Dear VNet list members, this is a pre-announcement for your calendars. The following event will bring together many developers and visionaries building virtual world platforms and biologically inspired environments in software. We hope this will catalyze relationships, projects, and application concepts. We will soon be posting a proposed program framework for your comment, and providing contact details for the co-chairs and web development team for your direct feedback. Please note that interactive discussions on the event and its program will be taking place on the OWorld list, so if you want to partake in those, please get signed up today at: http://www.ccon.org/lists/oworld.html We hope to see you at this seminal event in November, or online connecting remotely, if we support that. Bruce Damer for Mark Shirley and Steven Rooke DB3/OWorld Event at NASA Ames, Nov 4-5, 1999 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Biota.org and NASA Ames Research Center will be co-hosting Digital Biota 3: OWorld Open Source Virtual Worlds Developers Conference at the NASA Ames Research Center at Moffet Field in Silicon Valley, California on November 4th and 5th. The themes of this event will be the architectures, applications, current and past examples, and future directions for open source virtual worlds hosted on the Internet. The goals of the conference are to catalyze the open source virtual worlds movement and cross-pollinate it with biological and emergent properties insights from the Digital Biota and Artificial Life fields. This will be the third annual Biota conference, now combined with the first OWorld open source virtual worlds special interest group event. Please see: http://www.biota.org/ for reports on the previous Biota conferences in Banff, Canada and Cambridge, UK end.
