Big online conference on Minetest: Please participate / Call for proposals

[thminer]

Please consider to participate or share Your experience with minetest for an international audience. See
https://www.lmz-bw.de/veranstaltungen/e ... mz/#c67597

SCHEDULE
Time zone: UTC/GMT+2
May 14th, 2021 (exclusively in German)

6.30 pm to 7 pm: Opening
7 pm to 9 pm: Examples of good practice: Build the future with Minetest
May 15th, 2021

11 am to 12 pm Welcome Address and Keynote "Back to the stone age" (Stephanie Wössner)
12.15 pm to 1.15 pm Workshop Session 1
1.30 p.m. to 2.30 pm Workshop Session 2
3 pm to 4 pm Examples of good practice
4.15 pm to 5.15 pm Workshop Session 3
5.30 pm to 6.30 pm Workshop Session 4
7 pm to 9 pm Closing Keynote "Reality is Broken" (Jane McGonigal) and Closing Remarks



Highlight will be the closing Keynote "Reality is Broken" by Jane McGonigal.

[Hume2]

I'm wondering what the topics of these workshops will be about. They say that they will reveal it later. However, I don't have a high expectation on this, based on the vagueness of information they provided so far and the fact that they used the term "21th century" three times in such short article.

[runs]

Too much German language for me hahaha.
I wonder why there is no official Minetets Con.

[eugenefil]

Yes, more details will be great. I checked the link, nothing new there. Jane McGonigal's TED talks seem interesting though.

So what are the topics? Is it exclusively about Minetest? Robotics with Minetest? Jane McGonigal on Minetest?

[Hume2]

I'm quite skeptic about Jane McGonial. I looked at her website: https://janemcgonigal.com/
I have some notes about this website.

• The website gives me rather bombastic than scientific impression.
• I'm aware that highly scientific details wouldn't fit the website but why doesn't she even specify the genres of her games? From her descriptions, I don't even know if they are jump 'n' run games, shooters, adventure games, puzzles or whatever.
• The name "Institute for the Future" sounds suspicious.
• The word "future" occurs 21 times on the main page. Is that normal?
• Her newest research paper is 8 years old. And her newest game is 9 years old. Did she forget to update that, while she was still updating information about videos, books and achievements?
• There are two large ads on the borders of the page. Is she that low on money?

[eugenefil]

why doesn't she even specify the genres of her games?

I found game titles on a wikipedia page about her. Judging from there some of them are alternate reality games.

Her 9 year old game SuperBetter seems not dead.

[eugenefil]

I couldn't find mentions of the Minetest event on her site.

[thminer]

Now You can see first details of the schedule: https://www.lmz-bw.de/fileadmin/user_up ... 052021.pdf . There are enough interesting talks in English to participate. Please register if You are interested to participate: https://eveeno.com/exploreandlearn-english