Today at 4pm EST - Immersive Education Platform Ecosystem and Education Grid status and review

Hi all. Today's event (which was rescheduled from last Friday to today) is
detailed below, with associated materials on the events Web page (link below).
It runs from 4-5pm EST and we're scheduled to talk about Croquet/Cobalt shortly
after 4pm; please feel free to join us for the conversation this afternoon. Aaron

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Visit http://ImmersiveEducation.org/events/ for this event page,
meeting materials (such as images and videos) and additional details
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WHAT: Platform Ecosystem and Education Grid status and review
WHEN: FRIDAY April 18, 2008 from 4-5pm EST
WHERE: Second Life (Splenda: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Splenda/117/210/29)

.:: join the Immersive Education Second Life GROUP for in-world event  ::.
.:: invitations (see http://immersiveeducation.org/events/#join_group) ::.

Join us in Splenda island (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Splenda/117/210/29) to
discuss the status of the Immersive Education Platform Ecosystem and Education
Grid. This January the Immersive Education Initiative announced the Education
Grid and corresponding Platform Ecosystem. Based upon open source technologies
and open standards, the Education Grid and Platform Ecosystem will provide
educators with a comprehensive end-to-end infrastructure for a new generation of
virtual world learning environments, interactive learning games, and
simulations. During this meeting baseline requirements for the next generation
(aka "3rd generation") of Immersive Education platforms and the Education Grid
will be reviewed.

Materials for this meeting (at http://ImmersiveEducation.org/events/) include:

  1. ANNOUNCEMENT: Platform Ecosystem and Education Grid
  2. COBALT: The future Immersive Education end-user application built
     upon Croquet
  3. WONDERLAND: Sun's roadmap for Project Wonderland targets Q1 2009 for v1.0
  4. "CREATE ONCE, EXPERIENCE EVERYWHERE" : Open, platform-neutral formats
  5. TABLE: Education Grid requirements (draft specification excerpts)

See Meeting Materials at http://ImmersiveEducation.org/events/ for the materials
related to this in-world meeting.

This meeting starts at 4pm EST (1pm pacific / Second Life time) and ends at 5pm
EST, with additional time beyond that allocated to questions and further
discussion.

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Visit http://ImmersiveEducation.org/events/ for this event page,
meeting materials (such as images and videos) and additional details
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