[sldev] Re: Thursday agenda

[SignpostMarv Martin]

Rob Lanphier wrote:
> Hi SignpostMarv,
>
> I see you added a few items to this week's agenda:
>
>    * Encouraging open-source focused conferences to simulcast their
>      events inside Second Life to increase world-wide awareness and
>      attendance
During last week's meeting, one of the things that was discussed was 
LL's attendance of open-source related conferences. It would be 
interesting to discuss what LL and Residents could do to encourage the 
organisers of such events to simulcast their event in-world (think along 
the lines of the Open Source display Baba Yamamoto organised for SL4B).

>    * SL Viewer vs SLeek: accessibility for blind/partially sighted users
Recently I've been forced to use SLeek as a means of accessing Second 
Life- if I use the LL viewer, my system freezes.

I found that the text-only interface would be hypothetically superior to 
the LL viewer in terms of accessibility to blind or partially sighted users.

Two reasons why accessibility in SL is important:
1) the Viewer is to SL as Firefox is to the Internet (see the 2007 Open 
Source Awards: 
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/07/oscon_open_sour_1.html )
2) Most countries have legislation which creates an obligation to 
service providers that their service be accessible to disabled users. If 
a company can be sued for having an inaccessible website, this might put 
them off using SL due to the lack of (perceived or actual) accessibility.


>    * Linden Lab's adoption of techniques described in 3rd party sources
>      (e.g. not the SL Jira or SL Wiki)
This concern was initially raised via my questions regarding the use of 
the mapapi.net wiki, but I've expanded it to cover a more general scope:
If a Linden comes across a technique that can be applied to Second Life, 
what factors control whether Linden Lab implements a technique 
(uBrowser), licenses a technique (fmod ?) or acquires the technique 
(WindLight)
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature
Size: 3249 bytes
Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Url : http://lists.secondlife.com/pipermail/sldev/attachments/20080129/97d30be0/smime.bin