[Opensim-dev] New Website (was "Leaving Project")

[Frisby, Adam]

OK, last thing - I know everyone is complaining about the website. 

Infact the core devs (specifically me & Melanie) spent some time last weekend setting up a new website - it is not done yet however; but we'll be seeking people to submit documentation & articles - if you have any of the following, please send me (adam at deepthink.com.au) the text + images for inclusion.

- Use cases ("We at <foo> are using OpenSim for <y>, these are the features we use <z>, <w>, <a>... OpenSim works well for this because of <b>.")
- Screenshots & Multimedia
- Documentation - full format 'HOWTO' articles, and the versions those articles are compatible against.
- Technical References - "Component Foo works like this".
- Developer Tutorials (building & programming)

If you have any of the above you want to contribute, please send them to me - with the usual disclaimer that the final content on the site is at the whims of the core developers.

Adam

> -----Original Message-----
> From: opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de [mailto:opensim-dev-
> bounces at lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of Kyle Hamilton
> Sent: Monday, 23 November 2009 3:46 PM
> To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
> Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] Leaving Project
> 
> I've already explained the futility of the concept of "trade secret"
> protection when LL already released the viewer code, and the
> specifications for connecting to a server -- they told the secret,
> themselves, and to be a trade secret first something must be secret.
> The only thing they can claim is copyright protection, and since
> there's no means of automatedly transforming C++ code into C# code
> there's no transformation without reinterpretation and recreation,
> thus preventing any copyright claim from succeeding.  (I am not a
> lawyer, but I've read Eben Moglen's essays.  You know, the general
> counsel for the FSF?)
> 
> -Kyle H
> 
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Fly Man <fly.man.opensim at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Adam,
> >
> > You hit the nail right on his head with this passage:
> >
> > The big problem here is there’s a very real lack of viewer developers
> in
> > this community – there is some overlap between server & network
> engineers
> > (like the OS community) and 3D Viewer Developers here, but not much.
> If we
> > do have 3D devs in the community who haven’t done anything and feel
> like
> > contributing – you really should be talking to some of the ‘next gen
> viewer’
> >  projects and seeing if we can get something awesome done faster.
> >
> > And maybe someone should explain WHY people won't burn their hands on
> the
> > viewer
> >
> > Main reason: There's a clausule on the Website and internally about
> "Look at
> > viewer code, and there's 6 months no working on OpenSim"
> >
> > So any person that would like to keep working on OpenSim doesn't look
> at
> > viewer code, and vice versa.
> >
> > That's about the main reason that some viewer developers won't co-
> operate
> > with OpenSim and the other way, developers from OpenSim can't help
> viewer
> > developers
> >
> > But that's just my 2 cents about that passage.
> >
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