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Summary of 7/29/2011 NPC meeting

Posted Fri, 08/05/2011 - 00:20 by HydraShaftoe

Feel free to pay your respects for the terror attack in norway at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Norge/147/153/31

New Linden Lab user profiles available at https://my.secondlife.com/

Buffy Beale is leading up the 4 year mentor celebration. Everyone who has an office at NPC is asked to contribute.

Summary of 7/15/2011 NPC meeting

Posted Fri, 07/22/2011 - 07:25 by HydraShaftoe

This week, Rik was out on business travel, so Susan hosted the meeting. DJ Earnshaw spoke to us today about his new display panel, which is an excellent SL tool for displaying information.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Kinetix/155/60/29

The Ultimate Display Panel is a combination of a notecard reader, with a way to have long lines without worrying about the 255 character limit in reading notecards, combined with a resizeable display panel having three levels of prerezzing, and a number of additional features to serve a teacher's needs:

SUMMARY OF 6/24/2011 NPC MEETING

Posted Fri, 07/01/2011 - 07:38 by HydraShaftoe

Today we had an opening round of thanks for zinnia for being a representative of NPC at the SL8B celebration. She described NPC's longstanding history of networking events, community involvement, parties, and other functions to gather people together for a cause.

She also gave instructions for getting an event promoted by NPC :

[2011/06/24 08:42] Zinnia Zauber: 1. Develop Active Networking Community
Event with your staff and volunteers.
[2011/06/24 08:42] Zinnia Zauber: 2. Submit for approval for event that

Summary of 6/17/2011 NPC meeting

Posted Fri, 06/24/2011 - 04:15 by HydraShaftoe

Susan made some quick announcements before the meeting started. Josehine Dorado is representing NPC at Games 4 Change, and Zynga will be presenting at the next community meetup.

Speaker: Habitat Hero (Sharon) from Australia.

Summary of 6/10/2011 NPC meeting

Posted Fri, 06/17/2011 - 04:17 by HydraShaftoe

GLOBALKIDS BIXBY AND ASTRA TOKI

Summary of 6/3/2011 NPSL meeting

Posted Fri, 06/10/2011 - 04:27 by HydraShaftoe

SESSION SUMMARY

Speaker #1 - Shava Nerad

Summary of 5/27/2011 NPSL meeting

Posted Thu, 06/02/2011 - 19:26 by HydraShaftoe

Nonny Writer / Nonny de la Peña

* Nonny is a maker of SL virtual awareness projects. Virtual Gitmo is one of her works.

* Discussion about Gitmo

* First built in spring of 2007 to highlight Guantanamo facility.

* Real facility is inaccessible to journalists.

* Second SL sim was about Cap and trade - carbon emissions controls and trading. Sim outlined methods of carbon footprint reduction, carbon emissions trading, and carbon credits.

* Ways to recycle and re-use carbon waste such as hog manure.

* Now working on a sim about hunger in California.

Thomas Jäger

Summary of 5/20/2011 NPSL meeting.

Posted Thu, 05/26/2011 - 18:42 by HydraShaftoe

Speaker - David Burden, developer with Daden Ltd, an innovative cross-platform virtual world development company.

http://www.daden.co.uk/pages/virtual_world_finder.html

*There is a lot of variety and choice between virtual worlds and their capabilities. There was a need for a centralized virtual world finder that makes it possible to see what you can do with each of them. Every world has its pros and cons (I.E. - Eve Online allows things that Gaia does not, and vice versa).

*A simple web app has been developed that allows people to weigh pros and cons, capabilities.

SL and Skype voice troubleshooting

Posted Sat, 03/19/2011 - 11:27 by HydraShaftoe

Let's face it. We all know that SL's voice isn't totally stable, but there are a few things you can do to clear up a bad connection on the fly or make a dead mike work.

Dead mike - If your SL client is not recognizing your microphone (most common reason for a dead mike), go into (on viewer 2) ME - PREFERENCES - SOUND AND MEDIA TAB - INPUT DEVICES TAB then select your microphone. It should say something similar to (Microphone (Logitech Voicemaster USB) as one of the selections. Usually the selection labeled "default" is not the one you want. Only try it as a last resort.

Can't get into your router? Default passwords here.

Posted Sat, 03/19/2011 - 11:13 by HydraShaftoe

One of the most common problems people face is when they mess up settings on a router and need to change them. Once you do the hard reset (by depressing the tiny button on most models with a paper clip), it will revert to factory settings, and you need to know how to get into the admin account. Here is the cheat sheet that I use for this. It has almost all makes and models of router on it.

Original source at http://www.phenoelit-us.org/dpl/dpl.html

-- Hydra Shaftoe / Jason Pace

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