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05-01-2009, 03:50 PM
Studio Wikitecture and Virtual Ability are the winners of the First Linden Prize that recognizes an innovative inworld project that improves the way people work, learn and communicate in their daily lives outside of the virtual world. Dominican Frederic Emam-Zade (alias Zage Farman in Second Life), executive director of Funglode, President Leonel Fernandez's think tank, is one of the active members of Studio Wikitecture.
Both projects will receive US$10,000, the largest award in the virtual world industry for their achievements. The groups competed with 230 applications in two rounds of deliberations. The judges decided that these two projects were "like comparing Tuesdays and Oranges", and so they decided to give two equal awards.
Studio Wikitecture explores how a geographically-dispersed design team can simultaneously work on the same architecture or urban planning project. This includes sharing ideas, editing the contributions of others and voting on the success or failure of proposed design iterations. To help guide and manage collaboration effectively, Studio Wikitecture built a version tracking Wiki that it calls the "Wiki-Tree." Unlike conventional wikis that track text documents in a linear history, Wiki-Tree tracks versions of 3D models and saves them within a continually evolving digital tree structure.
For more info on the prize: https://blogs.secondlife.com/community/features/blog/2009/04/30/... (https://blogs.secondlife.com/community/features/blog/2009/04/30/the-linden-prize-goes-to-studio-wikitecture-and-virtual-ability)
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#8)
Both projects will receive US$10,000, the largest award in the virtual world industry for their achievements. The groups competed with 230 applications in two rounds of deliberations. The judges decided that these two projects were "like comparing Tuesdays and Oranges", and so they decided to give two equal awards.
Studio Wikitecture explores how a geographically-dispersed design team can simultaneously work on the same architecture or urban planning project. This includes sharing ideas, editing the contributions of others and voting on the success or failure of proposed design iterations. To help guide and manage collaboration effectively, Studio Wikitecture built a version tracking Wiki that it calls the "Wiki-Tree." Unlike conventional wikis that track text documents in a linear history, Wiki-Tree tracks versions of 3D models and saves them within a continually evolving digital tree structure.
For more info on the prize: https://blogs.secondlife.com/community/features/blog/2009/04/30/... (https://blogs.secondlife.com/community/features/blog/2009/04/30/the-linden-prize-goes-to-studio-wikitecture-and-virtual-ability)
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#8)