2018 IMA: TECH: Infinte Metaverse Alliance activities, summary

IMA activities, summary


Updated 8/21/2018

A collection of articles reporting on activities related to Infinite Metaverse Alliance and working groups with contributing projects.  This page will be updated as more articles are published.

Meeting at IMA Alpha

• Infinite Metaverse Alliance (G+ group)
• IMA-related reports on this blog
• IMAVision: Infinite Metaverse Alliance
• The IMA all-hours schedule

General

• Virtual Worlds Fair, OSCC Venues, exhibit locator
• HGProjects, the OSHG initiative, and IMA. A lot of progress. Summary
• The OSHG project joins forces with IMA
• IMA Conference Center on Kitely, draft design for a virtual world

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Working Groups

Grant and contract planning

• The gamification of learning how to learn. Learn what you can do

How working groups operate

• Essential roles in a self-managed working group (team)
• The business meeting boards by Neovo in IMA Meet&Greet. 

Test management

• Godzilla and the boats: Testing the sim and the physics. Research can be fun
• IMA Test Management WG31
• IMA Proposed Working Group: Test Management
• IMA WG31 Test Management work group is organized
• IMA Test WG: suites needed: Quality Assurance
• IMA Test WG: Comparison suites for versions, modules, etc.

• IMA Test WG: Problem analysis tests, objects and protocols: Example: TMFFail
• TMFFail succeeds. The benefits of problem analysis

• Physics Engine Benchmarking for virtual worlds. Example for Testing WG

Web-world WG (TBD)

• Community onboarding for the virtual worlds: Using a web-world
• Web-world development and promotion (TBD)
• Cybalounge: where you can build your web-world
• Web-world general rooms, the Eventorator Room
• Nonprofit web-world message board. What can we do with it?

Commerce WG

• The business meeting boards by Neovo in IMA Meet&Greet
• Virtual Worlds Fairgrounds at OSCC and elsewhere
• Virtual Worlds Fair has an initial site: OSCC, Thirza's HG exhibit: : A project of the HG Chamber of Commerce
• Virtual Currency Issues WG26
• IMA Commerce working group forming
• Virtual world money: Virtual world commerce needs micropayments

Promotion (WG pending)

• Event managers looking for talent! Performers looking for work! Look here
• Virtual Worlds Fair: Events Venue
• Virtual Worlds Fair, OSCC Venues, exhibit locator 
• Virtual Worlds Fair Kiosk: Introduction to the Hypergrid
• Promote events to the OpenSim community: G+ events, IMA virtual worlds
• OpenSim Community Conference (OSCC) Dec. 9-10, 2017
• Hypergrid International Expo (HIE) : Multi-language: Language classes note
• A virtual world on your laptop. DreamWorld, wants to be the installer for the rest of us
• Marketing and Outreach: Resources for free outreach
• Shawn's Calendar, monthly view

Destinations

• HYPERGRIDABLE grids open 24/7: Interactive spreadsheet for Hypergridders
• Shawn's Hypergrid Winter/Christmas list of places

OpenSimulator instruction (WG pending)

• Make mesh for virtual worlds with no experience!
• The secrets of mesh, uploading and physics in OpenSim. Simple, clear, accurate

Communucation

• Infinite Metaverse Alliance updater: Communication in the digital age

Viewer for education and research

• Wanted: a virtual world viewer for education. Straw-man model
• SceneGate: updating the straw-man model for education
• Virtual worlds can host challenge-based learning

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