OSCC14 - KEYNOTE: Opening Remarks & OpenSimulator Developer Panel
Channel: AvaCon Inc
Date: 2014-12-06

Introductory Remarks:  Chris Collins (Avatar: Fleep Tuque), President, AvaCon, Inc.  http://avacon.org

Begins 22:45 - OSCC14 - KEYNOTE: Opening Remarks & OpenSimulator Developer Panel

A panel of core developers will discuss the future of the OpenSimulator platform. Expect a lively debate! Topics will include a variety of issues including the future of the Hypergrid, content licensing and permissions, scalability, project maturity, and much more. Find out where the platform is headed and learn more about the developers who make the software happen!

Speakers

Mic Bowman, Intel Labs
Mic Bowman is a principal engineer in Intel Labs and leads the Virtual World Infrastructure research project. His team develops technologies that enable “order of magnitude” scalability improvements in virtual environments opening the door to new levels of immersiveness and interaction among players.

Michael Cerqoni
Michael Cerquoni is a core developer for the OpenSimulator project and a board member on the Overte Foundation which governs the OpenSimulator project. Michael has been involved with the OpenSimulator project since July of 2007 and is one of the original founders of OSgrid. His primary interest in OpenSimulator has been to improve the software by providing technical support and to foster communication between the core development team to debug and provide the most stable platform possible.

Justin Clark-Casey, Overte Foundation
Justin Clark-Casey (@justincc) is President of the Overte Foundation, and one of the core developers of OpenSimulator, working on many different areas ranging from asset and inventory to performance and infrastructure issues. Justin created some of the better known data persistence formats for OpenSimulator, such as OpenSimulator Archives (OARs) and OpenSimulator Inventory Archives (IARs). He also provides OpenSimulator-related consultancy services.

James Hughes, Founder, BlueWall Information Technologies, LLC
After following a career path starting in the arcade video gaming industry then touching bases with business machines, computing research development and testing, local area netork infrastructure design, administration and support, James Hughes (BlueWall Slade) had a long stint as a single dad that left a void to be filled with various personal technical projects. He is now happy to be a core member of the OpenSimulator development team.

Oren Hurvitz
Oren Hurvitz is the Co-Founder and VP R&D of Kitely, and one of the core developers of OpenSimulator. Oren was previously the Director of Server Development at Vringo, CEO of Centico, VP of R&D at HumanEyes and the Director of Messaging Development at OmniSky. Oren holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Crista Lopes, University of California, Irvine
Crista Lopes is a Professor in the School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. Prior to being in Academia, she worked at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (1995-2001). She is co-inventor of AOP (Aspect Oriented Programming), a programming technology featured in the MIT Technology Review (2001) as "one of the 10 emergent technologies that will change the world." She also serves on the board of the Overte Foundation and is the creator of the Hypergrid.

Melanie Milland, Avination
Melanie Thielker is the founder of Avination. As an OpenSimulator Core Developer, Melanie has been one of the most active contributors to virtual world software in general, and OpenSimulator in particular. A long term Second Life™ resident, she has gained much experience in using virtual worlds. Melanie has been involved in a number of virtual world projects and has created her own "spin" of the OpenSimulator software. 

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