SLCC 2011 is getting underway in Oakland, California. Volunteers are gearing-up to open the registration desk, and today will see an in-world mixer event held between 13:00-14:00 PST, with the films Deep Down: A Story from the Heart of Coal Country and When Strangers Click being shown later in the afternoon at the conference centre in Oakland.

Keynote talks and other presentations will be streamed via uStream, both in-world and on the SLCC website, which also has the full conference schedule.

Four sims have been established in-world for those wishing to remotely follow / join-in the conference, and which will host the various in-world activities and events that are scheduled alongside the main conference. Note that if you wish to watch any conference presentations in-sim, you will need to use a 2.x-compatible Viewer to receive the streams.

Those who have a Twitter account can follow latest updates and news by following #slcc.

I’ll be endeavouring to follow events remotely and reporting on various aspects of the conference – as doubt will many others!

Useful landmarks

• Alternative arrival for keynote & general presentation stage area
• Ying Yang in-world mixers area
• Walkway for the Museum of Modern Art and the Bradbury Building
• Faneuil Hall
• Avacon village
• Fox Theatre

This coming weekend will see SLCC 2011 takes place in Oakland, California. The event starts on Friday morning, and continues through to Sunday evening, and will feature in-world events as well and the actual conference event itself.

Keynote speakers for the event are:

• Rik Panganiban – “We Built This City: Creating a Better World” 08:00 Saturday 13th

• Rod Humble – “The Future of Second Life” 13:00 Saturday 13th

• Aliza Sherman – “FutureMobileGeekyTech ~ Our Virtual Lives” 08:00 Sunday 14th

• Sunday Linden Keynote panel: John Laurence (SL: Durian Linden), Senior Director, Consumer Product; Jeff Vogt (SL: Vogt Linden), Senior Director, Business Product; Sarah Kuehnle (SL: Esbee Linden), Senior Producer at Linden Lab responsible for Viewer optimisation; and Michael Gesner (SL: Gez Linden), Executive Producer, Consumer Product responsible for in-world experiences; moderator: Peter Gray (SL: Peter Linden), PR Manager at Linden Lab.

Keynote events will be interspersed with other events and breakouts, including features on Mesh and a look at the fascinating From Kansas to Cairo Project which is also the subject of an entry in this month’s Month of Machinima. There will also be screenings of the films, Deep Down‑A Story From the Heart of Coal Country and My Avatar & Me. As I reported recently, an in-world experience associated with Deep Down is currently nominated for an Emmy award. The full conference schedule details all that is on offer – all times SLT / PST, obviously.

For those unable to attend, events will be streamed (via ustream) both in-world (Slurl) and to the SLCC website, as Dirk McKeenan reports:

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SLCC 2011, to be held in Oakland, California, has opened registrations. The event will be held from the 12 through 14th August and I shall once again not be attending. Sorry, but California at the height of the holiday season in the northern hemisphere is not an economical destination.

Apparently, the event will be held on the East Coast on even-numbered years from next year (Boston, to be precise). Again, this isn’t always a particularly low-cost destination from Europe – but it is a bloody sight cheaper than California can be in August. One cannot deny it’s good to see an unbending of the “California only” mentality that seems to have pervaded SLCC up until now. I also happen to love New England, and I’ve always enjoyed time spent in Boston; so maybe next year will be the year in which I actually surprise myself and join the event.

In the meantime, here’s the home page link for the conference.