OpenSim’s birthday is january 29th, 2007 but its outward manifestation is the OSGrid
the OSGrid is the official testing grid for OpenSim development and has grown into the community OpenSim experience. anyone can connect their home grid, server, or whatever to OSGrid
there is a relatively easy way to set up OpenSim on your machine with a customised OSGrid version of it
OSGrid currently has a over 9000 regions but can feel unpopulated if you are used to Second Life numbers
if you have been holding off on checking out OSGrid, or OpenSim, this weekend might be a good chance to see what it’s all about!
OSGrid celebrates its 5th anniversary with events starting today and going on through tuesday
for a look at the schedule, head over to Daniel Voyager’s listing of events
have fun and happy birthday OSGrid! (they grow up so quickly) =)
BladeTower at Bade Plaza – CC by James Stallings II
I visited Allen Kerensky’s Myriad display briefly a couple of days ago. Nice display. Lani Global’s is there, too, as is Transgenia’s. All are very much worth a visit. (I’ve included some of Transgenia’s alien flora/fauna at Excelsior Station)
I’m hoping to free up more time to visit others, too.
And that Blade Building is making me want to completely rebuild Excelsior Station’s Docking Tower :-P
Sarge Misfit
20 Jul 12 at 2:27 pm
No matter what anyones affiliation to Opensim is, whether it be home hosted private region, or walled garden commercial grid, OSGrid is within the foundation of it all as Opensimulator’s “official” test grid.
Contributing might be an ongoing donation or just have a region on the grid.
Alternatively, put your regions on the Hypergrid and have one in OSGrid.
Breen Whitman
20 Jul 12 at 4:43 pm
seeing other people’s work always get my cogs turning and wanting to try different things too Sarge :)
nice perspective Breen – donate $ to OSGrid (one time donations or easy subscriptions starting at $5 usd a month) AND/OR have a region of your own because the more regions on the grid, the better it is for testing and developing OpenSim
Ener Hax
20 Jul 12 at 10:31 pm