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[diva at metaverseink.com]

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Rich White wrote:
> Here is a chicklet icon perhaps to get the ball rolling:
> http://twitpic.com/2gue0y
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> On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 9:47 AM,  <diva at metaverseink.com> wrote:
>> P.S. For people who want to give credit to the project, the "correct" way of
>> expressing it is
>> "Powered by OpenSim".
>> At some point it would be nice to have a logo with those words in it.
>> Examples:
>> http://www.google.com/images?q=powered+by+apache&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=5eVvTPSNMYK2sAPu2cCXAg&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CCIQsAQwAA&biw=1306&bih=933
>> http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&biw=1306&bih=933&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=powered+by+CentOS&aq=f&aqi=g1&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
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>> diva at metaverseink.com wrote:
>>> -1 on this.
>>> I'm generally reluctant in using the term "OpenSim" for anything other
>>> than the name of this project. It's bad enough that bloggers and the public
>>> keep confusing the project with its uses, let's not give any more
>>> suggestions in that direction. OpenSim is the infrastructure project, not
>>> its uses. The users of OpenSim are the world operators, not the people who
>>> login to these worlds.
>>>
>>> In other words, when people login to an OpenSim-based world they are not
>>> "logging in to OpenSim"; they are logging in to a world that someone runs
>>> based on OpenSim. This may seem like an insignificant distinction, but it's
>>> not, it's huge.
>>>
>>> So let's leave it with the generic message that is has now. The config var
>>> is there for people to customize it.
>>>
>>> Ai Austin wrote:
>>>> In a recent commit by Justin he suggested that if a change was made to
>>>> the default viewer welcome message, it would be useful to get the thoughts
>>>> of others first. I do appreciate that most folks will alter the string
>>>> anyway, but it is useful out of the box to have useful messages. And I had
>>>> suggested a change to help differentiate things a bit in an immediately
>>>> visible form at the user end, and to brand the system in the default.  Can I
>>>> suggest this change and see what others think?
>>>>
>>>> Opensim.ini.example         "Welcome to OpenSim"
>>>> Robust.ini.example            "Welcome to OpenSim Grid"
>>>> Robust.HG.ini.example       "Welcome to OpenSim Hypergrid"
>>>>
>>>> This would have the nice effect of differentiating which [Architecture]
>>>> is being used immediately.
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