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We held our first public Advisory Board meeting today! This also served as a test for Test Grid #1 before the move to the new R&D Server box as the Halcyon Test Grid. Average CPU time was about 5% with the grid hosted in a single VM (like Sim-on-a-stick) on a home connection. We did see an error on the messaging server which will be reported to the Halcyon development team. But overall, the meeting went well with no performance issues impacting the user experience.

 

Our goal was to provide an overview to potential Advisory Board members on IMA's mission, its structure, and the role of Advisors in the Working Group branch process. Subsequent questions, answers, and ideas for working group efforts turned a one hour meeting into two hours and we could have gone longer if folks had time!

 

Steve LaVigne gave a presentation using the in-world presenter and the text of the presentation was included real-time to make it more accessible. We also talked about working groups at length as well as the status and plans with resources for the working groups. Included in the presentation was a new simplified step-by-step working group process from start to finish.

 

It may be possible future meetings can be livestreamed with video, audio, and chat if we get a volunteer for that function. The next meeting will be on the third Wednesday in May at IMA Outpost Alpha which is hypergrid-enabled. As we finalize the make-up of the Advisory Board, (Hopefully this week we will have the majority in place.), we will publish the list of members and start filling the interim Director's Council seats as more interest evolves. For all those who were unable to join us today, here is the chat log: (Slides for the presentation are at the bottom of the chat log.)

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What’s Happening Now At IMA!

Steve here.

First off-At 4:430 PM USA EST at IMA Outpost Alpha in the Metropolis Grid (hypergrid.org:8002:IMA Outpost Alpha) we will be having our Q&A session about our R&D server project and all the incredible stories that go with that. There is some real high adventure there and a bunch of spreadsheets! Seems like everything these days develops a spreadsheet or two! SO HG in and we will tell our hair raising geeky stories!

 

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Hi Everyone!

The Infinite Metaverse Alliance is getting more infinite every day! As we chug along toward our getting everything up and running we need some help. One of the first things that we will be creating is Working Groups. Working Groups are small groups of under 10 people working together toward a shared goal. One of the services that IMA will provide to Working Groups is a project management system.

How Working Groups Work
Working Group Loop Diagram



We have chosen the open source system called Open Project (OP) for this service. IMA wants, as much as possible, any software we are dealing with be Open Source. That commitment is a basic part of what IMA is all about.

I have installed Open Project on a server and it is ready to be setup for Working Groups to use. We need a little help from a couple of volunteers.

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Thanks to everyone who participated in this survey! While the number was small, the subset of the community based on how they identify is very diverse. We are going to be doing a more in-depth analysis (correlation investigations related to interest in authoring versus platform for example) and hosting a discussion when that is completed.

 

But, we wanted to publish the summary analytics for all those interested. We did find some quite interesting, and in some cases surprising, results. For now, you can get involved in a discussion and ask questions on this topic at our G+ Community. Here is a link to the summary analytics:

 

Survey: Open Simulator Security Issues - Results

 

 

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IMA's functional goals include standards and specifications to advance virtual worlds, virtual reality, and synthetic environments through research and development. A portion of our software policy was published when we launched - our general coding and documentation topics. Today, we published a more comprehensive document called Infinite Metaverse Alliance Architecture Framework (IMAAF). But what is an Architecture Framework? 

 

  1. IMA in Metaverse Inworld Review 3/5/2017
  2. Infinite Metaverse Alliance Getting First Dedicated Server!
  3. A Note from Lisa Laxton About our Logo and the Founding of IMA:
  4. Community Interest Pushes IMA to go Live Early!