Re: [Opensim-dev] proposal: cleanup and break up region modules

2009-01-29 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
My experience with RESTComms, and having looked at the other modules in there, is that most of those aren't really modules as in optional components, but as the reference implementation of a required interface that can be replaced with another implementation. For that reason they can be seen

Re: [Opensim-dev] TSB Feasibility Study: Online Virtual Worlds for Urban Regeneration Consultation

2009-01-29 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
On this topic, I am involved with a company that is doing exactly that -- using virtual worlds (OpenSim in particular) to model urban planning projects. The terraingen tool is part of that, but we're focusing on the dynamics of urban areas, traffic mostly. You can see the beginnings of that in

Re: [Opensim-dev] TP protocol handle

2009-01-30 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
-why-slurls-are-bad/ -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: opensim-dev-boun...@lists.berlios.de im Auftrag von Cristina Videira Lopes Gesendet: Do 29.01.2009 20:05 An: opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de Betreff: [Opensim-dev] TP protocol handle Hi, I want to take HG TPs to the next logical step

Re: [Opensim-dev] TP protocol handle

2009-01-30 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
Dr Scofield wrote: Cristina Videira Lopes wrote: Dirk, How do I make the SL viewer underline these things? I still don't know what packet is involved, but I can see that urls like these http://slurl.com/secondlife/Foo/ secondlife://Foo/ result in something being sent to the server querying

Re: [Opensim-dev] point of no return

2009-01-31 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
Make sure you have a home region set in your home grid, and that that machine can be accessed from the outside (i.e. must be an external IP /domain name). Then you can always go home with the normal home key combo. (as usual with all TPs currently, make sure to wait 15-20 secs between TPs)

Re: [Opensim-dev] TP protocol handle

2009-01-31 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
-dev-boun...@lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of Cristina Videira Lopes Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 1:49 PM To: opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] TP protocol handle Thanks all for the pointers. I now understand a lot better what these handles are all about, and I've done

Re: [Opensim-dev] TP protocol handle

2009-01-31 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
Mic Bowman wrote: Is there any way to report on the grid coordinates for the linked region so you can tell whether the link is within the acceptable 4096 range? something like gridinfo... Yes, I'm finally going to add that check in the link-region machinery. It's really simple.

Re: [Opensim-dev] [Opensim-users] hypergrid teleports and non-hypergrid simulators

2009-02-01 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
Mic Bowman wrote: we have two simulators with one region each running with hypergrid turned on. we want foreign users to go through one of the gateways to get into our grid. i know that the users can freely teleport around our grid once they have hypergrid teleported to a gateway region. what

Re: [Opensim-dev] point of no return

2009-02-01 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
Hyperlinks are *uni-directional*. A link to B doesn't imply the link back. Gustavo Alberto Navarro Bilbao wrote: Well, I tested again from scratch, and creating in the inventory some news items before change to the Hypergrid way. With that configuration can't see in the map the sim in my local

Re: [Opensim-dev] Dynamic hyperlinks (was TP protocol handle)

2009-02-01 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
Justin Clark-Casey wrote: So to clarify, does this facility mean that one can teleport to a hyperlinked region using a url even if the region owner has not explicitly set up that link? Yes. These dynamic links are intended to be temporary (although I haven't done the expiration part

Re: [Opensim-dev] asset_database = local or grid?

2009-02-01 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
Justin Clark-Casey wrote: But it strikes me that now, if you wanted to retain your regions assets locally, you could set up your region as a hypergrid enabled region, as Hypergrid regions use the local asset store (there is conceptually no global). In view of this, I'd like to completely

[Opensim-dev] Hypergrid and Interoperability workshop

2009-02-02 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
Hi, We're planning a first meeting to talk about defining a roadmap for Hypergrid interoperability in OpenSim worlds. The meeting will be this Friday at 10am PST. We'll meet in the UCI Grid, Gateway 7000, until it crashes :-); then we'll move to an IRC channel. Note that this is not intended

Re: [Opensim-dev] Hypergrid and Interoperability workshop

2009-02-02 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
Dahlia Trimble wrote: is there a hypergrid link for the meeting location? ucigrid04.nacs.uci.edu 9007 It's in coords 7000, 7000 so directly reachable from OSGrid. People coming from lower grids can use Gateway 3000 first (ucigrid04.nacs.uci.edu 9003), then hop to Gateway 7000.

