Documentation Activities

a planning page about possible documentation and other ideas for association activities

weekly acts:

• video blog post:

• tip of the week - a weekly tutorial?

• as the way to grow a solid body of 'unit examples', small simple programming etc. examples that teach one thing / demonstrate a certain feature. could we even build a manual incrementally in this way?

• example: Tundra Javascript development / live reload: "Tundra Pong edited live" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty8LdX80KaE

• a quick blog post with a couple videos, as a style example: http://realxtend.wordpress.com/2011/05/14/simple-world-authoring-tools/

• ideas for topics:

  • Scene Structure window
  • Entity-Component Editor (the cool multi-edit!)
  • Drag-and-drop content import + Add content dialog
  • Assets window
  • the new material editor
  • profiling & debugging

• or: 'week in realXtend development' (opensim has just these as news posts, reporting codebase activity)

long term:

• reference manual (see e.g. the Ogre and Blender manuals (Ogre: doxygen(?), Blender Wiki (diff ppl))

• publications such as ACM Multimedia Open Source competition?

• a draft article which is also a generic (non-VWish) intro to Tundra is: https://github.com/realXtend/doc/raw/master/acm_multimedia/overview.pdf

• IEEE Internet Computing article is there already:

  • Internet Computing 2011 Issue No. 5 - September/October - Virtual World Architectures: http://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/ic/2011/05/index.html
  • An Entity-Component Model for Extensible Virtual Worlds: http://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/ic/2011/05/mic2011050030-abs.html "The open source realXtend project has developed a freely available open source virtual world platform that lets anyone create 3D applications." (...)

• bigger demos - Chesapeake Bay as an own project? something else?

• participation in standardization groups, interoperability tests?

• IEEE VW group

business meets? e.g. Nordic VW group (reX was already presented there, see realXtend NVVM)

• http://nordicworlds.net/Public/2011/04/16/presentation-of-realxtend-org-by-toni-alatalo-at-nvwn-monthly-meeting/

• slides: http://www.slideshare.net/eteigland/realxtend-presentation-for-nvwn-april-2011

• virtual worlds 2012 in July?

• NVWN now considers monthly sessionns:

" NVWN would like to invite you to a "Discussion on a monthly seminar initiative" to discuss the possibilities for establishing a monthly seminar/presentation at NVWN's newly launched Virtual Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (http://nordicworlds.net/2011/11/14/summary-of-vcei-launch-on-november-9/).

The turnout at the launch last Wednesday revealed quite an interest in the topic of entrepreneurial activities in virtual worlds, and we believe a monthly seminar could strengthen the Nordic network of people interested in virtual worlds.

Please join us on Thursday, November 17, 13:00 to 14:00 CET at the VCEI on SSE’ island in SL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/SSE%20MBA/194/74/2001/?title=SSE%20Virtual%20Center&msg=Welcome%20to%20the%20SSE%20Virtual%20Center! "