Greetings - first the main point: let's have an official members' meeting for the realXtend association. As usual in assoc. annual meets the agenda is to agree on the main principles and select the board to execute the operations. I propose we'd meet in a bit over two weeks, first days of April - candidate times are in the doodle: http://doodle.com/3f4ww5uk2f9xdxuy . So please mark your interest to participate & suitable times there!
Some background: realXtend is organised so that people and companies developing and using the tech have the association as a tool to coordinate the collaboration and to propose development targets for the realXtend foundation. The association is open for anyone to join and much of the discussions are on these mailing lists and especially the IRC channel #realxtend-dev. The association does not have any money nor projects itself, it just is the collaboration talks and the actual dev on github etc. Earlier we had monthly live meets and now, during the FI-WARE EU project where most of the companies around realXtend participate (and get funded), we've had bi-weekly Oulu face-to-face technical meetings where often also generic realXtend tech dev targets have been agreed on. The foundation, on the other hand, exists to own and protect the name and fund selected development activities. Juha Hulkko is the chairman and City of Oulu is the other founder. Now the concrete need for the association to organise more formally is exactly to make a proposal for the foundation funding for this year. Also, in the tech meets and in fi-ware we only have the base tech platform parties (Admino, Ludocraft, Playsign, Cyberlightning, CIE) whereas for the development targets we need voices from the utilisation front: Spinningwire, Oulu3D, Evocons, UKI-Arkkitehdit, Finnpeda, Aalto Univ., Univ. Oulu's infra-project etc. who work directly with end customers and focus on applications only, don't dev the base techs directly at all. In this annual meet and following association board meets the focus is not on tech first but on business level needs. So please feel welcome. I propose to meet at the Mäkelininkatu 15 street level 'realxtend space' (it's a common lobby / kitchen / work space between Playsign's basement and Adminotech's upstairs :) where we've had also the fi-ware meets usually, with the option of having e.g. a Meshmoon meeting space open for notes and remote participants if needed. Last time we met virtually using reX techs and it worked great but is nice to have meatspace meets too. Cheers, ~Toni P.S. I'll post a status update of the Web clients soon (within days) to the realxtend.org blog. Short version is that the situation is great because they work: anyone can visit Meshmoon scenes using WebRocket on http://www.meshmoon.com, and anyone can dev realXtend i.e. multiuser 3d apps using WebTundra and host them anywhere on the Web using https://github.com/realXtend/WebTundra (the dev branch is made to a new release soon and recommended, https://github.com/realXtend/WebTundra/tree/dev) . Three.js, WebGL and browsers in general keep developing nicely (Chrome on Android has WebGL enabled by default, Internet Explorer has it in the new version etc). But more about that soon. -- -- http://groups.google.com/group/realxtend http://www.realxtend.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "realXtend" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to realxtend+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
