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Release Notes/Search

2010-03-06T14:16:24Z

Liana Linden: /* 2010.03.03 */

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'''Release Notes for Search in the Second Life Viewer and on search.secondlife.com.'''

Help us out by filing bugs in the public [http://jira.secondlife.com/secure/Dashboard.jspa issue tracker] in the "Second Life Service-SVC" project. [http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/PJIRA Learn how].

== 2010.03.03 ==
The following release affects '''Viewer 2''' and '''search.secondlife.com'''.

'''Release Highlights'''
* These sorting options are now enabled: Sort by name in People; sort by name or traffic in Places.
* These search collections are now enabled: Events, Land Sales.

'''Resolved Bugs'''
* Categories dropdown disappears if category contains no result
* "Internal Server Error" appears after searching for "." value
* Page count unreadable at 100 and above
* Search results differ with punctuation marks
* Destination Guide & Search Tabs Blank in Certain Situations
* Residents who no longer want to be found in Search still in index
* Additional maturity filtering implemented to match Viewer 1 behavior

'''Known Issues'''
* Remove "New to second life? Try it now!" from Search listings
* Events and Land Sales are not easily browsable or searchable in current UI.
* Name sorts should switch between A-Z and Z-A each time they are clicked
* Search UI does not have a visible and clear indication of what sort/filter text is enabled on the search tabs
* People filter: Name sort doesn't return results for partial name matches
* Events provides events out of order and in the past
* Unicode characters no longer working in any queries

== 2010.02.23 ==
The following release affects '''Viewer 2''' and '''search.secondlife.com'''.
* [[Release Notes/Second Life Beta Viewer/2.0]]
* [[Release Notes/Second Life Beta Viewer/2.0/Advanced Info]]

'''Features and Changes'''

Highlights of this release:
* User interface redesigned with improved organization of features and actions.
* New and improved Destination Guide (previously known as Showcase). The Destination Guide features new destinations added daily in arts, fashion, music and more.
* Expanded use of Google Search Appliance (See [http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:Search_Guidelines Search Guidelines] for tips on how to tune listings for searchability)
* Infrastructure redesigned using HTML on top of Django web services to increase development speed and flexibility
* Relocated search appliances to multiple colos for increased redundancy
* Amount paid for a Classified is now shown in the Detail view and not in the Classifieds tab view.

'''Known Issues'''

Following are some of the usability and technical issues we are working to resolve:
* These search collections are not yet enabled: Events, Land Sales.
* These sorting options are not yet enabled: Sort by name for People, Places.
* Category filtering not yet working on Classifieds tab.
* Search results are sometimes slow to load.
* When opening the Find window for a new search, the previous page is visible while new search loads.
* Browsing search listings without a keyword doesn't work. E.g., Attempts to browse by initiating a search with no keyword will return you to the main search page.
* Total number of results found only shown in Relevance sort view.
* Maturity filtering not yet completely implemented for all searches.
* Instructions for becoming adult-verified are not shown to non-adult accounts that search for adult content in Classifieds, Events and Land Sales.
* Searching for only adult terms in Events and Land Sales without the Adult option enabled returns all non-adult results.
* Events on adult regions may show up in non-adult searches.
* Classifieds are not blocked from specific some Education and Teen estates which have opted out of showing ads.

Release Notes/Search

2010-03-04T23:39:47Z

Liana Linden:

[[Category:Release Notes]]
[[Category:Search]]

'''Release Notes for Search in the Second Life Viewer and on search.secondlife.com.'''

Help us out by filing bugs in the public [http://jira.secondlife.com/secure/Dashboard.jspa issue tracker] in the "Second Life Service-SVC" project. [http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/PJIRA Learn how].

== 2010.03.03 ==
The following release affects '''Viewer 2''' and '''search.secondlife.com'''.

'''Release Highlights'''
* These sorting options are now enabled: Sort by name in People; sort by name or traffic in Places.
* These search collections are now enabled: Events, Land Sales.

'''Resolved Bugs'''
* Categories dropdown disappears if category contains no result
* "Internal Server Error" appears after searching for "." value
* Page count unreadable at 100 and above
* Search results differ with punctuation marks
* Destination Guide & Search Tabs Blank in Certain Situations
* Residents who no longer want to be found in Search still in index
* Additional maturity filtering implemented to match Viewer 1 behavior

'''Known Issues'''
* Remove "New to second life? Try it now!" from Search listings
* Events and Land Sales are not easily browsable or searchable in current UI.
* Name sorts should switch between A-Z and Z-A each time they are clicked
* Search UI does not have a visible and clear indication of what sort/filter text is enabled on the search tabs
* People filter: Name sort doesn't return results for partial name matches
* Events provides events out of order and in the past
* Unicode characters no longer working in any queries
* Other unresolved issues as listed in previous release notes below.

== 2010.02.23 ==
The following release affects '''Viewer 2''' and '''search.secondlife.com'''.
* [[Release Notes/Second Life Beta Viewer/2.0]]
* [[Release Notes/Second Life Beta Viewer/2.0/Advanced Info]]

'''Features and Changes'''

Highlights of this release:
* User interface redesigned with improved organization of features and actions.
* New and improved Destination Guide (previously known as Showcase). The Destination Guide features new destinations added daily in arts, fashion, music and more.
* Expanded use of Google Search Appliance (See [http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:Search_Guidelines Search Guidelines] for tips on how to tune listings for searchability)
* Infrastructure redesigned using HTML on top of Django web services to increase development speed and flexibility
* Relocated search appliances to multiple colos for increased redundancy
* Amount paid for a Classified is now shown in the Detail view and not in the Classifieds tab view.

'''Known Issues'''

Following are some of the usability and technical issues we are working to resolve:
* These search collections are not yet enabled: Events, Land Sales.
* These sorting options are not yet enabled: Sort by name for People, Places.
* Category filtering not yet working on Classifieds tab.
* Search results are sometimes slow to load.
* When opening the Find window for a new search, the previous page is visible while new search loads.
* Browsing search listings without a keyword doesn't work. E.g., Attempts to browse by initiating a search with no keyword will return you to the main search page.
* Total number of results found only shown in Relevance sort view.
* Maturity filtering not yet completely implemented for all searches.
* Instructions for becoming adult-verified are not shown to non-adult accounts that search for adult content in Classifieds, Events and Land Sales.
* Searching for only adult terms in Events and Land Sales without the Adult option enabled returns all non-adult results.
* Events on adult regions may show up in non-adult searches.
* Classifieds are not blocked from specific some Education and Teen estates which have opted out of showing ads.

Release Notes/Search

2010-03-03T17:16:51Z

Liana Linden:

Release Notes/Search

2010-03-03T17:07:51Z

Liana Linden:

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2010-02-23T17:28:29Z

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[[Category:Release Notes]]
[[Category:Search]]

'''Release Notes for Search in the Second Life Viewer and on search.secondlife.com.'''

== 2010.02.23 ==
The following release affects '''Viewer 2''' and '''search.secondlife.com'''.
* [[Release Notes/Second Life Beta Viewer/2.0]]
* [[Release Notes/Second Life Beta Viewer/2.0/Advanced Info]]

=== Features and Changes ===
Highlights of this release:
* User interface redesigned with improved organization of features and actions.
* New and improved Destination Guide (previously known as Showcase). The Destination Guide features new destinations added daily in arts, fashion, music and more.
* Expanded use of Google Search Appliance (See [http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:Search_Guidelines Search Guidelines] for tips on how to tune listings for searchability)
* Infrastructure redesigned using HTML on top of Django web services to increase development speed and flexibility
* Relocated search appliances to multiple colos for increased redundancy
* Amount paid for a Classified is now shown in the Detail view and not in the Classifieds tab view.

=== Known Issues ===
Following are some of the usability and technical issues we are working to resolve:
* These search collections are not yet enabled: Events, Land Sales.
* These sorting options are not yet enabled: Sort by name for People, Places.
* Category filtering not yet working on Classifieds tab.
* Search results are sometimes slow to load.
* When opening the Find window for a new search, the previous page is visible while new search loads.
* Browsing search listings without a keyword doesn't work. E.g., Attempts to browse by initiating a search with no keyword will return you to the main search page.
* Total number of results found only shown in Relevance sort view.
* Maturity filtering not yet completely implemented for all searches.
* Instructions for becoming adult-verified are not shown to non-adult accounts that search for adult content in Classifieds, Events and Land Sales.
* Searching for only adult terms in Events and Land Sales without the Adult option enabled returns all non-adult results.
* Events on adult regions may show up in non-adult searches.
* Classifieds are not blocked from specific some Education and Teen estates which have opted out of showing ads.

Release Notes/Search

2010-02-23T17:22:53Z

Liana Linden: /* 2010.02.23 */

Release Notes/Search

2010-02-23T17:18:21Z

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[[Category:Release Notes]]
[[Category:Search]]

'''Release Notes for Search in the Second Life Viewer and on search.secondlife.com.'''

== 2010.02.23 ==
The following release affects '''Viewer 2''' and '''search.secondlife.com'''.
* [[Release Notes/Second Life Beta Viewer/2.0]]
* Detailed release notes

=== Features and Changes ===
Highlights of this release:
* User interface redesigned with improved organization of features and actions.
* New and improved Destination Guide (previously known as Showcase). The Destination Guide features new destinations added daily in arts, fashion, music and more.
* Expanded use of Google Search Appliance (See [http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:Search_Guidelines Search Guidelines] for tips on how to tune listings for searchability)
* Infrastructure redesigned using HTML on top of Django web services to increase development speed and flexibility
* Relocated search appliances to multiple colos for increased redundancy
* Amount paid for a Classified is now shown in the Detail view and not in the Classifieds tab view.

