{"id":449,"date":"2011-08-13T18:53:56","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T02:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkly-cute.com\/blog\/?p=449"},"modified":"2011-08-13T18:53:56","modified_gmt":"2011-08-14T02:53:56","slug":"a-knowing-leader-_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/darkly-cute.com\/blog\/a-knowing-leader-_\/","title":{"rendered":"A knowing leader (^_^)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I been at SLCC today. \u00a0I went to the two mesh panels and heckled as good as I can. \u00a0Had lunch with a few SL friends who I&#8217;ve met in-person for the first time. \u00a0And sat in while Rod gave his speech. (^_^)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve said it before, I&#8217;ll say it again, and many other people say it; Rod gets it! (^_^)<\/p>\n<p>Actually, to me, he spoke quite like an engineer and planner. \u00a0He didn&#8217;t have the PR-ish glaze over words that exec. staff typically have. \u00a0Best of all, he wasn&#8217;t afraid to be honest. =^-^=<\/p>\n<p>While he directly avoided any talk about billing. \u00a0Come Q&amp;A time, when questions about Open Source, the Viewer2 UI, and IP theft; he was quite frank. \u00a0(^_^)<\/p>\n<p>Actually, he was pretty much quite even with the people that dislike V2. \u00a0He just out and admitted that he didn&#8217;t like it and found himself confused. &#8220;Fair enough!&#8221; XD<\/p>\n<p>A really fun question was when someone brought up the old Community Gateway program. \u00a0He had no bloody clue what that was. \u00a0So, someone spelled it out to him, saying stuff about how the old communities worked and functioned as alternative start points to the Linden provided sims. \u00a0&#8220;Well, that&#8217;s a cool idea!&#8221; &gt;8D<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s hope that this little quip is enough to convince him to revisit the idea. =^-^=<\/p>\n<p>All in all me and the peeps around me came out of his speech feeling pretty good. \u00a0I gotta say I&#8217;m still confident. \u00a0Linden Lab appears to have quite the knowing leader in their ranks at the moment. \u00a0=^-^=<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I been at SLCC today. \u00a0I went to the two mesh panels and heckled as good as I can. \u00a0Had lunch with a few SL friends who I&#8217;ve met in-person for the first time. \u00a0And sat in while Rod &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/darkly-cute.com\/blog\/a-knowing-leader-_\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,81,32,47,196,197,225,268,3,100],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/darkly-cute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/darkly-cute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/darkly-cute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkly-cute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkly-cute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/darkly-cute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":451,"href":"http:\/\/darkly-cute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions\/451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/darkly-cute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkly-cute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkly-cute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}