User:Robin Linden/OH Summary 28 August 2007

28 August Office Hours Minutes 11:00A - 12:00P PDT Ambleside (110, 6, 26)

Attendees:

 Aargle Zymurgy
 Akasha Voom
 Andabata Mandelbrot
 Angelo Linden
 Athena Sterling
 Ciarin Laval
 Dimitrio Lewis
 Iwana Fouquet
 Jessica Holyoke  
 Khamon Fate
 Kitty Barnett
 Poison Obscure
 Robin Linden
 Zoya Moore

1. Specific question about gaming and the validity of games played for contest purposes (where the winner wasn't "determined by chance"). Robin says that per LL General Counsel, it’s important that games be legal in one’s local jurisdiction (like sweepstakes). People dropping gaming machines on one’s land is a new form of griefing. LL is following up on games that may have been removed in error. LL is compiling a white list of approved games.

2. Search: It sits on a Google Search Appliance—and looks like Google, with classified ads on one side. It will index from a variety of places and give you one set of search returns for key words. Developing algorithms to be specific to SL. I think it will index text fields - so for example it will pick up data from parcel descriptions, profiles, event descriptions, etc.

Questions: - What indices will it be using - Will searched allow wildcards? - searchable profiles addressed?

- is there some kind of iconography system? B Grouped by type, then alpha… the only way I see how search in SL would be accurate is with resident feedback and a way to get rid of bad feedback.... which would require far too much LL involvement to be doable - is the point to make it more shiny and flashy? or actually more accurate by reducing the possibility to game search as well? - About SL Views, how many people in it, and what that says about the whole issue of trust between the Lab and residents.

3. Trust Building So in the goal of trust building, it's about two sides of things -- how do I let people know enough about me that they trust me, and how do people manage their own experience.

Questions: Athena Sterling: will we be able to opt out of the search results? for either profile or parcels? (RL will find out)

Next meeting: 11 Sept (no meeting 4 Sept) 11:00A PDT