One of the things I’ve been up to lately is help organise the planned ’stress test party’ for Rezzable’s Private Grid. The theme is ‘Find the 7 differences’. Of course, there are more than just seven. Those who are following up on OpenSim know it’s still under heavy construction, with daily bugs being patched, new features added and new possibilities created. Sometimes it seems they proceed 10 times as fast as Lindens do. Partly, this is because of an obvious reason, OpenSim is after all based on the ‘Second Life’ concept by Linden Lab. They do not need to think out everything from scratch. Although they often give it a different spin, if you look at the load balancing for example. But the other 2 reasons are the most compelling ones: OpenSim is less hindered by ‘corporate strategic business decisions dependencies’. (The official LL blog was moved to my ‘to depressing to read’ folder in the feedreader.) Or by ‘one size needs to fit all’. Opposed to using ‘The Second Life Grid’ (where did my trademark symbol go?) where you are depended on the limited estate management options given by LL, on OpenSim - if you have the needed knowledge - your ‘virtual land’ is actually really yours, as you own - or at least rent which gives you full decision powers too - the servers it runs on. Take a ’snapshot’ of a full sim and save it for later use? Possibile on OpenSim. Allow people to choose from ‘avatar templates’ on the web and make them pretty with the items you - and even more important, they! - desire? Possible on OpenSim. Those who know me, probably realise I’m delighted to have a good reason to keep more than 1/4th an eye on OpenSim again! But err.. I’m drifting off… back to the Rezzable Case Files! ;)

For Rezzable the above means that the ‘Private Grid’ is tied in to Rezzable.com. *Tips her hat at the whole dev crew, including Miss Malaprop* We know for certain that your Second Life ‘you’ is your Rezzable.com account - if you have verified your avatar that is - and thus will automatically annotate you your avatar name. No need for yet another identity, is there? And more important, nobody can ’steal’ your identity. There are for me tons of things to experiment with still, and tons of things to learn. But I’ll get the basics down eventually, I assume. An example of ‘things still to learn’ is how to use Second Inventory. So I can port neat things over, like this dragon, shot at Greenies ‘Second’ Home:

Of course, for that I would need to have such a full perm dragon full perm in my inventory. Which is not the case. But I am allowed to dream, no? ;) Another issue is though, that I’m not much of an einzelgänger. So testing an all that is only fun, when they are other folks around to test with. I’m no use testing ‘building’ or ’scripting’ on my own, because well.. I suck at it. (Ok, ok, and I’m pretty high maintenance as it comes to attention! :D) I need other avatars around there to test things with, people who know more about the ‘building’ and ’scripting’ part than I do, who can then report tell me about their issues and ideas and hopes and dreams. (You can leave the NSFW dreams out, kthxbye!) When lonely, I do futile attempts to sit myself on a virtual can of beer:

Care to save me from that? Leave a comment here and I’ll add you to our testers group, so you can access the Rezzable Private Grid and keep me company when I log in. Oh, and attend our Stress Test Parties on December 17th & 18th starting 1PM SLT. Your testing efforts and pleasant company would be much appreciated, and not only by me. Nobody benefits from me becoming a virtual drunk when virtual beers can be endlessly replicated, right? ;)

Tags: greenies, open sim, rezzable

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