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Jor3l Boa jor3l at foravatars.com
Sat Aug 21 15:28:14 UTC 2010


-1, I do not think the user cares about the architecture being used and it
is obviously opensim

2010/8/21 <diva at metaverseink.com>

> <3 it!
>
>
> Rich White wrote:
>
>> Here is a chicklet icon perhaps to get the ball rolling:
>> http://twitpic.com/2gue0y
>>
>>
>> ====
>>
>> 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=
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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