<font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">For what it's worth (from a lurker like me), I completely agree with Melanie.<br>~~Fish~~<br></font></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Melanie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:melanie@t-data.com">melanie@t-data.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">A rather presumptuous statement to make. In both parts. First of<br>
all, users may very well care what they're logging into, and it may<br>
not be OpenSim. In fact, there are several spins out there that have<br>
diverged beyond merging and can't properly be called OpenSim anymore.<br>
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Melanie<br>
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Jor3l Boa wrote:<br>
> -1, I do not think the user cares about the architecture being used and it<br>
> is obviously opensim<br>
><br>
> 2010/8/21 <<a href="mailto:diva@metaverseink.com">diva@metaverseink.com</a>><br>
><br>
>> <3 it!<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> Rich White wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> Here is a chicklet icon perhaps to get the ball rolling:<br>
>>> <a href="http://twitpic.com/2gue0y" target="_blank">http://twitpic.com/2gue0y</a><br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> ====<br>
>>><br>
>>> On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 9:47 AM, <<a href="mailto:diva@metaverseink.com">diva@metaverseink.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>>> P.S. For people who want to give credit to the project, the "correct" way<br>
>>>> of<br>
>>>> expressing it is<br>
>>>> "Powered by OpenSim".<br>
>>>> At some point it would be nice to have a logo with those words in it.<br>
>>>> Examples:<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> <a href="http://www.google.com/images?q=powered+by+apache&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=5eVvTPSNMYK2sAPu2cCXAg&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CCIQsAQwAA&biw=1306&bih=933" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/images?q=powered+by+apache&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=5eVvTPSNMYK2sAPu2cCXAg&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CCIQsAQwAA&biw=1306&bih=933</a><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> <a href="http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&biw=1306&bih=933&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=powered+by+CentOS&aq=f&aqi=g1&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&biw=1306&bih=933&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=powered+by+CentOS&aq=f&aqi=g1&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=</a><br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> <a href="mailto:diva@metaverseink.com">diva@metaverseink.com</a> wrote:<br>
>>>><br>
>>>>> -1 on this.<br>
>>>>> I'm generally reluctant in using the term "OpenSim" for anything other<br>
>>>>> than the name of this project. It's bad enough that bloggers and the<br>
>>>>> public<br>
>>>>> keep confusing the project with its uses, let's not give any more<br>
>>>>> suggestions in that direction. OpenSim is the infrastructure project,<br>
>>>>> not<br>
>>>>> its uses. The users of OpenSim are the world operators, not the people<br>
>>>>> who<br>
>>>>> login to these worlds.<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> In other words, when people login to an OpenSim-based world they are not<br>
>>>>> "logging in to OpenSim"; they are logging in to a world that someone<br>
>>>>> runs<br>
>>>>> based on OpenSim. This may seem like an insignificant distinction, but<br>
>>>>> it's<br>
>>>>> not, it's huge.<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> So let's leave it with the generic message that is has now. The config<br>
>>>>> var<br>
>>>>> is there for people to customize it.<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> Ai Austin wrote:<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>>> In a recent commit by Justin he suggested that if a change was made to<br>
>>>>>> the default viewer welcome message, it would be useful to get the<br>
>>>>>> thoughts<br>
>>>>>> of others first. I do appreciate that most folks will alter the string<br>
>>>>>> anyway, but it is useful out of the box to have useful messages. And I<br>
>>>>>> had<br>
>>>>>> suggested a change to help differentiate things a bit in an immediately<br>
>>>>>> visible form at the user end, and to brand the system in the default.<br>
>>>>>> Can I<br>
>>>>>> suggest this change and see what others think?<br>
>>>>>><br>
>>>>>> Opensim.ini.example "Welcome to OpenSim"<br>
>>>>>> Robust.ini.example "Welcome to OpenSim Grid"<br>
>>>>>> Robust.HG.ini.example "Welcome to OpenSim Hypergrid"<br>
>>>>>><br>
>>>>>> This would have the nice effect of differentiating which [Architecture]<br>
>>>>>> is being used immediately.<br>
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