[Opensim-dev] Departing from virtual world development

[Neil Canham]

Hi John
  As an extensive user of libopenmv and OpenSim in the last couple of years
I've benefitted greatly from all your efforts, so a huge thank you, and best
wishes for your next venture.

Neil Canham

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Jeroen van Veen <j.veenvan at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thanks for all the work, and good luck.
>
> kind regards,
>
> Jeroen
>
> On Friday, January 14, 2011 12:28:36 am 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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