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

[Mic Bowman]

You could provide an oar file and a command-script that loaded it.
Then the default startup continues to be the simple region.

--mic


On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Justin Clark-Casey
<jjustincc at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
>>
>>
>> Adam
>>
>>
>>
>> *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
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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