What: Dr. Dobb’s Life 2.0 Summit

When: September 15-21, 2007

Where: Dr Dobbs Island in Second Life

Description: The four-day (M, T, Th, Fr) program will include tracks on:

The Opensource Grid: Technical and business implications of open sourcing the Second Life server and scaling the existing grid. Sessions will cover the role of HPC, cluster-computing and backbone network architectures in the private and corporate grid, security, the scope of business opportunities around open source server, and other topics.

The Extended Metaverse: How will 3D environments like Second Life play with fast-growing Geospacial worlds like Google Earth, applications like Microsoft Virtual Earth, and other MMORPG, buildable-metaverse and flat-web platforms and communities?

Alternative Worlds/Virtual Workplaces: Sun’s MPK20, Forterra, Metaverse, Gaia, The Lounge, IBM Virtual Workplace and other platforms are providing a continuum of diverse options — flat web to 3d — for professional and business collaborators, application and asset creators. Learn from the platform-builders how these metaverse systems work, where they’re aimed, and how it’s all, ultimately, connected.

Second Life metrics and analytics: More sophisticated understanding of traffic, audience qualification and behavior are essential for earning long-term ROI on metaverse investments. This track covers current Metrics products, best-practice tips from users and developers, SL analytics for ROI, the controversial emerging field of ‘engagement metrics,’ privacy and anonymity, and more.

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