=== Known Issues ===
Following are some of the usability and technical issues we are working to resolve:
* These search collections are not yet enabled: Events, Land Sales.
* These sorting options are not yet enabled: Sort by name for People, Places.
* Category filtering not yet working on Classifieds tab.
* Search results are sometimes slow to load.
* When opening the Find window for a new search, the previous page is visible while new search loads.
* Browsing search listings without a keyword doesn't work. E.g., Attempts to browse by initiating a search with no keyword will return you to the main search page.
* Total number of results found only shown in Relevance sort view.
* Maturity filtering not yet completely implemented for all searches.
* Instructions for becoming adult-verified are not shown to non-adult accounts that search for adult content in Classifieds, Events and Land Sales.
* Searching for only adult terms in Events and Land Sales without the Adult option enabled returns all non-adult results.
* Events on adult regions may show up in non-adult searches.
* Classifieds are not blocked from specific some Education and Teen estates which have opted out of showing ads.

Linden Lab Official:Search Guidelines

2010-01-07T22:03:43Z

Liana Linden:

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Second Life Search strives to make the incredible array of content, experiences and people in Second Life discoverable by all Residents through providing the most relevant results to each individual searcher. These guidelines will help you create listings for Second Life Search that will allow us to properly index your listings, match your listing to relevant searches and help you avoid hurting your search rank.

This information is specifically about those parts of Second Life Search served by the Google Search Appliances, which include:
* The '''All Tab''' and '''Group Tab''' in the Viewer
* '''Secondlife.com''', including the web-based '''World Map'''
* The '''Second Life Wiki''' and the '''Knowledge Base''' articles the wiki contains

For information on other aspects of Search, see the [http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:Search_FAQ Search FAQ].

== General Guidelines ==
=== Appeal to Humans, Not Search Engines ===
Help people understand what you offer by providing useful, clear and accurate descriptions that communicate what’s valuable and unique about your place, group or event. Know who your target customer or audience is and speak to their interests as specifically as possible. This will help you stand out from the crowd and help new Residents in particular become long-term members of our community and economy.

=== Be Specific and Descriptive ===
If you sell Jazz-age clothes and accessories, say so. If your location also looks like a speakeasy and hosts events, let people know. Avoid filling descriptions with nothing but a list of keywords. Also, note that the search engine will return results for words that are based on the linguistic root of words in your description. This means that if you sell tango dance animations, your description does not need to include every version of the word dance. Searches on the word dancing will include your listing in the results. Also, a large portion of searches include more than one keyword (in fact, many searches are for phrases), so including common phrases that apply to your product or interests in your description can help your listing be found

=== Create a Brand ===
Top merchants and events in Second Life are successful in part because they have created a unique feel around their product that helps people identify what’s valuable or appealing about their offering versus a long list of similar offerings. Communicate the vibe of your store or group through its name, imagery, and targeted descriptions.

For more info on advertising opportunities, see the [http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Classifieds_FAQ Classifieds FAQ] and [http://www.xstreetsl.com/ XStreetSL]. Read the Business, [http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Business_and_Marketing Business and Marketing] wiki for more tips on starting a Second Life business or bringing your business into Second Life.

=== Maturity Ratings Matter ===
Be sure to mark your listing with the maturity rating appropriate to the content and location. Listings that are not marked appropriately will miss their target audience and may be blocked from search results. See [http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:Maturity_ratings_and_inworld_search Maturity ratings and inworld search] for more info. Note that all searches on secondlife.com return only PG results.

=== Be a Good Sport ===
Be advised that any attempt to artificially inflate your rank in search results could result in penalties to your rank, de-listing from search, and disciplinary action against your Second Life account. For more information, read the "Search Policies" section below.

=== Stay Current ===
Second Life is a changing world, and Resident search behavior changes too. Based on our monitoring of user behavior and satisfaction, we will continually update our relevance and rank algorithms to serve the broadest user base possible. New releases to Search will be announced in advance, whenever possible, on the [https://blogs.secondlife.com/community/technology Second Life Blog] Technology channel. You can also log-in to the wiki and click the "watch" option on this page to be notified of any changes to this document. As user behavior changes, so too should listing strategies change -- ask your customers what drew them to your listing, and learn from others you admire.

== Technical Guidelines ==
=== Check Show in Search ===
You must click the [http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/How_can_I_make_my_land_appear_in_the_Places_tab_in_Search Show in Search] check box in order to be included in the search index. This option is available on places, profiles, groups, and objects, and if it is not checked, these items will not be returned in search results. Events are automatically included in the search index. Note that items in the Search index are also available to be viewed on the web and may be indexed by web search engines like Google, Bing or Yahoo! (Note that none of your personal information is available on the web unless you write that information in your listing descriptions.)

=== Relevance and Rank -- What are they? ===
On top of the Google PageRank algorithm included in the GSA software, Linden Lab monitors and fine-tunes a wide variety of Second Life-specific data signals to weigh the relevance of listing for each search request. We first determine if a listing is relevant to a particular search query, then we determine the importance of that listing relative to other relevant results. Searchers can then refine their results with filters or sorting features.

In order to create the best Search tool for everyone, we are constantly improving the relevance and rank algorithms work. Following the guidelines, policies, and tips in this document will help you create effective listings that can be found by your target audience. We will continue to revise this document to include the most up to date information to help you be successful with Search.

=== Some Tips ===
* '''Spelling and grammar''' matter. Avoid using non-traditional spellings. Also, be sure you've got the correct spelling. Avoid over-use of capital letters or symbol characters.
* '''Internationalize'''. Second Life is an international community, where many languages are spoken. If you are targeting non-English speakers, be sure to use their language in your listing name and descriptions.
* '''Indexing'''. The collection is crawled twice a day, and updates are usually available within 24 hours.
* '''Parcels'''. Take care when changing parcel boundaries. A variety of parcel data is used in calculating search rank, and changing the boundaries of your land parcel can cause that data to be reset or lost. When joining two parcels, the largest parcel keeps much of the parcel data.

== Search Policies ==
Any attempt to artificially inflate your rank in search results could result in penalties to your rank, de-listing from search and disciplinary action against your Second Life account. This includes but is not limited to inappropriate use of traffic bots or Picks.

Other things that may cause your listing to receive a lower search rank include: Keyword stuffing or false representation (e.g. saying that your store sells skins when it only sells furniture). Remember that failure to follow the [http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:Maturity_ratings_and_inworld_search Maturity ratings and inworld search] guidelines may cause your listing to be excluded from some or all searches.

== Learn More About ... ==
* Search in the [http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:Search_FAQ Search FAQ], or watch Torley's great search-focused Tip of the Week videos [http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/11/29/tip-of-the-week-13-how-to-show-your-stuff-in-our-new-search/ here] and [http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/11/13/tip-of-the-week-10-how-to-use-the-new-search-2/ here].
* Advertising opportunities at [http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Classifieds_FAQ Classifieds FAQ] and [http://www.xstreetsl.com/ XStreetSL].
* Starting a Second Life business. Read the [http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Business_and_Marketing Business and Marketing] wiki and [http://secondlifegrid.net/gettingstarted/publicity Getting Started] web pages for more tips.

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Tips for Producing Better Search Results and Relevance

2010-01-07T22:02:10Z

Liana Linden: moved Tips for Producing Better Search Results and Relevance to Linden Lab Official:Search Guidelines: Article updated and moved to official Linden Lab documentation area of wiki.

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Linden Lab Official:Search Guidelines

2010-01-07T22:02:10Z

Liana Linden: moved Tips for Producing Better Search Results and Relevance to Linden Lab Official:Search Guidelines: Article updated and moved to official Linden Lab documentation area of wiki.

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Since the launch of the new search, we've had lots of Residents ask for more tips and information on how to improve their search relevance and ranking within the results in the Search window's '''All''' tab. Over the last few months, we've compiled some of the best practice tips and guidelines to help improve the relevance for your listings.

