Interview with Project Manager Gerdofal Kondor
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Time passes fast and it almost the end of this class. CSULA parcel final project is almost finished. As the first building of CSULA in SL, the project manager, Gerdofal Kondor, causes more attention. Today, in front of the building on CSULA parcel, eagle eye reporter interviews him, and hope it help you know more about SL, and the project.
Sunflower Randt: How long have you been in SL?
Gerdofal Kondor: Wow, (it) must have been almost 4 or 5 years ago, shortly after launch. My oldest avatar is from 6/24/2004, but I had one about a year before that, I just lost it.
Sunflower Randt: I think in 2004, only few people knew SL when SL launched in 2003, I've heard there were barely 1000 users.
Gerdofal Kondor: Yeah, it was pretty barren.
Sunflower Randt: How did you know about SL? Where were you introduced to SL?
Gerdofal Kondor: Hmm... I saw it mentioned on an online message board. Nobody I knew was on it and it was a free account and they gave you in world money just for signing up, so I logged in and played around.
Sunflower Randt: You are really a pioneer.
Gerdofal Kondor: I liked the idea of an online world created by the residents. At the time, it was pretty boring and I had no free time, so I just played around a bit. It was interesting, but not enough people on to really have a nice economy yet.
Sunflower Randt: Did you attend any class like EDIT 550 before?
Gerdofal Kondor: No, nothing online. Though I did attend a couple of discussions and meetings in SL, they were only in SL, not associated with any college or university.
Sunflower Randt: What do you feel that your role as the project manager?
Gerdofal Kondor: Mostly to make sure everything is done on time, that's the traditional major responsibility. Usually, (also making sure that things are) done well is added to that, but in this case that actually became a group leader responsibility. I'm also the scripter and help everyone do what needs to be done.
Sunflower Randt: how do you feel the build is going?
Gerdofal Kondor: It's going great. Better than ever expected. The only large problem we're having is with permissions. When objects are not deeded to the group, they get cleaned up by the parcel and disappear. That has caused some confusion.
Sunflower Randt: What have you learned by being in this class?
Gerdofal Kondor: I've learned a lot of the intricacies of coding and scripting, I've learned a lot about the group permissions in SL. And learned that I don't like them, group functionality needs to be expanded. I've also learned that the first session of this class needs to be more intense with in person training on a lot of aspects of SL before it becomes a home only course
Sunflower Randt: If you were to introduce SL to the people who never use SL before, how would you describe SL in front of them briefly?
Gerdofal Kondor: I've described it as an online world with a great potential to allow collaboration, especially for students who are not physically close to each other.
Sunflower Randt: I believe our project will be great and keep the record in CSULA
Gerdofal Kondor: Yeah, this is awesome
Sunflower Randt: Thank you very much for your time.
Gerdofal Kondor: Sure thing
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