Hi James and Loralai
Thanks for your reply. I meant to say the regions I mentioned are all
on OSgrid. I've been using OpenSim (front and back) for about 5
months now so tech wise feel pretty comfortable with it. Any people
I've stumbled on in world are usually having very techy conversations
(which is understandable since it's still Apha and we are all setting
up our servers) but I just worry what happens when it's stable and
everyone has a space - it will come. What do we all do then? If
there is nothing to do in world then people will drift away, tech
challenges will only last so long so this is really all about
sustainability/longevity of the 'place' of OpenSim. If anything keeps
Second Life going it's the culture, attending things, meeting people
whatever your thing is there is a culture for it.
I understand people are investing an enormous amount of time and
energy into OpenSim to get it working and the work so far is
phenomenal (genuinely well done) but other things need to get rolling
to sustain it all. Loralai, what your company seem to be doing is
great. It would be good to see that provision of culture, art,
community happening across existing grids as well. Having it on your
own grid is fine but the whole issue of moving from one grid to
another is still far from easy so yet another grid at the moment will
just mean competition and risks seclusion. When crossing grids works,
having a set of regions (because hopefully the 'border crossing' will
be transparent) that specialise in culture, art, community will do
well but I suspect that at the moment its a case of it needs to be
taken to where the users are.
James, are you a practicing artist in OpenSim? Would love to see
anything you have done.
Garrett
On 14 Jul 2011, at 15:44, [email protected] wrote:
Hi Garrett,
Firstly, Welcome to the wild and wacky world of OpenSims!
I'm also an artist, a half-assed academic (sorry!) and have a LOT of
experience with OpenSims, SecondLife, &etc.
My SL rezday is back in Dec of 2004, and I confess I havent logged
in to SL
in some years, due to my extensive involvement with OpenSims.
First thing to know, is that the topologicla space is a bit
different here.
With SL, you have a company producing a product, and they more or
less try
to 'contain and control' (with more or less succes), all of the
technical,
economic, and social aspects of their virtual world. With OpenSims,
there
are three primary communities; Developers, Testers, and Early
Adopters. Each
of these has one or more distinct communities surrounding it, and
there is
both considerable overlap between them and some odd instances of
isolation.
Perhaps the most high profile community (and it is made up of a good
many
subcommunities) is on OSgrid (see http://osgrid.org). It is fast, fun,
furious, unstable, high risk, almost completely anonymous; verily, a
conundrum made up of upturned wormcans. It's a fascinating place,
and much
like SL, it can steal your brain.
In the interest of full disclosure, I was a volunteer admin there
for around
four years, and it finally got to be too much for me and I left
(though I do
still maintain a simple user's presence there). It continues to be
vigorous
in my absence ;)
I'd say start there; meet people and extend your social reach into the
space. You'll find a fairly vigorous 'Welcome Area' community there,
not
unlike SL's. They will be able to provide you with some good jumping-
off
points.
Good luck, and feel free to give a shout out to me if you have
additional
questions.
Cheers!
James
aka Hiro Protagonist
Hey Garret,
I understand the disappointment in lack of culture, well in truth the
lack of a world at all. Opensim is a bunch of Coalesced servers with
very few actually active grids like Second Life. My company along
with a
non profit educational organization is trying to create a grid that
wont
exactly mirror secondlife but will provide culture, art, community. we
want to turn the opensim framework into a usable, stable environment
that can then be built up as a grand world much like second life has
been over the past few years.
If you would like to join us in that let me know :) you can always
shoot
me an email or check out http://pawzgroup.com or http://atmeeting.com
Regards,
Loralai Aya
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