OSCC14 - Viewer Developer Panel Moderated by Justin Clark-Casey
Channel: AvaCon Inc
Date: 06/12/2014

Viewer Developer Panel Moderated by Justin Clark-Casey

This panel brings together developers of popular Second Life and OpenSimulator viewers such as Singularity, Firestorm, and Radegast to discuss the future of viewer development in these worlds. The panel will be moderated by Justin Clark-Casey, core developer for the OpenSimulator project.

Moderators

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.

Speakers

Cinder Biscuits, Ultimate Gaming Europe, AB
Cinder Biscuits is a software engineer for Neptune Entertainment and CTO of YrGrid. She has made numerous contributions to several virtual world viewers including Second Life Viewer, Phoenix-Firestorm Viewer, Alchemy, and Singularity and is an active virtual world evangelist. Cinder has a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Utah and enjoys writing and painting in her free time.

Liru Faers, LSL Bridge, Singularity Viewer
Liru Faers (also known as Inusaito Kanya) is a member of both the Alchemy Viewer and the Singularity Viewer development teams. Though she has only been working on Singularity Viewer for around three or four years now, she has been using simulated worlds for seven years. Liru manages efforts to localize the viewer, provides viewer support through various chat channels, and monitors the issue tracker. 

Latif Khalifa
Latif Khalifa participated in the development and is the current maintainer of Libopenmetaverse (originally known as LibSL) which provided the initial communications framework for Opensim. He created Radegast Metaverse client and has participated in the development of Singularity Viewer.

Jessica Lyon, Firestorm Viewer
Jessica Lyon is the founder and Project Manager of The Phoenix Firestorm Project Inc; a non-profit company with over 80 support staff and developers working under it. The project is responsible for developing the very popular Phoenix and Firestorm Viewers used in Second Life and virtual worlds. Along with managing the project Jessica also spends time listening to user input in order to improve and advocate to protect the user experience.

Nicky Perian
Nicky Perian is retired from the United States Army and ABB. Building the Kokua Viewer is his major hobby, since most of his work experience was hardware and his computer experience dates back to an aircraft Doppler navigation system that had an analog computer with input / output to the aircraft instruments and the system's on board digital computer. While with ABB, Nicky worked on Honeywell 316, 6-36 and 6-43 minicomputers with multiple Intel 8085 microprocessors used for discrete signal processing. It was here that he became involved with software maintenance including applying bit level patches and later on writing patches with system utilities. Some of these patches were original authorship. After retirement, Nicky found that he missed the technical aspects of work and after joining Second Life discovered its open source project. Nicky believes building Kokua Viewer is good brain exercise, better than Solitaire or Sudoku. Nicky lives in a rural area of Arkansas in the USA.

About the OpenSimulator Community Conference 2014: The OpenSimulator Community Conference is an annual conference that focuses on the developer and user community creating the OpenSimulator software - http://opensimulator.org.  Organized as a joint production by the Overte Foundation and AvaCon, Inc., the conference features two days of presentations, workshops, keynote sessions, and social events across diverse sectors of the OpenSimulator user base. The OpenSimulator Community Conference 2014 features four themed tracks and a Learning Lab

For more information see http://conference.opensimulator.org.

Captured Live on Ustream at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/oscc3 Recorded on 11/8/2014