Hi Coders,

Long time no see! I've been off radar dealing with twin boys (now
6months old) and economic collapse, but am sort of coming out the other
side :-)

I have this crazy idea to try and re-start honolulu coders, but hold
meetings in Second Life:

http://www.techhui.com/group/secondlife

Ken Mayer and I have been experimenting with streaming live desktop
images into SL, and although we haven't perfected that, we can show
powerpoints and do voice chat in SL.

You may think I'm crazy, but I think the big thing that SL has going for
it is spatial audio so that multiple sub-groups of people can have
conversations and people can wonder around listening to different
conversations making it possible to have a mixer, or networking event.

Anyhow, let me know what you think. If you have an SL avatar already
send me the name so I can add you to the access list for our island (we
hope to make it public once we've done some more refurbishment). If you
don't have an SL account do consider getting one:

https://join.secondlife.com/

If you have ideas for coding related stuff you'd like to present on
please let me know. I'm thinking about presenting on Android and/or
Twitter and Ken has a few areas such as cucumber, capistrano and
haml/sass that he could present on.

We haven't set a date yet as we are still working to see if we can get
live desktop streaming working (as that would rock), but I am giving
tours of our SL island every Thursday at noon if you want to drop by and
see the space and chat to me about ideas.

I've also created a TechHui group:
http://www.techhui.com/group/honolulucoders

CHEERS> SAM

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Sam Joseph, Ph.D.
Laboratory for Interactive Learning Technologies
Department of Information and Computer Sciences
University of Hawaii