[Opensim-dev] Currency

[Stefan Andersson]

Aldon,

 

> Clearly, there are issues about people not understanding what it means to
> use alpha code, as we learned last April, but that is also not a reasonable
> excuse for not producing code. All code is alpha at some stage.


I can assure you that neither of us are looking for excuses not to produce code.

 
> As Jeroen noted, there are other aspects of how currency could be used such
> as a karma system, that are well worth exploring.


Definitively. I would suggest it would be based on some already-existing, web-based karma management cloud service implementation, so we don't need to download, compile and manage as much stuff.

 
> Perhaps the best would be for people committed to OpenSimCurrency to start a
> seperate project where they can collaborate on building a strong and robust
> currency system.
>

> So, for any of you that are really interested in OpenSimCurrency, what do
> you say to starting a parallel project that provides a third party currency
> framework that can run in OpenSim?


Go for it. Host it on the forge, create a wiki for it. Can't wait to see the first release.

 

Also, I believe there is still an Freenode IRC channel called #opensim-money.

 
/Stefan

 
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