* '''Keywords Matter''' - Think about which words Residents might type to find your listing or products and make sure to include these words in your listing. Include various forms of your keywords and emphasize specificity. For example, if you're selling swimming pools, include "swimming pools, hot tubs, diving boards, pool supplies, fountains" instead of just "pools".
* '''Phrases Matter''' - Phrases count; "pool, swim, board, dive" is not as good as "swimming pool, diving board". Be specific -- if you sell "Olympic sized lane pools" say so!
* '''Grammar Tips''' - Avoid using all caps or non-traditional spellings. Also, be sure you've got the correct spelling!
* '''Search is Smart''' - There is no need to include both "pool" and "pools" because our search appliance does stemming and automatically adds -s, -ing, -ly and similar to search terms.
* '''Exclude Unwanted Keywords''' - When performing a search, add a minus sign (-) before search terms to remove them from search results. For example, if you want to search for dogs but not cats: "dog -cat".
* '''Lying Sucks''' When you're writing keywords for your listings, don't deceive your potential customers by listing things that have nothing to do with what you actually sell by providing deceptive descriptions in your keyword listings. An example of this would be to use a popular keyword, such as "dancing", to describe your dance-free pool store.
* '''Traffic Matters... Kind Of''' - Traffic is a number for each parcel which is based on the amount of Residents who visited, and the time spent on that parcel out of their total time inworld that day. It's calculated using a complex algorithm. Read [[Linden Lab Official:What is traffic (formerly known as dwell)|What is traffic (formerly known as dwell)?]] for more details. Traffic is still used to help determine relevance with the new Search, but not as much as in the old version.
* '''Picks Matter''' - Having links in other Residents' '''Picks''' tab counts, but creating bots/zombies stuffed with top picks doesn't help. The more Residents' '''Picks''' that reference your parcel/profile, the more relevant your listings will be in the overall search.
* '''Branding is Important''' - If you haven't already, think about creating a specific brand for your inworld business, including a unique name and/or logo to draw new customers. When thinking about branding, keep in mind that some words are used frequently in the title or description of objects inworld ("object" or "perm") and try to avoid incorporating these words into your brand. Also, be sure to include your avatar name in your parcel description or classified ad, as this may help increase its relevance (it also helps people find your store if they remember your avatar name, but not your store name); this is especially important if your parcel/store is owned by a group. Read [http://secondlifegrid.net/gettingstarted/publicity the Second Life Grid site] for more tips on starting a Second Life business.
* '''Advertising Works''' - Don't underestimate the power of advertising in the virtual world. In addition to the official Second Life Classifieds (which run alongside all relevant search results), some Residents have also set up advertising services inworld and you can work directly with them. A simple google search returned the following services: [http://shop.onrez.com/ OnRez], [http://www.slexchange.com/ SLExchange], [http://www.my-slads.com/ SLads], [http://www.subscribeomatic.com/ Subscribe o Matic], [http://www.theslagency.com/ SL Agency], though there are probably others.
* '''Classifieds''' - Classified ads are currently served alongside all relevant search results, sorted by amount paid. We hope to offer further improvements to the Classified system in the future.
* '''Be Careful when Dividing Land Parcels''' - As previously reported in the [http://blog.secondlife.com/2008/03/07/search-ranking-update/ official Second Life blog], changing the boundaries of your land parcel can impact your ranking; remember, when joining two parcels, the largest parcel keeps the parcel ID/rankings.
* '''Internationalize''' - Don't forget that many Second Life Residents do not speak English as their native language. You may want to use non-English words and phrases for your product or service.
* '''Learn More''' - Read the [[Linden Lab Official:Search FAQ|New Search FAQ]] or watch Torley's great search-focused Tip of the Week videos [http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/11/29/tip-of-the-week-13-how-to-show-your-stuff-in-our-new-search/ here] and [http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/11/13/tip-of-the-week-10-how-to-use-the-new-search-2/ here].

Do you have other tips and tricks for working with the new search? Send them to search-feedback@lindenlab.com.
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Linden Lab Innovation Awards

2008-09-08T20:15:41Z

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The annual Linden Lab Innovation Awards -- aka the '''Hippo Awards''' -- acknowledge excellence in developing the Second Life platform. The awards highlight open source community members who have made the biggest impact on the quality and advancement of the Second Life Viewer and the Second Life experience for all.

Why the Hippo? The hippopotamus has long been a kind of unofficial mascot of Second Life. When the Viewer source code was first published in January 2007, the open source community quickly discovered the llhippo.cpp easter egg and claimed the humble hippo as it's own.

== 2008 Hippo Award Winners Announced ==

We're pleased to announce the winners of the second annual Linden Lab Innovation Awards, known as "the Hippos," which honor the exceptional and varied work done by open source community members. Rob Linden presented the awards at a mixed reality event linking an inworld gathering of nominees with an SLCC audience present in Tampa, FL, or tuning in via audio stream. The official announcement of winners is on the [http://blog.secondlife.com/2008/09/07/2008-hippo-award-winners-announced/ SL blog], and the full text of Rob's presentation is below.

- - - -

Hi everybody, and welcome. I'm Rob Lanphier, known in-world as Rob Linden. I'm the open source busybody for Linden Lab.

This year was quite a year. We continued to see broad participation in the initiative, with the main developer mailing list swelling to well over 800 participants, scores of patches despite many disruptive changes in the way we build our software, and an issue tracker with thousands of participants. To give you a sense of the crazy amount of activity we see on the issue tracker: there's a mailing list that picks up on every action in the tracker that a few brave souls are subscribed to, and that list frequently generates hundreds of messages in a day, largely based on resident comments and issue actions.

This year, researchers embraced the viewer, creating a lot of interesting prototypes. A couple examples are the University of Michigan patch for viewing [http://um3d.dc.umich.edu/software/second_life/ Second Life in 3D] through 3D goggles, and the experimental work that Keio University Biomedical Engineering Laboratory did to create an [http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/second-life/second-life-gets-brain-controls-310491.php interface] that works directly with the brain. Based on the inquiries we've seen, this is only the beginning.

Shortly after SLCC last year, we launched the Second Life Grid [http://secondlifegrid.net/programs/open_source/awg Architecture Working Group] (AWG). The group attracted a lot of interest from around the community and was able to get working on specifications for having a much more open and scalable grid architecture. Earlier this year, we collectively demonstrated an avatar teleporting from a Second Life region and an OpenSim region hosted at IBM, and Linden Lab rolled out a program for allowing interested developers to test regions they host with the new protocols and infrastructure. Great tools like PyOGP are being built by everyone in the community to take advantage of these new protocols. We believe that by next year, the transformation of the Second Life landscape started by AWG will be well underway.

OpenSim built quite a bit of buzz over the past year, expanding the ecosystem of technology built to work with Second Life technology. As this ecosystem expands, there will be greater and greater opportunities for entrepreneurs, researchers, and tinkerers to build better and better tools that work within this ecosystem, creating greater value for everyone participating in it.

We participated in Google Summer of Code this year, where Google generously funds interns to work on open source projects such as ours. Resident Celierra Darling participated in this program, and did a phenomenal job working with Runitai Linden on some visually stunning enhancements to the way the viewer handles lighting and shadows.

Now a little bit about the Hippos and how we picked them. There were six judges who poured through the list of nominations, teasing out the noteworthiness of each contributor, and subjectively rated them both for impact and positive influence. We then got together as a group, and spent several hours discussing our ratings. We all came away awed at the breadth of contribution, and how it was pretty much impossible for any single one of us to have a holistic perspective, and even as a team we felt we were just scratching the surface. Today's list of winners includes only a small portion of what is fantastic about our community. While we're not sure we've recognized everyone we could, we're very confident that we should give special recognition to these individuals.

=== Best Documentation ===
The first category is Best Documentation. In this category, we wanted to find someone who contributed lots of great documentation, and helped build a community of fellow writers in a helpful and friendly way. With all those qualifiers, it was still had a tough time deciding, because this is one of many areas where a lot of people do a lot of great work.

Gellen Glenelg deserves honorable mention for refining issues in the issue tracker, doing a great job of documenting bug repro steps and providing technical insight.

Last year's winner, Strife Onizuka, continued to be insanely prolific, with thousands of edits over the past year. The degree to which he has bent MediaWiki to his will to make the templates that underlie hundreds of pages are as impressive as they are arcane. Anyone learning LSL is almost certainly indebted to Strife's work in some way.

Similarly, SignpostMarv Martin continues to be omnipresent, with ample use of templates and championing better tools for editors to use. Our winners this year are building on the shoulders of giants.

Looking through the nominations, we decided we needed to force ourselves out of our comfort zone and look beyond the English-speaking parts of the world that our judges occupy. The direction was hinted at by runner-up Catherine Pfeffer, who herself had an impressive array of contributions, serving as an outstanding facilitator for translations of our English content into French. Her contribution was great and noteworthy, serving as a bridge between English writers and writers in other languages.

After voting and revoting and convincing ourselves we weren't copping out, we had to declare a tie. One of the winners tirelessly translated hundreds of pages into Japanese on the wiki, expanding the universe of Second Life residents, builders, and contributors in the process. The other was equally impressive with French translations. The work that these two residents have done has greatly expanded the reach of the ecosystem. Please join me in congratulating the 2008 Winners for Best Documentation: '''Asuka Neely''' and '''Gally Young'''.

=== Best Organizer ===
Our next category is Best Community Organizer. This is another category with two winners, but for different reasons.

'''Best Issue Tracker Organizer'''

We realized that organizing our issue tracker, aka “PJIRA” is practically a category in its own right, and found that we were kicking ourselves for not explicitly calling that out as its own category. We had several really worthy contributors in this area. Ellla McMahon does great work getting others to clarify what it is they really are filing, as does Lex Neva. WarKirby Magojiro steps in quite frequently on technical issues that other contributors would have a tough time with. However, we found that our winner could not be beat in raw, productive obsessive compulsive organizing. Please help me congratulate the 2008 Hippo winner for Best Issue Tracking Organization: '''Harleen Gretzky'''.

'''Best Working Group Organization'''

We also felt that working group organization was also a very important asset to the community, and we have an embarrassment of riches here, too. Zha Ewry has been a great organizing force in AWG, and even those of us that are mostly lurkers know that Saijanai Kuhn is always there to let everyone know that there's another meeting of the AWGroupies or some other meeting. Our winner in the category has been not only a good organizer, but a blog author and an implementor. After the first meeting of the AWG, despite not being there in person like many people, he wrote what was probably the best summary of the meeting and what was discussed, which educated a lot of people about what AWG is about. He also has been instrumental in the creation of the PyOGP reference implementation for the open grid protocol. Congratulations, '''Tao Takashi''', 2008 Hippo Winner for Best Working Group Organization.

