Re: [Opensim-dev] Leaving Project

2009-11-23 Thread Jeroen van Veen
Wasn't the problem with c# and ogre, that the ogre ports(ogre.net/mogre) for c# didn't run properly crossplatform? jeroen On Monday 23 November 2009 20:01:04 Justin Clark-Casey wrote: > James Stallings II wrote: > > Hi Robert, > > > > Probably the only two non-LL viewer projects that are active

Re: [Opensim-dev] Leaving Project

2009-11-23 Thread nlin
2009/11/23, Frisby, Adam : > The big problem here is there's a very real lack of viewer developers in > this community - there is some overlap between server & network engineers > (like the OS community) and 3D Viewer Developers here, but not much. If we > do have 3D devs in the community who haven

Re: [Opensim-dev] Leaving Project

2009-11-23 Thread Len Brown
I have very successfully used XAMPP as a primary feature of my portable opensim project. Utilized the included Apache server alongside the, also included phpMyAdmin any web browser will do to bring up phpMyAdmin to create MySQL databases, users, etc. I do much of this using http://www.portableapp

Re: [Opensim-dev] Leaving Project

2009-11-23 Thread Robert Martin
on the subject of having the opensim server "mobile"/portable i have on a flash chip a copy of the Diva version and (with everything else) a copy of Portable XAMP (with launcher) so it does seem that this kind of thing will work with very little effort. Now getting some sort of GUI to admin the se

Re: [Opensim-dev] Leaving Project

2009-11-23 Thread Len Brown
*Kyle and others, I just sent this email to Adam, but thought it may be a good idea to see what others think as well. It relates to one big thorn I've seen present itself again and again - and not just on opensimulator.org but other documentation sites that try to keep up to date info on a r

Re: [Opensim-dev] Leaving Project

2009-11-23 Thread Kyle
I'll follow up in email Len. Others pinged me too so well done motivating us... ReactionGrid Mobile On Nov 23, 2009, at 8:39 PM, Len Brown wrote: Wow everyone. I should take afternoon naps more often. I've slept and rested, and read all the replies that have filtered down since my fi

Re: [Opensim-dev] Leaving Project

2009-11-23 Thread Len Brown
Wow everyone. I should take afternoon naps more often. I've slept and rested, and read all the replies that have filtered down since my first "outburst" this morning and I would gladly be willing to assist in any proper way that I can. As Kyle said, so kindly, it is far more fruitful if we work

Re: [Opensim-dev] New Website (was "Leaving Project")

2009-11-23 Thread Frisby, Adam
OK, last thing - I know everyone is complaining about the website. Infact the core devs (specifically me & Melanie) spent some time last weekend setting up a new website - it is not done yet however; but we'll be seeking people to submit documentation & articles - if you have any of the followi

Re: [Opensim-dev] Leaving Project

2009-11-23 Thread Frisby, Adam
The problem is recreation & reinterpretation may not be copyright-transfer free. Looking at the code, then reimplementing the mechanism may trans-include the copyright on the original into the new implementation. We've had umpteen different lawyers look into this problem for us and they all

Re: [Opensim-dev] Leaving Project

2009-11-23 Thread Kyle Hamilton
I've already explained the futility of the concept of "trade secret" protection when LL already released the viewer code, and the specifications for connecting to a server -- they told the secret, themselves, and to be a trade secret first something must be secret. The only thing they can claim is

Re: [Opensim-dev] Leaving Project

2009-11-23 Thread James Stallings II
Bravo, Morgaine. Well done indeed. :) Cheers On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Kyle wrote: > What she said! Thank you Morgaine for clarifying this for all of us. In > my opinion this discussion was appropriate here to understand roadmap and > documentation efforts. Thanks for caring to let t

Re: [Opensim-dev] Leaving Project

2009-11-23 Thread Kyle
What she said! Thank you Morgaine for clarifying this for all of us. In my opinion this discussion was appropriate here to understand roadmap and documentation efforts. Thanks for caring to let the rest of the community hear about your very smart opinions. More talk like this will bring the comm

Re: [Opensim-dev] Leaving Project

2009-11-23 Thread Morgaine
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Len Brown wrote: > > For me the shock came when I was abruptly informed that *"OpenSim is not > Second Life, is not intended to be like Second Life, nor ever will."* I > still haven't the foggiest idea what this developer had smoked for them to > so strongly asse

