[Opensim-users] Introduction

[Karen Palen]

Personally I am a retired software engineer having fun with the
technology. I gave up Second Life several years ago when they started
getting restrictive and having periodic panics.

I think you will find the various OpenSim worlds to be a very mixed bag
- there is certainly no central or unifying "culture" of any sort.


Probably the best introduction to some of the larger grids is
http://www.hyperica.com/ and http://thehypergates.com/

I am sure there are a dozen other good ones, but these cover most of the
popular grids.

In addition there are literally thousands of "private" grids for any
number of special purposes - I ran a standalone "Mars Sim" grid for a
Sci Fi convention for example. You got to suit up an dexplore Mars - I
forgot and left the editing capability on and several kids got on and
transformed Mars in a couple of hours! They had a great time (as did the
spectators) and I just restored everything from backups when we were done.

The Hypergrid is definitely getting to be a way to explore new "worlds"
with various paradigms, although it has had some teething problems with
incompatible format changes recently.

If you want to jump right in then I suggest looking at Diva's D2 distro
from: http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page  It gives you a very
simple pre-set up starter grid of your very own, download one of the
Hypergates and you are on your way!

When I set up the Mars sim, one of the first visitors was a "little
green man" (literally!) from VUE who dropped over to say hi. :-)

Good Luck

Karen

On 07/14/2011 05:41 AM, Garrett Lynch wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> Never really took the time to introduce myself and this list has been
> very helpful in setting up our OpenSim regions, I know the educators
> list (https://lists.secondlife.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/educators)
> are keen on introductions - it's a good idea to see what people are doing.

> Opensim-users at lists.berlios.de
> https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users