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Added using shared media on a prim in SL.

You are reading this, so you have already made it to www.roobaab.com! You are advised to login at least a few minutes before the pre-arranged meeting time to ensure that you are already logged in when the meeting is started. So when you are ready, click the Login link at the top right of the page

Enter your login details and press 'Login'

You now see the 'private' view of the content.  You are seeing all the content appropriate for your level of access.  Feel free to explore the site - try adding content if you wish, just be careful not to set anything as public that you don't want to appear on the main public view of the site!  Notice how you can see on the left hand side a 'users online' list.

At the predetermined time, the host will send a meeting invite which will appear in the top lefthand corner of the page - click accept to launch your Second Life client

Note that a small empty browser window will appear first, followed by the Second Life client - this small window can safely be closed once the SL client window has appeared.

Log into the SL client as normal after which you will arrive at the meeting venue - this step will soon not be necessary - you will be able to add your SL username and password to your profile in Roobaab and the login step for SL will be bypassed transporting you straight to the meeting venue.

If for some reason accepting the meeting request does not launch the SL client and you are coming for the meeting on Squirrel Island, click this link http://slurl.com/secondlife/Squirrel%20Island/125/135/23  to launch your SL client, then log in.

If you are late and miss the meeting invite, you can still log in through Roobaab.  Once you have logged in, click on the meetings tab - you should see the meeting in the list at or near the top.  Click that meeting to open it's details - on the details page you will see the meeting chat in real time.  There will also be a link 'Join Meeting' - click this to launch the SL client and join the meeting as shown below.

Have a great meeting!

Roobaab is a new collaboration tool to bring a team together without bringing the team together. Work collaboratively with a powerful, easy to use community collaboration and publishing tool, then when you need to meet your collaborators, launch a fully integrated 3D immersive meeting space, in either Second Life or a private OpenSim instance. The content to be discussed is immediately visible to all attendees on a clickable, scrollable browser. Participants can converse using built in VoIP and text chat is logged as meeting minutes back to the community site. Other tools include 3D pointers and an interactive notecard board.

I've been working for a while with colleagues from Flying Island to integrate virtual world meeting spaces and tools with their  wonderful easy to use community content management system. The result is Roobaab, a truly collaborative platform for sharing and meeting.  The video was one continuous take showing the end to end process of viewing the public side of the CMS, logging in to see additional community content, editing the content, then on seeing the original author online, launching an immersive meeting with him.  The immersive platform used in this case was Second Life, with the standard Second Life client viewer.

Roobaab Browser

The shared browser that you see in the video is currently unique to Roobaab.  It is a fully clickable, scrollable shared browser for use in Second Life or OpenSim.  Since it is based on the HTML-as-texture feature, it has the same limitations (inability to show flash for example) and complex javascript menus can't be clicked.  However, the ability to simply click on links and scroll the page suddenly makes browsing in the shared space useful and fun. 

Roobaab Noteboard

The notecard board is a very useful interactive tool, designed to replicate the kind of project wall that is very common in agile software projects.  Simply type the text you want added and a new card is created and added to the board.  Cards can be moved by clicking or dragging and easily deleted.  Control of card colour and font is possible.  Although shown as a project tool, the potential uses are limitless.  For example, in a learning environment, the board could be used for a group activity of sorting words into categories.

Chat Logging

Initially, chat logging is turned off. When you are ready to start, simply touching the chat logger results in all general chat in the meeting space being sent back to the content management system.  When the meeting begins a page is automatically created in the meetings section of the CMS, and as the chat is logged it is also dynamically added to that page.  This means that community members with rights to view that page will be able to follow the meeting even if they can't launch the 3D client for some reason.  They can also type messages into that page which are sent in real time into the immersive meeting space.  When the last attendee leaves the meeting space, the chat logger automatically stamps the minutes with the end time, and prevents additional chat being added.  However, as with all content in the Focus CMS, community members can use the 'Add Comments' feature at any time if they have something to add.

We see Roobaab being useful for communities, project teams and educators - let us know what you think here on the blog, or contact neil at knowsense.co.uk