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OpenSim Supporters from IBM and Microsoft Rave On in Shengri La

June 15, 2008 · 1 Comment

If you couldn’t make it last night, you missed a great large-scale immersive 3D event in virtual worlds in the Fashion Research Institute’s Shengri La sims in Second Life.  Over and above the fact it was another one of our typically cool, visually compelling rave parties with a fantastic music stream laid down by DJane Qee Nishi, what made last night particularly interesting was that we had OpenSim supporters and developers from both my technology partner, IBM, and from Microsoft and its partners. 

Not unlike pounding the first stake in the transnational American railroad system, this casual social gathering stands as a critical point in the evolution of the open source OpenSim development movement. 

Of course, for those of us who were there, we enjoyed the excellent tracks laid down by Qee, the fantastic outfits so many attendees put together, the witty repartee and occasional innuendo without being deeply impressed with the historical significance of the event.  The usual IBM partiers were joined last night by developers and OpenSim supporters from Microsoft and one of Microsoft’s partners, G-Squared.  G2 Proto (Kyle Gomboy – as mentioned in Tish Chute’s article on her UgoTrade blog) was kind enough to stream the event, live, from Shengri La to Snowcrash TV.  Kyle will have clips of the event available sometime later, so even if you couldn’t be there last night, you can see what you missed.  Plus, of course, snaps of some of the attendees…

DJane Qee Nishi is UP!

Garythegoat Raving in Style

Need…More….Particles

 

G2 Proto Looks Shocked
(But check out those wings!)

Chestnut & Zha Ravin’ in the Air

Calli’s New Wings

Script Wizard Dale & Harper

Blank Cleanslate, IBM OpenSim Island Manager

Various Ravers~!

A Greener Solution

Utopians Midrave: Rez, Chestnut, Calli, Zha, and Me

Go, Jess!

Awesome Rave Outfit!

Minions or Baby Junques? You Decide!

Ravers Raving on

Scientist Troy McLuhan Performs WaveLength Experiments

Michelle Has Great Wings

Frequent Raver Kate Nicholas and RobinG from G-Squared Rave on!

 A Nice Array of Wings

Rose Queen in a Prim & Proper Frock

Woo Hoo! Blue!

Ravers Eva Bellambi and Kate Nicholas

Another Fashionably Attired Raver

Raving Hip Hopper!

A Very Cool Outfit

A great time was had by all. Here’s to a bright future for OpenSim, and the day we hold our first rave in our IBM-hosted OpenSim.  Get your Avatars ready, cause it’s coming, just a matter of time.

Hope you can join us next time, when we host the SteamPunk Rave in Shengri La! 

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Uncharted Territory: 23,582 Prims in IBM OpenSim Shengri La Spirit

May 1, 2008 · 4 Comments

The money shot: 23,582 prims.

Ask and ye shall receive.  I asked, ” posestand?” and lo, Script Wizard Dale dropped one into Spirit. Yay, Script Wizard Dale! If only other requests were so easy…

 I can has posestand!

Back to hammering on the box today.  Yesterday’s little glam shoot notwithstanding, it didn’t add much to the database – a couple hundred more things in my inventory, some understanding of what’s up with attachments, but not much to Spirit’s actual asset server. 

Curly Vines over the Gazebos

Today, on the other hand, I kicked it hard enough for it to start paying attention.  We had a couple of crashes and a couple of buggish looking things that popped up.  The server still chokes when I try to copy more than 300 prims at a time, so I have to plan that out a bit.  And the code struggles with textures and a couple of other issues.  I sent my reports all off to our IBM OpenSim Liaison, Kurt Taylor, so he can get them into the fix-it queue.  Go, Kurt!

 

Swans in the sunset: Romantical!

Zha has been really great about putting in every new patch that comes along, so we’re always testing on the bleedingest (yes, bleedingest) edge code.  And that is, ultimately, the point of the IBM OpenSim Shengri La Spirit – to test the code and to see how or if  I can break it.  Having highly skilled and dedicated people right there, with their finger on the pulse of the machines, who really know what they are doing is just an amazing experience in pushing the envelope of OpenSim.  I don’t generally have a chance to talk to non-IBM OpenSim developers, who are also working very hard on getting the OpenSim code up and running, so I don’t have the up-close view I have of the IBM team.  But those of the OpenSim community who I have had the good fortune of meeting have all been great people.

A long view of the settees and vines

And the result of all this hard work on their part (I’m the one having fun here!) is that the server code is getting more robust every day.  I’m hammering Spirit as hard as I can for as much time as I can devote to it, and I can feel the code getting better every day.

A different perspective: parallax in action down the gazebo galleria

So much better, that we made it to 23, 582 prims in IBM OpenSim Shengri La Spirit.  We’ve set another prim record set as we climb to the pinnacle of what Spirit’s Blade server will support.  And of course, we’ve done it gracefully and with elegance.

Luxuriant arrangements of prim roses crown the settees…

Thanks again to my IBM team.  You folks just rock.

 

Zha and I and the company of 23,582 prims….

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