Viola Bach: ez, are you about to sing a song for us?
Mae Best: HI :)
Ezhar Fairlight: huh?
Viola Bach: you look as if you're about to take the microphone
Adam Zaius: Heya Haney
Viola Bach: hi haney
Haney Linden: heyyall
Ezhar Fairlight: hi
Mae Best: oh baby sing I'll throw my panties at you lol
Merwan Marker: hey hey
Dyonis Blanc: Bonsoir Haney
Viola Bach: lol mae :)
Ezhar Fairlight: i only sing in the shower
Adam Zaius: Haney - all setup, --> http://sites.gwala.net/townhall/
Merwan Marker: hehe
Adam Zaius: Updates every 50 lines of chat, or at the end of the meeting.
Merwan Marker: calm done Han
Merwan Marker: hehe
Mae Best: I sing all the time...but I'm told to STOP YOUR MAKING OUR EARS BLEED
Viola Bach: hey flipper :) how are you?
FlipperPA Peregrine: Hey amig0s! :-)
Ezhar Fairlight: flipper, stop griefing me! :P
Merwan Marker: hey Flip
FlipperPA Peregrine: Doing great Viola, how about you?
FlipperPA Peregrine: :-) Ezhar
Viola Bach: i'm good too thanks!
Merwan Marker: hey Kyle
Kyle Rubio: hi
Merwan Marker: elcome to SL
Merwan Marker: hehe
Mae Best: is that you folks talking on MIke?
Viola Bach: hi kyle
Viola Bach: that's the irc lot
Merwan Marker: yeah i hopethat oges away
Merwan Marker: hehe
Mae Best: ok really naive here what is an IRC and is it dirty?
Merwan Marker: Haney sit down dude!!!!
Merwan Marker: lol
Merwan Marker: Hi BlackA
Ezhar Fairlight: isually it's very dirty
Abbie Donovan: hi everyone )
Krowe Falcone: abbie
Toy LaFollette: IRC=Internet Relay Chat hehehehehe
Abbie Donovan: didn't see you krowe ;)
Viola Bach: yes, irc very dirty, keep well away :P hehe
Krowe Falcone: you wont i just got here
BlackAdder York: Hey Mer!
Mae Best: dirty and keep away...oxy moron
Abbie Donovan: hi merwan :)
Viola Bach: hey beryl :)
Beryl Greenacre: hi Vi :)
Merwan Marker: hi Beryl
Viola Bach: what are you being schadenfreude about? lol
Abbie Donovan: nice shirt krowe
Merwan Marker: nice to see ya inworld lol
Beryl Greenacre: heh, life in general :)
Krowe Falcone: thanks thea gave it tome.. which Sarah gave it to her
Viola Bach: hehe, i hope that's a good thing then :)
Viola Bach: hey sio :)
Beryl Greenacre: oh, wow, Merwan, I can't believe I didn't have your card :)
Merwan Marker: hehe
Siobhan Taylor: lol
Krowe Falcone: Hi everyone i know and those i dont etc..
Merwan Marker: it's that i didn't have yours!! lol
Mae Best: Hey Krowe
Beryl Greenacre: hehe
Krowe Falcone: heyya
Krowe Falcone: !sg alpha 50
Viola Bach: awww no...we want to hear the irc dirtyness
Ezhar Fairlight: haney needs a swimming pool
Merwan Marker: why we got our own here
Merwan Marker: lol
Mae Best: so we can wallow in the dirtyness in the pool lol
Beryl Greenacre: hi Bino
Viola Bach: lol oh yeah, we're in a mature sim...naked audience
Beryl Greenacre: afk
Viola Bach: hey, all you guys in irc...james is wandering around nekkid
Merwan Marker: hi Zeno
Siobhan Taylor: Some things never change
Mae Best: Nakkid James
Zeno Zaius: Hey Merwan!!
Merwan Marker: :-)
Penelope Lament: Darlin's, please y'all don't get nekkid while I'm eating my lunch.
Siobhan Taylor: I hope all you irc listeners are nekkid too
Merwan Marker: hehe
Viola Bach: hehe
Mae Best: LOL Penelope
Viola Bach: hi damien
Viola Bach: hey sulu
Damien Fate: Hi hi
Adam Zaius: Heya Damien.
Damien Fate: hi :)
Haney Linden: Please don't offer teleports to anyone else, otherwise the event will be lagged beyond functioning.