[Opensim-dev] [Fwd: Re: Proposal for an OpenSim session at Metaverse U conference]

2009-04-06 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
and have lots of announcements coming so watch http://metaverse.stanford.edu/ for updates. Hope you can make it! Cheers, Henrik On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Cristina Videira Lopes lo...@ics.uci.edu mailto:lo...@ics.uci.edu wrote: Hi Henrik, We meet about a year ago

Re: [Opensim-dev] Exposed web interfaces in OpenSim

2009-05-08 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
Indeed! Thanks, Sempuki, this is something I've been wanting to do, but had no time to do it. I'll take a pass at it, and correct some mistakes there and add to it. Melanie is changing some of the XMLRPC interfaces to REST, that will make things a lot more consistent. But it's not done yet.

[Opensim-dev] voice meetings

2009-05-15 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
Another thing we could do to improve the state of comms would be to have voice meetings once in a while. I hate meetings as much as everyone else, but voice meetings tend to be much faster than email discussions back forth. Hey -- we could even use Freeswitch with a cool virtual world system

Re: [Opensim-dev] OGPX Request for Participation

2009-06-02 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
on this list. All the best. Crista - Cristina Videira Lopes Associate Professor Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences University of California, Irvine ___ Opensim-dev mailing list Opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de https

Re: [Opensim-dev] OGPX Request for Participation

2009-06-02 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
with making OGP an official internet standard. Infinity Linden (Meadhbh S. Hamrick) wrote: Okay, so I'll take that as a no. The door's always open if you change your mind. Cristina Videira Lopes lo...@ics.uci.edu wrote: Infinity Linden wrote: please don't hesitate to subscribe

[Opensim-dev] OGPX and IETF-ing things

2009-06-03 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
Inifinity sent me a very nice private message, which, because it was private, I'm not going to forward here. But the bottom line of his nice message could use some public discussion. Essentially Infinity is suggesting that we move towards getting the Hypergrid work into the IETF, through

Re: [Opensim-dev] OGPX and IETF-ing things

2009-06-03 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
schrieb: On Jun 3, 2009, at 10:37 PM, Cristina Videira Lopes wrote: Personally, I think this is all premature. IETF-ing the Hypergrid is premature for different reasons than IETF-ing OGP is premature. The I think that depends on what is meant by IETF-ing. For proposing as a standard, you

Re: [Opensim-dev] Fwd: [Opensim-users] How to switch to the new server architecture

2009-06-23 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
There are two parts to the new architecture: 1) New configurations for OpenSim.exe, the region server 2) New Asset, Inventory [and soon other] servers Let me start by number 2: don't do it yet. There is no need to do it, since the regions are still compatible with the regular UGAIM servers,

Re: [Opensim-dev] Adding virtual to many methods on Region/Framework/* for experimentation

2009-07-02 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
Sean Dague wrote: Stefan Andersson wrote: I would argue that opening up for (reasonable) subclassing is a very core ideal of opensim-as-an-API. And on the subject; somewhere in 0.7 land, I would argue that we have to rethink the whole scene/SOG/SOP bit - right now, state and behavior is

Re: [Opensim-dev] Proposal: Change module interface to indicate replacable modules

2009-07-11 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
This is also the case for all the new connector modules. I'm definitely +1 on solving the problem underlying Melanie's proposal in some way. Modules are now much more important than they used to be [and this is a good thing]. Melanie's concrete proposal seems fine. My feeling is that there's

Re: [Opensim-dev] Leaving Project

2009-11-23 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
Sorry that it didn't work out for you. Good luck with whatever other platform you choose. This is a mailing list for discussing technical issues, so please take the personal drama elsewhere. All personal dramas generate interest, but that doesn't mean that they're appropriate for this

Re: [Opensim-dev] User services refactoring status

2010-01-04 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
This is not a keep it / kill it discussion. The SQLite connector is there. This is about someone stepping up to do the required improvement work. Neither Mel nor I nor Justin will do it. If no one does it, that connector will be outdated and unusable -- that's the definition of 'dead

Re: [Opensim-dev] User services refactoring status

2010-01-04 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
On Jan 4, 2010, at 10:31 AM, Justin Clark-Casey wrote: Could I ask what is being done about the message service? This is still in its pre-ROBUST form and I don't think that we can tag 0.7 without converting this service. Simple: the messaging server will disappear :) It was never a

Re: [Opensim-dev] User services refactoring status

2010-01-04 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
Cristina Videira Lopes wrote: This is not a keep it / kill it discussion. The SQLite connector is there. This is about someone stepping up to do the required improvement work. Neither Mel nor I nor Justin will do it. If no one does it, that connector will be outdated and unusable -- that's

Re: [Opensim-dev] OGP module and the grand re-factor...

