[sldev] Interested in learning how to setup a Lotus Sametime server / Virtual world

[Jo Grant]

>Perhaps if enough Sldev's show interest, they may put together a special 
training workshop for us...
I passed this on to some people on the Sametime 3D team. They are updating 
the wiki with some more information but asked me to pass this back to 
you...

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Background
Sametime 3D is not a Second Life implementation. It is built in Opensim, 
and uses some of the unique functions of OS scripting to enable some of 
the capabilities and allow us to install behind a client's firewall. 
Although it is not fully apparent in the press release and video (you can 
only put so much in those things!), this is more than just virtual 
space(s) for collaboration. We have build an infrastructure for the 
enterprise that is usable "out of the box", but is also designed to be 
extensible by anyone with VW building skills. The services offering 
approach under which we announced this requires that IBM does the base 
installation for the clients who are licensing the asset (ie, our services 
team comes in and sets up the application and connects to their enterprise 
apps). Once the base offering installation complete, there are a number of 
opportunities for 3rd parties to extend and enhance the base capabilities. 
What we provide for the enterprise is an infrastructure that includes 
capabilities such as: 
A life cycle management tool  that manages all the OpenSim virtual spaces 
(archive/restore, for example) and allows addition of new 'templates' (an 
entire OAR for a new space, for example) by the client through a web based 
administrator interface. 
Ability for clients (or their partners) to enhance --  by adding scripted 
objects, clothing, etc -- the three templates we provide,  and then save 
those as new templates for use by the enterprise. 
Connection to Lotus Sametime for easy access to a user's Contact List -- 
so you can invite people to a meeting directly from Sametime (ST), our 
instant messaging application--   if client is using ST 8.0.1 or later. 
A full Web based UI for clients not using ST 8, that allows users (and 
administrators) to create/delete spaces, set private/public spaces and -- 
if private -- invite selected users to access the space etc- all functions 
you can do with the ST plug-in except the web interface (for obvious 
reasons) doesn't allow you to  invite people from your ST Contact List to 
a virtual meeting. 
User friendly upload process for presentations, Lotus Symphony, Open 
Office, PDF, doc, or even excel files -through web interface or the ST 
interface
Integration with enterprise LDAP for authentication services- users are 
authenticated against client's LDAP and then assigned their user names 
automatically. First time users are given choice of avatars to "pre-dress" 
them. 

So many of the things that are not necessarily in the sweet spot of 
virtual world developers, but make for more of an enterprise ready 
solution, with the underlying virtual world technology being Opensim.
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They like the idea of public seminars to answer questions and promote 
developer interest. Given the OpenSim nature of the project I'm not sure 
it's entirely appropriate to circulate announcements or hold discussions 
on this list. I think a "contact for more information" e-mail address will 
be going up on the wiki. But if you don't see it, interested people are 
welcome to pass your e-mail to me and I'll make sure the person organizing 
things knows to keep you in the loop.

Cheers,

Jo

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Jo Grant, jo_grant at us.ibm.com
http://www-03.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/roivw
ISV Developer Enablement Architect, 
Notes 8 Composite Applications and XPages,
One Roger's Street, Cambridge MA 02144
tel: 617-693-6089
SL: Jaymin Carthage

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