[Opensim-users] OAR File Sharing Revisited

Thu Dec 10 04:32:56 UTC 2009

Yes I agree the wiki is a good place to have a catalog of links to sites
which contain content. Jeff, I like your site and it has lots of potential.
One suggestion might be to have a "freebie only" area so people who do not
have any need to dig through non-free content will not have to do so.
Jeroen, yes I kind of thought about doing some kind of file serving system
built-in to the simulator but not sure it would be wise given viruses and
hackers and such. I don't worry so much about that in Ubuntu but the Windows
users might be concerned. What about a general web based tool people could
implement at their discretion like we do with MySQL vs SQLite?

-Robert

Jeroen van Veen wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I think it would be easier to have decentralized oar spaces, which can be 
> shared through simple http/https servers. OSservices uses twisted to serve 
> oar-directories, and make them accessible through secured public/private
> http 
> urls. I'm not really sure about the final design, but i think each
> simulator 
> service has to have it's own private serve directory, in which oar files
> can be 
> shared to other gridservices, by utilizing a centralized webapi. Like:
> call 
> get_oar(service_uuid) on each osservice instance from a webinterface,
> which 
> returns an xml list of oar files. Also, it creates a public http resource
> that 
> can be accessed through the browser(with user/pw or not). That may be
> useful 
> for simple sharing purposes.
> 
> Anyway, the idea is that each simulator/service has it's own oar
> 'repository', 
> which can be shared through a ssl/http auth secured api. I agree with
> Karen 
> that central places for oars are not really the way to go here.
> Centralized 
> lists of public oars can also be done through some sort of api. This same 
> kinda thing would also be interesting to apply on intergrid maps by the
> way, 
> but that's another thread.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Jeroen
> 
> Op woensdag 09 december 2009 07:52:03 schreef Karen Palen:
>> My only comment is that we need some sort of central place which points
>> to
>>  ALL of these repositories!
>> 
>> The OpenSim wiki sounds like the right place, but I am certainly open to
>>  other ideas.
>> 
>> So far I have found almost a half dozen attempts to put together
>>  repositories or one kind or another with widely varying success.
>> 
>> I know of no way to be sure that I or anyone else has found them all
>> apart
>>  from the OpenSim wiki!
>> 
>> Karen
>> 
>> --- On Tue, 12/8/09, Jeff1564 <jefersonc at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > From: Jeff1564 <jefersonc at gmail.com>
>> > Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] OAR File Sharing Revisited
>> > To: opensim-users at lists.berlios.de
>> > Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 10:29 PM
>> > Hi Robert,
>> >
>> > Actually we are working on a place just for OpenSim assets
>> > where you can upload
>> > any kind of asset that you may want to sell or share, like
>> > OAR, IAR, meerkat files etc.
>> > At the moment we are working to provide an "oar
>> > link" for free oars uploaded to our
>> >
>> > servers so people can easy load it with a single command
>> > like load oar http://myopensim.com/index.php?oar=OpenVCE
>> > or something like this.
>> > and or you can send the url for your friends. we will also
>> > have a list of url's
>> >
>> > with our free oars for download, actually when you upload
>> > an oar file or
>> > another asset you have the option to upload as many
>> > pictures you want and option to
>> > add a video for your file. besides that we are working on a
>> > tool to easily move
>> >
>> > creations between grids (similar to second inventory ) that
>> > will be released 100% free.
>> > The website is 100% free to use, everybody is more than
>> > welcome to use our system.
>> > Any question or suggestion are welcome as we're still
>> > tweaking our website to be the best
>> >
>> > fit for our community.
>> >
>> >
>> > Please take a look at: http://myopensim.com/index.php?page=Assets
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 6:03 PM,
>> > Robert Klein <rtkwebman at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > I know we have kicked this subject around in the past and
>> > was wondering if we
>> >
>> > ever figured out some kind of place to house oar files for
>> > sharing? I would
>> >
>> > imagine there are some pretty interesting builds among the
>> > OpenSim community
>> >
>> > that people would enjoy sharing but we still do not have an
>> > easy way of
>> >
>> > doing it. I hate to suggest using some file sharing utility
>> > like getdropbox
>> >
>> > but what else would work? It has to be able to support
>> > those of us using
>> >
>> > standalone simulators too. Let's not forget about IAR
>> > files as well. What do
>> >
>> > you think?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > -Robert
>> >
>> >
>> >
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