Ryan will discuss the need for a truly open-source virtual world client viewer, and how RealXtend hopes to kick-start the effort to create "the firefox of virtual worlds.
Speaker Bio:
Ryan is an open source fanatic, and virtual world believer, and sometime software architect. graduating with degrees in computer science and mathematics in calgary, canada; ryan took the road less travelled and moved to tokyo, japan; where he worked on web systems and real-time 3D visualization software. ryan then helped found the first company in japan to focus on open source virtual world systems. he has since joined the oulu, finland-based non-profit open-source realXtend project, as community manager and lead architect.