[info] [croquet-dev] Second Life Architectural Working Group (AWG) URLs

[Eugen Leitl]

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From: Lawson English <lenglish5 at cox.net>
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:18:37 -0700
To: Impalah <impalah at gmail.com>
CC: croquet-dev at duke.edu
Subject: Re: [croquet-dev] Second Life Architectural Working Group (AWG) URLs
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Reply-To: croquet-dev at duke.edu, Lawson English <lenglish5 at cox.net>

Impalah wrote:
>Hi:
> 
>I have a "virtual" business into Second Life since January 2007. If 
>anyone are interested in what we (my business partner and I) are doing 
>just look  http://ai-designstudio.net <http://ai-designstudio.net>. 
>Our "star project" is a system to import CAD designs into Second Life 
>(we call it Henshin) and we plan to use the system both to import from 
>CAD/3D programs (Autocad, 3DMax, Blender, Maya...) and to export not 
>only to Second Life; Open Croquet and Multiverse are "virtual worlds" 
>we are evaluating.
> 
>Well, the thing about Second Life and its "Open" intentions... I think 
>there is a long way to get something "stable".
>I think was in March or April they liberate the source from the client 
>but maintaining the server code closed. There are projects of open 
>server and utilities: Opensim ( 
>http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page) and Libsecondlife 
>(http://www.libsecondlife.org/wiki/Main_Page). Both using the SL 
>protocol obtained by reverse engineering the messages sent/received by 
>the client... There's no official support from Linden Labs, no 
>documents, nothing. The projects are not promoted by Linden.
> 
>In any case is a good idea to enter into the architecture groups, but 
>sincerely, I found Open Croquet more robust and expandable (and for a 
>programmer like me, the direct access to OpenGL is a dream come true).
> 

I'd have to disagree about robust and expandable.  I just attended a SL 
lecture by Dan Miller, a Senior Economist at the Joint Economic 
Committee of the U.S. Congress, who chairs their committee on virtual 
worlds.

80 people were attending the lecture, avatar-wise, and http://slcn.tv/ 
was simulcasting it via their website. The lecture was submitted by 
sound over the streaming audio media while questions were asked by IM.

Until I can log into an arbitrary Croquet world and attend a lecture 
with 80 other avatars with web simulcast, you can't really talk about 
Croquet being as robust and expandable as SL.

Please let me know how I can connect to even one other Mac user over the 
internet with Croquet save by using the KAT world or moral equivalent.

While the SL server source is not open yet, the Lindens are very 
seriously committed to the open source nature of the platform. How many 
in-world open meetings with Croquet or Qwak people are hosted on a 
regular basis? The lindens host about 2 dozen  regular meetings in-world 
every week,  including several each week with open source programmers to 
discuss open source issues and bug-fixes:

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Office_Hours
http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=mvktahmo6mjpvpkkkdnmabmghg%40group.calendar.google.com


How many croquet users interested in expanding croquet meet once or 
twice a week in a croquet world to discuss where Croquet is heading and 
how it should get there? HOw many choat in IRC on a daily basis for this 
purpose?

https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/AW_Groupies







Lawson



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