challenges and victories as they created, piloted, and evaluated their own simulations, training and teaching environments. The islands developed include: a simulated video training environment for learning professional video production, an island for acculturating non-English speakers to technology and to American life, a university outreach through a multi-level experimental island for both English and science education for K12 students, and a digital learning and literacy environment for library patrons.

Speakers

Irene Cruz (Christendom)

Higher Educational Instructor, Cruz Enterprizes

Irene Cruz has over twenty-years combined professional involvement within Adult Literacy Education, Educational Consultation Training and Online Instruction, Graphic Design, and Corporate Training. She has certification (Training Coursework) within Private and Adult Education (NYSED... Read More →

Maja Anderson

Maja Anderson is Assistant Director of Communications and Community Relations at Cornell University's Public Service Center and Center for Engaged Learning + Research. Her primary focus is to bring the work of the Centers to wider audiences by expanding their modes of outreach and... Read More →

Eileen O'Connor

Professor, SUNY Empire State College

Dr. Eileen O'Connor began her career in chemistry in government and industry in the 1970\'s and in technology at IBM in the 1980\'s. After pursuing a doctorate in science education and instructional technology, in the 1990's, she moved into the academic side of science and technology... Read More →

Al Ritondo

Adjunct Professor, Union County College

Al Ritondo has written, produced and directed hundreds of corporate video presentations, as well as teaching video production techniques at associations, conventions, and trade shows and through podcasts.Always embracing the entrepreneurial spirit with his work, he pioneered the production... Read More →

April Steenburgh

Finger Lakes Community College

April Steenburgh has a background in adult digital literacy instruction in public libraries. She is currently the electronic resources and online instruction librarian at Finger Lakes Community College.

ESOL EFL Learning Site ESC SUNY pptx

Saturday December 5, 2015 9:30am - 9:55am PST
OSCC Keynote Regions Hypergrid address: http://cc.opensimulator.org:8002/

Training, Business, Content Development, Education

10:00am PST

Techland, a Virtual World for Math and Science

Techland is a hyper grid enabled grid focused on math, statistical science, biology, chemistry and earth science. Educational contents are set as 3D scripted objects, like a 3D paragraph in a 3D immersive book, Student target: 11-14 years old (middle school). URL http://techlandgrid.it:8002.

Speakers

Michelina Occhioni

Prof., IC San Cesario di Lecce

Michelina lives near Lecce, in the south of Italy (Apulia) and studied Chemistry and Biology. She worked as analysis method specialist.for 13 years, but since 2001 has taught math and science in middle schools (K6 – K8 grade). Manager of Techland and the website www.virtuals... Read More →

Saturday December 5, 2015 10:00am - 10:25am PST
OSCC Keynote Regions Hypergrid address: http://cc.opensimulator.org:8002/

Education, Middle School

10:30am PST

A Dimension Beyond!

What are the impacts of blending virtual reality, and real life with both Machine Intelligence and Human Intelligence? We are at a critical juncture in our own evolution. It is time to get out of the toy box! Steve LaVigne and Myron Curtis present a very lively, very short discussion of the future possibilities of Virtual Worlds and Virtual Reality and the impact on all of us. After the presentation we will continue the discussion on OSCC Expo Zone 2 Booth #6. Hope to see you there!

Speakers

Myron Curtis

founder and developer of Virtual Worlds Grid, Virtual Worlds Grid, and A Dimension Beyond

Throughout his life, Myron Curtis has been involved with the evolution of digital technology. He still has his dad’s TS1000 home computer, its manuals and program cassettes that he played games on as a child. He has taught computer science at Butte Community College for the past... Read More →

Steve LaVigne

CFO, A Dimension Beyond, Inc.

Steve LaVigne is the CFO or Secretary-Treasurer of “A Dimension Beyond, Inc.” He has been actively involved in virtual worlds and virtual reality since 2007. He has set up many OpenSim servers all over the world, and has regions in OSGrid, Metropolis, The AngelFire Grid, and... Read More →

Saturday December 5, 2015 10:30am - 10:55am PST
OSCC Keynote Regions Hypergrid address: http://cc.opensimulator.org:8002/

Technical, AI, NPCs, VR

11:00am PST

MEAL BREAK

A scheduled break in the conference proceedings.

