Personally I am a retired software engineer having fun with the technology. I gave up Second Life several years ago when they started getting restrictive and having periodic panics.
I think you will find the various OpenSim worlds to be a very mixed bag - there is certainly no central or unifying "culture" of any sort. Probably the best introduction to some of the larger grids is http://www.hyperica.com/ and http://thehypergates.com/ I am sure there are a dozen other good ones, but these cover most of the popular grids. In addition there are literally thousands of "private" grids for any number of special purposes - I ran a standalone "Mars Sim" grid for a Sci Fi convention for example. You got to suit up an dexplore Mars - I forgot and left the editing capability on and several kids got on and transformed Mars in a couple of hours! They had a great time (as did the spectators) and I just restored everything from backups when we were done. The Hypergrid is definitely getting to be a way to explore new "worlds" with various paradigms, although it has had some teething problems with incompatible format changes recently. If you want to jump right in then I suggest looking at Diva's D2 distro from: http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page It gives you a very simple pre-set up starter grid of your very own, download one of the Hypergates and you are on your way! When I set up the Mars sim, one of the first visitors was a "little green man" (literally!) from VUE who dropped over to say hi. :-) Good Luck Karen On 07/14/2011 05:41 AM, Garrett Lynch wrote: > Hi All > > Never really took the time to introduce myself and this list has been > very helpful in setting up our OpenSim regions, I know the educators > list (https://lists.secondlife.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/educators) > are keen on introductions - it's a good idea to see what people are doing. > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users _______________________________________________ Opensim-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users
