Hi, the realxtend.org domain name is finally back in business. It now just points to the Wordpress instance -- not as a redirect like before, but it now is directly the WP site (that is: earlier the old realxtend.org server just redirected to realxtend.wordpress.com -- but now realxtend.org itself is directly hosted at WP and the blog works with that address). We started paying WP a little hosting fee now to get that, and also to get rid of the random advertisement that was sometimes quite ugly on the site earlier.
Next in line is getting the Doxygen generated Tundra API docs back up, and then some of the web hosted scenes etc. that were on the old www.realxtend.org server. The server admin things are now centralized to Adminotech as a part of realXtend Foundation's deal with them. The delay on getting the service back up was due to some history having piled up after organizational changes here -- original realXtend project managers had changed, at one point DNS admin things were moved to Oulu Innovation Ltd which doesn't even exist anymore etc. Took a bit of detective work from me to figure out the situation, never had anything to do with those things earlier. Now all the info and accounts etc. is up-to-date and gathered in once place so we should be all good for the future. ~Toni P.S. In other news, I was in Boston last week for Immersive Education initiative's yearly summit -- first visit for me, Francois, Boris and Pasi have been there earlier. Was mostly presenting the platform and getting a feel of the market situation wrt what e.g. universities need and want from VWs and how the different platforms are serving them. I will write a separate brief analysis of that with some conclusions, and am also available to talk about it (we may have an open live meet in Oulu next week about it). Basic summary is that many schools are moving or wanting to move away from SL after the changes there -- Opensimulator being naturally a kind of default candidate then (same viewer, content compat etc) but many are seriously interested in alternatives too. Wonderland is already picked up by some and has definite upsides (from a 1000feet arch overview is basically identical with Tundra, but more complete and mature and well documented etc), but realXtend is seen as interesting as well (more power, graphics quality, work on mobile support, quite many projects and also commercial products being done in several companies etc.). And a much bigger overall point is that VWs and games may really be coming huge in education in the coming years (in U.S) -- at least if the research that Harvard presented from their EcoMUVE pilot hits the government etc. there the way I think it can (they basically stated that using games for ed is a prime candidate for solving some of the biggest problems in the american school system, had done pilots with hundreds of schools & thousands of kids and had nice reports to back it up etc). It try to summarize that somehow in the report too, and must also communicate back to those people, as the Smithsonian Watershed project (aka LVM / Chesapeake Bay) which i was announcing there approaches same kind of things as EcoMUVE but from an interestingly different angle. -- http://groups.google.com/group/realxtend http://www.realxtend.org
