The Town Hall will be broadcast in Second Life with residents asking questions via SKYPE and Philip responding using voice. Johnny Ming, whom some of you may know from SecondCast, will be providing his assistance and expertise in hosting.
We'll provide a URL in advance of the meeting so if you want to listen in from the comfort of your own SL home you can. Johnny will tape the entire event and create a podcast, which will then made available at http://secondlife.com/community/media.php, for those who can't make the original meeting.
If you do want to attend the meeting in person, it will be held at the Pooley Stage.
More information if you want to call in to ask a question:
We aren't soliciting questions in advance. Philip plans to start out with some thoughts he wants to share, and then we'll open for call-in questions. Using Skype, you'll be able to call "lindenlive" to ask a question. Johnny Ming will be manning the Skype conference line and will relay your call.
There are three qualifications for a person to call in:
1. Headset The reason is simply because speakers combined with a microphone almost always guarantees unpredictable echo.
2. Turn off SL Audio During Call. When you are called into the conference, you must have already turned off your SL audio. The 10-15 seconds of delay between the Skype conference and the sound heard in Second Life from the stream
3. Callers should be able to speak in languages Philip knows well.
Friendly Tip: Anyone trying Skype for the first time should use the built in test call so they can hear themselves and adjust their volume and headset prior to calling in. It's common for callers to either chew on their mic (have it too close) or to have the microphone just under their nose or mouth. Sometimes the best sound is achieved when the mic boom is near your chin -- away from air flow.
