I agree with you 100% about doing quality work. Absolutely.
New ideas--no doubt. And I know this could be a problem. Even bigger
problem is that MOO was not part of the original oudeis concept, but
without it both MMK and Ars Electronica would have been strictly local
events. As Dan has suggested, now is a time for re-evaluation and
re-assessment. As you may have picked up from one of Juli's emails, it
is time for Oudeis to either get on the bus or off the bus where MOO
is concerned. The general opinion seems to be that MOO is an integral
part of the Oudeis project. If this is so, then some very basic
changes are going to be necessary.
I am in the process of setting up city, venu, and skene objects in
Athemoo to assist with the conceptual part of this work. So there is a
place called Chicago. You can @go Chicago. Maybe someone will design a
German language Vienna for us and a Spanish speaking Buenos Ayres--not
for the performance but for us to be able to manage the complexity of
this concept. Then there are scenes--Ithaca, the sea, Cyclopes isle,
Calypso's Isle, Underworld, etc. They can be moved so that we could
suppose that a Chicago venu might be setting up as the Underworld
skene. Sometimes thinking about something in a concrete form like this
can help us to see things *b4* we spend a ton of money finding out
that it won't work. We can have corridors connecting say Chicago and
Vienna called T1 or ISDN with descriptions that are as accurate as our
research will tell us to see if it looks like it will do the job. I am
essentially proposing that we all get to know how to use the MOO to
virtualize the project before we go too far along what turns out to be
a dead end in reality.
Budgeting is a traditional way of virtualizing. Go window shopping,
find out how much your idea is going to cost. Write it down and add it
up *b4* you buy and build. MOO is a kind of notepad that allows us
much more flexibility in this virtualizing process.
Later,
-- Jim Terral South Slocan, BC http://www.netidea.com/~jterral/ http://moo.hawaii.edu/athemoo/WebMOO.html