CoLab Virtual Overview
The virtual CoLab is a dedicated “island” in the “Second Life” online virtual world, and will later be complemented by a traditional Web-based community website.
You may visit CoLab in the virtual world Second Life at any time (download of Second Life application required). Regular weekly CoLab community organizing meetings are held on "Space CoLab" island every Tuesday at 1pm Pacific Daylight Time.
To get a sense of the CoLab experience in Second Life without downloading the Second Life application, watch this video:
These online communities will complement and extend the offline physical CoLab in order to:
• Engage stakeholders in designing and building the CoLab: consistent with the values of the CoLab project
• Prototype the physical CoLab in Second Life virtual space as a test bed before investing resources in building the actual physical CoLab
• Enable technology entrepreneurs outside the San Francisco Bay Area to participate in and benefit from CoLab
• Help ARC communicate the value of CoLab to other NASA facilities and external institutions
• Create expertise within ARC in the important new online technology realm of “social software,” in order to help ARC more effectively contribute to NASA’s public exploration efforts
contact: Andrew Hoppin, ahoppin@arc.nasa.gov
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send IM in Second Life to 'drew frobozz'
