[Opensim-users] Safe use of OpenSim - was "Fw: Re: [SLED] Linden Lab Sells Second Life!"

[John Sheridan]

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John Sheridan wrote:
> Thank you Charles, Teravus, Adam, and Justin for your input. 
>
> At the moment, we do not have any paying customers and its likely 
> going to be some time before we're able to accommodate such 
> creatures.  Mainly, our plan for now is to simply provide a free 
> access grid to various genre of roleplayers and then further down the 
> road once both OpenSim and my add-ons (mostly web and unix stuff) are 
> ready enough (as well after we have some environments operational) we 
> were planning on subsidizing the server costs by offering land rentals 
> in each environment for players to use as their in-character homes. 
> Another possibility after the fact may be to begin renting clusters of 
> simulators for others to add in their own roleplay environments.  As 
> far as in-world assets are concerned, we're modeling everything after 
> the Arcadia Asylum approach where our in-world currency will have no 
> real world value and everything should be available preferably with 
> full permissions for no fee.  In all for now we're not expecting to 
> nor are we seeking to generate a profit.  However in the unlikely 
> event that we do wind up generating a profit we would likely be 
> accepting resumes for a developer! :)
>
> As for riding the bleeding edge (and gosh that sounds gruesome!) going 
> by everyone's input I'd think for now since we're still building it 
> sounds relatively safe for us to continue that route provided we keep 
> in step with the backups and pay attention to warnings on the mailing 
> list.  As well stick to the recommended releases that Charles alluded 
> to.  But, in future once we start seeing heavy loads and possibly 
> start pulling in some kind of income to pay for all of this we may 
> need to step back a bit and only keep one cluster on the bleeding edge 
> for testing (probably our gateway / entry point Ellis) while the 
> others would remain on the stable releases.  Although, be that as it 
> may we've not had to submit many bug reports recently - GOOD JOB GANG! :)
>
> As for attending Office Hours, yes I'll admit it I'm a night dweller! 
> But for the sake of contributing I'll do my best to crawl out of bed 
> and drag my pajama ridden zombified self over to OSGrid at 3:00 in the 
> afternoon.  Now that I realize that its Tuesday at 3:00 pm my time and 
> not Monday at 11:00 am pacific. 
>
> Thank you all once again...  Live long and prosper!  \\//
>
>  - John / Orion
>

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