The next Talk the Machinima Talk audio conference will be held on Friday, February 22, 2008 at 7:00 PM Pacific Standard Time. (That’s 10:00 PM Eastern, 3:00 AM GMT). Check here to confirm the time in your area.

This month the conference will be hosted by Frank Fox (of Fling Films) and Peter Rasmussen… and the event will take place for the first time inside Second Life. Frank will be hosting the event on his own land, you can look him up in world as Fleef Fimicloud for assistance. The location of the event is: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Cape%20Wrath/183/142/23/ It is recommended that, if you are new to Second Life, you give yourself at least an hour before the start time to walk through SL’s orientation process.

For the audio part of the conference, we’ll be using Second Life’s built-in voice chat capability. If you have a headset which works with Skype, it should work great with Second Life too. IMPORTANT NOTE: BE SURE TO HAVE SKYPE TURNED COMPLETELY OFF BEFORE TRYING TO USE VOICE CHAT IN SECOND LIFE. Sometimes Skype can seize the headset hardware, making it unavailable to other applications. Simply exit completely from Skype before connecting to Second Life, and you should be fine.

If you don’t have voice capability, but still want to participate, Second Life does of course have a versatile text chat system, so please feel welcome to show up even if you don’t have a headset.

The following Voice FAQ for Second Life should prove helpful: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Voice_FAQ

We’re very excited about trying the conference in this kind of venue, not only because of the added visual aspects of interaction, but because we expect that the person-limit and lag/latency issues we’ve experienced with Skype will not be as much of an issue here.

Tell your friends!