[council] virtual conference -- Bret Faucett was only 10 years ahead of his time -- maybe this platform would work for ICANN?

["Mike O'Connor" <mike@xxxxxxxxxx>]

hi all,

i loved Bret’s idea of doing an ICANN meeting in 2nd Life — it didn’t work, but 
mostly for technical reasons.

there’s a domain conference coming up (right spang in the middle of ICANN 
London, dang it) that’s being hosted on a really interesting platform that may 
be part of a trend.  i *think* this is the platform they’ve built their 
conference on;

        http://virtualconferences.com/index.html

here’s a link to the conference that caught my eye

        http://domainindex.com/webfair3/home.html#

i would die and go to heaven if ICANN had something like this available and we 
could learn how to use it effectively in our work.  note the tricky word 
“effectively” in there — i have no idea whether there are show-stoppers in 
terms of connectivity or privacy or language.  but the possibilities for 
“almost as good as face to face meetings, without the cost/pain of travel” 
strike me as worth pursuing.


mikey





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