Austin Tate [Ai Austin] AIAI, University of Edinburgh

Open Virtual Collaboration Environment Austin Tate (Ai Austin)

Open Virtual Collaboration Environment Web-based Collaboration Portal –Drupal CMS –Also explored Facebook, Google Groups, Yahoo Groups, Ning Groups, Joomla CMS, Drupal CMS Virtual World 3D Space –Second Life –Opensim Virtual Collaboration Protocol –Standard Operating Procedures –FAQ and Tips –Protocol (Rob Cross, University of Virginia)

Venue Amphitheatre I-Zone B I-Zone A Project and Team Suites Sandbox Expo Pavilion Central Plaza Hill Top Orientation Area JOE GeoDome

Virtual Collaboration Environment Assets Version: 1.3 Revision Date: 13-Aug-2009 Description: Freely available buildings, landscaping elements and textures to support the creation of collaborative and other facilities in virtual worlds such as Second Life and Opensim. A set of assets are available for use in Second Life (and may be used in Opensim). They are distributed under the open source Lesser GPL licence. The assets include: Central Plaza Orientation Area Amphitheatre (configurable for 1 to 4 sims) Breakout Rooms Expo Pavilion Large Project Room Small Project Room HQ Building Box of Landscaping Elements Box of Textures Box of Orientation Signs

I-Room/I-Zone Revision Date: 4-Aug-2009 Description: A two storey building with central area and 4 work zones, designed for collaborative and brain storming style meetings. Can be used an as operations centre. Plenty of wall space for displays and gadgets. Each of the 4 corners can easily be converted to a small two storey block, or a larger double height block. The I-Room style buildings are used in the I-X/I-Room research on intelligent collaborative and task support environments at AIAI, The University of Edinburgh. The OpenVCE approach makes use of modular components from many other open source contributors and communities, and are available under their respective licences. Most parts are available from their normal open source download site.