[Opensim-dev] Universal Avatar Question

[Daedius]

Hey there Diva,

Thanks! Was not aware of this.  =)

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:04 PM, Diva Canto <diva at metaverseink.com> wrote:
>
>  Daedius,
>
>  There is already one piece of information that *regions* may be exposing to
> the outside world, if their admins choose to: their searchable data. This
> has been a recent addition through a module called DataSnapshot, which is
> optional and configurable. It's not all you're asking for, but it's within
> the spirit of the things you're asking for: data exposure.
>
>  Diva / Crista
>
>
>
>  Daedius wrote:
>  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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