Re: [sldev] Vote for change in virtual worlds: let’s put e-democracy to a test!

Thomas Grimshaw tom at streamsense.net
Wed Dec 31 09:37:37 PST 2008


Then, you really want to petition the International Organisation for 
Standardization and not the united states president elect.  
http://www.iso.org/iso/home.htm

~T

Leonel Morgado wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
>     I beg to disagree. I find it relevant - that's why I posted it.
>     I am not an American - that's a great thing about change.org 
> <http://change.org> - you can contribute with ideas, even if you're 
> not an American citizen.
>
>     The metaverse is international, but it isn't a reality: you are in 
> Second Life, but you cannot take your avatar and creations to other 
> virtual worlds, not even to Open Sim. Even existing efforts, like the 
> cross-grid announcement by Linden Lab and IBM recently, cover little 
> more than an avatar's name.
>
>    Anyone should be able to host a virtual world server and let other 
> people visit it, seamlessly - like anyone can host a Web page.
>    That is what this proposal is all about.
>
>    It impacts research, education, business, it impacts Second Life, 
> but also other virtual worlds.
>
> Inté,
>
> Leonel
>
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Thomas Grimshaw <tom at streamsense.net 
> <mailto:tom at streamsense.net>> wrote:
>
>     I'm sorry, but this is really not relevant to this list.
>
>     In case you didn't notice, the metaverse is already international
>     :P and those of us outside of the USA couldn't really care less
>     about what your new president does.
>
>     ~T
>
>
>     Leonel Morgado wrote:
>
>
>         but it's totally open to international voters too. The change
>         is for America, but its impact will be global. A nice touch!
>
>
>



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