Conference on Crowdsourcing at the Colonia Nova Theatre

[Gwyneth Llewelyn]

Hi all,

Although Colonia Nova is technically still not open yet, and 85% or so is finished, I was looking for a good place to host a small conference, sponsored by the [url=http://arden.blogs.com/:1mtcs9lv]Kuurian Expedition in Second Life[/url:1mtcs9lv], due next Monday the 13th at noon SLT.

Since I saw Brian's announcement on the CN forum that CN was actively looking for people to host events there, I asked Aliasi to have some permission to do this conference as a sort of "opening event" at the theatre The Kuurian Expedition in SL are a bunch of fabulous guys who usually attract pretty big crowds on their conferences — they are a "spin-off" of Edward Castronova's own Kuurian Expedition (which is active in WoW) which actually seems to have many more regular events in Second Life (which doesn't surprise me at all). With a little bit of luck, we'll even have Wired Magazine's Jeff Howe, who coined the word "crowdsourcing", attending the event as well (we'll see).

At this point I would like to ask you if there is a really good reason [i:1mtcs9lv]not[/i:1mtcs9lv] to hold the event there on the 13th

[Ashcroft Burnham]

[quote="Gwyneth Llewelyn":3sp96uds]Hi all,

Although Colonia Nova is technically still not open yet, and 85% or so is finished, I was looking for a good place to host a small conference, sponsored by the [url=http://arden.blogs.com/:3sp96uds]Kuurian Expedition in Second Life[/url:3sp96uds], due next Monday the 13th at noon SLT.

Since I saw Brian's announcement on the CN forum that CN was actively looking for people to host events there, I asked Aliasi to have some permission to do this conference as a sort of "opening event" at the theatre The Kuurian Expedition in SL are a bunch of fabulous guys who usually attract pretty big crowds on their conferences — they are a "spin-off" of Edward Castronova's own Kuurian Expedition (which is active in WoW) which actually seems to have many more regular events in Second Life (which doesn't surprise me at all). With a little bit of luck, we'll even have Wired Magazine's Jeff Howe, who coined the word "crowdsourcing", attending the event as well (we'll see).

At this point I would like to ask you if there is a really good reason [i:3sp96uds]not[/i:3sp96uds] to hold the event there on the 13th [/quote:3sp96uds]

It's a rather exellent idea - more publicity for us!

[Gwyneth Llewelyn]

I hope so, Ash. We probably won't make Wired, but at least Jeff's own blog, which is still something worthwhile

At Wired, these days, people already complain they talk too much about Second Life I think there are no editors or regular contributors there that haven't been in SL for one reason or another — no small wonder, since they have their own offices in SL and they look Way Cool™.

[Brian Livingston]

Looks like I need to get to work on finishing the amphitheater

--BL

[Gwyneth Llewelyn]

LOL Brian — actually, it was your blog post on the CN blog that made me ask permission from Aliasi to host the event there

In any case, Wired Magazine's Jeff Howe will be there as well

I'm now trying to arrange some nice clothes designers to get us a few togas and eventually get permission from the Chancellor to allow, for the duration of the event, to have them drop a few vendors with Roman-themed clothes there...

[Brian Livingston]

I put up a post about this on the blog under the events tag

[Gwyneth Llewelyn]

Thanks for everything, Brian!

[Aliasi Stonebender]

[quote="Gwyneth Llewelyn":3nexo2su]LOL Brian — actually, it was your blog post on the CN blog that made me ask permission from Aliasi to host the event there

In any case, Wired Magazine's Jeff Howe will be there as well

I'm now trying to arrange some nice clothes designers to get us a few togas and eventually get permission from the Chancellor to allow, for the duration of the event, to have them drop a few vendors with Roman-themed clothes there...[/quote:3nexo2su]

If that's a hint, feel free. Also get in touch with Torin Golding; they have free togas in ROMA.