2024-05-08 Weekly Meeting 158 Notes/Agenda

[indiebio]

Weekly Meeting 158 is happening on Wednesday, 8 May 2024 from 9:00 AM PDT (17:00 UTC) - 10:00 AM PDT (18:00 UTC)
(Public holiday in some parts)

You can add it to your calendar here.

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

Agenda

1. Check in, welcome

• make this meeting an hour later? (aaron has a meeting conflict)

2. Fun finds!
3. Working groups check in

• Media
  -- Twitter/X spaces now on Desktop - need to utilise this! See Idea Host X/Twitter Spaces ...... media#92
  -- OMI content suggestion form, feedback please (and add suggestions!) https://forms.gle/374otyBE5v9Aqip96
  -- review newest blog please: https://omigroup.org/what-do-game-worlds-and-medicine-have-in-common/
  -- content processing hackathon feedback
• glTF
• MSF
• Virtual Museum
• omi-experiments (groups and ideas that are testing the waters, not formed in a more structured working group yet)

4. Demo's
5. Ongoing Conversations

2. Fun finds:

(please add yours in the comments)
jin: https://substrata.info/ open source, web + native client, VRM support, gud project
jin: https://assets-global.website-files.com/63fe332d7b9ae4159d741e55/6435ef54d6c2e389be334d99_L1_Whitepaper_2023.pdf
has there been any chat with lamina1 since last year?

meticulac: Open hardware summit last weekend with some stuff on their Youtube and Discord: https://www.oshwa.org/2024/05/03/2024-open-hardware-summit-live/

5. Ongoing conversations

• Lightning talks - to plan next: a hackathon to let people practice through their interview questions, and an end to end kind of sweep to find out the resources on how to do this - by practising with locals first - streamline the resources required. (Also good for thinktank conversations)
• Collaborative Library Project - potential to link up with Virtual Worlds Museum?
• "if a blogpost was a 3D object, what would it look like?" - hackathon potential!
• Linux Foundation collaboration / OMF revival - see Discord conversation

Last week's notes: #464
Meeting recordings are at https://mee6.xyz/en/dashboard/887789163045335081/record
(Manual back up of raw audio recordings on a private server ... probably Google Drive?)

[indiebio]

TODO:
-- next blogposts, ideally:

• aaron, glTF, but also want to touch on the complementarity of MSF / corporate members and us - find that snippet in a recent meeting where we discussed it
• jin - pick a few ~ 5 bloglinks, build a story.
• keyframe virtual worlds museum, when ready
• indiebio - two blogs related to the recent "play and truth" - emergent gameplay and interoperability, and the need for interoperability / potential for metaverse in earth observation

-- make an "onboarding process" to allow people to contribute content, have drafts or ideas that they can work on if they want to. Have a process of guidance and quality review before publishing. (this is also useful for showcasing student projects)

-- try to reach out to a tech journalist, get someone who can help share posts to e.g. techcrunch ... not sure, need to think this approach through.

-- next "hackathon" guided community event on collaborative community discussion, leading to an ethic of care meeting ethic of justice Privacy Policy, as well as revisiting OMI values and practices. humbletim to suggest day & time

[indiebio]

Media group update (jimmy is travelling this week)
hackathon was useful, some of the content was shaped as audio snippets, needs to be worked up and published, possibly as a youtube with a screen recording too.
jin used tools (see https://twitter.com/dankvr/status/1786935961022042312)
jimmy used tools and, has a few more he is trying.
the media README update has been drafted, but I can't find it to review and update lol.
OMI recording files and transcripts are now here: https://github.com/omigroup/recordings
Follow up conversation lead to the privacy and intent of the processing media - hence the need for a guided community conversation. Planning is by humbletim and indiebio.

[indiebio]

MSF working group: jin downloaded a lot of zoom call recordings and processed it with a local ai. Also did this for OMI.
Gathering summarisations...
Also did others like building the open metaverse podcasts, virtual world things.
Good potential for a hackathon linked to the future of text. As well as a specific (set of) AI assistant "librarians" to give some content to people asking, like a topic knowledgeable chat bot / research agent.
A tool to help echoing recent conversations, cross-pollinating ideas ... help to promote the groups.

[indiebio]

TODO: check permissions for all the content to see what can be processed/shared.

[indiebio]

Guided community conversation, comparing and exploring differing perspectives through the lenses of the ethic of justice, and the ethic of care.
Ideal outcomes is groundrules for how to work together, but it also opens the floor to exploring and realising how people think and work together, to truly understand each other.

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Virtual world museum "library" - listing resources and hosting them on the VWM website. Can these be visualised in a virtual world as a 3D "Alexandria"?
https://www.virtualworlds.museum/books-and-case-studies

[indiebio]

SoloSolipsist doing a digital twin human!
https://github.com/solipsist-studios/DoppelgAInger