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[Melanie]

A rather presumptuous statement to make. In both parts. First of
all, users may very well care what they're logging into, and it may
not be OpenSim. In fact, there are several spins out there that have
diverged beyond merging and can't properly be called OpenSim anymore.

Melanie

Jor3l Boa wrote:
> -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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