[Opensim-dev] Departing from virtual world development

[Justin Clark-Casey]

Best of luck with the new field, John.  Your extreme expertise and coding skills will be very much missed.

On 14/01/11 00:28, John Hurliman wrote:
> 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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