More to come on the Second Life Community Convention….but first a copy of my presentation slides as I’ve had a few requests:
To watch the presentation (the slides might not make sense without it) you can view an archive of the live stream which is split in two parts: the first part includes Philip’s keynote and my presentation starts at about 2:30:00, and the second part which is the remainder of my rambling.
SLSteam?
While I’ve got you – Philip mentioned that Second Life will soon have regular (weekly) updates to the main viewer and that these would be “shipped” using an auto-updater. Does anyone have an opinion on whether using something like Steam makes sense as an alternate distribution platform for Second Life and its updates?
More thoughts to follow on my SLCC experience. I feel like I have a month’s worth of blogging because of it. And for those who I met at SLCC let me say what an insanely amazing pleasure it was.
I agree with the Steam update idea to a point, especially now that Steam supports Mac, but there’s also Linux that might not be supported by trying to go that route.
There’s also the problem that Steam is a gaming platform updater and Second Life is not a game, a “Virtual Worlds” updater that included support for MMO’s, Inworldz, Heritage Key, IMVU etc would be the ideal way to go in my opinion. That could also include updates of non official SL viewers such as Emerald, Imprudence, Hippo and the Cool VW Viewer (and all the other viewers I’ve just missed out on).
SLCC was a great event and I’m still working out my notes before I post about some of the great things that happened and the people I met. I only briefly met you Dusan, but it was definitely a blast.
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hmmm… the race to slide 63.
I believe that using one of the digital distribution services (eg: Steam) would mean that there would be a cost to Linden Lab on every update.
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