[Opensim-users] Friends in trouble

[James Stallings II]

Welcome back Stephan =-)

Cheers!
James


On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 4:59 AM, Stefan Andersson <lbsa71 at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  Esteemed fellow metanauts,
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> Today I read this disturbing post;
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> http://blogs.sun.com/wonderland/entry/good_news_and_bad_news
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> Basically, the SUN Wonderland seems to be losing SUN (now Oracle) support.
> They now need to transition into a community-driven effort.
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> This prompted me to add the following comment to the blog post:
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> “Sad Tidings in deed. I don't know if any of you have been following the
> OpenSim project, or been in touch with it, but maybe this is an golden
> opportunity to seek inter-project collaboration. The OpenSim community has
> worked without a central organization backing it up since the beginning, so
> I guess we have some experience working the way I guess you need to do.
> Since we have no central organization, nobody can speak for it, but most of
> us are nice people, always eager to help a fellow metanaut. (on an unrelated
> note, I for one would love++ to see a wonderland stack for OpenSim.)”
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> While nobody can tell nobody what to do I personally think the OpenSim
> community should do our outmost to help and support this sibling project.
> Contrary to the beliefs of many, the field of virtual worlds are nowhere
> near the maturity where we can stand the consolidation-by-biting-dust that
> we have seen recently. There will be no thousand worlds blooming.
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> Incidentally, I have for some time been thinking that it might be timely to
> start thinking about how OpenSim would be able to support the architectures
> of client-oriented environments (like Wonderland and Unity) better.
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> Best regards,
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> /Stefan
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