Producer’s Institute Day One

I’m in San Francisco participating in BAVC’s Producer’s Institute (which I mentioned previously).  Today we are just getting to know each other – each of the teams introduced themselves and their projects and the BAVCr’s took us on a tour of the facility – I have to say, they have done an amazing job of upgrading the facility since last year!  I mean, they had a great set up then, but in the past few months they have run fiber all around and have a 14TB shared SAN for students to use while working on projects – pretty damn cool!

We also had an introduction to Second Life and how Non profits are using it by Susan Tenby from TechSoup.  I am very impressed by what people are doing with SL, though I myself have never been able to get into it.  I want to understand it better, but just haven’t had the chance.  Ben Batstone-Cunningham is a fellow mentor at the institute and he is a former Linden Lab designer and now owner of his own virtual reality design studio (Ben created the virtual Gitmo for last year’s team led by Peggy Weil).

Day Two will involve a a panel on monetizing and marketing social projects as well as a presentation by KQED and their Quest project (more tomorrow).

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