[Opensim-dev] Proposal: 2nd birthday parties + cleanup

[Justin Clark-Casey]

Frisby, Adam wrote:
> Does the default island coming as a .oar file work?
> 

It could be - that might make it easy for people to substitute a different default island.

Also, if this is done it would be really nice to have an 'off' switch so that new regions end up being very simple 
(possibly what we have now).  I find simple islands much easier for some development.

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> Adam
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> *From:* opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de 
> [mailto:opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de] *On Behalf Of *Stefan 
> Andersson
> *Sent:* Thursday, 8 January 2009 6:17 AM
> *To:* opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de; opensim-users at lists.berlios.de
> *Subject:* [Opensim-dev] Proposal: 2nd birthday parties + cleanup
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> Guys,
>  
> first of all, sorry for the cross-post, just wanted to get maximum 
> attention for a worthy cause.
>  
> OpenSims 2nd birthday is coming up (jan 29)
>  
> I don't propose cheesy 'cultural' events; but:
>  
> a) we should have a page on the wiki where everybody could post a short 
> notice about where and when and on what grid parties will be held.
> b) I propose the hypergrid community start linking their party regions 
> so we all can go club hopping.
> c) As a birthday present to ourselves, I propose a facelift and clean up.
>  
> What I mean with c) is:
> * Last I saw, our default Library content node sucked.
> * Now I'm looking around, I see quite a lot of people making high-grade 
> content available under various compatible licenses.
> * Let's work to rally together a high-quality default library.
>   * Users, you find content libraries, try it and report it.
>   * Creators, you work with devs to find good ways of importing it into 
> the lib.
>   * Devs, you start thinking on how to make the importing really really 
> easy.
> * What I would like to see is a crem-de-la-creme default library 
> node, Making OpenSim look really god damn good out-of-the-box
> 
> anybody up for that?
> 
> Also,
>  
> * The default island; we really should have a better default island. 
> With some demo content allowing people to toy around with various 
> aspects of opensim.
> * You grid people, couldn't you set up a region where a group of people 
> could work cooperative to make a demo 'welcome' island, and then just 
> save-oar it so we can distribute it with the core distro? So noobs could 
> just load-oar demo.xml and hey presto!
>  
> And as an added bonus;
>  
> * We should have a simple 'create avatar' as part of the opensim 
> ecosystem. With this I mean something in the 'register user' or 'create 
> user' that allows to specify a template for that avatar.
> * Tribal just recently added support for inventory cloning and wearing 
> into the trunk, could you php registration guys (yo redux!) work with us 
> to make a nice 'choose avatar' step in the registration process?
>  
> Here's saying skol, salut, chin-chin in anticipation of our third year 
> together. This is going to be a wonderful year!
>  
> Best regards,
> Stefan Andersson
> Tribal Media AB
>  
> Join the 3d web revolution : http://tribalnet.se/
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