Sim land management emergency

A bit dramatic, but accurate. The Future Livingston Campus Creation project needs more space in order to be done at the correct scale. Also, we have an incredibly short build time everything has to be done by the beginning of the week of April 24th If there was a cost effective way to get more land this wouldn't be necessary. Additionally, homesteads cannot be used because the prim count of the buildings we're creating.

Our only option is to use the land of RUCE 5 and the OIRT sims in order to complete the build out properly, to retain consistent scale, and qualitiy. For RUCE 5 we're going to make available Open Sim. We have at least 16 sims in that environment we can use. So for short term projects that need sim space for building, terraforming we'll will help facilitate the use of Rutgers Open Sim for that. We will be able to get another instructor/student RUCE 5 sim, but not immediately. Ron Fest, (Ron Ghostaltar) will be facilitate account creation for that environment.

The OIRT sim has a problem. Group owner ship settings are not set to the land owner or a land group. The best I can do is take photos and video of the sim, and the return the objects to the original owners. This is very unfortunate because of the number of good ideas embodied in the space. I do want to support that effort, but we'll have to work on integrating it into the entire set of sims. If you are an owner of any of the objects in that space let me know ASAP.

I'm sending this note out as wide and far as I can. If anyone has any feedback on this issue. Get it to me by the end of the day Thursday, March 18th, 2010
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Rutgers Day 2010, Virtual Future Livingston Campus

Big news. Rutgers Day is going to be large in the virtual world and the real world. Dr. Ray Caprio has asked us to build out the future Livingston Campus. This is approximately a 10 sim build. The first two sims are going to debut in our Second Life environment. The entire 1:1 scale build will be built in Open Sim, unless their is a cost effective way to bring it into Second Life directly.

So hold the date April 24, for Rutgers Day 2010.

Virtual Rutgers Major Updates

Some significant changes have come to the Rutgers University Virtual world. The Rutgers OIRT Sim is now part of the the Rutgers University sim area. We are now a united Rutgers University in the virtual world. We will be providing the in world support and management for students and instructors in that space. There have been some changes to the map, and naming that we all need to be aware of. If you search for "Rutgers University" in the map you will now be teleported to the visitor center and orientation area for Virtual Rutgers. If want to go directly to the OIRT sim you can search the map for "Rutgers OIRT."

Virtual Livingston Campus

Ron and I just met with the Rutgers Facilities Planning and Development group about virtual Livingston Campus. In the next few weeks we will be generating a project plan that adds two more sims to Virtual Rutgers, and adds some of the current and future buildings that will be part of the Livingston Campus. Our plan is to show the now and future Livingston Campus to the world.

Happy Hollidays

Just wanted to wish everyone out there a safe and happy holidays from all of us at the Division of Continuing Studies here at Rutgers University.

Sacred Art in a Virtual World

The new Museum of Sacred Art (Bieup (207, 42, 106) will open on Monday, December 14, 2009 at 2:00 pm Eastern Time (11:00 am SLT). The museum represents a permanent home for the exhibition "Sacred Art in a Virtual World" that ran from February to October. The purpose of the exhibition was to evaluate the value of virtual buildings for the teaching of art history. The exhibition includes notecards allowing the visitor to tp to buildings, guide them through the building, and then return them to the museum to move on to the next exhibit.

Rutgers students in the Department of Art History worked on the original exhibition as well as the new museum.

Rutgers Day 2010

Rutgers Day 2009 was the first year showing the Rutgers Second Life space to the real world Rutgers community. We had the virtual ringing of the Rutgers Bell at Old Queens, and a Second Life lab space on Voorhees Mall. In the coming event we expect to have the same set up with even more to show, and interact with. Rutgers Day is a great opportunity to experience one unified Rutgers University in real life and in our virtual lives.

Our proposals for the event are officially submitted. The hard work to pull off a great event has officially begun. See you all there in real life and virtual life.