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Join me at the Dr. Dobbs Island! I will be speaking at Grid Talk to announce the opening of the IBM developerWorks Island.

I am pleased to announce that the IBM developerWorks island is open! I’d like to invite all of you to drop by and take a look! We’re waiting for you to join us! Help us build an in-world community, while we build out the rest of the island. We’ve created a small briefing area in the southern part of the island, as well as a welcoming public sandbox area. For more information visit the IBM developerWorks community topic space on Second Life:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/spaces/secondlife

See you in SL!

Oh, almost forgot here are a few pics:

IBM developerWorks Rotunda I - Web Briefing Area

IBM developerWorks Public Sandbox North

One last thing- I have yet ANOTHER blog that I am maintaining:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/secondlife

The island development is underway. We are currently in preparations to open up the IBM developerWorks island for public access. We’ve had an island in Second Life for close to a year, where we’ve held a number of exclusive in-world events. But now, we are ready to move forward with building an in-world community.

One of the issues with user-generated content based virtual worlds like Second Life is the level of participation. Often times residents are unable to build, script, or terraform simply because they do not own or rent land. It’s also possible that they may not have affiliated themselves with estate owners either- which means that they are stuck with using the public sandboxes, which in some ways can be quite frustrating. developerWorks is truly giving Second Lifers a way to be a part of something- something that they can say they help establish. It reminds me of the “Home for Habitat” program, where people volunteer to build houses.

On December 17, be sure to drop by the IBM developerworks Island. You will probably find me there hanging out!

For the last few weeks, I have been consumed by several things:

1 - School. This is my last semester at Wake Tech, and I’m so READY for it to be over. As a matter of fact, this past Tues was my final day of class. I am finally DONE. Woohoo! Man, what a load off……
2 - Work. IBM, along with a lot of other places, goes on vacation around this time of the year. Which means that the lead up is remarkable. There’s been a steady stream of last minute items to tie up before the mass exodus, so I’ve certainly been active.

3 - Book. We’re making quite a bit of progress, but with all that’s going on, it’s been slow going. Now that school and work have sorta wrapped up for the year, I can certainly shift gears on this one.

My next post will be about the new IBM developerWorks Island in Second Life. Stay tuned…..