Saturday December 5, 2015 11:00am - 12:00pm PST
OSCC Expo 1 through 5 Regions Hypergrid address: http://cc.opensimulator.org:8002/

Break

11:00am PST

Explore the OSCC Grid

In this hour, conference attendees are invited to explore the OSCC Grid, including the Expo Zone regions with conference sponsors, community crowdfunder exhibits and exhibits created by speakers, as well as the Shopping Center region.

Saturday December 5, 2015 11:00am - 12:00pm PST
OSCC Expo 1 through 5 Regions Hypergrid address: http://cc.opensimulator.org:8002/

Expo

11:15am PST

VIP: Keynote Q&A

Crowdfunder participants at the Exclusive Access level and above are invited to a special VIP Q&A session with selected keynote speakers. By invitation only.

Speakers

Michael Cerquoni

Planning Committee, OpenSimulator Core Developer

Kevin Cozens

Core Developer, OpenSimulator

Crista Lopes

University of California, Irvine

Melanie Milland

Avination

Ubit Umarov

Saturday December 5, 2015 11:15am - 11:45am PST
Staff Zone Auditorium Hypergrid address: http://cc.opensimulator.org:8002/

Special Session

12:00pm PST

KEYNOTE: The Future of Viewer Interfaces

This panel brings together developers of popular Second Life and OpenSimulator viewers and explores the many ways of interfacing with OpenSimulator and virtual worlds, both now, and in the future. The panel will be moderated by Mal Burns.

Moderators

Mal Burns

Mal Burns is host of the "Inworld Review" - a weekly news and discussion program which has been running for 8 years. He and Tara Yeats run Metaworld Broadcasting to provide input and output services for TV in virtual worlds and the expertise for the same. Mal has used virtual environments... Read More →

Speakers

Myron Curtis

founder and developer of Virtual Worlds Grid, Virtual Worlds Grid, and A Dimension Beyond

Crista Lopes

University of California, Irvine

Jessica Lyon

Firestorm Viewer

Jessica Lyon is the founder and Project Manager of The Phoenix Firestorm Project Inc; a non-profit company with over 80 support staff and developers working under it. The project is responsible for developing the very popular Phoenix and Firestorm Viewers used in Second Life and virtual... Read More →

Saturday December 5, 2015 12:00pm - 12:50pm PST
OSCC Keynote Regions Hypergrid address: http://cc.opensimulator.org:8002/

Keynote, Technical

1:00pm PST

The State of the Metaverse

Find out the latest data on virtual reality headset numbers and other VR statistics, including the latest data on OpenSimulator statistics and surveys.

Moderators

Alan Johnston

Speakers

Maria Korolov

Hypergrid Business

Maria Korolov is editor and publisher of Hypergrid Businessand of the Hyperica directory of hypergrid destinations. She has been a war correspondent, ran a news bureau in Shanghai, and covered business and technology for national magazines for over 15 years -- but the emerging metaverse is the most exciting thing she's ever covered... Read More →

Saturday December 5, 2015 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
OSCC Keynote Regions Hypergrid address: http://cc.opensimulator.org:8002/

Metaverse, Business, Future, VR

1:30pm PST

Predator & Prey: Exploring the OpenSim with Middle School Students

Using participatory action research methods, namely questionnaires, daily note taking, and interviewing, this case study reveals 3-D modeling of ecological pests and predator installation, technical problems and ecological solutions, simulated at my ASU Hive on the OpenSim site, sponsored by the University of British Columbia -VCER. This theme led to correspondence with the ASU website “Ask the Biologist.” What began as a joke about pests, ended in community learning about the importance of pests in an ecosystem as a complex web of interconnected and dependent ingredients.

