preceptor Amat

It wasn't you. We planned a virtual conference for months and lined up 13 speakers/presenters for the event planned for April 26 5:30 p.m. SLT only to be blocked from reaching the Island. Presenters and participants left frustrated. I am trying to promote the use of SL for master's level education, but this type of experience doesn't make it easy. Apparently SL was down most of the day, and unfortunately our space was down 2 hours before and 1/2 hour after the event would have started. Needless to say, the conference did not occur.

An annual conference on San Jose SLIS Island was planned for April 26 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. SLT. The grid went down about 2 hours before the conf. and did not come back until about 1/2 into the planned start time. By then presenters and attendees had left in frustration. How can one be reasonably sure that work that goes into planning such an event is not a waste of time? Are there "safe days" we can be informed of a year or at least 6 months in advance during which Linden Labs would not decide to update billing software or other such thing? Months of work by a number of individuals went into this conference and the only result was frustration with Second Life and another reason not to use it.