Join me and IEEE in LA

For the last year or so the Virtual Policy Network (that I founded) has been working with a group of good people (the Virtual Environment CoLab) and the IEEE on the slow march to establishing a set of Virtual Environment practices and standards.

We are having an event in LA in September – you can come, in fact if you read TerraNova you probably should come as you probably care about Virtual Environments as much as us. 

The event is NOT focused on tech standards. What we are doing is setting out a set of social challenges and getting a bunch of experts to come up with solutions that harness Virtual Environments. 

The event is titled vPEARL (Virtual Play Exchange Advise Renew Learn), it’s going to be on 20-21 September 2011, Los Angeles, CA in the USA. Registration is $150 and spaces are limited to 100. 

The official event page and regisration is here: http://standards.ieee.org/news/vpearl/index.html

I will be intense and fun. You will get to see my shoes. Come.

Comments

[Joey Beckman]

1.

What is the intended audience for this event? Are you expecting game designers and academics in the field? Would a "consumer" of virtual worlds be out of place at the gathering?

tVPN's about reads: "tVPN brings together industry, policy makers, academics and civil society". Is there any vetting required for us great unwashed masses?

[Ren Reynolds]

2.

Joey,
The IEEE event is merely supported by tVPN, it's not a tVPN event. The IEEE event is open to all however it's participatory so as long as you are prepared to turn up and join in you will be welcome.

BTW tVPN defines it's scope as such as we've not worked out how to effectively engage with users over detailed policy matters, though members of the public have attended many tVPN events.

[2011 Supra Shoes Outlte]

3.

In its mission statement, the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice pledges to help the young people in its prisons become productive citizens. But at the maximum security youth prison in Joliet, 40 miles southwest of Chicago, that pledge has been hard to keep. Vocational classes at the prison have repeatedly been cut over the last 15 years. And the few that are still offered, don't offer much.

[2011 Supra Shoes Outlte]

4.

In its mission statement, the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice pledges to help the young people in its prisons become productive citizens. But at the maximum security youth prison in Joliet, 40 miles southwest of Chicago, that pledge has been hard to keep. Vocational classes at the prison have repeatedly been cut over the last 15 years. And the few that are still offered, don't offer much.