Introduce yourself !

[Rich White]

Introduce yourself and let others know how you use or want to use Opensim

[Trigo]

Hi guys, I am a student of master's degree in computer graphics and I'm starting in virtual worlds.

[Birdie Newborn]

I'm interested in moving my island operation to a space that I can access from Second Life (and v.v.), and doesn't cost $150 a month. Is there a downside to that? Possibly Search won't see it.

[Roger Travis]

Hi, I'm a professor of classics at the University of Connecticut who's putting together an interdisciplinary Center for Video Games and Human Values with people at UConn and elsewhere. The center will offer online courses in fields from classics to education to business aimed at high-school teachers and others, as a way of creating a new kind of conversation about the place of games in culture.

At the moment, I'm trying to find coding help for resources like OpenSim who might collaborate on a grant proposal for the NEH Digital Humanities Start-up grants, and then help design and implement our virtual community.

Thanks very much for any help you can give!

[Rich White]

You might talk to - http://opensim.ning.com/profile/G2Proto and their ReactionGrid project



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Roger Travis said:

Hi, I'm a professor of classics at the University of Connecticut who's putting together an interdisciplinary Center for Video Games and Human Values with people at UConn and elsewhere. The center will offer online courses in fields from classics to education to business aimed at high-school teachers and others, as a way of creating a new kind of conversation about the place of games in culture.

At the moment, I'm trying to find coding help for resources like OpenSim who might collaborate on a grant proposal for the NEH Digital Humanities Start-up grants, and then help design and implement our virtual community.

Thanks very much for any help you can give!

[Roger Travis]

Thanks, Rich!

[Suzanne Aurilio]

I'm interested in the Opensim as a model of sorts for developing a 3D grid, akin to the internet perhaps. I'm currently researching learning in SL, and thus my life is pretty involved there right now. But I've thought for some time that SL was only the beginning. I'd like to in collaboration with others, build out the OS, I'm working on a grant with a colleague and see the advantages of designing a project here, as compared with SL.

[Rich White]

Your in the right place with a bunch of like minded folks then ! ... Welcome Suzanne



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Suzanne Aurilio said:

I'm interested in the Opensim as a model of sorts for developing a 3D grid, akin to the internet perhaps. I'm currently researching learning in SL, and thus my life is pretty involved there right now. But I've thought for some time that SL was only the beginning. I'd like to in collaboration with others, build out the OS, I'm working on a grant with a colleague and see the advantages of designing a project here, as compared with SL.

[Lúthien]

Hi

I have been looking into different ways how to best create a virtual image / landscape that matches the country of Valinor as it is described in the works of JRR Tolkien (Lost Tales, Silmarillion) as closely as is practically possible. I have tried it with Blender first, but that is not really suited to create large scale landscapes in - and it is not interactive, of course (however, there seems to be some "game mode" that might provide some interactivity; but I never got into that.
The goal is not to create a backdrop for a game, but as sort of a "visualizing aid" if you will.

Next to exploring the imaginal landscapes of Tolkien's legends, I am also looking at ways to create short instruction video's in OpenSim: I work at an University Library and it turns out there is some need for things like that.
I've looked at second life briefly some two years ago, but after the initial wow, caused by the realism, wore off I did not have the faintest idea what I should do in there. I had vague ideas of discovering unknown territory in vast uncharted virtual world :) but it was all a bit more 21st century than that and, above all, pretty crowded.

When I found the OpenSimulator project I was delighted because it had all the advantages, and none of the disadvantages (everything costs money; people all over the place; gates, fences, the lot) of SL.

I've been running first a single region server, but expanded that to a 8x8 standalone grid, and succeeded in making it approachable from outside my home LAN. It looks promising so far, though there are a couple of things that I have been hitting my head against.

I hope to be able to exchange some ideas and technicalities in here. It is sometimes very time consuming to figure things out by yourself - like now, I am completely fazed by how to connect to my OS server (which is approachable from outside the LAN) from *within* it too. I cannot get that to work at all. It's frustrating because I have, when at home, no way to test things out except looking at the server console :)

Another thing that is very annoying .. the server (0.6.4.9039 (interface version 3) on a Mac) that runs on my desktop (I've got one set up on my laptop as well) just refuses to read the OpenSim.ini . I tried everything - it does read the OpenSim.xml if I activate that; but not the .ini.

garo hîdh,
Lúthien

[Tasman Perth]

Hi everybody! I'm known on SecondLife as Tasman Perth, and I've gotten the OpenSim bug... Been playing with Opensim for about 6 months off and on.. I recently signed up for a virtual private server to run my Opensim sandbox on.. If anybody else wants to do the same, I got mine at www.fsckvps.com, they have a 512mb-burstable to 1GB ram, 18GB diskspace, 400GB/mo transfer for a whopping $9.95/mo.. I host both my sim and mysql asset database on it, and it works fine.. I've heard talk that others have gotten more than one sim to run on such a server... I'm not quite brave enough to try that yet..
I'm a network admin in reallife, so I'm familiar with Linux etc...

Tas

[Luc McKay]

Hey guys, just in the process of setting up OpenSim on a server within a primary school environment. All is running fine, although we're having slight issues in finding a way to keep the clothes on! I know you can toggle PG using the advanced menu, although is there a way to change the default to PG so that the avatars are forced to keep their underwear on? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Luc

[Maria Korolov]

My name is Maria Korolov and I'm editor of Hypergrid Business. I am interested in the enterprise uses of virtual world, especially OpenSim. I also write for a number of other business publications, including CIO magazine, Computerworld, Securities Industry News, Bank Technology News, and other and am always looking for topics to write about. I'm interested in examples where OpenSim implementations have been used to solve organizational problems, or training and education, for network, for collaboration, and other tasks. I am very anxious to find hypergrid-enabled grids operated by businesses. I've seen university-backed grids, community grids. gaming grids, social grids (including one just for porn), but not yet anything that you might call "traditional business."

If you could give me a heads up, I'd really appreciate it. Contact me by email at [e-mail], or on the grid - I spend a lot of my time these days in the OSGrid Business Welcome Center. My company's region on the OSGrid is Trombly Ltd.

-- Maria

[James William Hagarty]

Hi everyone!

I'm James Hagarty and together with my wife Amanda we have launched our new OpenSim based business, Segarra Private Grid. Our goal is to make it easy for anyone and everyone to create their own 3D Virtual Worlds.

The process is simple.

1. Visit our website http://privategrid.segarraestates.com
2. Select your grid option Light, Medium, or Heavy use
3. Place your order
4. We deliver your virtual world within 48 hours!

Segarra Private Grid: The grass is greener when it's your grid!

Enjoy!