Merwan Marker: Hey Bino - cool t-Shirt
Merwan Marker: :-)
Zeno Zaius: sorry about that, toy
Toy LaFollette: Im used to it hehehehehe
Merwan Marker: yoooo Lumiere
Bino Arbuckle: Thanks Merwan, Jessica Greenstein gave it to me
Merwan Marker: hehe
Mae Best: I love toys laugh
Merwan Marker: she still lost in Seacliff??? haven't seen her around for awhile...
Damien Fate: wow, do we have IRC here or something?
Ryen Jade: I beat you!!!!
Toy LaFollette: ya Damien :)
Adam Zaius: Yes, irc.efnet.net/#secondlife
Siobhan Taylor: Yes, Damien
Mae Best: and they tell me its dirty lol
Damien Fate: cool :)
Zeno Zaius: IRC?
Dave Zeeman: Yeah I got stuck in an invisible building..
Robin Linden: elegant entrance, huh
Merwan Marker: hehe
Merwan Marker: hi ya Robin
Ryen Jade: Yo francis!
Mae Best: Jeez dave don't you hate when that happens?
Merwan Marker: *wasn't goona say anything....
Bino Arbuckle: 6 fps sim... yum
Robin Linden: howdy
Haney Linden: Welcome all to the Town Hall.
Dave Zeeman: lol yes
Robin Linden: we seem to have some lag here
Haney Linden: Please IM me with questions, don't chat out during the event.
Ryen Jade: how ya doin in the real world?
Mae Best: Hello Robin
Haney Linden: Please also don't trade cards, or change outfits.
Robin Linden: Hi everybody
Damien Fate: hi :)
phil Lomax: hello robin
Robin Linden: OK - let's get started.
Robin Linden: Anyone hear Philip's meeting yesterday?
Krowe Falcone: no
Mae Best: sorry no
Lumiere Noir: yes
BlackAdder York: nope
Abbie Donovan: no
Toy LaFollette: /me holds up hand
Damien Fate: Caught the trasnscript in the forums
Dyonis Blanc: no
Robin Linden: He was taking questions on features and dev
Damien Fate: thanks to Francis Chung ;)
Robin Linden: I'm not much help with tech questions.
Robin Linden: What I'm hoping to be able to help with today are questions about events, the offer to folks from There, and so on.
Robin Linden: Haney will take your questions via IM and then chat them
Robin Linden: I'll try to answer as best I can
Robin Linden: OK Haney --
Haney Linden: Toy LaFollette: do you think there will ever be like building codes for certain sims, like residential or business and such?
Mae Best: Whats going on with There...(I left that game because of the money hungry greed....I hope not to see that here?)
Robin Linden: Let me answer Toy first --
Tommy Blanc: There ain't here, there went away
Robin Linden: have a lot of success trying to anticipate what the community might want
Haney Linden: Please dont chat out commments or questions, IM questions to me.
Magnum Serpentine: hello everyone
Robin Linden: we've tried building codes a few times. what we've found is that we don't necessarily
Robin Linden: so now we're looking at ways to allow the residents to set up their own zoning and other types of governing structures
Tommy Blanc: i can't help it, it's spamming on it's own
Haney Linden: Damien Fate: Even though we don't get L$ support for cash prize raffles anymore, do we still get paid the 250L$ for hosting the event if enough people attend?
Toy LaFollette: thank you :)
Robin Linden: The current plan is to move away from direct support and rely on dwell and admission charges to reward events
Robin Linden: the exception is Linden-sponsored mentor events and classes which offers $500 to the hosts
Robin Linden: For now we are still offering L$500 to events that are competitive
Robin Linden: Those of you who have been around a while might remember
Robin Linden: that the original reason for the L$500 was to support prize money in competitive events
Robin Linden: Next question?
Haney Linden: Adam Zaius: Question: will developer incentives for creations return?
Robin Linden: They haven't gone away. We've just been trying to decide the best way to choose categories for reward.
Robin Linden: The next category will be announced in the next couple of days.
Haney Linden: Please IM me with any Questions.
Haney Linden: Mae Best: Whats going on with There...(I left that game because of the money hungry greed....I hope not to see that here?)
Robin Linden: Sorry - got interrupted
Robin Linden: I'm not sure what you mean about what's going on with There.
Robin Linden: What we know is what they've announced.
