[Opensim-dev] Departing from virtual world development

[Kyle]

Thanks you for help ReactionGrid Inc. get started in virtual worlds John.
You will be missed,.



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[mailto:opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of John Hurliman
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 7:29 PM
To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de; vwrap at ietf.org
Subject: [Opensim-dev] Departing from virtual world development

Hi everyone,

I'm sad to announce that I've decided to leave my position at Intel and the
virtual world development sphere. This is my last official week, although I
will be tying up development ends in the open source virtual world arena for
a bit longer.

2011 marks my fifth year working on virtual worlds, from the beginning of
libsecondlife/libopenmetaverse to the current OpenSim and SimianGrid
development. Things have come a long way from reverse engineering the
terrain packet encoding, and we now have a decentralized network of worlds
and a protocol to link them together.

My departure is the beginning of a new adventure into machine learning with
an early stage startup. This endeavor is a full-time commitment and won't
leave me enough time to contribute to
OpenSim/SimianGrid/libOpenMetaverse/Fortis/Aurora/VWRAP in any substantive
way. Although I'm transitioning into a different area of technology, I'm
still interested in the progress of the open metaverse and keeping in
contact with everyone, and can be reached any time at this e-mail.

On a related note, Intel's Virtual Worlds Infrastructure team is looking for
a software researcher. Working with the VWI team has been great; I can't say
enough good things about being a member of the team and advancing research
in the virtual worlds and distributed computing field. Ping Mic Bowman if
you are interested in working in the field in a research capacity.

I am going to miss working with all of you, and I wish the best of luck to
everyone in this area. I'll pop into IRC periodically to say hello.

Best,
John
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