[sldev] [ANN]{AWG]{PYOGP] Virtual Worlds Open Grid Protocol testing library in Python

[John Hurliman]

I skimmed over the article but couldn't find any explanation of why. Maybe
I'm late to the party, but why is a content management system architecture
being used for a virtual world networking library?


John

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 6:42 AM, Christian Scholz / Tao Takashi (SL) <
tao.takashi at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> As my proposal was to use the Zope Component Architecture for this
> library and I also started to implement things with it I wanted to
> write a little introduction into this way of working and here it is:
>
> http://mrtopf.de/blog/an-introduction-to-the-zope-component-architecture/
>
> I did this a little bit in a hurry (and still need to document how I
> used this in pyogp) but I hope it's understandable. See it as work in
> progress.
>
> cheers,
>
> Tao
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 10:53 PM, Lawson English <lenglish5 at cox.net>
> wrote:
> > I spammed this message to various python and games programming lists.
> >
> > I'm submitting it to the SL lists as a heads up for technically included
> > Second Life citizens who may wish to contribute to the project in some
> way:
> >
> >
> >
> > A new open source project has been started by Linden Lab, makers of the
> > Second Life™ virtual worlds, and the Second Life Architecture Working
> Group
> > (AWG) to test LL's proposed virtual worlds Open Grid Protocols (OGP) that
> > will allow any virtual world to support multi-world login, between-world
> > teleport and other transportation mechanisms, as well as asset/property
> and
> > currency sharing between worlds.
> >
> >
> > https://wiki.secondlife.com/w/index.php?title=AWG_Test_Harness
> >
> > The code is released to all comers in Python under an Apache v2
> agreement,
> > although contributions require the signing of Linden Lab's developer
> > contribution agreement (giving LL equal copyrights to the original
> > contributer--a boilerplate LL corporate requirement that likely is
> redundant
> > given the nature of Apache v2).
> >
> > svn: http://svn.secondlife.com/trac/linden/browser/projects/2008/pyogp.
> >
> > Second Life contribution agreement:
> > http://secondlifegrid.net.s3.amazonaws.com/docs/SLVcontribution_agmt.pdf
> >
> > irc: irc://irc.freenode.net/#pyogp
> >
> > AWG homepage: https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/AWG
> >
> > AWG discussion group homepage:
> > https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Category:AW_Groupies
> >
> > AWG-related pages, irc channels and forums:
> > https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Category:AW_Groupies#External_Resources
> >
> >
> > The near-term AWG goal is to create a set of open standard protocols
> that:
> >
> > 1) Enable third parties to run servers that connect to the Second Life
> Grid
> > platform
> > 2) Scale the Second Life Grid architecture to support the
> industry-projected
> > situation in the next 10 years, where virtual worlds will comprise at
> least
> > 60 million regions, 2 billion users and in-world concurrency of 50-100
> > million residents.
> >
> > https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLGOGP_Draft_1
> > https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLGOGP_Teleport_Strawman
> >
> > The long-term goal is to design a set of protocols and standards that
> will
> > enable almost any virtual world of any kind to "plug into" this system to
> > varying degrees, from support for a "universal avatar" to full support
> for
> > all Second Life features and/or the ability to inform universal 3D
> viewers
> > what features are supported (or not) in any given virtual world.
> >
> >
> > More info on pyogp and the AWG can be obtained on the website or via irc.
> >
> >
> > Lawson English
> > AKA Saijana Kuhn, AWGroupies admin
> >
> >
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>
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