Moderators

Alan Johnston

Speakers

Mary Stokrocki

Arizona State University

Dr. Mary Stokrocki is Professor of Art and Art Education Area Coordinator, Arizona State University, Taiwan Fulbright Scholar (2012), and Work Bank Consultant to Turkey (1995-1997), former Vice-President and World Counselor of the International Society for Education Through Art [8... Read More →

Saturday December 5, 2015 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
OSCC Keynote Regions Hypergrid address: http://cc.opensimulator.org:8002/

Education, Middle School

2:00pm PST

RezMela™: Adding real world spatial context to virtual training exercises to improve their effectiveness

A fundamental concern raised by 3D collaborative virtual training exercises is their direct relevance to real world situations. Trainers require that virtual training exercises match closely their daily practice and expectations in the real world. We demonstrate our approach that allows trainers to mash up Google maps with their customized virtual scenarios in order to facilitate the translation of skills and insights acquired in the virtual world into improved real world competencies.

Moderators

Alan Johnston

Speakers

Ramesh Ramloll

CEO/CTO, DeepSemaphore LLC

Rameshsharma Ramloll, PhD Computer Science (Lancaster University UK), BTech Computer Science & Engineering (IIT Kanpur, India) has been developing immersive virtual learning environments for diverse user groups during the past seven years on platforms that include Second Life and... Read More →

Saturday December 5, 2015 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
OSCC Keynote Regions Hypergrid address: http://cc.opensimulator.org:8002/

Education, Content Development | Technical, Content Development | Training, Content Development

2:30pm PST

In search of... (Turnkey Education Simulation Give-aways)

Thoughtfully constructed virtual world education simulations are a hit with students of all ages and contribute to increased learning outcomes. Still, until this type of learning simulation becomes more mainstream (and educational simulation content is included in textbook ancillary materials), early adopter educators need to create their own simulations or use the open license (or creative commons license) content created by others. To focus attention on the currently available as well as the “wish list” open license content needed, this panel includes presentations from college, K-12, and workplace instructors using and/or sharing virtual world learning simulation content.

Moderators

Alan Johnston

Speakers

Enrique Cachafeiro

Teacher, Chatham Charter School

Enrique Cacahfeiro is a Biology Teacher and Technology Facilitator at a public charter school in rural North Carolina. He has been active with virtual worlds since 2012 when he finished his graduate Certificate in Virtual Worlds from the University of Washington. He has been finding... Read More →

Stephen Gasior

Sr. Research Associate, DowDuPont

Stephen Gasior is a Biology Instructor at Ball State University, Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Digital Intermedia Arts (at Ball State University), and Administrator/Evangelist for REDgrid (Ball State's OpenSimulator campus -- see http://idialabprojects.org/redgrid/). Stephen... Read More →

Lori Landay

Professor, Berklee College of Music

Professor and Coordinator (of Technology in Learning and Teaching) in the Liberal Arts Department at the Berklee College of Music. Lori is the author of two books -- "I Love Lucy" and "Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women: The Female Trickster in American Culture" -- and in addition... Read More →

Kay McLennan

Director of Online Learning, Tulane University

Larysa Nadolny

Associate Professor, Iowa State University

Dr. Larysa Nadolny is an assistant professor in the Iowa State University School of Education (SOE) and Human Computer Interaction (HCI) associated faculty member. Her publications include research on motivation and achievement in virtual worlds, augmented reality, and game-based... Read More →

Saturday December 5, 2015 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
OSCC Keynote Regions Hypergrid address: http://cc.opensimulator.org:8002/

Education, Content Development

3:00pm PST

BREAK

A scheduled break in the conference proceedings.

Saturday December 5, 2015 3:00pm - 3:30pm PST
OSCC Expo 1 through 5 Regions Hypergrid address: http://cc.opensimulator.org:8002/

Break

3:30pm PST

Avatar Repertory Theater

Avatar Repertory Theater is the longest surviving live theater performance group in virtual worlds, since 2008. We have 200 performances under our virtual belts, ranging from full immersive stagings, such as Shakespeare's "The Tempest", Sophocles "Oedipus Rex" and "Alice in Wonderland", to small workshops and original plays. Our small, tightly-knit troupe consists of professional and community theater performers, programmers, sound engineers, avatar and theater designers, and playwrights. A few of us will talk about what we do and present a theatrical adaptation demonstrating some of the technical considerations of producing this ancient art in a fascinating new media.

