Mitch Kapor… who?

After reading the post in the Official Linden Blogrelated to the program for SL5B i’m full of curiosity.

Some time ago Lindens said there will be an important announcement at the closing of SL5B, and the one closing SL5B will be Mitch Kapor, but… who is Mitch Kapor?

Image by Isfullofcrap published under a Creative Commons license.

In the image above you can see him (at left) in Second Life, during Life 2.0 conference. Well, Mr. Kapor is head of the Open Source Applications Foundation, Chair of the Board of Directors of Linden Lab, has been chair of the Mozilla Foundation, founder of Lotus (the software company, not related to the genitalia makers in Second Life :-P ) and is an active member of the Advisory Board of the Wikimedia Foundation (source: Wikipedia).

Mr. Kapor published also some articles about Civil Liberties in Cyberspace, co-founding the Electronic Frontier Foundation with fellow digital rights activists John Perry Barlow and John Gilmore.

So, knowing the biography of Mr. Kapor i wonder what will be the “special announcement”.

I have my personal guesses about this, one more technical and the other more social: Open Source of the Simulator Side Software and/or some kind of regulation about the use and contents in the simulators (a clearer one), maybe a new Mature-PG structure, specially if they want to merge Teen Grid with Main Grid.

Of course, all that is just ideas… we will have to wait until July 7 to know the answer.