Sim Land Emergency Follow UP

I've been meeting with people through out the Rutgers University community about the OIRT and instructor sims. I've been getting some great feedback. The proposed plan is being revised based on it. So far it's clear the scale needs to increase to take advantage of the space relationships in Second Life. This has to be balanced by the land available. Also, it makes more sense to really show case the newest and most interesting elements of the Future of Livingston in Second Life. This means taking some liberties with the physical geography. An 8 sim build can't really fit into a 2 sim build.

The feedback from the OIRT group about the OIRT sim is that they are OK with returning the objects to the owners and allowing for the sim to be reused. However, it was one of the first two efforts to represent Rutgers University in Second LIfe. I'm reaching out the University Libraries to find out if they have an archival interest in the sim, and if they are able to archive it in RUCore. Additionally, I'm also reaching out the Duraspace project to see what they think of archiving 3D objects and builds. This should really be an interesting conversation I'm hope blog about the results soon.

So plans are still be considered, input is highly appreciated, and I will get back to you all here about what's happening.

--Rick Anderson (Rk Jinn)