Linux Conference Australia and Second Life

I got an email about the Linux Conference being held in Melbourne later this month. There will be events also happening simultaneously in Second Life. The irc channel for the conference will be relayed in Second Life for participants to be able to take part via irc in world. See links with SLURL below.

Here’s the email:

Hello folks

The Linux Conference Australia will be running from 28 January to 2 February.

The Education Mini-conference will be held over Sunday 27 January(live only)
and Monday 28 January (live and online)

Feel free to

* check out the Secondlife facet of the education event.
Timetable and information about how to log on to
http://miniconf.mel8ourne.org/wiki/index.php?title=Education
Feel free to come along to a single session or to stay longer.
You will be able to participate using the Second Life text chat.

* invite Melbournites to the Open Day
The Open Day will be 12-4pm Saturday 2 February(live)

* forward this to other folks who may be interested in participating online.

Thanks to Kerry Johnson for a recording device and
Dave Wallace for Second Life suggestions.

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From the conference wiki, locations in Second Life:

Monday

SL Venues with IRC bridge

Thanks to Ash Qin and Artex Panther for help with the irc bridge on irc.quickfox.net

This venue is open and has the irc bridge enabled currently.

• SL-Koru Koru in Second Life
• #Koru Koru-IRC Thanks Arwenna Stardust

This venue is open bridge is not enabled.

• SL-Jokaydia Jokaydia in Second Life
• #Jokaydia Jokaydia-IRC http://jokay.com.au/ Thanks Jokay Wollongong

This venue will be open on 28 January IRC bridge is enabled.

• SL-IBM IBM in Second Life
• #IBM IBM-IRC Thanks Gizzy Electricteeth

Mini-Conference wiki