Lot's of new news to blog about. Attended the Second Life Community Conference and made some connections across all spectrum of projects, and communities. There is opportunity to build out a Higher Education Virtual Worlds Grid. This can be done with the needs of educators first and economy second. However, there are plenty of governance issues, and the standard intellectual property problems. Will VWRAP be able to help resolve them? Until that is know it's clear that grid by grid agreements and policies would be the way to go. A framework we could follow and implement would be nice. I'm hoping we can work this out. I'll blog more about this soon.
Also, for data portability issues and owner issues, it's clear that until a clean import/export process is updated to by Second Life, our content will be developed first in OpenSim and then ported over to Second Life. Lot's more news to come on that.
Lastly, for today, with 0.70 version of OpenSim it's much easier to run your own servers. I'm expecting to run multiple world designed for their use case. If it's a grant that needs to have all data private and firewalled, that can be arranged. If it's a new downtown, or a multi-campus project that can be arranged too without have to remove the previous worlds. Finally, it's really nice to be able to have object archive files that store a world that you can reload later.
So much more to talk about. Check back in. More news soon.
--Rick (Rk Jinn)
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