On Tuesday, November 10th, the Lab announced the forthcoming launch of Lab Chat, “an opportunity for you to ask Lindens your questions during a live taping that will be recorded and archived for everyone to view.”
The new show has been in planning ever since SL12B and the successful Meet the Linden chat sessions hosted by Prim Perfect and which featured opportunities to meet Linden Lab staff such as Pete Linden (Peter Gray), the Lab’s Director of Global Communications; Xiola Linden from the Community Team; Patch and Keira Linden; Product Manager Troy Linden and Senior Director of Product, Virtual Worlds, Danger Linden (Don Laabs), and which featured a Q&A session with CEO Ebbe Linden (Ebbe Altberg).
The blog post announcing the new series, reads in part:
The first Lab Chat will be Thursday, November 19th, at 10:30am SLT at the Linden Endowment for the Arts Theatre – with guest Ebbe Altberg, CEO of Linden Lab.
Residents from the Lab Chat production team – Draxtor Despres, Gentle Heron, Elrik Merlin, Petlove Petshop, Inara Pey, Aisling Sinclair, Devin Vaughan, Saffia Widdershins, and Jo Yardley – will pick questions to ask Ebbe from this forum thread – so be sure to get your questions into the thread no later than Friday November 13th, 2015. Authors of selected questions will be invited to ask their question live at the in-world show. Time permitting – additional questions from the audience will be answered.
If you are unable to attend the live show, a recording will be available shortly after the first Lab Chat wraps, so no one will miss out!
We’ll see you on November 19th at 10:30am SLT. Don’t forget to add your questions to the forum thread and mark your calendars to join us!
My own role in this series is relatively minor – I’ll be producing transcripts of each Lab Chat session, which will be available, possibly with audio extracts, on these pages most likely on a forthcoming Lab Chat website.
If all goes well, it is hoped that Lab Chat will go on to become a monthly series. So if you do have questions you’d like the opportunity to perhaps ask your questions directly to Ebbe Altberg, hop over to the forum thread and leave them there, as noted in the Lab’s announcement.
Inara Pey: Living in a Modemworld 
Inara Pey you have plenty of material to ask to your first guest.
1. What about the increase in sim losses since you become CEO?
2. What about the unfair region pricing model where one person pays 33% less in tier compared to the other. Why is there no transparent pricing and are Linden Lab running their business based on secret tier discounts and friend deals?
3. Why did Linden Lab not update Second Life instead of creating a new competing platform?
4. Why is there no migration path for residents wishing to transfer to the new platform? Why is there no form of compensation offered to merchants and sim owners and estates businesses who wish to set up partly or completely on the new platform?
5. Why is no transfer of objects offered to the new platform when it is easy to do this for Linden Lab?
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1. Declining at usual, just at a little slower pace, since 2014, about the time he became CEO. It’s sufficient to look at http://gridsurvey.com/
2. Source?
3. Answered many times (seen in this blog too, did you read it?). In essence, #1 Actually they are keeping to improve SL, which is so far their 1st source of income now, and likely will be for years to come, until the new platform gains market, *IF* it is going to be successful. So, yeah, they care and they do. #2 SL is a such complex mess, and full of legacies, and ugly hacks and workarounds to fit with an hammer all the stuff SL wasn’t designed for – and you can’t happily break the current content – that’s easier to design and to engineer a new improved and more user friendly platform from scratch. #2 The new virtual world is not meant as a SL 2.0 and it is not exactly a replacement: it has a wider target and it’s hoped to become a less niche product. It is aimed to be a WordPress for VR.
4. Answered already, again. There won’t be SL regions there and there won’t be an estate businessmen as in SL. The business model will be likely a different thing. At most you can ask if there will be any incentive to encourage the current merchants to try the new platform. However they will have to design their products differently.
5. Answered already too. No. Not only it is not so easy, actually for most of your stuff they can’t do it at all. Your stuff is just not compatible. Different scripting language and different functions and features, different avatar skeleton, animations and so on. At most they can transfer textures and little else. Users will be able to upload their static mesh models. Clothes will work differently and will require different rigging, but you won’t need “invisprims”, alphas, “mesh bodies” with “alpha slices” to click, or to rig your clothes to… collision bones. Same for other things.
6. (asked below) Actually they can’t do much more than that (see above). And SL will keep to exist as before. I wonder what kind of fraud is that you can’t import your clothes and scripts in Blocksworld. Bad bad Linden Lab! The new world, will be a new different platform as well. It will overlap SL here and there or maybe pretty much. Vehicle fans would surely like to travel for kilometres without sim crossings. But SL will stay until people stay and it is profitable.
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6. Do you not find it completely insane to offer a transfer of identity to your customers and a transfer of Linden Dollar currency while you refuse to transfer their assets and businesses to your new platform? Do you not find this extremely sleazy and a form of fraud to treat your long term paying customers like this why brought you where you are today over the years?
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The place to ask questions – if you’re sincere in your desire for answers – is in the forum – as stated twice in the article above.
Avail yourself of it.
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Wow. That’s a whole lot of butthurt. All of your questions (except for the ranting ones that have absolutely no basis in reality) have been answered. If you’ve been keeping up with current events you already have the answers. You’re merely upset that you’re not being automatically migrated to the new platform (the technical details of the new platform haven’t even been discussed publicly, btw, so migration may not even be feasible) for free.
In other words, calm down. LL still intends to support and develop Second Life. Sansar is a completely new concept/game/world. You don’t have to sign up for it if you don’t want to.
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why = who
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Forget it Belinda, no matter Inara tries to deny it, the moment she ask those questions, is the moment she looses her state of grace.
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I’m not selecting questions to be put to Ebbe. I’m not asking the questions. I won’t be hosting the shows. As noted, my role is restricted to producing the post-show transcripts. Frankly, I was surprised to see my name mentioned in the blog post.
Hence why I repeated the forum thread link where questions can be placed and possibly added to the list. It’s really not that hard to follow a link and place questions where they’ll be seen by those making the selections. It’s also not that hard to make the time to hop over to the LEA theatre and be a part of the audience where one might have the chance to ask those questions directly, in case they’re not selected.
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Inara does a great job of getting the information out there to us. Her article gives a link where you are to post your questions to the Lindens. This is just a bunch of uproar over nothing.
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