[Opensim-dev] Departing from virtual world development

[James Stallings II]

John, JHurlicane, The Man with the Coding Plan

Thanks Amigo, I couldn't say it loudly enough to express the appreciation
and respect I have for your skills and insights. We'll miss you, and the
code will suffer, but nothing lasts for ever, and it will live on. I would
venture to say that the fine marks you have left on it will not fade :)

Thanks again, and best of luck with your latest endeavor. It sounds
positively intriguing! XD

Cheers!
James/Hiro

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Morgaine <morgaine.dinova at googlemail.com>wrote:

> 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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