[Opensim-users] Groups in Opensim

[Teravus Ovares]

Last I heard, libpurple's licence blows that choice out of the water.
   Unless, of course, they went lgpl?    But..  I doubt it.

Best Regards

Teravus

On 4/5/09, Dzonatas <dzonatas at dzonux.net> wrote:
> I highly suggest to look into libpurple to avoid reinventing any steps if
> group chat gets moved off the region server. It could be all client based.
>
> The only thing that probably would hold that back is complete anonymity
> since libpurple would only be as anonymous as the services it connects and
> uses. I don't think complete anonymity will be needed among friends, and
> among friends is where libpurple can help accelerate implementation.
>
> Don't take this as a suggestion to put aside what has been developed.
>
> Charles Krinke wrote:
>
> I think the issue is going to be one of "evolution" and "compatibility".
> Many would say we want SL client compatibility for as long as possible.
> Given that, I suspect we will need to use the SL client means and perhaps
> evolve a second means as time goes on.
>
> Charles
>
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> From: Robert Klein <rtkwebman at gmail.com>
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> +1 Diva, I totally agree with getting these tools off the region server.
>
> -Robert
>
>
> I don't particularly care about the details of the group feature design,
> and, as with everything else, I don't think there's "one right thing".
> In fact, I think this is one of those features where variety and
> competition are the right approach.
> My only concern is the architecture. All social networking stuff (IM,
> friends, groups and others) should be completely removed from region
> servers. They don't belong there, it's just wrong. Move all that stuff
> to interactions between the client and those services directly. We
> already have way too much of it in region servers, which should be moved
> out, let's not have any more of that. This is where I think we should
> break from OpenSim out-of-the-box being an SL clone to it being
> something else that's much better.
>
> marcel verhagen wrote:
> > Yeah groups support is a pre.
> >
> > But we should learn from the groups mistake secondlife has made.
> >
> > Think it was a mistake they use the groups for object permissions AND
> > also for community targets.
> >
> > So I think there should be different group systems for different use.
> >
> > One groups system for comminity building with im, notices, polls,
> > roles and groups profiles. Without a max group limit.
> >
> > And one group system for the object permission with an groups
> > inventory in it. Withouth the community building things. These object
> > group system should have a max limit.
> >
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