2010-01-07 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
. Melanie Cristina Videira Lopes wrote: David, With this latest refactoring came the new Simulation service, represented by ISimulationService. Please take a look at it. The data structures that it currently takes for creating and updating agents are still incomplete (one of them needs

Re: [Opensim-dev] User services refactoring status

2010-01-08 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
On Jan 8, 2010, at 1:46 PM, Justin Clark-Casey wrote: Writing good documentation is just as much a part of a good programmer's role as writing the code itself. Documentation is superlinear with the code. Good documentation is not just a collection of disconnected articles covering the

Re: [Opensim-dev] personal plea on patents

2010-02-04 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
Conspiracy theories aside, there's nothing mysterious here. Someone dropped us a link on Monday morning on the IRC to a bunch of patent applications filed within the last 2 years by a large corporation (not Microsoft) which seemed to follow closely some technical details of OpenSim. That,

Re: [Opensim-dev] What's the plan for the forthcoming user/messaging service migration?

2010-02-09 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
There is already some documentation about how to upgrade. It's similar to the last upgrade. http://opensimulator.org/wiki/ROBUST#An_Example_Conversion_From_URM_To_R Let me know if that doesn't answer your question. On Feb 9, 2010, at 2:38 PM, Justin Clark-Casey wrote: I'm primarily

Re: [Opensim-dev] Status of presence refactor?

2010-02-22 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
Yeah, we could have done that in theory. In practice, we're all still fairly ignorant when it comes to using git, and we've all had close encounters with git disasters. Melanie is the one keeping branches in sync, she has spent a lot of time resolving conflicts by hand, helping out the

Re: [Opensim-dev] Status of presence refactor?

2010-02-22 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
On Feb 22, 2010, at 2:32 PM, Justin Clark-Casey wrote: You're right - I don't have any numbers so perhaps no-one is doing that. I took the liberty of copying this over to the users list to see if any hands are raised there. If SQLite is just being used for single person/demonstration

Re: [Opensim-dev] Status of presence refactor?

2010-02-22 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
22, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Cristina Videira Lopes lo...@ics.uci.eduwrote: Yeah, we could have done that in theory. In practice, we're all still fairly ignorant when it comes to using git, and we've all had close encounters with git disasters. Melanie is the one keeping branches in sync, she has

Re: [Opensim-dev] Suggested in-world DNS: .sim

2010-02-25 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
You're making up your own definition of p2p in the context of opensim, your definition being an opensim server and a viewer both running on the same box. That's not what p2p is, generally, although one could imagine a distribution that would have those as a unit. For true p2p VWs see

Re: [Opensim-dev] Fwd: HyperGrids -- connecting virtual worlds for OpenSim and web arch

2010-03-01 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
Wow! Thanks for forwarding this. I replied to Tim off the list. Will keep everyone posted on what comes out, if anything. Melvin Carvalho wrote: FYI -- A message to the W3C Technical Architecture Group, from Tim Berners Lee If there's any feedback on this I'd be happy to pass it on.

Re: [Opensim-dev] on to 0.7

2010-03-25 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
BTW, I guess my email also serves as a statement of voluntarism to act as release 0.7 coordinator -- unless one of you wants to do it. On Mar 25, 2010, at 5:33 PM, Cristina Videira Lopes wrote: On Mar 25, 2010, at 5:21 PM, Justin Clark-Casey wrote: d...@metaverseink.com wrote: Hi all, I

Re: [Opensim-dev] Release 0.7 RC1 is out

2010-06-14 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
Justin, Preferably in master, so that the bugs are fixed there too. We can then cherry-pick back. Thanks! Crista On Jun 14, 2010, at 3:07 PM, Justin Clark-Casey wrote: On 14/06/10 21:13, d...@metaverseink.com wrote: Hi everyone, 0.7-rc1 is out. You can grab it from the usual place:

Re: [Opensim-dev] SOG refactoring?

2010-06-14 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
This concerns some internals of the simulator itself. When Adam is done with this, not much will be immediately visible to users. But it will allow OpenSim to play well with viewers that have completely different ways of representing of 3D objects (e.g. meshes).

Re: [Opensim-dev] Opensim Wiki Wifi Page?

2010-08-04 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
Sure, no problem. (It's hard to catch up with you guys... it's fresh out of the oven, and still needs some love; don't use the latest source yet, because there's a tricky bug deep down the the C# web server code we're using that may cause pain :) Looking at that Wiki page, I see some

Re: [Opensim-dev] Opensim Wiki Wifi Page?

2010-08-04 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
On Aug 4, 2010, at 12:56 PM, Michael Cerquoni wrote: Justin is correct, this functionality is not part of OpenSimulator core code, its only in Divas release, i do not think the intention is to put it into core either, but i could be mistaken about that, maybe diva can clarify that better.

Re: [Opensim-dev] Opensim Wiki Wifi Page?

