Participants: Peter Rasmussen (AUS), Phil Rice (US), Richard Grove (US), Damien Valentine (UK), Harrison Heller (US), Sasha Rudie (US), Hugh Hancock (UK), Ross Bambrey (UK), Leo Lucien-Bay (UK), others?

The conversation was very free form, touching on a number of topics, including: ownership / copyright issues with machinima, Machinima For Dummies, Second Life open source, the Machinima Europe Festival, Motionbuilder, CrazyTalk, Moviestorm, iClone, and much more. We were able to fit all participants on one conference call, each of which also had a Skype chat window open, which was used primarily for sharing URLs and so on.

The feedback from those in attendance has been extremely positive, both Peter and I are thrilled with how this first meeting went. Afterward, we discussed the idea of alternating times every other meeting, so no one time zone is permanently encumbered with an awkward meeting time. We will almost certainly try out the alternate time with the next meeting and see how that goes.