AW Groupies In-World Meeting Agenda

Next AW Groupies meeting:

2010-May-4 0930 PDT

Please help fill in this agenda outline! Don't be shy.

Latha Serevi will host a discussion on the theme of "proxy-based interop".

1. Interop use cases relevant to proxy-based interop

1. IRC and XMPP bridging
2. Enhanced world interactions
   1. Double-click TP (Par)
   2. Viewer ident (Par)
3. Viewer UI enhancements
   1. separable windows (SNOW-375)
4. mix and match client features
5. Server-side rendering (??)
6. 3d scene adapters across incompatible VW's

2. Examples of proxy-based and other approaches

1. Proxies based on SL packets and libomv
   1. XMPP bridging Dahlia's proxy way
   2. LordGregGreg's http://code.google.com/p/par/
2. hypothetical VWRAP proxies
3. Relay agents using multiple client-style connections
   1. IRC and XMPP bridging Latif's way (Radegast agent with plugins)
4. Loosely coupled client UI components
   1. SNOW-375 (Dzonatas), provides http interface to viewer/world state
   2. wouldn't a SNOW-375 style REST API fit nicely into a proxy?

3. Tradeoffs with proxy-based interop versus the alternatives