Moderators

BellaLuna X

Producer, Metaverse Productions

Ms. Rangel holds a Master of Fine Arts in Producing (Design & Production) from CalArts, is a graduate of the SU/GSP11 (Exponential Technologies) program at NASA Ames, and is currently heading Binational Operations for DataMed in the United States and Mexico. At the Centennial Olympic... Read More →

Speakers

Emil Jannings

Avatar Repertory Theater

Iain McCracken

Webmaster & Programmer, Avatar Repertory Theater

JadaBright Pond

Avatar Repertory Theater

Ada Radius

Executive Director, New Media Arts Inc

Founder of New Media Arts Inc, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Co-founder of Avatar Repertory Theater, which is a project of New Media Arts. Virtual world actor, producer, avatar and theater designer, play adaptations.

MadameThespian Underhill

Concept, Design, Layout, Avatar Repertory Theater

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Saturday December 5, 2015 3:30pm - 3:55pm PST
OSCC Keynote Regions Hypergrid address: http://cc.opensimulator.org:8002/

Creative, Arts, Theater

4:00pm PST

Creating Architecture+Creating Magic in Open Sim

This presentation will highlight the work of 6th graders in Western New York. With the help of a NY State Department of Education Grant, the students were taken on a tour of the Darwin Martin House in Buffalo NY to learn about the principles of architecture of Famed Architect, Frank Lloyd Wright. The student then took these design principles into OpenSim and created their own amazing works of architecture and art.

Moderators

Lyr Lobo / Cynthia Calongne

Professor, Colorado Technical University

Speakers

Mary Howard

Teacher, Grand Island Central Schools

Mary Howard, Mrs. HowardMary Howard is a 6th Grade Teacher at Grand Islands Veronica Connor Middle School. She is a recent finalist for the NY State Teacher of the Year in 2017. She has also won the NYSCATE Educator of the Year Award. Her Blog YourSmarticles showcases her amazing... Read More →

Andrew Wheelock

Technology Coordinator, Erie ! BOCES

Andrew Wheelock (Spiff Whitfield) is a Technology Integrator at Erie 1 BOCES/WNYRIC.Recently, awarded with the Outstanding New York State Technology Leader Award, and previously served as the Chairperson of ISTE's SIGVE (Now VEN) Group from 2011-2013.I collaborate with teachers using... Read More →

Saturday December 5, 2015 4:00pm - 4:25pm PST
OSCC Keynote Regions Hypergrid address: http://cc.opensimulator.org:8002/

Creative, Content Development | Education, Content Development

4:30pm PST

Characters Matter: The Power of NPCs in Opensimulator

Opensimulator offers a vast and beautiful landscape for exploration. Until recently including interactive characters in a build was so time-consuming and complicated few builders bothered. A growing set of easy NPC tools make it possible for anyone to add unique characters to their builds without knowing anything about scripting. Nara Malone and Fred Beckhusen will talk about the tools they used in the Immersive Edge Hypergrid Story and how they are used in the Outworldz regions.

Moderators

Lyr Lobo / Cynthia Calongne

Professor, Colorado Technical University

Speakers

Ferd Frederix

President, Outworldz, LLC

Fred K. Beckhusen, President, Micro Technology Services, Inc. Microcomputer and microprocessor hardware design and programming. My software work is primarily in C and its variants C++ and C#, with lots of perl, lsl script, Visual Basic, 3-D modeling in Solidworks, and lots of other... Read More →

Nara Malone

Author, Greyville Writer's Colony

Nara Malone is an award winning writer of novels, poetry and video games. She's the founder of the Greyville Writer's Colony--a community of novelists, poets, and artists who have joined her in putting together this demonstration.

Saturday December 5, 2015 4:30pm - 4:55pm PST
OSCC Keynote Regions Hypergrid address: http://cc.opensimulator.org:8002/

Education, Arts, Content Development, NPCs | Technical, Arts, Content Development, NPCs

5:00pm PST

Interactive People and Places in Opensimulator: Introducing Students to Yeats, John Snow, and urban public health

A series of presentations by practicing educators featuring projects using NPCs and the spatial environment in OpenSimulator for interactive and contextual immersive learning. Scenarios include: students tracking down the mechanism of disease communication; contextually understanding the social, environmental and economic factors that impact health; and creating narrative environments for historical or literary lessons.