=== Best Code Contribution ===
Our next category is "Best Code Contribution". For this category, we were looking for the best feature or other code contribution. At first, we looked more closely at utility, but we also looked at how it was contributed. Runner up McCabe Maxstead's "classic" skin for the 1.20 release proved to be a quite fortuitous submission, and is front and center with the latest viewer releases. Runner-up Seg Baphomet's contribution of OpenAL is a great contribution, too, which will likely make it into the mainline viewer sooner rather than later (and this is not even close to Seg's only contribution). We really struggled to make a decision, because we had a lot of great work that was presented to us. In the end, though, we felt we had to recognize the work of the winner in this category, who did a great job of submitting a feature that is of great utility to the passionate and significant machinima community in Second Life, but also did the work in a tidy and thoughtful way. The 2008 Best Code Contribution Hippo Award goes to '''Mm Alder''', for his contribution of the voice lipsync feature.

=== The Jesse Malthus Award for Best Community Influence ===
The next award is named after Jesse Malthus, an early contributor and attendee of many in-world meetings about the Second Life open source initiative. Jesse was always a cheerful and positive influence in-world, and helped make things interesting and fun. In a sad and awful turn of events, Jesse was killed in a car accident at a very early age. News of Jesse's death last year really shook a lot of us up, and we felt it important to honor his early influence in the community. We realized that he was our "Best Community Influence", we created the category in his name.

This year, the winner is a formidable presence on PJIRA. While possibly not the most prolific (emphasis on "possibly"), this resident often comments on very contentious issues in a constructive and thoughtful way. PJIRA would be a lot less organized and friendly place to be without the winner in this category, so it's with great pleasure that I announce this year's winner of the Jesse Malthus Award for Best Community Influence:''' Lex Neva'''.

=== Contributor of the Year ===
Now it's time for our final category: the big one: Contributor of the Year. We had so many good choices to pick from here. Whoops Babii has tirelessly worked on the Solaris version of the Second Life viewer, submitting patches that end up being helpful for users of other 64-bit platforms. Carjay McGinnis cheerfully does a lot of great fit and finish work in the viewer. Alissa Sabre continues to tirelessly contribute great fixes that benefit translated versions of the viewer (especially Japanese). Gigs Taggart has contributed in countless ways in patches, on PJIRA and generally in the community. Our work as judges would have been much tougher without Gigs' sljirastats.com website.

While we would have liked to make everyone a winner, we had to pick one. Our winner this year has contributed her fair share of patches, working with us to make sure that our transition to CMake is a smooth one. Many patches have helped get the Linux version of the viewer much closer to parity with the other platform versions. All of this is done with a cheerful and constructive attitude that attracts others to the project. It's with great pleasure that I announce the 2008 Contributor of the Year is '''Michelle2 Zenovka'''.

'''Prizes'''

This year's winners will receive
* Cash gifts to their Second Life accounts (Contributor of the Year receives US$500, other category winners each receive US$300)
* 2008 Hippo Winner badge
* Complimentary land grant on Linden Lab's open source island Hippotropolis for one year
* Complimentary concierge-level service for one year
* Custom last name for a new avatar
* Hippopotamus figurine ... with a sterling silver Second Life Eye-in-Hand logo necklace.

Linden Lab thanks these contributors and everyone who has chipped in to help make this a fun and productive community to be a part of. While the winners and runners-up I mentioned above are a key component to the success so far, it wouldn't be as great as having all of you there. Thanks everyone for coming, and I hope to be giving one of these to you next year (whoever you are).

== Links ==
=== Past Announcements ===
2008 Call for Nominations on the [http://blog.secondlife.com/2008/07/01/2008-hippo-awards-nominations-now-open/ blog.]

In August of 2007, Linden Lab [http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/08/25/innovation-award-winners-announced/ announced] the first Hippo Award honorees: Nicholaz Beresford, Alissa Sabre, Able Whitman, Gigs Taggart and Strife Onizuka.

- - - - -

The LINDEN LAB INNOVATION AWARDS are for entertainment purposes only and have no monetary or other value. LINDEN LAB, LINDEN RESEARCH, and SECOND LIFE are trademarks or registered trademarks of Linden Research, Inc.

{{Category:Open Source Portal}}

Linden Lab Innovation Awards

2008-09-07T17:23:54Z

Liana Linden: Protected "Linden Lab Innovation Awards" [edit=sysop:move=sysop]

{{Multi-lang}}

The annual Linden Lab Innovation Awards -- aka the '''Hippo Awards''' -- acknowledge excellence in developing the Second Life platform. The awards highlight open source community members who have made the biggest impact on the quality and advancement of the Second Life Viewer and the Second Life experience for all.

Why the Hippo? The hippopotamus has long been a kind of unofficial mascot of Second Life. When the Viewer source code was first published in January 2007, the open source community quickly discovered the llhippo.cpp easter egg and claimed the humble hippo as it's own.

== 2008 Hippo Award Winners Announced ==

We're pleased to announce the winners of the second annual Linden Lab Innovation Awards, known as "the Hippos," which honor the exceptional and varied work done by open source community members. Rob Linden presented the awards at a mixed reality event linking an inworld gathering of nominees with an SLCC audience present in Tampa, FL, or tuning in via audio stream. The official announcement of winners is on the [http://blog.secondlife.com/2008/09/07/2008-hippo-award-winners-announced/ SL blog], and the full text of Rob's presentation is below.

- - - -

Hi everybody, and welcome. I'm Rob Lanphier, known in-world as Rob Linden. I'm the open source busybody for Linden Lab.

This year was quite a year. We continued to see broad participation in the initiative, with the main developer mailing list swelling to well over 800 participants, scores of patches despite many disruptive changes in the way we build our software, and an issue tracker with thousands of participants. To give you a sense of the crazy amount of activity we see on the issue tracker: there's a mailing list that picks up on every action in the tracker that a few brave souls are subscribed to, and that list frequently generates hundreds of messages in a day, largely based on resident comments and issue actions.

This year, researchers embraced the viewer, creating a lot of interesting prototypes. A couple examples are the University of Michigan patch for viewing [http://um3d.dc.umich.edu/software/second_life/ Second Life in 3D] through 3D goggles, and the experimental work that Keio University Biomedical Engineering Laboratory did to create an [http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/second-life/second-life-gets-brain-controls-310491.php interface] that works directly with the brain. Based on the inquiries we've seen, this is only the beginning.

Shortly after SLCC last year, we launched the Second Life Grid [http://secondlifegrid.net/programs/open_source/awg Architecture Working Group] (AWG). The group attracted a lot of interest from around the community and was able to get working on specifications for having a much more open and scalable grid architecture. Earlier this year, we collectively demonstrated an avatar teleporting from a Second Life region and an OpenSim region hosted at IBM, and Linden Lab rolled out a program for allowing interested developers to test regions they host with the new protocols and infrastructure. Great tools like PyOGP are being built by everyone in the community to take advantage of these new protocols. We believe that by next year, the transformation of the Second Life landscape started by AWG will be well underway.

OpenSim built quite a bit of buzz over the past year, expanding the ecosystem of technology built to work with Second Life technology. As this ecosystem expands, there will be greater and greater opportunities for entrepreneurs, researchers, and tinkerers to build better and better tools that work within this ecosystem, creating greater value for everyone participating in it.

We participated in Google Summer of Code this year, where Google generously funds interns to work on open source projects such as ours. Resident Celierra Darling participated in this program, and did a phenomenal job working with Runitai Linden on some visually stunning enhancements to the way the viewer handles lighting and shadows.

Now a little bit about the Hippos and how we picked them. There were six judges who poured through the list of nominations, teasing out the noteworthiness of each contributor, and subjectively rated them both for impact and positive influence. We then got together as a group, and spent several hours discussing our ratings. We all came away awed at the breadth of contribution, and how it was pretty much impossible for any single one of us to have a holistic perspective, and even as a team we felt we were just scratching the surface. Today's list of winners includes only a small portion of what is fantastic about our community. While we're not sure we've recognized everyone we could, we're very confident that we should give special recognition to these individuals.

=== Best Documentation ===
The first category is Best Documentation. In this category, we wanted to find someone who contributed lots of great documentation, and helped build a community of fellow writers in a helpful and friendly way. With all those qualifiers, it was still had a tough time deciding, because this is one of many areas where a lot of people do a lot of great work.

Gellen Glenelg deserves honorable mention for refining issues in the issue tracker, doing a great job of documenting bug repro steps and providing technical insight.

Last year's winner, Strife Onizuka, continued to be insanely prolific, with thousands of edits over the past year. The degree to which he has bent MediaWiki to his will to make the templates that underlie hundreds of pages are as impressive as they are arcane. Anyone learning LSL is almost certainly indebted to Strife's work in some way.

Similarly, SignpostMarv Martin continues to be omnipresent, with ample use of templates and championing better tools for editors to use. Our winners this year are building on the shoulders of giants.