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 mailing

Re: [Opensim-dev] About BML Script

2009-11-23 Thread Philip
Thank you. My mistake. Sent from my iPod On Nov 23, 2009, at 2:31 PM, Justin Clark-Casey wrote: > PEISEN ZHAO wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> I have a question about the BML script. I am trying to write some >> bml code such that the person in the OpenSim can run and do what >> the code ask it

Re: [Opensim-dev] Leaving Project

2009-11-23 Thread Colin B. Withers
Ouch Michael, you cut me to the quick :) The 3rd draft of the OpenSim User Manual I posted 29th Jan this year (unfortunately, despite a team being created, no-one added to it); my last Opensim tutorial I posted in Aug 2009 (Streaming Audio); I made blog posts about Opensim as recently as Sep an

Re: [Opensim-dev] About BML Script

2009-11-23 Thread Justin Clark-Casey
PEISEN ZHAO wrote: > Hello everyone, > I have a question about the BML script. I am trying to write some bml code > such that the person in the OpenSim can run and do what the code ask it > supposed to do. However, I have not idea where to start this hacking. I have > downloaded the OpenSim proj

Re: [Opensim-dev] Leaving Project

2009-11-23 Thread Justin Clark-Casey
James Stallings II wrote: > Hi Robert, > > Probably the only two non-LL viewer projects that are active are Rex's > Naali and the idealist viewer - talk to any of the Rex folks about the > former and Dahlia Trimble (dahlia in IRC on Freenode) about the latter. You may also want to check out 3di

Re: [Opensim-dev] Leaving Project

2009-11-23 Thread James Stallings II
Hi Robert, Probably the only two non-LL viewer projects that are active are Rex's Naali and the idealist viewer - talk to any of the Rex folks about the former and Dahlia Trimble (dahlia in IRC on Freenode) about the latter. Cheers On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Robert A. Knop Jr. wrote: >

Re: [Opensim-dev] Leaving Project

2009-11-23 Thread Robert A. Knop Jr.
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:55:13AM -0600, James Stallings II wrote: > Fly-Man, the viewer clause you reference refers -only- to the linden viewer > code, not all viewer code everywhere; in this thread we are explicitly > excluding those viewers based on code from our friends at Linden Labs. Are th

Re: [Opensim-dev] Leaving Project

2009-11-23 Thread Michael Cerquoni
Colin, i have not seen you on this project in like a year or more, this seems like nothing more than an attempt by you to market Blue Mars to this group.. You have done nothing but talk about blue mars for as long as I can remember now.. as far as I am concerned you left this project about a year

Re: [Opensim-dev] Leaving Project

2009-11-23 Thread orion hax
Please correct me if im wrong but doesn't that only apply to the protected SL files and not say meerkat or other open viewers. On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Fly Man wrote: > Adam, > > You hit the nail right on his head with this passage: > > > *The big problem here is there’s a very real lac

Re: [Opensim-dev] Leaving Project

2009-11-23 Thread dz
Len, You have it right.. As an expereinced project manager, I have watched in dismay as time and time again, people willing and WANTING to help move OpenSim forward have found themselves frustrated by a lack of BASIC documentation on the configuration of the "platform". The current attitude of

Re: [Opensim-dev] Leaving Project

2009-11-23 Thread Kyle
Let's all group up on the website, Adam has some very cool new layout ideas so if we formed a small website dev group to work with him I think we could have some exciting stuff ready by Jan 1. Count us in! http://indiemetaverse.ning.com is one place smaller developers are gathering to help with su

Re: [Opensim-dev] Leaving Project

2009-11-23 Thread Fly Man
Adam, You hit the nail right on his head with this passage: *The big problem here is there’s a very real lack of viewer developers in this community – there is some overlap between server & network engineers (like the OS community) and 3D Viewer Developers here, but not much. If we do have 3D dev

Re: [Opensim-dev] Leaving Project

2009-11-23 Thread Teravus Ovares
It's easy to let the drama of one person leaving mess up your mojo. Moving forward, I think the one constructive point in Colin's e-mail is the documentation is really out of date. Good thing it's being worked on behind the scenes. Regards Teravus On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Marc Adore

