BYOG Meeting notes 10 November 2010
10:49 pm in Wiki by Lindy McKeown
Bring Your Own (OpenSim) Grid: League of Worlds Meeting 10 November 2010
After a late announcements for the meeting, a small but vocal group met on the Second Life island of Terra incognita.
Agenda
- Planning members OpenSim grid tours.
- Sharing content.
- Other business arising from the discussion.
Present
Eloise Rodas
Decka Mah
Rk Jinn
Coyote Longtail
Rk Jinn
Rutgers Blog
moving Rutgers 6 sims to OpenSim
Mostly replica builds and a recreation of future campus as new buildings will change the whole campus
Business School
4 sims moved already
few scripts so fairly easy to move
Used Builders Buddy in both worlds
Used Imprudence export feature
Now primary development
Builders used Ceera Murakami (about 90%) and Keystone Bouchard (Cornerstone building) and DDfox Spitteler
Visit at Livingston 1 (128,128,2)
Eloise Rodas
Work with Secondary schools
Arts education officer
Partners with Hertfordshire University
First activity was a Summer holiday program of composing music and playing the concert in Second Life
Coyote Longtail
Four Bridges organisation – 2 sims in Second Life
Working with member groups
Veterans for Peace is Coyote’s group
Founder Amy Cross at the University of Maine
Tutor assistance program for university students
Just expanded to a 1/4 sim parcel on OSGird,
Future offices in ReactionGrid, 3Dspot
The 4 bridges are Environmentalism, peace, social justice and human rights
Also using the Hypergrid Adventurers Group by Pathfinder (John Lester) provides good tours across OpenSim grids
Decka Mah
University of Southern Queensland has servers for an OS grid and is about to begin building.
Hypergrid issues and info discussed
- How will students be allowed in some places that guests may not be able to access? (Permissions and authentication)
- Issue that your grid may have different levels of rights and content types and the students may be able to cross out through other people’s grids to material you may find inappropriate
- Limited distance (number of sims apart is 4096) for Hypergrid teleports means that one step jumps between grids is not always possible. How to manage this?
- Version differences of OpenSim grids may cause Hypergrid to not work.