Looking through the nominations, we decided we needed to force ourselves out of our comfort zone and look beyond the English-speaking parts of the world that our judges occupy. The direction was hinted at by runner-up Catherine Pffefer, who herself had an impressive array of contributions, serving as an outstanding facilitator for translations of our English content into French. Her contribution was great and noteworthy, serving as a bridge between English writers and writers in other languages.

After voting and revoting and convincing ourselves we weren't copping out, we had to declare a tie. One of the winners tirelessly translated hundreds of pages into Japanese on the wiki, expanding the universe of Second Life residents, builders, and contributors in the process. The other was equally impressive with French translations. The work that these two residents have done has greatly expanded the reach of the ecosystem. Please join me in congratulating the 2008 Winners for Best Documentation: '''Asuka Neely''' and '''Gally Young'''.

=== Best Organizer ===
Our next category is Best Community Organizer. This is another category with two winners, but for different reasons.

'''Best Issue Tracker Organizer'''

We realized that organizing our issue tracker, aka “PJIRA” is practically a category in its own right, and found that we were kicking ourselves for not explicitly calling that out as its own category. We had several really worthy contributors in this area. Ellla McMahon does great work getting others to clarify what it is they really are filing, as does Lex Neva. WarKirby Magojiro steps in quite frequently on technical issues that other contributors would have a tough time with. However, we found that our winner could not be beat in raw, productive obsessive compulsive organizing. Please help me congratulate the 2008 Hippo winner for Best Issue Tracking Organization: '''Harleen Gretzky'''.

'''Best Working Group Organization'''

We also felt that working group organization was also a very important asset to the community, and we have an embarrassment of riches here, too. Zha Ewry has been a great organizing force in AWG, and even those of us that are mostly lurkers know that Saijanai Kuhn is always there to let everyone know that there's another meeting of the AWGroupies or some other meeting. Our winner in the category has been not only a good organizer, but a blog author and an implementor. After the first meeting of the AWG, despite not being there in person like many people, he wrote what was probably the best summary of the meeting and what was discussed, which educated a lot of people about what AWG is about. He also has been instrumental in the creation of the PyOGP reference implementation for the open grid protocol. Congratulations, '''Tao Takashi''', 2008 Hippo Winner for Best Working Group Organization.

=== Best Code Contribution ===
Our next category is "Best Code Contribution". For this category, we were looking for the best feature or other code contribution. At first, we looked more closely at utility, but we also looked at how it was contributed. Runner up McCabe Maxstead's "classic" skin for the 1.20 release proved to be a quite fortuitous submission, and is front and center with the latest viewer releases. Runner-up Seg Baphomet's contribution of OpenAL is a great contribution, too, which will likely make it into the mainline viewer sooner rather than later (and this is not even close to Seg's only contribution). We really struggled to make a decision, because we had a lot of great work that was presented to us. In the end, though, we felt we had to recognize the work of the winner in this category, who did a great job of submitting a feature that is of great utility to the passionate and significant machinima community in Second Life, but also did the work in a tidy and thoughtful way. The 2008 Best Code Contribution Hippo Award goes to '''Mm Alder''', for his contribution of the voice lipsync feature.

=== The Jesse Malthus Award for Best Community Influence ===
The next award is named after Jesse Malthus, an early contributor and attendee of many in-world meetings about the Second Life open source initiative. Jesse was always a cheerful and positive influence in-world, and helped make things interesting and fun. In a sad and awful turn of events, Jesse was killed in a car accident at a very early age. News of Jesse's death last year really shook a lot of us up, and we felt it important to honor his early influence in the community. We realized that he was our "Best Community Influence", we created the category in his name.

This year, the winner is a formidable presence on PJIRA. While possibly not the most prolific (emphasis on "possibly"), this resident often comments on very contentious issues in a constructive and thoughtful way. PJIRA would be a lot less organized and friendly place to be without the winner in this category, so it's with great pleasure that I announce this year's winner of the Jesse Malthus Award for Best Community Influence:''' Lex Neva'''.

=== Contributor of the Year ===
Now it's time for our final category: the big one: Contributor of the Year. We had so many good choices to pick from here. Whoops Babii has tirelessly worked on the Solaris version of the Second Life viewer, submitting patches that end up being helpful for users of other 64-bit platforms. Carjay McGinnis cheerfully does a lot of great fit and finish work in the viewer. Alissa Sabre continues to tirelessly contribute great fixes that benefit translated versions of the viewer (especially Japanese). Gigs Taggart has contributed in countless ways in patches, on PJIRA and generally in the community. Our work as judges would have been much tougher without Gigs' sljirastats.com website.

While we would have liked to make everyone a winner, we had to pick one. Our winner this year has contributed her fair share of patches, working with us to make sure that our transition to CMake is a smooth one. Many patches have helped get the Linux version of the viewer much closer to parity with the other platform versions. All of this is done with a cheerful and constructive attitude that attracts others to the project. It's with great pleasure that I announce the 2008 Contributor of the Year is '''Michelle2 Zenovka'''.

'''Prizes'''

This year's winners will receive
* Cash gifts to their Second Life accounts (Contributor of the Year receives US$500, other category winners each receive US$300)
* 2008 Hippo Winner badge
* Complimentary land grant on Linden Lab's open source island Hippotropolis for one year
* Complimentary concierge-level service for one year
* Custom last name for a new avatar
* Hippopotamus figurine ... with a sterling silver Second Life Eye-in-Hand logo necklace.

Linden Lab thanks these contributors and everyone who has chipped in to help make this a fun and productive community to be a part of. While the winners and runners-up I mentioned above are a key component to the success so far, it wouldn't be as great as having all of you there. Thanks everyone for coming, and I hope to be giving one of these to you next year (whoever you are).

== Links ==
=== Past Announcements ===
2008 Call for Nominations on the [http://blog.secondlife.com/2008/07/01/2008-hippo-awards-nominations-now-open/ blog.]

In August of 2007, Linden Lab [http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/08/25/innovation-award-winners-announced/ announced] the first Hippo Award honorees: Nicholaz Beresford, Alissa Sabre, Able Whitman, Gigs Taggart and Strife Onizuka.

- - - - -

The LINDEN LAB INNOVATION AWARDS are for entertainment purposes only and have no monetary or other value. LINDEN LAB, LINDEN RESEARCH, and SECOND LIFE are trademarks or registered trademarks of Linden Research, Inc.

{{Category:Open Source Portal}}

Linden Lab Innovation Awards

2008-09-07T17:21:37Z

Liana Linden: /* 2008 Hippo Award Winners Announced */

{{Multi-lang}}

The annual Linden Lab Innovation Awards -- aka the '''Hippo Awards''' -- acknowledge excellence in developing the Second Life platform. The awards highlight open source community members who have made the biggest impact on the quality and advancement of the Second Life Viewer and the Second Life experience for all.

Why the Hippo? The hippopotamus has long been a kind of unofficial mascot of Second Life. When the Viewer source code was first published in January 2007, the open source community quickly discovered the llhippo.cpp easter egg and claimed the humble hippo as it's own.

== 2008 Hippo Award Winners Announced ==

We're pleased to announce the winners of the second annual Linden Lab Innovation Awards, known as "the Hippos," which honor the exceptional and varied work done by open source community members. Rob Linden presented the awards at a mixed reality event linking an inworld gathering of nominees with an SLCC audience present in Tampa, FL, or tuning in via audio stream. The official announcement of winners is on the [http://blog.secondlife.com/2008/09/07/2008-hippo-award-winners-announced/ SL blog], and the full text of Rob's presentation is below.

- - - -

Hi everybody, and welcome. I'm Rob Lanphier, known in-world as Rob Linden. I'm the open source busybody for Linden Lab.

This year was quite a year. We continued to see broad participation in the initiative, with the main developer mailing list swelling to well over 800 participants, scores of patches despite many disruptive changes in the way we build our software, and an issue tracker with thousands of participants. To give you a sense of the crazy amount of activity we see on the issue tracker: there's a mailing list that picks up on every action in the tracker that a few brave souls are subscribed to, and that list frequently generates hundreds of messages in a day, largely based on resident comments and issue actions.

This year, researchers embraced the viewer, creating a lot of interesting prototypes. A couple examples are the University of Michigan patch for viewing [http://um3d.dc.umich.edu/software/second_life/ Second Life in 3D] through 3D goggles, and the experimental work that Keio University Biomedical Engineering Laboratory did to create an [http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/second-life/second-life-gets-brain-controls-310491.php interface] that works directly with the brain. Based on the inquiries we've seen, this is only the beginning.

Shortly after SLCC last year, we launched the Second Life Grid [http://secondlifegrid.net/programs/open_source/awg Architecture Working Group] (AWG). The group attracted a lot of interest from around the community and was able to get working on specifications for having a much more open and scalable grid architecture. Earlier this year, we collectively demonstrated an avatar teleporting from a Second Life region and an OpenSim region hosted at IBM, and Linden Lab rolled out a program for allowing interested developers to test regions they host with the new protocols and infrastructure. Great tools like PyOGP are being built by everyone in the community to take advantage of these new protocols. We believe that by next year, the transformation of the Second Life landscape started by AWG will be well underway.

OpenSim built quite a bit of buzz over the past year, expanding the ecosystem of technology built to work with Second Life technology. As this ecosystem expands, there will be greater and greater opportunities for entrepreneurs, researchers, and tinkerers to build better and better tools that work within this ecosystem, creating greater value for everyone participating in it.