Re: [Opensim-dev] Leaving Project

2009-11-23 Thread Marc Adored
Hey Guys I am pretty new to OpenSim and in no way a c/c++/c# coder but I am a web developer and I wouldn't mind helping with the website. I too have failed to build OpenSim successfully since the only docs on the website are so outdated and so many changes have been made. I don't know what help I c

Re: [Opensim-dev] Leaving Project

2009-11-23 Thread Kyle
Len let's do this together! Your points are valid no question. But to say you're leaving is what threw us. Let me get caught up, Mondays suck hehe, and then lets you and I talk about working on the Opensim site with some others. No one here will say the site is perfect, you get no argument

Re: [Opensim-dev] Leaving Project

2009-11-23 Thread Len Brown
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 8:53 AM, James Stallings II < james.stalli...@gmail.com> wrote: > Kyle tells it like it is :) > > No, Kyle tells it as he sees it and I respect that. Right now invite 100 people, no 10, no, just 1 person to go to opensimulator.org and tell them to follow the direction

Re: [Opensim-dev] Leaving Project

2009-11-23 Thread Kyle
Thanks James, great idea Jeroen. In fact on a last note on this subject I feel the people having success with the platform (our company for example) need to be concerned the Opensim devs do not leave US! For this reason we are trying to spread work around to other dev's who may be focused on

Re: [Opensim-dev] Leaving Project

2009-11-23 Thread Jeroen van Veen
Wishlist 2010: * dump sl-client support * embrace naali Jeroen On Monday 23 November 2009 14:53:53 James Stallings II wrote: > Kyle tells it like it is :) > > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Kyle wrote: > > I would like to thank the Opensim developers for producing an amazingly > > stable Al

Re: [Opensim-dev] Leaving Project

2009-11-23 Thread James Stallings II
Kyle tells it like it is :) On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Kyle wrote: > I would like to thank the Opensim developers for producing an amazingly > stable Alpha in a couple of years sans millions or even thousands of $$ of > critically needed capital that most development teams have for such a

Re: [Opensim-dev] Leaving Project

2009-11-23 Thread Kyle
I would like to thank the Opensim developers for producing an amazingly stable Alpha in a couple of years sans millions or even thousands of $$ of critically needed capital that most development teams have for such a large project. Some people feel the core developers and other testers, builders e

Re: [Opensim-dev] Leaving Project

2009-11-23 Thread Len Brown
If the goal of OpenSim is to be incompatible with everyone elses vision then I too have little further interest in the project. I'd hoped after IBM dropped OpenSim like a hot potato that the devs would realize the err of their ways and come round to a manageable and collaborative progression from

Re: [Opensim-dev] Leaving Project

2009-11-23 Thread J Ross Nicoll
I think the point about OpenSim not being Second Life needs to be expanded to point out there are things attempting to be more of a complete solution. realXtend ( http://www.realxtend.org/ ), Reaction Grid ( http://www.reactiongrid.com/ ) and SpotON3D ( https://spoton3d.com/ ) all spring to min

Re: [Opensim-dev] Leaving Project

2009-11-23 Thread Chris Hart
No, OpenSim is not Second Life - Second Life is a product of Linden Labs, run by one corporation to the rules and ambitions of that corporation - it's their terms and conditions you have to abide by when using their platform. They have a vision for their grid, just as OpenSim-based grid operator

Re: [Opensim-dev] Leaving Project

2009-11-23 Thread Frisby, Adam
"OpenSim is not Second Life, is not intended to be like Second Life, nor ever will." I'll repeat that - most (all?) of the core devs will too. The Second Live viewer is convenient - since the protocol is documented and it gives us a good feature base to start with; but it's not the be-all-and-e

Re: [Opensim-dev] Leaving Project

2009-11-23 Thread Len Brown
Rock, I sympathize with you on many levels. I've also had my doubts regarding the future of OpenSim, but I have also maintained some degree of faith that things will pull through in the end. For me the shock came when I was abruptly informed that "OpenSim is not Second Life, is not int

[Opensim-dev] Leaving Project

2009-11-23 Thread Colin B. Withers
Hi guys, I have decided to leave the Opensim project. You will probably not even notice if I leave, as not being a programmer my only inputs were the writing of the step-by-step tutorials ( http://chapter-and-metaverse.blogspot.com/ ), the drafts of the OpenSim User Manual on the Forge, and hel