Mae Best: You mentioned an offer?
Robin Linden: We want to welcome people from There who are trying Second Life.
Mae Best: andd waht was the announcement?
Robin Linden: Click on that and it will take you to a discount offer for a SL subscription.
Robin Linden: On the home page of www.secondlife.com is a welcome sign.
Mae Best: So SL is NOT going to be come an Affiliate with THERE?
Robin Linden: They announced they are reducing support for the consumer version of There in order to concentrate on platform sales.
BlackAdder York: In a word it said...Goodbye
Robin Linden: LOL -- no.
Haney Linden: Mae Best: Whats going on wi Viola Bach: the 2 things that people in There are put off most a Magnum Serpentine: Why the sudden change in the way you handle and sponsor events?
Kasandra Morgan: No, There has stopped adding content so Thereians need a new home
Mae Best: Good to know *sigh of releif
Robin Linden: Magnum - it's not sudden. But we're responding to a huge increase in the number of events.
Magnum Serpentine: hummmmmmmmm
Haney Linden: Tock Mars: For how long will SL support competive events before that is phased out?
Robin Linden: Over the last three months, the number of resident events per week has increased from 40 a week to 160.
Robin Linden: Tock - I don't have an answer to that question. As I said earlier, we're increasing dwell as a way to compensate for the shift away from direct payments.
Robin Linden: We're trying to phase out direct payments but still allow event hosts to be compensated for their efforts.
Haney Linden: Salazar Jack: Question for Robin: What is the latest news on the Developer conference? Is there still a desire for one in San Francisco and perhaps simultaneously here in Second Life?
Robin Linden: Salazar - We've decided to hold off on the SF conference, and focus on holding something in SL.
Robin Linden: We want to start a discussion about governance issues, such as policing, zoning, and dispute resolution.
Robin Linden: We want to make sure as many residents as possible can participate, so it looks like a series of conference style discussions in SL is the best way to go.
Haney Linden: Dave Zeeman: When will the "Vive" contest end?
Robin Linden: May 31.
Merwan Marker: ah darn there goes the possibility for a date with you Robin!!!
Haney Linden: James Miller: Question: Have you been in contact with There.com at all since the announcement? Has There.com (the company, not the users) expressed any feelings about the "welcome sign" on www.secondlife.com?
Robin Linden: hehe -
Robin Linden: James - we have not been in contact with anyone from There management.
Haney Linden: Kasandra Morgan: So are the new rules meant to discourage people from throwing events and where can I read about this, this is my first time hearing of it.
Robin Linden: The new rules are not meant to discourage anyone.
Robin Linden: The events policy is posted under events on the forum
Robin Linden: We'll be watching the dwell payments to make sure they increase as the population increases (the concurrency rate)
Haney Linden: Beryl Greenacre: Philip made mention recently in an article of releasing some economic data regarding in-world SL transactions; will that happen any time soon?
Robin Linden: I'm sorry - I don't know what he's planning to release or when.
Haney Linden: Please IM me with any questions.
Robin Linden: We have discussed some data -- there are nearly 200,000 transactions a month for example, including all resident to resident transactions
Beryl Greenacre: amazing
Haney Linden: Viola Bach: the 2 things that people in There are put off most are the look of the avs and the lack of voice. WIll voicechat be added soon?
Merwan Marker: This is SL not SL-ala There
Robin Linden: Viola, we won't be adding voice chat until the technology for masking has been improved to the point where people sound natural
Robin Linden: There's a group we've been working with who have made some terrific progress in that direction
Kasandra Morgan: and my AV is hot
Robin Linden: The look of the avs is very different in SL from There.
Robin Linden: If they keep up we should be able to add voice in the next 6 to 12 months.
Robin Linden: We've tried for a more realistic look.
Robin Linden: Plus as many of you know, we're adding the ability for you to develop and upload your own animations
Robin Linden: You'll be able to try it out in the preview grid later on today
Haney Linden: Tommy Blanc: There's a big situation with Lag when many people are at an event. Like this one today, i'm finding it hard to just sit down. Will Linden Labs do something to combat this?
Merwan Marker: Excellent!
Haney Linden: Tommy Blanc: And is something going to be done to help stop people from TPing other people into an event once its full, and creating even more lag.
Haney Linden: Please IM me with questions
Robin Linden: Tommy - we'll look into that.
