[vos-d] Introduction

[Ben Collier]

Hi Peter

I am going to start by building content. I want to create a number of (or at
least one) virtual world, and put it on a server at home, give it an actual
function (so people are motivated to use it) and advertise it.

I'd like to convince friends to set up their own too: One good friend of
mine is a very talented 3d artist.

Then I'd like to help with the development, by adding functionality that
I've discovered is lacking during the development of my world(s). Hence,
I'll start looking at the way that VOS holds together, and offer my services
in adding crucial functions like streaming video or sound, and perhaps
user-centric functionality. XML/CSS on flat surfaces in the browser,
perhaps, or some functionality to move 3d objects from one server to another
(by the avatar "carrying" it?). Obviously, these are all random blue-sky
suggestions, I haven't had a chance to explore the code-base yet. But then
it's going to change anyway, so what would be the best way to proceed?

Ben


On 09/11/06, Peter Amstutz <tetron at interreality.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Ben, welcome to the community.
>
> Work in proceeding on VOS, albiet slowly.  At the moment I'm doing a
> rewrite of the fundamental architechture to be able to accomodate
> scripting, along with a host of other new features.  The hope that it
> will eventually be very easy for other people to contribute by working in
> a dynamic language, rather than needing a whole C++ development
> environment.
>
> It is going to be a big leap forward, but it will be a while before it is
> ready.  Unfortunately, a new core library will also mean major changes to
> the applications, so any work going forward should be done considering
> that it will either be thrown out or require major changes.
>
> In the mean time, there is the current VOS release which can do some neat
> stuff.  What kind of things are you interested in?
>
> On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 09:48:48AM +0000, Ben Collier wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I've just signed up to this list, and I'd like to get involved with the
> > project, so I thought I'd write a short introduction.
> >
> > I'm based in Tring, just North-West of London in England. I work in
> Business
> > Intelligence and program in VBA, C, Perl, and have done a fair bit of
> work
> > with XML, CSS etc.
> >
> > I guess it's fairly inevitable that the business model with individual
> > servers will shift on to a distributed "free" approach, I guess vested
> > interests don't want to see that happen, as it would torpedo a fair few
> > artificial economies, but I want to get involved now and make it happen.
> Was
> > a bit of the cyberpunk fanboy in my youth. :)
> >
> > If there's any way I can help, please let me know.
> >
> > Kind regards
> >
> > Ben Collier
>
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