{"id":1671,"date":"2006-11-08T16:21:28","date_gmt":"2006-11-08T21:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1671"},"modified":"2006-11-08T16:36:12","modified_gmt":"2006-11-08T21:36:12","slug":"rubys-2nd-life-roots-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/rubys-2nd-life-roots-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruby&#8217;s 2nd Life Roots Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/118\/290762167_a052d4c6a7.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"Ruby's Roots Camp\" align=right \/><br \/>\nEven as political junkie and <a href=\"http:\/\/OrangePolitics.org\">OrangePolitics<\/a> keeper of the relative peace <a href=\"http:\/\/lotusmedia.org\/\">Ruby<\/a> was getting updates on the results of last night&#8217;s election, she was telling me about her <a href=\"http:\/\/lotusmedia.org\/in\/nptech\/rootscamp\/\">Roots Camp being held in Second Life on Better World Island starting today at 4 pm EST.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ruby tells me that the purpose of this Roots Camp is to <em>&#8220;de-brief on the election and get a jump-start on organizing for 2008 by interacting with and learn from other leading Progressives in a cutting edge virtual environment that is likely to play a major role in online political organizing for 2008.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rootscamp.org\/\">Roots Camps<\/a> are modeled directly on <a href=\"http:\/\/barcamp.org\/\">Bar Camp<\/a> right down to the wiki and nearly to the logo. They&#8217;re about getting down to your netroots, if your roots are progressive (NewSpeak won&#8217;t allow you to say Liberal).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secondlife.com\/\">Second Life<\/a> is a 3D virtual environment built by the residents (NewSpeak won&#8217;t allow you to say Users). There were at last count about 1,305,950 citizens <a href=\"http:\/\/secondlife.com\/whatis\/\">(they say people)<\/a> inhabiting Second Life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rootscamp.org\/RootsCampSL\">For more on Roots Camp SL go here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even as political junkie and OrangePolitics keeper of the relative peace Ruby was getting updates on the results of last night&#8217;s election, she was telling me about her Roots Camp being held in Second Life on Better World Island starting today at 4 pm EST. Ruby tells me that the purpose of this Roots Camp [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,3,1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-and-other-friends","category-amusements","category-foo-camp","category-general","category-virtual-communities","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}