Haney Linden: Alliez Mysterio: Have you thought about payments for events other than L$? could give free rent for a period of time based on event and total of ppl attending.
Robin Linden: We are looking for ways to encourage events that can't be gamed.
Robin Linden: We're also looking at ways to make space available to people for events where they can earn dwell.
Magnum Serpentine: hum
Alliez Mysterio: Involve entire areas with a theme
Robin Linden: For example, we are considering auctioning 'time' and land on the vehicle sims and Rizal for people who want to hold events there -- a tournament for example.
Alliez Mysterio: great
Haney Linden: James Miller: The misspelling makes people think you don't care. James Miller: Have you thought of a system for people to suggest names that they want?
Haney Linden: James Miller: Question: A big issue that many Thereians are having is the lastnames. For example, last night, you added "Congrejo" as a lastname -- it appears to many Thereians that this is a misspelling of an island in There, "Cangrejo".
Robin Linden: James - we added two names for folks from There -- Thereian and Therian. I've seen it spelled both ways. I really don't know that there's a 'right' way.
Robin Linden: The name Congrejo was turned off because we decided it wasn't a good idea to use There place names.
Haney Linden: Mae Best: What does that mean 'an event that can't be gamed?'
Robin Linden: Find a way to compensate people that can't be cheated.
Haney Linden: BlackAdder York: Any plans for offering Thereians special help climbing SL's much steeper learning curve?
Robin Linden: Black - other than mentor support, increased liaison coverage, and instructor classes, we haven't added support.
Robin Linden: We'll do our best to answer questions, and the SL community has always been enormously generous with helping newbies get acclimated.
Haney Linden: Beryl Greenacre: I think the idea of having an in-world developer's conference is excellent; any time frame for that, will we have to register for certain sessions (i.e. scripting, textures, events, etc.), will there be a fee?
Robin Linden: Beryl - we haven't worked out the details. I expect it will be in august.
Robin Linden: I also assume we'll have to have registration, but I haven't thought about fees.
Robin Linden: I'll start a thread on the forum and we can talk there about fees and such.
Beryl Greenacre: thanks!
Haney Linden: Kasandra Morgan: Do events marked mature get funding now? And will there be a mature event filter in the future?
Robin Linden: They're funded if they meet the other criteria. We are adding a filter, although I don't have a specific date for implementation.
Haney Linden: James Miller: Question: Will you be hiring more liaisons to keep up with the increasing population? Also, 24/7 liaison support isn't a bad idea. Should *always* be someone at the welcome area.
Robin Linden: James - couldn't agree more.
Haney Linden: Osemab Kothari: Will the 1.4 preview allow us to upload animations right away? Or will we have to wait?
Robin Linden: Unless there's a terrible bug, you should be able to use the feature immediately.
Robin Linden: Try it out in the preview grid.
Haney Linden: Tommy Blanc: What can be done to help combat the problem of people getting blocked out of their own homes when big events are happening in their areas, and the sever is full?
Kasandra Morgan: doesn't "go home" work?
Robin Linden: You should always be able to teleport home even if the server is full.
Haney Linden: Please IM me with questions.
Haney Linden: Mae Best: In the 1.4 what are the new animations availalbe right of way?
Robin Linden: Mae - the feature allows you to create animations with a 3rd party product like Poser and upload them into your SL inventory.
Haney Linden: If anyone has a question, please IM it to me.
Robin Linden: You'll also be able to use a new gesture sequencing tool to sequence gestures for a longer animation - say, a dance.
Robin Linden: You'll be able to save the gestures as part of outfits and attached to objects.
Dyonis Blanc: wonderfull
James Miller: oo, wow.
Krowe Falcone: nifty
Robin Linden: Sounds like there aren't any more questions.
Robin Linden: Thanks everybody for coming.
James Miller: Robin, will you be on for a few minutes after this event?
DrZippy McLean: i jut sent one
Haney Linden: Tommy Blanc: How easy, or hard, will it be to create new gestures for your AV? Will there be a tool to use, or will it all be done with manual scripting work?
Robin Linden: Be sure to try v1.4 out on the preview grid -- there will be an announcement on the forum when it's ready.
Toy LaFollette: Thanx Robin :)
Tommy Blanc: Where's the preview grid?
James Miller: www.secondlife.com/preview
Tommy Blanc: danke
Dyonis Blanc: downloading the preview
Robin Linden: Tommy - it can be downloaded at 3PM this afternoon, barring unforseen problems.
