SL EVENTS OF THE WEEK, 5/16-5/21

Creative Commons continues its cultural expansion into Second Life.  This Thursday, Fred Beckersted, board member of FreeCulture.org, a student group inspired by Lawrence Lessig's book of the same name, gives a show-and-tell on the group's activities, from protesting DRM to hosting the Film Remix contest to integrating free culture into the community of Second Life.  Replete with free T-shirts, Fred gets his rip, mix, burn groove on at the newly unveiled Free Culture Art Gallery, showcasing copies of CC-licensed works.   (Real life background for Fred here.)

Also on the week's docket: a virtual luncheon with an esteemed technology professor from India on the island of Harvard's Berkman Center, a machinima film festival, a simulcast town hall with Linden Lab CEO Philip Linden, and more.  All the details you need after the break.

All times listed in Second Life Time, i.e., Pacific Standard.

Tuesday, May 16

9:30AM - 11:00AM:  Berkman Luncheon on the Indian Business Models & Policies for Leveraging Technology.  Harvard's Berkman Island presents a virtual luncheon presentation by Dr. Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT).  Hosted by Ansible Berkman, who describes Dr. Jhunjhunwala's background: "He provided insight into how a lower telecom infrastructure cost will make communication systems affordable to more Indians. A larger goal of this vision has been to develop technologies which will provide 200 million telecom and Internet connections in Indian cities, small towns and rural areas."

Wednesday, May 17

7:00PM - 8:00PM:  Take5 Machinima Festival.  The indominatable Buhbuhcuh Fairchild unveils another showing of Resident-made machinima created in SL.  (Fairchild's resource site here.)

Thursday, May 18

3:00PM - 4:00PM:  Town Hall with Philip Linden. Linden Lab's CEO appears live in-world and via Skype-powered streaming audio.  Full details on catching the conversation, either in person, a live audio or chat stream, or a post-show Podcast, here.        

6:00PM - 7:00PM:  Free Culture and Second Life : Virtually Extending Free Culture's Work and Goals.  Hosted by Creative Common's Genevieve Junot:  "Fred will be talking about his involvement in RL DRM Protests, ccArt Show, and Film Remix contest. Anyone interested in discussing strategies on integrating free culture in SL are welcome! Free Culture T-shirts will also be available!"  Presented at the Free Culture Art Gallery (picture above.)

Friday, May 19

11:00AM - 12:00PM:  Live Music at Muse Isle. Martha Cookie presents a performance by musician FanofNick Drake.

Sunday, May 21: Presentation on e-learning tools.  A professor from Universidade de Trás os Montes e Alto Douro in Portugal brings us "New Teaching Processes In The Classroom: Thank You, Technology!" The event's host, Claude Desmoulins, has instructions for attending:  "Climb the stairs to the second floor, sit on the appropriate gargoyle and touch it to be flown to the classroom."

Comments

[Martha Cookie]

Hey James, thanks for including a Muse Isle gig in your listings for this week! Feel free to stop by the island anytime, be good to see you!

We're especially excited to be having the Sarah Mac Band back again this Saturday, as their last appearance was wrecked by the big bad grid attack. Fingers crossed for Saturday then!

[in kenzo]

Great links! We're excited about Free Culture.

Our first Camp Darfur Comix, the RL print (cc:remix) of our SL project, is debuting this week and we will preview it at the next ManorMeta Mash on Thursday from 5-6 (just before Free Culture) on Better World Island.

We'll have a whole crew here in the studio checking out SL for the first time as we bring our production team inworld....we do 3-6 monthly SL demo events for new team members. Thanks for the heads up on great events to share.

[Martha Cookie]

Hey James, thanks for including a Muse Isle gig in your listings for this week! Feel free to stop by the island anytime, be good to see you!

We're especially excited to be having the Sarah Mac Band back again this Saturday, as their last appearance was wrecked by the big bad grid attack. Fingers crossed for Saturday then!