[Opensim-dev] Universal Avatar Question

[Daedius]

Hey there Charles,

Thanks for posting this.  I would like to put out a call to grid
owners to help form the grid information services of the future.  I'm
one of the active developers of openviewer, and the more I work and
design, there more I feel the  NEED for more information from grid
owners! =)  I have a number of ideas that need the participation of
opensim.  Personally though, I believe this should be a project
outside of opensim.  Here are a few examples of things I foresee us
needing in the immediate future:

- ability to autoregister an avatar on a grid
- ability to get information about the grid: descriptions, image/icon,
tags of what type of content ( sex, language, interests, etc)
- ability to get some measure of lag between the client and server
- ability to get population and logged on information of avatars externally

These things COULD all be within opensim, but what I would like to do,
is create a new project.  I've started a project on google code called
"thirdlife" where I am going to focus my efforts on grid information
services.   If any of you all are grid owners, I'd like to get a hold
of you to try to figure out what information exactly you all are
looking to expose to users.  Thanks!

- Daedius


On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Charles Krinke <cfk at pacbell.net> wrote:
>
> I am sorry to open yet another Pandora's Box this week, but two different
> folks have approached me as the OSGrid Director in the last two days about
> putting experimental software on the grid server to begin prototyping ideas
> to allow an avatar to log onto multiple grids.
>
> I have told both, that I desire to stay with the mainline OpenSim desires as
> this evolves.
>
> I think the issue is that we may need to give some thought to pulling
> together some of the ideas from the various parties in order to head in a
> direction that lets us continue to lead this charge.
>
> Charles
>
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