[Opensim-dev] Departing from virtual world development

[Morgaine]

All the best to you, John, in your new occupation and venture.  I think it's
not an overstatement to say that you've been a major inspiration to the
technical communities in our VW area, and I am sure that you will have a
similar impact in your next line of work.

Machine learning is one of those disciplines with boundless spheres of
application, and it wouldn't surprise me if it brings you back to virtual
worlds in due course.  Or at least I hope so. :-)

All the best for the future, and I look forward very much to your occasional
staying in touch.


Morgaine.




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On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 12:28 AM, John Hurliman <jhurliman at jhurliman.org>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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