We participated in Google Summer of Code this year, where Google generously funds interns to work on open source projects such as ours. Resident Celierra Darling participated in this program, and did a phenomenal job working with Runitai Linden on some visually stunning enhancements to the way the viewer handles lighting and shadows.

Now a little bit about the Hippos and how we picked them. There were six judges who poured through the list of nominations, teasing out the noteworthiness of each contributor, and subjectively rated them both for impact and positive influence. We then got together as a group, and spent several hours discussing our ratings. We all came away awed at the breadth of contribution, and how it was pretty much impossible for any single one of us to have a holistic perspective, and even as a team we felt we were just scratching the surface. Today's list of winners includes only a small portion of what is fantastic about our community. While we're not sure we've recognized everyone we could, we're very confident that we should give special recognition to these individuals.

=== Best Documentation ===
The first category is Best Documentation. In this category, we wanted to find someone who contributed lots of great documentation, and helped build a community of fellow writers in a helpful and friendly way. With all those qualifiers, it was still had a tough time deciding, because this is one of many areas where a lot of people do a lot of great work.

Gellen Glenelg deserves honorable mention for refining issues in the issue tracker, doing a great job of documenting bug repro steps and providing technical insight.

Last year's winner, Strife Onizuka, continued to be insanely prolific, with thousands of edits over the past year. The degree to which he has bent MediaWiki to his will to make the templates that underlie hundreds of pages are as impressive as they are arcane. Anyone learning LSL is almost certainly indebted to Strife's work in some way.

Similarly, SignpostMarv Martin continues to be omnipresent, with ample use of templates and championing better tools for editors to use. Our winners this year are building on the shoulders of giants.

Looking through the nominations, we decided we needed to force ourselves out of our comfort zone and look beyond the English-speaking parts of the world that our judges occupy. The direction was hinted at by runner-up Catherine Pffefer, who herself had an impressive array of contributions, serving as an outstanding facilitator for translations of our English content into French. Her contribution was great and noteworthy, serving as a bridge between English writers and writers in other languages.

After voting and revoting and convincing ourselves we weren't copping out, we had to declare a tie. One of the winners tirelessly translated hundreds of pages into Japanese on the wiki, expanding the universe of Second Life residents, builders, and contributors in the process. The other was equally impressive with French translations. The work that these two residents have done has greatly expanded the reach of the ecosystem. Please join me in congratulating the 2008 Winners for Best Documentation: '''Asuka Neely''' and '''Gally Young'''.

=== Best Organizer ===
Our next category is Best Community Organizer. This is another category with two winners, but for different reasons.

'''Best Issue Tracker Organizer'''

We realized that organizing our issue tracker, aka “PJIRA” is practically a category in its own right, and found that we were kicking ourselves for not explicitly calling that out as its own category. We had several really worthy contributors in this area. Ellla McMahon does great work getting others to clarify what it is they really are filing, as does Lex Neva. WarKirby Magojiro steps in quite frequently on technical issues that other contributors would have a tough time with. However, we found that our winner could not be beat in raw, productive obsessive compulsive organizing. Please help me congratulate the 2008 Hippo winner for Best Issue Tracking Organization: '''Harleen Gretzky'''.

'''Best Working Group Organization'''

We also felt that working group organization was also a very important asset to the community, and we have an embarrassment of riches here, too. Zha Ewry has been a great organizing force in AWG, and even those of us that are mostly lurkers know that Saijanai Kuhn is always there to let everyone know that there's another meeting of the AWGroupies or some other meeting. Our winner in the category has been not only a good organizer, but a blog author and an implementor. After the first meeting of the AWG, despite not being there in person like many people, he wrote what was probably the best summary of the meeting and what was discussed, which educated a lot of people about what AWG is about. He also has been instrumental in the creation of the PyOGP reference implementation for the open grid protocol. Congratulations, '''Tao Takashi''', 2008 Hippo Winner for Best Working Group Organization.

=== Best Code Contribution ===
Our next category is "Best Code Contribution". For this category, we were looking for the best feature or other code contribution. At first, we looked more closely at utility, but we also looked at how it was contributed. Runner up McCabe Maxstead's "classic" skin for the 1.20 release proved to be a quite fortuitous submission, and is front and center with the latest viewer releases. Runner-up Seg Baphomet's contribution of OpenAL is a great contribution, too, which will likely make it into the mainline viewer sooner rather than later (and this is not even close to Seg's only contribution). We really struggled to make a decision, because we had a lot of great work that was presented to us. In the end, though, we felt we had to recognize the work of the winner in this category, who did a great job of submitting a feature that is of great utility to the passionate and significant machinima community in Second Life, but also did the work in a tidy and thoughtful way. The 2008 Best Code Contribution Hippo Award goes to '''Mm Alder''', for his contribution of the voice lipsync feature.

=== The Jesse Malthus Award for Best Community Influence ===
The next award is named after Jesse Malthus, an early contributor and attendee of many in-world meetings about the Second Life open source initiative. Jesse was always a cheerful and positive influence in-world, and helped make things interesting and fun. In a sad and awful turn of events, Jesse was killed in a car accident at a very early age. News of Jesse's death last year really shook a lot of us up, and we felt it important to honor his early influence in the community. We realized that he was our "Best Community Influence", we created the category in his name.

This year, the winner is a formidable presence on PJIRA. While possibly not the most prolific (emphasis on "possibly"), this resident often comments on very contentious issues in a constructive and thoughtful way. PJIRA would be a lot less organized and friendly place to be without the winner in this category, so it's with great pleasure that I announce this year's winner of the Jesse Malthus Award for Best Community Influence:''' Lex Neva'''.

=== Contributor of the Year ===
Now it's time for our final category: the big one: Contributor of the Year. We had so many good choices to pick from here. Whoops Babii has tirelessly worked on the Solaris version of the Second Life viewer, submitting patches that end up being helpful for users of other 64-bit platforms. Carjay McGinnis cheerfully does a lot of great fit and finish work in the viewer. Alissa Sabre continues to tirelessly contribute great fixes that benefit translated versions of the viewer (especially Japanese). Gigs Taggart has contributed in countless ways in patches, on PJIRA and generally in the community. Our work as judges would have been much tougher without Gigs' sljirastats.com website.

While we would have liked to make everyone a winner, we had to pick one. Our winner this year has contributed her fair share of patches, working with us to make sure that our transition to CMake is a smooth one. Many patches have helped get the Linux version of the viewer much closer to parity with the other platform versions. All of this is done with a cheerful and constructive attitude that attracts others to the project. It's with great pleasure that I announce the 2008 Contributor of the Year is '''Michelle2 Zenovka'''.

'''Prizes'''

This year's winners will receive
* Cash gifts to their Second Life accounts (Contributor of the Year receives US$500, other category winners each receive US$300)
* 2008 Hippo Winner badge
* Complimentary land grant on Linden Lab's open source island Hippotropolis for one year
* Complimentary concierge-level service for one year
* Custom last name for a new avatar
* Hippopotamus figurine ... with a sterling silver Second Life Eye-in-Hand logo necklace.

Linden Lab thanks these contributors and everyone who has chipped in to help make this a fun and productive community to be a part of. While the winners and runners-up I mentioned above are a key component to the success so far, it wouldn't be as great as having all of you there. Thanks everyone for coming, and I hope to be giving one of these to you next year (whoever you are).

== Links ==
=== Past Announcements ===
2008 Call for Nominations on the [http://blog.secondlife.com/2008/07/01/2008-hippo-awards-nominations-now-open/ blog.]

In August of 2007, Linden Lab [http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/08/25/innovation-award-winners-announced/ announced] the first Hippo Award honorees: Nicholaz Beresford, Alissa Sabre, Able Whitman, Gigs Taggart and Strife Onizuka.

- - - - -

The LINDEN LAB INNOVATION AWARDS are for entertainment purposes only and have no monetary or other value. LINDEN LAB, LINDEN RESEARCH, and SECOND LIFE are trademarks or registered trademarks of Linden Research, Inc.

{{Category:Open Source Portal}}

Linden Lab Innovation Awards

2008-09-07T16:02:02Z

Liana Linden: 2008 Hippo Award winners announced

{{Multi-lang}}

The annual Linden Lab Innovation Awards -- aka the '''Hippo Awards''' -- acknowledge excellence in developing the Second Life platform. The awards highlight open source community members who have made the biggest impact on the quality and advancement of the Second Life Viewer and the Second Life experience for all.

Why the Hippo? The hippopotamus has long been a kind of unofficial mascot of Second Life. When the Viewer source code was first published in January 2007, the open source community quickly discovered the llhippo.cpp easter egg and claimed the humble hippo as it's own.

== 2008 Hippo Award Winners Announced ==

We're pleased to announce the winners of the second annual Linden Lab Innovation Awards, known as "the Hippos," which honor the exceptional and varied work done by open source community members. Rob Linden presented the awards at a mixed reality event linking an inworld gathering of nominees with an SLCC audience present in Tampa, FL, or tuning in via audio stream. The official announcement of winners is on the SL blog, and the full text of Rob's presentation is below.

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Hi everybody, and welcome. I'm Rob Lanphier, known in-world as Rob Linden. I'm the open source busybody for Linden Lab.