2010-08-06 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
I'm going to produce a zip file with Wifi on it, along with installation instructions. I think it will be _very_extremelly_ easy to install... as long as people stick to tagged releases. People running intermediary OpenSim code will have the get source and compile it. That's life. (It

Re: [Opensim-dev] Opensim Wiki Wifi Page?

2010-08-06 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
The more I think about this, the stronger I feel about Wifi not being included in core. It really doesn't belong there. The goal here is ease of installation. That's the goal; the means to achieve it vary. Not all addons are equal when it comes to installation overhead. Many (most)

Re: [Opensim-dev] Super easy question

2010-08-20 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
I'm just explaining the mechanics of the process. If Bri or anyone else here has enough time and/or resources to do that kind of integration, by all means do it. Just because Havok is a no go for the stock distribution of OpenSim doesn't mean that that kind of work should be discouraged.

Re: [Opensim-dev] Super easy question

2010-08-20 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
[mailto:opensim-dev- boun...@lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of Cristina Videira Lopes Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 1:50 PM To: opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] Super easy question I'm just explaining the mechanics of the process. If Bri or anyone else here has enough time

Re: [Opensim-dev] Global identifiers

2010-08-31 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
consistent REST-style handlers for doing these things... These handlers don't exist yet... On Aug 31, 2010, at 5:37 PM, Cristina Videira Lopes wrote: Something to keep in mind: For the time being, we're talking about URLs that would likely GET people's profiles -- that'd be the only time at which

Re: [Opensim-dev] If MIcrosoft buys LL, impact on OpenSIm?

2010-09-30 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
The OpenSimulator project has absolutely nothing to do with Linden Lab, aside from the fact that it includes one plugin that implements the protocol that their open-sourced viewer understands. In the extreme worst case scenario, if code in OpenSim was proven to come from the GPL viewer,

Re: [Opensim-dev] Clarification on Licencing and Moving Forward as a Community

2010-11-01 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
We have been discussing these issues internally for a while. The main issue, from an organizational perspective, is that the project is not part of any official organization, and, as such, cannot take signed contributors' agreements that would do away with the strict restrictions that we

Re: [Opensim-dev] ReactionGrid Inc. files for US Patent

2011-02-02 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
PLEASE DO NOT POST LINKS TO PATENTS ON THIS LIST. On Feb 2, 2011, at 1:41 PM, Mark Malewski wrote: Seems like Mark is upset lol Just sick and tired of people trying to make FALSE patent claims on OpenSource software, and attempting to claim inventions based on OpenSource software.

Re: [Opensim-dev] Proposal to branch for the first 0.7.1 release candidate soon

2011-03-21 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
Yes, please! This sounds great! I've been swamped with teaching and grading. Finally, it's about to be over this week, so I'll have cycles for the release at the end of the week. On Mar 21, 2011, at 5:20 PM, Justin Clark-Casey wrote: Hi Diva. I'm just coming into a window where I'll have

Re: [Opensim-dev] Region scalability of OpenSim

2011-04-27 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
Sergiy, The software architecture of OpenSim is such that it is relatively easy for people to develop all sorts of architectural variants. So the answer to the question can OpenSim do X?, in most cases is yes, if you care to do that variant. (except perhaps your 1st questions) As for the

Re: [Opensim-dev] HG Friends/IM Tests on 0.7.2 Dev

2011-06-06 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
Noted Bernd b...@sysdevel.de wrote: With the new HG Version the Offline IM's no longer works in my Grid... Message: System (busy response): Unable to send instant message. User is not logged in. Diva Canto wrote: There's some improvements left to be done. Here's how it works currently. If

Re: [Opensim-dev] HG Friends/IM Tests on 0.7.2 Dev

2011-06-06 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
Did it work before for that many people? On Jun 6, 2011, at 11:09 AM, Bernd wrote: The other problem is the Groupmessage. In GermanGrid, there is a group with over 500 members. If i send a group message, the server crashes. I Don't know if it has to do with the new version of HG Noted

Re: [Opensim-dev] Proposal: Implement a de-duplicating core ROBUST asset service

2012-03-07 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
+1 on this. On 3/2/2012 6:51 PM, Justin Clark-Casey wrote: Hi folks. As we know, the space required for asset storage in OpenSimulator grows continuously over time. I think this is inevitable in a web-like virtual world - distributed garbage collection is practically impossible. However,

Re: [Opensim-dev] Coming up: region access control

2012-03-19 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
No. Not without some coding to integrate both, which you can easily do if that's what you want. On 3/19/2012 10:13 AM, Argus wrote: So is it possible to have LocalAuthorizationServicesConnector AND RemoteAuthorizationServicesConnector running at the same time or not? Am 17.03.2012 22:26,