Casual conversation: Legacy of the metaverse: How do we build this in?

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Cheeky alternative title: "Interoperability after the apocalypse"

How do we make sure our assets, virtual worlds, games ... can still be accessed 10 years from now? How about 300 years from now?

Tuesday 28 January 2025, 17:00 UTC
On VRChat, in the world VRChatRU.
It will also be bridged to the OMI Discord: https://discord.gg/Wqt4ZC4zjF

New to VRChat? Here's an instruction video: https://youtu.be/8p5rrnoaIQg?si=bHJZkgiZnlo-btcB

Confirmed speaker: Julian Reyes (Keyframe), founder of Virtual Worlds Museum.
www.virtualworlds.museum

Proposed schedule:
0min - 10min wait for people to arrive. Is there a icebreaker game we can play? Like sign a guestbook, graffiti on a wall somewhere. throw a ball or balloon to others?
10min - 20min Introduce the hosting groups - OMI, VRChatRU, and The Stars of the Metaverse
20min - 40min Introduce the topic, and ask for speakers, introduce those already committed.
40min onwards: have a conversation: combination of roundtable and moderated Q&A
1h30min - end of event (roughly)

Participants:
Open to all, but by special invite: (please suggest)

Relevant: File over app

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Components to consider:

File format
Storage
Upstream first?
What can we learn from Linux, and the stable effort - Debian?

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Hardware conversation on Discord https://discord.com/channels/887789163045335081/887789163045335086/1333469595905953904
Talk about time capsule vs online storage (which requires continuous care)
iFire puts their bet on bluray-dvd-cd combo - while aaron commented that Optical media, including Blu-ray, rots over time, and will become unreadable over a few hundred years, iFire countered that the m-disc is rated for 1000 years maybe:
The hope is that bluray-dvd-cd combo is useful that people will still remember how they work
I don't know if I can do that for sd-cards / ssds. Maybe usb sticks
hard drives have a problem with the seals breaking. some hard drives even have problems with helium escaping

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maximus contributed that the data on the time capsule should follow a rosetta stone concept, where the same data/content is included in different formats so if knowledge is lost on one format it can be recovered from the translations.
PS: I would also include adapters/USB hubs with different formats supported and interoperable