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Ebbe’s Speech Shaking Things

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Linden Lab’s CEO Ebbe Altberg spoke at VWBPE 2016, Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education. There are some interesting points made in the speech. Some are changes and others are just making it more clear what the Lab is planning with Project Sansar®.

For about 12 minutes Ebbe was talking about Second Life™ and Project Sansar. Then the question and Answer part starts. The moderators were doing an excellent job of focusing questions. That got lots of ground covered.

I’ve done my summary style index. Paraphrasing. And I’ve added links into the video for those things I think have impact.

The most impactful thing I took away from this Q&A is how often Ebbe implies and says Project Sansar and the final resulting product will not be a replacement for Second Life. He provides way more information on why not. If you’re an educator, you may well be keeping your projects in SL with… I’ll say… links to very focused experiences in Sansar.

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Second Life: Aditi Inventory Update

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For months the Lindens have been changing the inventory update process for the preview grid, Aditi. Inara made it to Tuesday’s Server-Scripting UG meeting where Coyot Linden (not a furry) announced the updates are nearing the end of the QA process and will likely rollout in week 11.

Let's go fly a kite
Let’s go fly a kite

See: SL project updates 16 10/1: SL viewer, Aditi inventory, PaleoQuest issues.

This new process will be a sync rather than an over write as previous. Your main SL inventory will be sync’d into your Aditi inventory. Your Aditi inventory will have NO influence on the Agni inventory.

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Latif Khalifa has passed away

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Latif Khalifa has passed away… age 46 I understand. I barely knew him. I would hear/see him in some of the SL user group meetings. My take is he was an interesting personality. I agree with the bloggers I’ve read that he will be missed, at least by those that knew what he was about.

You not being here just makes me cry
You not being here just makes me cry

Gimisa tells me “Diva Canto” wrote:

Latif’s contributions to the open source SL ecosystem were vast and varied. He was one of the original contributors, and the main maintainer, of libOMV, a library that embodies the LL protocol and data structures. LibOMV lies at the heart of OpenSimulator, as well as many SL/OpenSim bots developed by lots of people.

Latif also developed Radegast, an alternative viewer used by many, especially people with disabilities. He also contributed to the Singularity viewer and its offshoot, Replex. He participated in the SL Architecture Working Group, and in many technical discussions in the OpenSim-dev IRC chat channel. He was a vocal advocate of free open source software.

Second Life: Fast Money

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It is splashing across the Second Life™ blogosphere that the Lab published an announcement: Faster Credit Processing & Upcoming Changes to Fees. The Lindens think 75% of the SL users taking money out will be able to do so in 2 days, working days.

I Forget Which Side I'm On
I Forget Which Side I’m On

Fees are going up. You can read the announcement to see why, but the info is:

As of April 5, 2016, instead of charging a flat fee of $1 (USD) per transaction, we will charge a fee of 1.5% of the transaction value, with a minimum fee of $3 (USD) and a maximum of $15 (USD). Additionally, the fee for purchasing L$ on the LindeX will increase 10¢, from $0.30 (USD) to $0.40 (USD) per transaction.

This is a good thing for most of us. But, see this thread: Anyone received this email from LL?