Thursday, September 4, 2008

Thursday PM Open Source Interoperable VWs

Moderator:
Panel:

(Missed blogging first bit.)

Focus on OpenSim. Different variations on the same building blocks mandates the need for standards beyond OpenSim. Modular software plus a protocol to allow distribution across a series of clients and models.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE DOING TO PROTOTYPE APPS IN OPENSIM
Still in alpha code mode. At a cusp. Fashion Research Institute will make an enterprise solution using OpenSim to produce ... ???

OpenSim is open source, but also public domain under the BSD license. Historical context on why tcpip and BSD worked well and got adopted by M$, etc.

What is meant by interop? The long term goal is to go from small set of homogeneous worlds, be able to take your identity to worlds that are less and less alike.

Successful standards emerge from working code. Learn from existing code, learn from mistakes, and get more diverse.

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