James Miller: Don't download yet, that's the old one.
Haney Linden: Oboe Blanc: Hi Robin .... Maybe you could create A sim ( Or sims ) that could be leased out for special events ... It woul certainly reduce Lag because of prim heavy sims.
Robin Linden: Oboe - that's another thing we're considering.
Robin Linden: The bigger question is free versus auction versus rent.
Haney Linden: Tommy Blanc: When will 1.4 be availible
James Miller: Eek, the IRC chat is spilling in here...
Tommy Blanc: what's happeneing there man?
Robin Linden: 1.4 will be available at or around 3PM PT
Beryl Greenacre: irc chat spilling into our in-world chat for some reason
Haney Linden: Bam Perkins: do you consider the Evolution campaign a success
Robin Linden: Bam - yes. Even discounting the extra referrals from the email offer we did we had SL residents referring many more friends than in earlier months.
Haney Linden: Ming Chen: do you know of any other software other than poser to create animations?
Dyonis Blanc: LIFEFORMS permits to create BVH files
Robin Linden: Any software that creats .bvh files.
Dyonis Blanc: www.charactermotion.com
Haney Linden: Mae Best: How do we obtain Poser?
Robin Linden: You can obtain Poser from Curious Labs - they have downloads.
Merwan Marker: buy it :-)
Robin Linden: Also, we'll have a limited number of copies for a free giveaway. More on that later.
Haney Linden: Dyonis Blanc: will be POSER 4 enough, or POSER 5 necessary ?
Robin Linden: Poser 4 will work.
Haney Linden: Dyonis Blanc: will be POSER 4 enough, or POSER 5 necessary ?
Merwan Marker: Poser for Macs too Robin??
Robin Linden: Yes - Macs too
Merwan Marker: Excellent!
Haney Linden: SuluMor Romulus: What will be the limits of .uploads
Robin Linden: Sorry - Sulu - I don't understand the question. Do you mean file size?
Robin Linden: You can upload up to a 30 second animation.
Haney Linden: Bam Perkins: how many residents have come since April?
Robin Linden: Hmmm - have to look that one up...
Haney Linden: Kyle Gilman: Are there any plans to do away with or make cheaper the Upload cost? Kyle Gilman: With possibly a limit per day instead of a $L cost?
Robin Linden: It's not something we've talked about.
Robin Linden: OK - thanks everybody. Keep an eye on the forums for more info about the preview grid and Poser.
Merwan Marker: thank you Robin
Haney Linden: Thank you all for coming out so early in the day!
Kyle Gilman: Thanks
Bam Perkins: thanks
Cindy Bismark: Thanks Robin
Robin Linden: thanks everybody for coming!!
Rocket Roentgen: TY Robin and Haney!
Doodles Casanova: Thank you for your information.
Dyonis Blanc: LOL it is 9h52 pm here
Lumiere Noir: thank you all!
Rocket Roentgen: Will transcripts be posted as usual?
Adam Zaius: Transcripts already up
Haney Linden: thanks to the Euros for stayingup so late
Ezhar Fairlight: transcript here: http://sl.sdfjkl.org/townhall/townhall-live.html
Adam Zaius: http://sites.gwala.net/townhall/
Dyonis Blanc: -winks-
Adam Zaius: Mine's got bolded/italics for robin/haney respectively.
Rocket Roentgen: TY!
Ezhar Fairlight: mines got colors! :P
Beryl Greenacre: hey, Ez, did you see that the Alphaville Herald has a link to your town hall transcripts?
Merwan Marker: hey Adam how you been?
Adam Zaius: Not bad. :)
Ezhar Fairlight: no, where? i don't read alphaville herald :)
Toy LaFollette: :)
Beryl Greenacre: I don't either, but I was checking it out last night, they're featuring SL since so many TSO people are coming here
BlackAdder York: These days they post the transcript `before` the meeting...very high tech.
Ezhar Fairlight: during :)
Beryl Greenacre: it's further down on the first page, if you scroll down
Toy LaFollette: ya , I been posting at the AVH some like "poscards from SL"
Beryl Greenacre: heh, good idea, Toy :)
Merwan Marker: Yeah and im sure it's about $400 ish??
Merwan Marker: well back to work Bye All!!!
Beryl Greenacre: bye Merwan
Merwan Marker: let's get together and do this again soo