Using NPCs to virtually expose students to disease transmission concepts
From Local to Global - Using virtual environments for global-public health education
An Evening with William Butler Yeats, Life Long Learning with Pocket Scenes

Moderators

Stephen Gasior

Sr. Research Associate, DowDuPont

Speakers

Ghaelen D'Lareh

Co-Founder, Horizon Worlds

Ghaelen D'Lareh is a college educator building immersive virtual worlds for education and empowerment. She is also a KRHI Radio host, broadcasts for public and private empowerment workshops across the Metaverse, and is a visual, digital, and ceramic artist. She works in OpenSimulator... Read More →

Evalyn Gossett

Clinical Assistant Professor, Indiana University Northwest

Evalyn Gossett, RN, MSN is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Nursing at Indiana University Northwest School of Nursing, Gary, Indiana. Her interests are in using online and virtual environments for interprofessional education.

Ruby ODegee

Volunteer, Lakewater Project

Ruby O’Degee has been involved with building and developing storybuilds and educational environments for the last 10 years. Her recent public school teaching retirement opened up opportunities for her to work full time with Open Sim collaborators to produce worlds and explore uses... Read More →

Kimberly Rufer-Bach

Owner, Designer, and Producer, The Magicians

Kimberly Rufer-Bach (avatar Kim Anubis) is Owner, Designer, and Producer of The Magicians, a top solution provider for Second Life and OpenSimulator. Since 2005 Kim has specialized in working with educators, nonprofits, and government agencies to bring their virtual worlds projects... Read More →

Rachel Umoren

Assistant Professor, University of Washington

Rachel Umoren, Rachel GloeduRachel A. Umoren, MB, BCh, MS, is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine and the Director of Immersive Learning for the UW Neonatal Education and Simulation-Based Training Program. Her research interests... Read More →

Saturday December 5, 2015 5:00pm - 5:50pm PST
OSCC Keynote Regions Hypergrid address: http://cc.opensimulator.org:8002/

Education, NPCs

6:00pm PST

Walking Tour of a Game-based Sim built by Ann Cudworth

Limited Capacity seats available

This is a chance to "go backstage" on a game-based sim with Ann Cudworth, author of "Virtual World Design", and the soon to be published "Extending Virtual World Design". These 4 regions were built on the Kitely grid, to provide the book development team with content to make illustrations from. It is also the content that will be given out with "Extending Virtual World Design" when the book is published. Ann will take 15-20 people on a tour and explain how the design concepts were created, and how her team worked together to make it all work. She will also explain how these regions can be used as a template for designing learning games in the classroom.

Public or Invitation Only: Invitation Only
Maturity Rating: Appropriate for All Ages (G)

Grid Name: Kitley
Website: https://www.kitely.com/

HyperGrid Enabled?: Yes
HyperGrid URL: https://www.kitely.com/
HyperGrid Region Coordinates:

Website to Create a Local Account: https://www.kitely.com/
Region Name: EVWD Book Grid
Map Coordinates: 232,233,22
Parcel/Venue Name: EVWD Book Grid

Any other instructions for attendees?: We will meet on the lake island, and then move off for the tour

Speakers

Ann C

Creative Director/Writer, Ann C Projects

Ann Cudworth, who writes as A. C. Worth currently lives in New York City. She writes short stories and novels in the Science fiction-second world and romance genres. Recent publications include a second-world monk-punk fantasy called “The Tapestry,” printed by Metaphorosis magazine... Read More →

Saturday December 5, 2015 6:00pm - 7:30pm PST
External Grid, Kitley

Community Event, Education, Game, Tour

8:00pm PST

OSCC15 Dance

Dance to celebrate opening of OSCC15 - Live DJ, Dancing.

