OpenSIM

Second Life Bits – Week 49

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No Blogger Illuminati

No Secret Bloggers Club… Really!!! Honest! See: Exclusive – There Is No Secret Second Life Bloggers Club

Mezzaluna
Mezzaluna

I think this is funny. There are people that are friends with various members of the development community, Linden and third party. It isn’t so much that developers help out their friends more than others as it is familiarity with a person allows you tell when they are up to something or holding something back. That is a sign to start digging.

Often we know a new shinny is coming because people start clamming up. 

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Justin Clark-Casey

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If you play in OpenSim you probably know this name or, at least, you should. Justin is one of the movers and shakers in the OpenSim community. Hypergrid Business ran an article on his taking a new job that will require enough of his time he is relinquishing most of his OpenSim duties. He will … Read more

Statistics: Second Life, OpenSim, World of Warcraft

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Hypergrid Business keeps many of us up to date on happenings in the OpenSim side of virtual worlds. They currently have an article up on expansion and contraction in the OpenSim worlds: Regions, grids hit new record highs.

Garden Party
Garden Party by Gorba McMahon, on Flickr

It is a good headline. In the first paragraph Maria, author, points out that active users on public grids fell by 909 to 30,000. So, even though I consider Maria a bit of a fan-girl for OpenSim, I consider her reporting accurate enough to give us the good and bad news. 

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IAR Exports – OpenSim

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If you play in OpenSim worlds you have probably heard of IAR exports. If you built a region in OpenSim, then you probably use IAR exports to backup your work. I do… did. I haven’t started my OSGrid regions for some time. IAR is an Inventory ARchive file. Very handy thing to have. If your … Read more