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HomeCamp 2 is this Saturday

April 23, 2009 – 9:15 pm

Following hot on the heels of the first HomeCamp, so HomeCamp 2 happens. For the uninitiated, HomeCamp is the home hacking, automation and green technology community. Think smart meters, monitoring and graphing energy usage.

HomeCamp 2 is on Saturday 25th April 2009, 10am until 6pm at Bash Creations, 65-71 Scrutton Street, London, EC2A 4PJ.  A map of the venue is here.

HomeCamp 2 aims to build on the success of the first event, with an OpenSim event running alongside for virtual participation and to demo the RealWorld and VirtualWorld modelling and automation that the community has been doing.

I’d like to say a big thank you to our sponsors, CurrentCost, Greenmonk, Pachube , ReactionGrid and Onzo, as without them this event would not be happening.

theattick.tv are the official Media Partners for HomeCamp and will be streaming the event over on the HomeCamp ustream.tv channel and also streaming into the HomeCamp sim on ReactionGrid.  They will also be interviewing people thoughout the day and putting together video footage from the day for HomeCamp TV.  So if you are coming to the event, be sure to get yourself on film!

So far have around 75 people signed up.  If you can’t make it, then you can tune in either on the live video ustream, or sign up on ReactionGrid and join us virtually on OpenSim.

More details and videos on the blog http://homecamp.org.uk

For the wiki, which includes signup and is the main portal to all the online activity: http://homecamp.pbwiki.com/

Live video stream on the day of the event and recordings from the first HomeCamp: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/homecamp

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Virtual HomeCamp meeting today at 3pm BST

April 23, 2009 – 9:38 am

We have a Virtual HomeCamp meeting today on the HomeCamp sim on ReactionGrid.  It is a planning session for the real event which takes place this Saturday.

As we have people attending the session today from all over the world, and what with all the daylight savings, I have been scratching my head about this.  So I decided it would be best to put a clock somewhere and I came accross these excellent clocks.

So the meeting today is 3PM BST (GMT+1).  Here is the time now in BST:


Here is the time in Second Life Time (SLT) is in (PST / GMT -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada):

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Saturday Night in a Box

March 29, 2009 – 12:03 am

This is the place I like to go and watch a movie on a Saturday night.  ReactionGrid on OpenSim.  Each Saturday they play a crappy old movie, normally black and white.  This week a colour 1970’s voted top 19th most rubbish movie, Track of the Moon Beast.  They hold the movie to stress test their servers.  Genius idea.  Mixing business with pleasure.  So dive in and take a look.  It warms the cockles of my heart.

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Virtual HomeCamp Meeting

March 18, 2009 – 12:21 am

OK, we’re trying to setup a meeting on the HomeCamp sim.  Since we burst on the ReactionGrid scene with OpenSim, we have been throwing up real estate and trying scripts.  After playing and eating more memory and CPU than we probably should, we need a meeting to discuss quite a few issues.

1.  We currently have script limitations that everyone needs to respect
2.  We have ideas to overcome the script limitations. Fingers crossed on Plan A!
3.  A freemium idea – office and house rental is free, script usage is a small monthly subscription.
4.  Sponsorship opportunities
5.  Land building ideas and general build styles
6.  Regular events and training + publicity

We have had great community action going on at the HomeCamp sim and I am looking forward to the future with this one.  We have rented a full row of offices now.

Welcoming new tennants Craig Cmehil and Tish Shute.

I’m thinking we have a meeting on Thursday 26th March.  Seems a week away, but we all seem to be busy :)   Please let me know your thoughts and ideas regarding this on the google group discussion and whether you will be coming along.

The land grab begins :)

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