Public or Invitation Only: Open to All
Maturity Rating: Appropriate for Adults Only (A)

Grid Name: Littlefield Grid
Website: http://www.lfgrid.com

HyperGrid Enabled?: Yes
HyperGrid URL: http://lfgrid.com:8002:Speakeasy
HyperGrid Region Coordinates: 84,058,045

Website to Create a Local Account: http://www.lfgrid.com
Region Name: Speakeasy
Map Coordinates: 128,128,1
Parcel/Venue Name: Speakeasy

Any other instructions for attendees?:

Crowdfunder Exhibitors

Littlefield Grid

http://www.lfgrid.com

Saturday December 5, 2015 8:00pm - 11:30pm PST
External Grid, Littlefield Grid

Community Event, DJ, Social

12:00am PST

Educator Showcase & Give-Away Content

Speakers

Kay McLennan

Director of Online Learning, Tulane University

Sunday December 6, 2015 12:00am - 11:58pm PST
External Grid, Tulane SCS Metaverse

Community Event, Content Development, Education

6:00am PST

OSCC15 Speaker Poster Expo

OSCC15 Poster Map v3 png

Sunday December 6, 2015 6:00am - 6:00pm PST
OSCC Expo 3 Region Hypergrid address: http://cc.opensimulator.org:8002/

Posters, Expo

11:00am PST

OSCC15 HyperGrid Tour

As a special OpenSimulator Community Conference HyperGrid Tour featuring a hands-on HyperGrid workshop and trip where attendees will have the opportunity to learn how to grid jump ‘by yourself’ - not just walking through a HyperGrid portal but coming to grips with the Map and the grid URI.

The tour will depart from the OSCC Conference Grid on Sunday at 11am Pacific with several stops on various OpenSimulator grids over a three hour period and show off how easy it is to get around by HyperGrid.

Sunday December 6, 2015 11:00am - 2:00pm PST
OSCC Expo 2 Region Hypergrid address: http://cc.opensimulator.org:8002/

HyperGrid Event, Expo, Tour

2:00pm PST

Live at The Maritime Club , Belfast Conference closing party

Live music in the oldest continuously running venue in the metaverse to close the community conference. Featuring the best live performers currently performing in OpenSimulator.
Last stop on the HG Safari tour !!!

2.00 pm PST
Truelie Telling playing her all original country punk / folk noir ballads of love and death live from her Nashville studio
website

3.00 pm PST
DJ Tom Frost plays a set of obscure but accessible esoteric jazz

3.30 pm PST
Casias Falta playing classic blues and witty originals in the Americana style live from Detroit
website

4.30 pm PST
DJ Stiofain doing a Van Morrison rare vinyl tribute set in honour of Van who opened the real Maritime club in 1964 in Belfast at the start of his career - including video footage of Van, Rory Gallagher and other original performers sharing their " Maritime Memories " of the time

5.00 pm PST
Matthew Perrault playing live from Fort Worth Texas doing his originals and cerebral pop covers with a distinctive Texan twang
website

Public Open to All
Maturity Rating: Appropriate for All Ages (G)

Grid Name: osgrid
Website: http://www.osgrid.org

HyperGrid Enabled?: Yes
HyperGrid URL: hg.osgrid.org:80:Maritime Club Belfast
HyperGrid Region Coordinates: 9972 9993

Website to Create a Local Account: http://www.osgrid.org/
Region Name: Maritime Club Belfast
Map Coordinates: 9972 9993
Parcel/Venue Name: Maritime Club Belfast

Any other instructions for attendees?:
If you cant make it inworld you can listen live online at
website

Speakers

Stiofain MacTomais

3DColab

Stiofain has been running weekly live events in virtual worlds for over 9 years and organised very successful closing events for the previous OSCCs

Sunday December 6, 2015 2:00pm - 6:00pm PST
External Grid, osgrid

Community Event, Live Music, Social

6:00pm PST

AfterParty #2 on Pirate's Atoll, Digiworldz - Dream Pop Rave!