This year was quite a year. We continued to see broad participation in the initiative, with the main developer mailing list swelling to well over 800 participants, scores of patches despite many disruptive changes in the way we build our software, and an issue tracker with thousands of participants. To give you a sense of the crazy amount of activity we see on the issue tracker: there's a mailing list that picks up on every action in the tracker that a few brave souls are subscribed to, and that list frequently generates hundreds of messages in a day, largely based on resident comments and issue actions.

This year, researchers embraced the viewer, creating a lot of interesting prototypes. A couple examples are the University of Michigan patch for viewing [http://um3d.dc.umich.edu/software/second_life/ Second Life in 3D] through 3D goggles, and the experimental work that Keio University Biomedical Engineering Laboratory did to create an [http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/second-life/second-life-gets-brain-controls-310491.php interface] that works directly with the brain. Based on the inquiries we've seen, this is only the beginning.

Shortly after SLCC last year, we launched the Second Life Grid [http://secondlifegrid.net/programs/open_source/awg Architecture Working Group] (AWG). The group attracted a lot of interest from around the community and was able to get working on specifications for having a much more open and scalable grid architecture. Earlier this year, we collectively demonstrated an avatar teleporting from a Second Life region and an OpenSim region hosted at IBM, and Linden Lab rolled out a program for allowing interested developers to test regions they host with the new protocols and infrastructure. Great tools like PyOGP are being built by everyone in the community to take advantage of these new protocols. We believe that by next year, the transformation of the Second Life landscape started by AWG will be well underway.

OpenSim built quite a bit of buzz over the past year, expanding the ecosystem of technology built to work with Second Life technology. As this ecosystem expands, there will be greater and greater opportunities for entrepreneurs, researchers, and tinkerers to build better and better tools that work within this ecosystem, creating greater value for everyone participating in it.

We participated in Google Summer of Code this year, where Google generously funds interns to work on open source projects such as ours. Resident Celierra Darling participated in this program, and did a phenomenal job working with Runitai Linden on some visually stunning enhancements to the way the viewer handles lighting and shadows.

Now a little bit about the Hippos and how we picked them. There were six judges who poured through the list of nominations, teasing out the noteworthiness of each contributor, and subjectively rated them both for impact and positive influence. We then got together as a group, and spent several hours discussing our ratings. We all came away awed at the breadth of contribution, and how it was pretty much impossible for any single one of us to have a holistic perspective, and even as a team we felt we were just scratching the surface. Today's list of winners includes only a small portion of what is fantastic about our community. While we're not sure we've recognized everyone we could, we're very confident that we should give special recognition to these individuals.

=== Best Documentation ===
The first category is Best Documentation. In this category, we wanted to find someone who contributed lots of great documentation, and helped build a community of fellow writers in a helpful and friendly way. With all those qualifiers, it was still had a tough time deciding, because this is one of many areas where a lot of people do a lot of great work.

Gellen Glenelg deserves honorable mention for refining issues in the issue tracker, doing a great job of documenting bug repro steps and providing technical insight.

Last year's winner, Strife Onizuka, continued to be insanely prolific, with thousands of edits over the past year. The degree to which he has bent MediaWiki to his will to make the templates that underlie hundreds of pages are as impressive as they are arcane. Anyone learning LSL is almost certainly indebted to Strife's work in some way.

Similarly, SignpostMarv Martin continues to be omnipresent, with ample use of templates and championing better tools for editors to use. Our winners this year are building on the shoulders of giants.

Looking through the nominations, we decided we needed to force ourselves out of our comfort zone and look beyond the English-speaking parts of the world that our judges occupy. The direction was hinted at by runner-up Catherine Pffefer, who herself had an impressive array of contributions, serving as an outstanding facilitator for translations of our English content into French. Her contribution was great and noteworthy, serving as a bridge between English writers and writers in other languages.

After voting and revoting and convincing ourselves we weren't copping out, we had to declare a tie. One of the winners tirelessly translated hundreds of pages into Japanese on the wiki, expanding the universe of Second Life residents, builders, and contributors in the process. The other was equally impressive with French translations. The work that these two residents have done has greatly expanded the reach of the ecosystem. Please join me in congratulating the 2008 Winners for Best Documentation: '''Asuka Neely''' and '''Gally Young'''.

=== Best Organizer ===
Our next category is Best Community Organizer. This is another category with two winners, but for different reasons.

'''Best Issue Tracker Organizer'''

We realized that organizing our issue tracker, aka “PJIRA” is practically a category in its own right, and found that we were kicking ourselves for not explicitly calling that out as its own category. We had several really worthy contributors in this area. Ellla McMahon does great work getting others to clarify what it is they really are filing, as does Lex Neva. WarKirby Magojiro steps in quite frequently on technical issues that other contributors would have a tough time with. However, we found that our winner could not be beat in raw, productive obsessive compulsive organizing. Please help me congratulate the 2008 Hippo winner for Best Issue Tracking Organization: '''Harleen Gretzky'''.

'''Best Working Group Organization'''

We also felt that working group organization was also a very important asset to the community, and we have an embarrassment of riches here, too. Zha Ewry has been a great organizing force in AWG, and even those of us that are mostly lurkers know that Saijanai Kuhn is always there to let everyone know that there's another meeting of the AWGroupies or some other meeting. Our winner in the category has been not only a good organizer, but a blog author and an implementor. After the first meeting of the AWG, despite not being there in person like many people, he wrote what was probably the best summary of the meeting and what was discussed, which educated a lot of people about what AWG is about. He also has been instrumental in the creation of the PyOGP reference implementation for the open grid protocol. Congratulations, '''Tao Takashi''', 2008 Hippo Winner for Best Working Group Organization.

=== Best Code Contribution ===
Our next category is "Best Code Contribution". For this category, we were looking for the best feature or other code contribution. At first, we looked more closely at utility, but we also looked at how it was contributed. Runner up McCabe Maxstead's "classic" skin for the 1.20 release proved to be a quite fortuitous submission, and is front and center with the latest viewer releases. Runner-up Seg Baphomet's contribution of OpenAL is a great contribution, too, which will likely make it into the mainline viewer sooner rather than later (and this is not even close to Seg's only contribution). We really struggled to make a decision, because we had a lot of great work that was presented to us. In the end, though, we felt we had to recognize the work of the winner in this category, who did a great job of submitting a feature that is of great utility to the passionate and significant machinima community in Second Life, but also did the work in a tidy and thoughtful way. The 2008 Best Code Contribution Hippo Award goes to '''Mm Alder''', for his contribution of the voice lipsync feature.

=== The Jesse Malthus Award for Best Community Influence ===
The next award is named after Jesse Malthus, an early contributor and attendee of many in-world meetings about the Second Life open source initiative. Jesse was always a cheerful and positive influence in-world, and helped make things interesting and fun. In a sad and awful turn of events, Jesse was killed in a car accident at a very early age. News of Jesse's death last year really shook a lot of us up, and we felt it important to honor his early influence in the community. We realized that he was our "Best Community Influence", we created the category in his name.

This year, the winner is a formidable presence on PJIRA. While possibly not the most prolific (emphasis on "possibly"), this resident often comments on very contentious issues in a constructive and thoughtful way. PJIRA would be a lot less organized and friendly place to be without the winner in this category, so it's with great pleasure that I announce this year's winner of the Jesse Malthus Award for Best Community Influence:''' Lex Neva'''.

=== Contributor of the Year ===
Now it's time for our final category: the big one: Contributor of the Year. We had so many good choices to pick from here. Whoops Babii has tirelessly worked on the Solaris version of the Second Life viewer, submitting patches that end up being helpful for users of other 64-bit platforms. Carjay McGinnis cheerfully does a lot of great fit and finish work in the viewer. Alissa Sabre continues to tirelessly contribute great fixes that benefit translated versions of the viewer (especially Japanese). Gigs Taggart has contributed in countless ways in patches, on PJIRA and generally in the community. Our work as judges would have been much tougher without Gigs' sljirastats.com website.

While we would have liked to make everyone a winner, we had to pick one. Our winner this year has contributed her fair share of patches, working with us to make sure that our transition to CMake is a smooth one. Many patches have helped get the Linux version of the viewer much closer to parity with the other platform versions. All of this is done with a cheerful and constructive attitude that attracts others to the project. It's with great pleasure that I announce the 2008 Contributor of the Year is '''Michelle2 Zenovka'''.

'''Prizes'''

This year's winners will receive
* Cash gifts to their Second Life accounts (Contributor of the Year receives US$500, other category winners each receive US$300)
* 2008 Hippo Winner badge
* Complimentary land grant on Linden Lab's open source island Hippotropolis for one year
* Complimentary concierge-level service for one year
* Custom last name for a new avatar
* Hippopotamus figurine ... with a sterling silver Second Life Eye-in-Hand logo necklace.

Linden Lab thanks these contributors and everyone who has chipped in to help make this a fun and productive community to be a part of. While the winners and runners-up I mentioned above are a key component to the success so far, it wouldn't be as great as having all of you there. Thanks everyone for coming, and I hope to be giving one of these to you next year (whoever you are).

== Links ==
=== Past Announcements ===
2008 Call for Nominations on the [http://blog.secondlife.com/2008/07/01/2008-hippo-awards-nominations-now-open/ blog.]

In August of 2007, Linden Lab [http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/08/25/innovation-award-winners-announced/ announced] the first Hippo Award honorees: Nicholaz Beresford, Alissa Sabre, Able Whitman, Gigs Taggart and Strife Onizuka.

