Dear Justin, Thank you for your work and your time. You've been a generous friend and colleague. Your reasoned approach to problem solving and your gentle touch with personal issues were (and I'm sure will remain) reassuring to all of those who will encounter you.
Best wishes, Chris George Mason University Fairfax, VA >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Monday, August 10, 2015 8:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Opensim-users Digest, Vol 17, Issue 2 Send Opensim-users mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://opensimulator.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [email protected] You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Opensim-users digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Overte is going away as a formal organization (Justin Clark-Casey) 2. Everything that has a beginning has an end (Justin Clark-Casey) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2015 19:36:06 +0100 From: Justin Clark-Casey <[email protected]> To: [email protected], [email protected] Subject: [Opensim-users] Overte is going away as a formal organization Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Hi folks, The original reason for setting up Overte was as a legal entity to receive Contributor License Agreements (CLAs) and to pass on any patent rights effectively granted through those CLAs. However, we also hoped that it could act as an organization for community activity and perhaps receiving money to pay for development. In some of these things it has been a success. In particular it successfully acted as a focal point for producing the OpenSimulator conferences in conjunction with Avacon. However, handling money is a complex issue for all kinds of reasons, particularly for software developers who hate bureaucracy. For that reason, we never went down this path. Indeed, the organization instead has cost considerable money because it's not free to register a non-profit company. For this reason and because the CLAs are going away anyway, Overte will now cease to be a formal legal entity. It may continue to exist informally. -- Justin Clark-Casey (justincc) OSVW Consulting http://justincc.org http://twitter.com/justincc ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2015 19:38:01 +0100 From: Justin Clark-Casey <[email protected]> To: [email protected], [email protected] Subject: [Opensim-users] Everything that has a beginning has an end Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Hi folks, As some of you may have noticed, my last OpenSimulator commit was in May, and before that in March. I have also not been on the mailing list or responsive to personal e-mails, for which I apologise. Unfortunately, for various reasons (some of which I'm still trying to work out, to be honest) my motivation to work in this area has gone away. Perhaps it's just the normal passage of time and evolving interests - it has been 8 years after all! I'm now working in the area of data integration for genetics and synthetic biology, an even more insanely complex system and perhaps ultimately frustrating since you can't just go and code an organism (at least, not yet). We shall see. I do hope to keep up with the mailing lists and e-mail to this account, at least much better than recently. However, although I remain a core committer, at least for now, in the immediate future code commits from me will be extremely sparse. I will also probably not be reviewing code changes in general. I am also resigning with immediate effect as president of Overte, which is going away as a formal legal organization anyway (see other e-mails for more details on that). It's been a wild 8 years and I wouldn't have it any other way. Huge thanks to everybody who has supported OpenSimulator and me personally in that time. I wish you all the best and I'm sure OpenSimulator and the Metaverse in general will have a great future I made a blog post at [1] those this is pretty much what I said above. No flowers. [1] http://justincc.org/blog/2015/08/09/everything-that-has-a-beginning-has-an-e nd/ -- Justin Clark-Casey (justincc) OSVW Consulting http://justincc.org http://twitter.com/justincc ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Opensim-users mailing list [email protected] http://opensimulator.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users End of Opensim-users Digest, Vol 17, Issue 2 ******************************************** _______________________________________________ Opensim-users mailing list [email protected] http://opensimulator.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users