OSCC 2015 closed with a blowout party on Pirate's Atoll. This year, the grooves are tighter and the beats are faster, and the sim is even more solid! Come and dance on Tiki Beach to etherial tunes spun by DJ Strannik Zipper. More details can be found at www.piratesatoll.com

Public or Invitation Only Open to All
Maturity Rating Appropriate for Mature Audiences (M)

Grid Name DigiworldzGrid
Website http://www.piratesatoll.com

HyperGrid Enabled? Yes
HyperGrid URL http://login.digiworldz.com:8002/Pirates%20Atoll

Website to Create a Local Account: http://www.digiworldz.com
Region Name: Pirates Atoll
Map Coordinates: 299, 339, 23
Parcel/Venue Name: Tiki Beach

Any other instructions for attendees? See http://www.piratesatoll.com for more information and the latest news

Anything else we should know? We will keep going until the last avatar drops from exhaustion!

Sunday December 6, 2015 6:00pm - 10:00pm PST
External Grid, DigiworldzGrid

Community Event, DJ, Social

12:01am PST

Educator Showcase & Give-Away Content

Speakers

Kay McLennan

Director of Online Learning, Tulane University

Monday December 7, 2015 12:01am - 11:59pm PST
External Grid, Tulane SCS Metaverse

Community Event, Content Development, Education

1:00pm PST

Virtual Epidemiology Walkthrough

Come visit London's Soho District from 1854 to track down the source of a cholera outbreak. This educational activity provides the experience of John Snow's efforts to prove to the medical community that water enabled the spread of disease. Contagion theory was mostly dismissed by the medical community at the time in favor of miasma theory which held that air was the mechanism of transmission. This activity is used for an Honors Biology course at Ball State University. Developed by Stephen Xootfly who teaches the course and Kim Anubis of The Magicians. They will be on hand to guide visitors through the build and answer questions.

Public or Invitation Only: Open to All
lMaturity Rating: Appropriate for All Ages (G)

Grid Name: REDgridGrid
Website: http://idialabprojects.org/redgrid/

HyperGrid Enabled?: Yes
HyperGrid URL: http://redgrid.bsu.edu:9000/ VirtualSnow
HyperGrid Region Coordinates: 9254,9254
Hypergrid only, No Local Accounts outside of BSU affiliates

Region Name: VirtualSnow
Coordinates: 9254,9254
Parcel/Venue Name: VirtualSnow

Speakers

Stephen Gasior

Sr. Research Associate, DowDuPont

Kimberly Rufer-Bach

Owner, Designer, and Producer, The Magicians

Monday December 7, 2015 1:00pm - 4:00pm PST
External Grid, REDgrid Grid

Community Event, Education, Tour

4:00pm PST

Nova Tour

Tour Nova Archaeology Regions

Public or Invitation Only: Open to All
Maturity Rating: Appropriate for All Ages (G)

Grid Name: NovaGrid
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/virtualislandsbettereducation/
HyperGrid Enabled?: Yes
HyperGrid URL: http://nova.bio-se.info:9000/ Nova
HyperGrid Region Coordinates: 128,128

Website to Create a Local Account: https://sites.google.com/site/virtualislandsbettereducation/getting-connected

Region Name: Nova
Map Coordinates: 128,128
Parcel/Venue Name: Nova

Community Events

Marion Smeltzer

IUP Archaeological Services

Sunday December 13, 2015 4:00pm - 6:00pm PST
External Grid, NovaGrid

Community Event, Education, Tour

11:00am PST

AU Metaverse: Using IoT to Connect Smart Learning Devices from Home, Work and School

Join us at an OSCC series of events hosted by The Air University StudioX Forum
in their 2015-2016 Winter series Snack & Learn sessions.

The series features:
How Big Data and the Internet of Things (IoT) Create Smarter Learning Environments

1st session is scheduled for
Friday, Dec. 18, 2015
11:00-12:15PM Pacific time

Grid: AU 3D Metaverse
Hypergrid info: http://metaverse.austudiox.com:9000

Public or Invitation Only: Open to All
Maturity Rating: Appropriate for All Ages (G)

HyperGrid Enabled?: Yes
HyperGrid URL: http://metaverse.austudiox.com:9000

Important Note: Attendees can hypergrid from the OSCC grid or from a Hypergrid-enabled location.

