Opensource Obscure
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01:54:37 am on November 21, 2007 | # |
Nei prossimi mesi (12-18) verranno inseriti nella Main Grid di Second Life server esterni, gestiti da soggetti diversi da Linden Lab, eventualmente basati su software differenti da quello utilizzato da Linden Lab: OpenSim e’ attualmente il progetto piu’ avanzato di questo tipo di cui si abbia notizia. Alcuni link:
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Questo processo di apertura di Second Life sta prendendo forma e lo possiamo riscontrare in un frammento della conversazione tenutasi oggi alle Office Hours di Zero Linden. Zero Linden e’ tra i responsabili dell’architettura di Second Life ed e’ coinvolto attivamente nel progetto Architecture Working Group, che mira a delineare le future caratteristiche dell’infrastruttura di Second Life. Quello che Zero Linden auspica di realizzare a breve e’ in pratica un collegamento da una zona gestita da Linden Lab verso un server OpenSim (Take an avatar that is hosted on a Linden Lab agent domain and log into an OpenSim region). Una grid sperimentale verra’ predisposta dai Linden per questi test.
Zero Linden: I think that we should aim at being able to demonstrate functionality, even if the protocols are highly incomplete, and still subject to change
Zero Linden: That way we can test our designs as they are being done
Zero Linden: Here is something that I think would make a fantastic milestone
Zero Linden: Take an avatar that is hosted on a LL agent domain and log into an OPenSim region
Zero Linden: Now, I expect that at that poing that is all it does:
Zero Linden: I don’t have my inventory
Zero Linden: I may not even have my AV shape
Zero Linden: or clothes
Zero Linden: But I can appear in a region run by, say, OpenSim
Zero Linden: and walk around – with my “correct” name
Zero Linden: I’ll kick off that process (open sourcing the caps server) today internally
Finrod Meriman: is anyone here able to talk for opensim… are they ready for this?
Baba Yamamoto: they are ready
j3rry Paine: hot sweaty and *totally* ready
Zha Ewry: Defintely ready
Zero Linden: And, I’m happy for it to be other folks besides OpenSim, if anyone else is ready
Zero Linden: Now – I imagine that we get login working, and NOTHING else – just enough to get into the region, get the currently existing protocol pieces and off you go
Zero Linden: But that would be a big win
Zero Linden: I want to get a dev grid here at LL set up and committed to this
