Monday, February 18, 2008

realXtend & OpenSim Oulu Finland Meeting ReCap


Cool! The guys look like they had a great time in Oulu. Even Cris Collins, Chief Technical Assistant to the CEO (aka Philip Linden aka Philip Rosedale was there;"OK, So nice snow pictures and all but what was going on? Well, Friday morning we all met. Firstly wow, it was great to meet most of the others from the OpenSimulator project, I don't think it had been done before, and whilst things may have started quiet it didn't take long for us all to Gel together and get talking! And then we met the guys under the banner 'RealXtend', this was interesting why had I flown more than 14,000km across the planet? Who were they and what had they been doing? Questions were flying in everyone's minds and we started to get some information. 2 Companies Admino & Ludocraft had been working furiously in the background over the past 4 months, 'extending' the function of the OpenSimulator Project, they had done this with the afforded generosity of Juha Hulkko. So what did they want global domination? No. Were they Anti-Linden? No (actually Chris Collins from Linden Labs was there too). Did they want to take over the OpenSimulator Project? No. They wanted to move forward, extend as the name suggests features & methods for greater user function and versatility of the code & it's application. OK so the morning meeting was a good start and now all of us were even more curious. What was next? Well, Finland likes coffee so it was a coffee! Alright that sounded like a little stall but we jumped in taxi's headed for Rehapolis for 'real' demonstration. So without saying to much more what did we see? http://openlifegrid.com/Blogs/tabid/61/EntryID/3/Default.aspx

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