For more infomration, visit:
http://soc3d.austudiox.com/
http://soc.austudiox.com/

Contact: socedxstudio@gmail.com

Speakers

Lyr Lobo / Cynthia Calongne

Professor, Colorado Technical University

Toni Scribner

Learning Analyst, USAF

Andrew Stricker

Distributed Learning Architect, The Air University

Barbara Truman

Graduate faculty member & simulation researcher, University of Central Florida

AU Metaverse slides and Snack n Learn pdf

Friday December 18, 2015 11:00am - 12:15pm PST
TBA

Community Event, Education, IoT, Technical

12:45pm PST

Nova Grid Archaeology Tour

Tour Nova Archaeology Regions

Public or Invitation Only: Open to All
Maturity Rating: Appropriate for All Ages (G)

Grid Name: NovaGrid
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/virtualislandsbettereducation/
HyperGrid Enabled?: Yes
HyperGrid URL: http://nova.bio-se.info:9000/
HyperGrid Region Coordinates: 128,128

Website to Create a Local Account: https://sites.google.com/site/virtualislandsbettereducation/getting-connected

Region Name: Nova
Map Coordinates: 128,128
Parcel/Venue Name: Nova

Community Events

Marion Smeltzer

IUP Archaeological Services

Friday December 18, 2015 12:45pm - 3:00pm PST
External Grid, NovaGrid

Community Event, Education, Tour

3:30pm PST

#OSCC15 Wrapup - AvaCon Holiday Party

Join us for an #OSCC15 wrap up, and holiday meetup. We will start on the OSCC conference grid within the OSCC Keynote regions to share some of the highlights of this year's conference.

We will then hop to the AvaCon grid to have a end of 2015, holiday celebration. Hypergrid address to AvaCon Grid: http://grid.avacon.org:8002 More info on how to connect / access: https://www.avacon.org/blog/avacon-grid/

Speakers

Joyce Bettencourt

Founder / Vice President of the Board, AvaCon Inc.

Volunteers

Michael Cerquoni

Planning Committee, OpenSimulator Core Developer

Jeroen Frans

Technology Expert, The Vesuvius Group

Jeroen is Internationally known as Frans, which is fitting because it is also his last name. He is one of the three Founders of the Vesuvius Group, LLC, and functions as a Virtual World Technology Specialist and Developer. The Vesuvius Group is a Full Service Solution provider... Read More →

Monday December 21, 2015 3:30pm - 5:30pm PST
OSCC Keynote Regions Hypergrid address: http://cc.opensimulator.org:8002/

Community Event, Education, Social

5:00pm PST

Holiday Machinima Night

Holiday Machinima Night - Tuesday, December 22, 2015 @ 5pm SLT

Come spend an evening celebrating the holiday season at Machinima night on the AvaCon grid!

Have one to share? Make your own machinima or find one you enjoy that is 3 minutes or less, and bring the URL with you. YouTube is the perfect place for posting your video or finding one (just be sure to get the URL in the "embed" code.

Getting there:

Never been to the Avacon grid?

If you already have an account on an OpenSim grid, log into your home grid, and hypergrid by entering this URL into your map (does not work from SL, must be on an OpenSim grid). http://grid.avacon.org:8002

If you do not have an account at an OpenSim grid, you can create an account for the AvaCon grid. Go to: https://www.avacon.org/blog/avacon-grid/ (Please do this before the day of the machinima event to give us time to approve your account.)

Once on the AvaCon grid, open the map and look for the region called "Community." You will teleport into a central hub on the region. We will try to have a landmark giver at that location, or you can easily fly over to our parcel (we'll be the green dots on the map.)

Any questions? Please contact any of the following people:
Spiff Whitfield
Beth Ghostraven
Helena Kiama

We hope you'll join us!

ISTE VIrtual Environments Network

Google+
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/107257205905775229015

Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/ISTE-Virtual-Environments-Network-723620237721641/

Speakers

Andrew Wheelock

Technology Coordinator, Erie ! BOCES

Tuesday December 22, 2015 5:00pm - 6:00pm PST
External Grid, AvaCon http://grid.avacon.org:8002

Community Event, Arts, Education, Social

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