[sldev] Re: OS-SL Development Issues (was Upcoming viewer releases)

[Dale Glass]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 09:52:34AM -0700, Harold Brown wrote:
> On 8/29/07, Dale Glass <dale at daleglass.net> wrote:
> > So why add the need to run an extra program and make people have to keep
> > up with what's going there when the functionality already present in SL
> > could be used instead?
> Because right now the group IM system doesn't work correctly.
I don't disagree, but then we should go and fix it. LL's task is to fix
whatever problems there are on the backend since we can't touch that.

But the viewer part could be much improved. 

My argument basically is: We should eat our own dog food. If it's not
tasty enough then we've got to improve it.

> I think we can agree that we need a system that can be accessed and used
> both in SL and outside SL.  Neither Group IM or IRC provide this at the
> moment, nor does the mailing list for that matter.
> 
> There are also two different types of communication we have to deal with.
> real time collaboration / discussion and non-real time information exchange.
Jinx! I just posted on the same thing.

> One thing that would be nice to see, and could mostly be done now without
> any changes to the source code, are automatically logged conference areas.
> Either a full time logging facility with logs generated per day, or an on
> demand system that asks the first participant for a title for the session
> and creats a log for that discussion.  Having a facility to bridge these
> conference centers into IRC would be very welcome as well.
A libsecondlife bot could work. 

This seems easy enough: Make the bot join all the needed groups, then
wait for IMs. Then just log/relay that.

My current understanding is that the bot should leave the discussion
when it's the last remaining participant, as otherwise a single session
will persist forever and people won't get notified of new discussions in
the group.
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