Townhall: Transcript Anyone?

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"This is what we're going to do. Feel free to send input, we have a daemon to collect that and wipe it from the system every two hours. Moving on, no, no, email me, no, next week, no, i'll reference that someone, no, interesting idea, email me, no, no, no deadline on that, no, no, at least several months, no, thank you everyone for participating."

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I was on a really important call during the CC.

Was it Don Rumsfeld?

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LoL... nah. My interior designer.

Was it Don Rumsfeld?

It's funny because -- uh oh, my red phone is ringing. It's probably Cheney again wanting me to take him bar hopping tonight.

ok - I do agree that Philip was asked a lot of questions his staff could answer - I really think it's great he's willing to subject himself to *all* SL residents and hear it straight from us if you choose to share!

I thought he did a good job at veering the "keynote" question into a 1 to 2 minute nugget and getting back down to earth with the rest of us and listen to our questions - that ain't easy!

ok - as far as i can tell, I can only find a text transcript of the discussion from last month (April) - this is not a full transciption and best be called minutes or a "conceptual recap" if you will!

A lot of ground was covered so bear with me on this - I hope it's useful to some of you!

Voice is my current pet peeve at the moment - but don't let this bais the conversation!

ps. If a "..." is there - I wasn't able to grok the conversation - please excuse me for this!

1. Open source - request for more open source involvement
   
2. Copyright Infringement - DMCA "handles exactly as web sites do" "you request to have content taken down" "there is legal escalation" "[object] owner provides chain of accountability"
   
3. Vision - "SL is as big as the Internet" "complexity [equals or exceeds what it takes to maintain the Internet today]" "job beyond one company" Philip has taken an action item to create a followup meeting on Linden Lab's vision.
   
4. Advanced Content - ie. "chemical models" issues is with formats. Philip foresees "conversion [tools/scripts] to prim format"
   
5. Cybercrime - "interrupting commerce on a web site is a federal crime" SL is looking for an equivalence model between SL and web sites. request to make names of offender public to discourage individuals in the future.
   
6. Policy on Politics - campaign away!, encourage openness without violating freedom
   
7. SL Use Program - "intensive communication with users" day workshops
   
8. prim limit increases and new tree program - physics engine dependencies. do not want to impact framerate
   
9. Linux - runs as fast as PC client. no date on when it will move out of alpha status
   
10. new scripting - HTTP request feature "response in several hundred milliseconds"
    
11. alternative interfaces - "we've done interesting human interface work" makes mention of new Nintendo controller "general vision is to expose interface" "make progress on this in the next few months"
    
12. open source - "million of users" "need to contribute" "hang in there" "we're looking at something that is profoundly large"
    
13. push weapons - "inconsistent with term of service" Philip takes an action item to investigate this further
    
14. traffic programs - "eliminating traffic program got more positive feedback [than negative]" [editorial: i hear break away from web domain name park paradigm - yeay!]
    
15. object-to-object communication - "shared object-to-object model" "no specific dates for release"
    
16. boolean objects - related to LSL grammar. Philip takes an action item to address this offline
    
17. glut in land market - "don't believe there is a glut" "5.78 L$/sqm"
    
18. prim hair and clothing - "people now prefer prim har and clothing [over mesh]" "hardcore!" no commitment - "improvements on lighting [to be released]"
    
19. lag - ...
    
20. business users - business week article caused a influx of business users. "do you like the idea Nike and Coke invade SL?" "cannot imagine what the Nike and Cola's in the world...bring their existing content" "every company is expected to 'make their own way' 'prove their own value' [just like everyone else]"
    
21. last names - moving forward on feature to create own last names [editorial: i think fixed last names is a good idea - you get to find your family members and cause a reunion ]
    
22. team grid content - "exclusive content for the team grid" "Linden Lab does not build content" [ie. they are a platform company] "[make sure its] reasonably protected"
    
23. culture - "kingdom, democracy, anarchy, communism, or something else?" "free and open place" "all of the above" "at highest level...fundamentally open" "democracy doesn't capture that" "like the [culture of the] Internet"
    
24. voice - "this Town Hall is great because of voice" "tie [voice] to objects" "concerns...don't want to alienate those who don't want to use voice" "we need to think positively about voice" [it's happening whether you like it or not]
    
25. radio stations - ...
    
26. Mac || TCP - "today we use UDP" "performance of intel-based macs is remarkable" Philip is "finally going to get myself a mac"
    
27. concurrent script editing - akin web 2.0 word processors "that could be very cool" Philip takes an action item
    
28. 31 object limit - ...
    
29. single-user, disconnected mode - "it is a lot of work" "not on agenda right now" ability to edit objects while not connected and upload them. there is a reference to "P2P" in passing [allowing 2 people to collaborate on content creation for example]
    
30. search - "we need to improve search capability" fees were imposed orginally to give postings "more meaning" something closer to "Google" is required.
    

a big thanks to everyone and anyone was more than encouraged to provide any additional feedback directly to Philip. The next town hall will be next month (date not announced).

LoL... nah. My interior designer.