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Sorry - message got bounced back due to size, had to chop the body...<br>
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John Sheridan wrote:
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Thank you Charles, Teravus, Adam, and Justin for your input. <br>
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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! :)<br>
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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! :)<br>
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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. <br>
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Thank you all once again... Live long and prosper! \\//<br>
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- John / Orion<br>
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