Shelenn Ayres

shelenn@social.isurf.ca

My name confuses some so let me tell you a bit about me. I've been around 2.5D and 3D virtual worlds since their inception in the 90's after MUDs and MMOs. Yes Virginia, I remember 300 baud modems connected to the university VAX, working in octal on PDP8's, using BBS, exploring Windows 3.0, and of course ARPANET. It all began for me with the TI994A and a cassette recorder for a hard drive LOL until I graduated to BASIC-A and the PCJr while playing Tracer Sanction. 2.5D worlds still exist today but moving into Cybertown and Blaxxun along with Active Worlds brought me into 3D, I've been there ever since.

Professionally, I am an Engineer with a well-rounded background who specializes in Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis. I am also into providing Research and Education services with a focus on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. However, I spend a lot of time working to advance technologies for Social 3D Virtual Worlds and Social VR applications with a focus on the user experience - especially when it comes to accessibility. Why? Because digitally marginalized users need someone in their corner! I am not talking about accommodation - I am talking about accessibility by design. Happy to have a conversation about this anytime!

While I've been in most every 3D platform over the years, I am currently focused on supporting efforts to improve Open Simulator as a platform. Projects I am involved in run the gamut. How did I end up here? Some of my goals include integration with federated social media network type Friendica. I plan to integrate it with our R&D grid called Metaverse Depot connected to the Hypergrid as part of our mission to advance virtual world technologies with an organization I lead called Infinite Metaverse Alliance (IMA).

On the personal side, I won't list my favorite color, location, music genre, book, or movie. It's too difficult to choose! I consider myself a humanitarian who believes we are each other's keepers but I also believe the best offense is a strong defense - so some think that is just weird LOL. I view the greater community of virtual worlds encompasses online and offline space and that the virtual can be fantasy but it does not have to be. Offline I accept we are all flawed and we need some rules to protect us from ourselves. But that does not mean we should not push the boundaries for the sake of virtual evolution online! Social Virtual Worlds became a place I could be myself to create, build, script, share, and collaborate without traditional boundaries. It feels like home and I hope to extend that presence into the federated social web 😀

I will say the word Federation attracted me since I love Star Trek but my all-time favorite Science Fiction series is Babylon 5 as you may have guessed by my avatar name. My partner's name is Ivanova Ayres because she reminds me so much of that character. She dubbed me Shelenn as a cross between Sheridan and Delenn's characters (because she couldn't decide which I was most like) as we created accounts in Second Life when it began. The names stuck as we moved into the Open Simulator community ;)

"I'd like you to take the time to learn the Babylon 5 mantra: 'Ivanova is always right. I will listen to Ivanova. I will not ignore Ivanova's recommendations. Ivanova is God. And if this ever happens again, Ivanova will personally rip your lungs out."
– Susan Ivanova

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Shelenn Ayres

2 years ago •

Shelenn Ayres
2 years ago •

Jul 9

Aspettando il Linux Day 2021

Fri 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Il 23 ottobre 2021 ci sarà il Linux Day, il grande evento nazionale dedicato ai temi di Linux e del software libero.

In attesa di questo grande giorno, ci prepariamo con una tavola rotonda informale sul tema di quest'anno, "Dati a chi?" (non vi preoccupate, saranno quattro chiacchiere in libertà sull'argomento).

Vogliamo dunque invitare tutta la community del software e della cultura libera e di Linux della provincia di Bari a partecipare, in modo anche da poter discutere dell'organizzazione del Linux Day Bari 2021.

A conclusione della serata, un piccolo aperitivo offerto da Wikimedia Italia e poi una pizzata tutti insieme, per chi vuole fermarsi ancora un po'.

Per ragioni di sicurezza, vi chiediamo di inviare una mail segnalando la vostra partecipazione a bari@ils.org

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Shelenn Ayres

in reply to Shelenn Ayres • 2 years ago • •

Same here, I did not forward this. @Adam

@Adam

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Sylke Vicious

in reply to Shelenn Ayres • 2 years ago • •

@Shelenn Ayres @Adam @System Account hey it happened the same to me too!

@Adam @Shelenn Ayres @System Account

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Adam

in reply to Shelenn Ayres • 2 years ago • •

Thank you for letting me know... I'll be bringing it up with the devs - I have the feeling that I saw something in the timeline a day or two about mistaken identity stuff going on.

Ah, found it: https://social.isurf.ca/display/e18176ef-1860-e75c-7cee-98e684830208

@John Douglas Porter Nobody's been hacked. Please see the linked forum post above - there's something a little weird going on and I think Friendica's somehow mistaking what to do with a federated calendar entry.

I'm sure it'll get sorted.

Thanks again, @Shelenn Ayres !

@Shelenn Ayres @John Douglas Porter

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Andy H3

in reply to Adam • 2 years ago • •

Thanks @Adam for shedding light on this.

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John Douglas Porter

in reply to Shelenn Ayres • 2 years ago •

Neither did I! I guess we got hacked. 🙁

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Todoroki Shouto

in reply to John Douglas Porter • 2 years ago • •

I hope that's not the case! I wish I knew how to disable the notification from this event.

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John Douglas Porter

in reply to Shelenn Ayres • 2 years ago •

One thing that's weird... I try to change my password, and it fails, says the current pw I enter is incorrect. Well, I don't know how it can be; I logged in with it. !!!

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John Douglas Porter

in reply to John Douglas Porter • 2 years ago •

Same problem when I try to enable 2FA. And there doesn't seem to be a "send me an email with a password reset link" feature. 🙁

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Zap

in reply to Shelenn Ayres • 2 years ago • •

This arrived on my Zap server as a Create/Event, with the Event object id pointing to the original event on mobilizon but the activity create actor and the object attributedTo were both set to a libranet.de Friendica user and the entire activity (including the object) appears to have Friendica characteristics and was signed correctly so it was imported here as legitimate. I've saved the logs in case they are helpful. I don't know what will happen to this comment since I'm replying to somebody who apparently has nothing to do with the conversation.

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antrod12

in reply to Shelenn Ayres • 2 years ago • •

I just logged in Friendica after two days and I saw this post which I did NOT make. Was I hacked?

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Adam

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Hey! Do check my comment above, please.

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Fabián LU4EHF

in reply to Shelenn Ayres • 2 years ago • •

reportado en el foro friendica https://forum.friendi.ca/display/e18176ef-1860-e75c-7cee-98e684830208?owt=cbfde2e4bedd72f70552f1d5abb3c74e

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Miguel

in reply to Shelenn Ayres • 2 years ago • •

The same thing happened to me: it says that I created or forwarded or followed this event/conversation, while I was not even online when the event was posted. Looks like someone hacked some feature that interacts between Movilizon and Friendica.