2024-04-03 Weekly Meeting 153 Notes/Agenda

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Weekly Meeting 153 is happening on Wednesday, 3 April, 2024 from 9:00 AM PDT (17:00 UTC) - 10:00 AM PDT (18:00 UTC)

You can add it to your calendar here.

We'll be meeting in the NEW SERVER, in the omi-weekly-meeting channel of the OMI Discord.
We regularly use the # omi-meeting-chat channel for text chat.

Agenda
Check in, welcome
Fun finds!
Working groups check in

Housekeeping:

new blog post announcing the chairs: https://omigroup.org/omi-elects-new-chairs/

last week's notes: #455

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Catch up, check in:

mtv shared progress on his "Live music metaverse". long-term plan to turn 2D historic events into 3D shows

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jin: one of the chairs of the avatar group at MSF stepped down, needs a new chair.

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aaron: spending time between jobs now, contributing more to Godot

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jin: recognise past contributions - e.g. robert, evo ... how to prevent burnout - the out-of-balance between talk and action. Need to find better mechanisms to support the people doing the work.
lot of data in the retroactive public goods space in crypto
Open source projects also need help towards guides, documentation, content.

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SoloSolipsist doing dynamic Gaussian things

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Meticulac:
The only coding thing I've done this last week was try to get back into learning factorcode.org/ to try and make something to help myself manage to-do lists.

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what drives you?

• Aaron: a personal vendetta against Unity - frustration that it is so hard to move complex assets between engines.
• indiebio: frustrated that science can't make the world better but games are so fun, why can't science be more like games?
• mtv: bring equity and fairness to the music industry
• SoloSolipsist: the visionPro :) tangible results have recently been motivating. Seeing the long game. William Gibson quote - future not uniformly distributed, being part of things that create wonder. Progress comes in fits and starts, sometimes it's easy to feel down, so keep
• Gary: My motivation comes from aiming to overcome major systemic oppression historically created by big proprietary corporations such as Meta and Apple, free metaverse access for everyone.
• humbletim: looking at how things - pieces of the puzzle fit together. Thinking of a skills pipeline rather than a lock-in or black hole. sort of like apprenticeships. Combined beast consisting of video libraries, some structured learning, some structured mentorships, some shadowing ... what would the metrics be? How to measure success? What is out there regarding digital apprenticeships? This could be a fundable idea - e.g. by the Linux foundation, could be contributed by Debian, to get more skills in, of the complex sort that is currently ageing out. Can brand it as a metaverse mentorship thing.

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Publicity team update: draft blogpost omigroup/media#86
jin blog (good for reblog on OMI?) https://mirror.xyz/openvoxels.eth/hBQzBNwFXrOnwj5S5oOiYaBpQrpM8HfjENYMjKcy6Cs

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Member showcase: have questions, then record people answering, transcribe and work into a blog

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joke: