Dear Peter, thank you for your kind words! I am also looking the project as an outsider nowadays, but still from quite close. I'd still argue that the vision for the project is very clear, and the tasks are aiming to that vision.
Lot of energy went into making the Naali viewer and now some to make the Tundra server. Now I believe that the next logical step would be to package all this into a user-friendly easy to deploy package with some example content. Antti or Toni, could you comment on the strategic direction of the project? Best regards, Jani 2011/1/26 Peter Steinlechner <[email protected]> > Dear Jani > > I was following the realxtend project with a high interest since the early > releases in 2008 which where very impressive and where showing a lot of > great improvements. The realXtend project really stood out of all other > virtual world environments at that time do to fact as it was based on common > sense, practical approaches and was realized by a highly talented small team > in a very short time. > With high expectation I was following the naali project as well and had to > notice that it came far off the initial roadmap and vision for whatever > reasons. Without any doubts its not because a lack of skills or motivation > of the involved people, as they delivered with naali and tundra some very > innovative approaches to get towards a 3d Internet. > So I guess that there must be probably a combination of political, > organisational and man power related issues that lead to this "backlog" from > the initial naali-taiga roadmap. A few things I noticed as an interested > outsider of the realxtend project are that there where a lot of experimental > and R&D tasks, which for sure are benefitial on the longer run, but > unfortunately seemed to have sidetracked the project into an "extreme > programming exercise" which bypassed the expectations of the intended > audience. Though the group in Oulu and the enne group from Spain made some > miracles happen within their resources, I beleive that there is a need of a > roadmap redefinition with focus on delivering an operational, > administrateable client - server framework. Yes, I know they are working on > it, all the partial results make sense and are great proof of concepts, but > there is undeniable a cluttering which IMHO needs a focusing, consolidating, > structuring and finetuning. I'm well aware, that this is easier said then > done. > > So I hope that you soon find the "software guru" that makes realxtend work, > as I personaly really would like to see it soar on the virtual skies. > > Cheers > Pedro > > > On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Jani Pirkola <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> One of companies here in Oulu is looking for an experienced software guru >> to make realXtend work.* In case you are interested, please contact me >> ASAP*. The position is a senior position and the company in question is a >> stable and good place to work at. >> >> Best regards, >> Jani Pirkola >> >> -- >> http://groups.google.com/group/realxtend >> http://www.realxtend.org > > > -- > http://groups.google.com/group/realxtend > http://www.realxtend.org -- http://groups.google.com/group/realxtend http://www.realxtend.org
