Re: [mmox] Introductions

[David W Levine <[e-mail]>]

Greetings All: 

I'm David Levine, I work for IBM Research on Virtual Worlds 
Interoperability and Immersive Collaboration Technologies. 
I've spent the past 18 months working on various parts of IBM's virtual 
worlds research and strategy, including coding our
contribution to the OpenSim implementation of the Linden OGP teleport 
work. My interest in the MMOX work is a direct 
outgrowth of IBM's work with OGP and our ongoing involvement in OpenSim 
and a number of other virtual world environments.
If you see me on Second Life, it will most likely be as "Zha Ewry" tho, on 
rare occasions I can be found as "David Levine."

I've done standards work with the W3C, Oasis,  the Object Management 
Group, Sun's Java Community Process and a
wonderfully obscure group known as FIPA. I am a believer that working 
code, and practical lessons learned from actual
implementations are necessary guides toward working standards, but that 
simply enshrining existing code is insufficient, as
it most often embodies a series of compromises which have more to do with 
the history of the code and ideal design. 

I host a weekly discussion in Second Life on topics of interest to the 
Interop and MMOX community, and am looking to
host sessions on at least one of the public OpenSim servers as well, and 
would be delighted to look at hosting sessions
in other worlds, as long as this can be done in an non-exclusionary 
fashion. Anyone interested in he Second Life
discussions can find us at 9:30 AM Second Life Time on Tuesday, contact me 
inworld for an invite. 

Contact information: dwl at us dot ibm dot com 
                                and zha dot ewry at gmail dot com 

- David W. Levine
~ Zha Ewry (ISL)