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Linden Lab Innovation Awards

2008-09-07T15:53:13Z

Liana Linden: /* Links */

Open Source Meeting/Agenda

2008-09-04T21:41:19Z

Liana Linden: /* Agenda */

< [[Open Source Meeting]]

Open source meeting - Thursday, 2pm PT.

[http://slurl.com/secondlife/Hippotropolis/248/15/25/ Teleport] to the Linden Open Source Project headquarters.

Please try to add your items as early as possible in the week to give Rob a chance to round up any Lindens that may be appropriate to the discussion. Please also bring items up on [[SLDev]] before or concurrently with adding them as agenda items here.

== Agenda ==

(As usual i've chucked some ideas together for an Ajenda, please feel free to edit, add-to, remove,skip, postpone or ignore as appropriate [[User:Michelle2 Zenovka|Michelle2 Zenovka]] 10:27, 4 September 2008 (PDT))

# LLMozlib, Webkit, *ping* . Xulrunner 1.9 is a disaster, any other even hacky ways to render a webpage to a memory buffer? [[User:Michelle2 Zenovka|Michelle2 Zenovka]] 10:27, 4 September 2008 (PDT)
# OpenAL, haven't pinged this for a while. Not sure there is much to discuss but i've updated the patches for 1.21 compatibility and Tofu says he's imported it to an internal branch. [[User:Michelle2 Zenovka|Michelle2 Zenovka]] 10:27, 4 September 2008 (PDT)
# Cmake build issues,([[User:Michelle2 Zenovka|Michelle2 Zenovka]] 10:27, 4 September 2008 (PDT)) i was going to bring these up but BoS seems to have jumped on them all and I am not sure there is much to discuss now :-
## {{jira|VWR-8889}}
## {{jira|VWR-9005}}
## {{jira|VWR-8885}}
## Any other build issues?
# Linden's new Sustaining Engineering group, sounds cool, any Lindens want to add any more? [[User:Michelle2 Zenovka|Michelle2 Zenovka]] 10:27, 4 September 2008 (PDT)
# SLCC (Seems relevant, whos going etc etc. [[User:Michelle2 Zenovka|Michelle2 Zenovka]] 10:27, 4 September 2008 (PDT)
# License of JIRA patches - are they automatically GPL when submitted? [[User:Jacek Antonelli|Jacek Antonelli]] 14:06, 4 September 2008 (PDT)
#Next item? Your name? (sign with "<nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>" which will be converted to your name + timestamp)

For 11-Sep-08:

Please join us for a "meet the experts" chat with Bill Hoffman of Kitware, creators of [http://www.cmake.org/HTML/index.html CMake], and Bryan O'Sullivan (Sardonyx Linden), leader of the CMake build system implementation at Linden Lab. Format will be informal Q&A, so bring your CMake questions. This will be a voice-enabled event, and Bill and Bryan will be using the spatial voice channel.

Default agenda (barring agenda above):
* Update from the Lindens (standing item) - [[User:Rob Linden|Rob Linden]]
* Triage of issues listed here: http://jira.secondlife.com/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=11240

User:Liana Linden/Hippopelago

2008-08-01T22:37:27Z

Liana Linden: /* Open Source Sandbox estates */

'''> > This is an in-progress draft proposal < <'''

[[Hippotropolis]] is the Linden-sponsored home for the open source Second Life Viewer project and other open source community efforts.

We would like to see this single island expand into an archipelago (hippo-pelago, if you'll forgive the phrase) of open-source-centric projects and groups from across the Second Life world. Please consider the proposal below and add your responses and ideas to the Discussion tab above.

== Hippotropolis Estate 2008 ==
Currently one island. Will add regions to the estate as needed. See map below.

=== Meeting Area ===
Make this available to other groups.

=== FOSS Expo Parcel ===
Invite other free/libre open source software groups and projects to put up a kiosk to share info, builds, meet etc.
* Also, offer free moves to interesting groups who we'd like to become part of the Hippopelago, i.e., put their island next to ours.

=== Hippo Award winners' parcels ===
* Current winners' individual parcels
* Past winners' shared parcels

=== Linden open source info center ===
For displaying information of relevance to the open source community, e.g. Zero's AWG slides.

=== Linden Offices ===
* Currently only Liana Linden.
* Invite more Lindens

=== Deprecated ===
* Public sandbox

== Open Source Sandbox estates ==
Open Source Sandbox estates will be available for use by any sldev community member who has a contributor agreement on file and is in good standing. These regions will not be open to the general public. See map below.

=== Ownership and Access ===
Region type: openspace simulator (low prim)

Estate owner: Linden

Estate managers: Lindens, perhaps sldev members (e.g., Hippo Award winners?)

Access: SLdev Sandbox Group (working title)
* Upon receipt of a contribution agreement, Liana Linden will add you to the sandbox group.
* If you have other reason to believe you should have access to this estate, ping Liana.

==== Group Roles ====
SLdev Sandbox Group (working title)

Members: any sldev community member who has a contributor agreement on file and is in good standing

Officers: all Members are also Officers
* A very few officer roles will be turned off.

Owners: Lindens

=== Uses ===
How exactly will this group use this space?
* Most useful aspects/opportunities?
* Least useful?

=== Governance ===
==== Covenant ====
Draft based on answers to questions below.

==== Policies ====
Need more info
# Who decides how the sandbox sim is used?
# How are decisions made?
# What are the primary uses of the space? What are occasional allowed uses?
# How are disagreements in the group handled? By whom?

==== Abuses ====
Needs more info. See question above.

In addition to group policies on abuse,
* Abuses of the Terms of Service or Community Standards should be reported to Linden via the abuse report tool.
* Abuses of the Estate Covenant should be reported to the Estate Managers/Owner?

== Map Proposal ==
[[Image:Hippotropolis2008_v1.jpg]]

User:Liana Linden/Hippopelago

2008-08-01T22:37:16Z

Liana Linden: /* Hippotropolis Estate 2008 */

'''> > This is an in-progress draft proposal < <'''

[[Hippotropolis]] is the Linden-sponsored home for the open source Second Life Viewer project and other open source community efforts.

We would like to see this single island expand into an archipelago (hippo-pelago, if you'll forgive the phrase) of open-source-centric projects and groups from across the Second Life world. Please consider the proposal below and add your responses and ideas to the Discussion tab above.

== Hippotropolis Estate 2008 ==
Currently one island. Will add regions to the estate as needed. See map below.

=== Meeting Area ===
Make this available to other groups.

=== FOSS Expo Parcel ===
Invite other free/libre open source software groups and projects to put up a kiosk to share info, builds, meet etc.
* Also, offer free moves to interesting groups who we'd like to become part of the Hippopelago, i.e., put their island next to ours.

=== Hippo Award winners' parcels ===
* Current winners' individual parcels
* Past winners' shared parcels

=== Linden open source info center ===
For displaying information of relevance to the open source community, e.g. Zero's AWG slides.

=== Linden Offices ===
* Currently only Liana Linden.
* Invite more Lindens

=== Deprecated ===
* Public sandbox

== Open Source Sandbox estates ==
Open Source Sandbox estates will be available for use by any sldev community member who has a contributor agreement on file and is in good standing. These regions will not be open to the general public.

=== Ownership and Access ===
Region type: openspace simulator (low prim)

Estate owner: Linden

Estate managers: Lindens, perhaps sldev members (e.g., Hippo Award winners?)

Access: SLdev Sandbox Group (working title)
* Upon receipt of a contribution agreement, Liana Linden will add you to the sandbox group.
* If you have other reason to believe you should have access to this estate, ping Liana.

==== Group Roles ====
SLdev Sandbox Group (working title)

Members: any sldev community member who has a contributor agreement on file and is in good standing

Officers: all Members are also Officers
* A very few officer roles will be turned off.

Owners: Lindens

=== Uses ===
How exactly will this group use this space?
* Most useful aspects/opportunities?
* Least useful?

=== Governance ===
==== Covenant ====
Draft based on answers to questions below.

==== Policies ====
Need more info
# Who decides how the sandbox sim is used?
# How are decisions made?
# What are the primary uses of the space? What are occasional allowed uses?
# How are disagreements in the group handled? By whom?

==== Abuses ====
Needs more info. See question above.

In addition to group policies on abuse,
* Abuses of the Terms of Service or Community Standards should be reported to Linden via the abuse report tool.
* Abuses of the Estate Covenant should be reported to the Estate Managers/Owner?

== Map Proposal ==
[[Image:Hippotropolis2008_v1.jpg]]

User:Liana Linden/Hippopelago

2008-08-01T22:36:19Z

Liana Linden: /* FLOSS Expo Parcel */

'''> > This is an in-progress draft proposal < <'''

[[Hippotropolis]] is the Linden-sponsored home for the open source Second Life Viewer project and other open source community efforts.

We would like to see this single island expand into an archipelago (hippo-pelago, if you'll forgive the phrase) of open-source-centric projects and groups from across the Second Life world. Please consider the proposal below and add your responses and ideas to the Discussion tab above.

== Hippotropolis Estate 2008 ==
Currently one island. Will add regions to the estate as needed.

=== Meeting Area ===
Make this available to other groups.

=== FOSS Expo Parcel ===
Invite other free/libre open source software groups and projects to put up a kiosk to share info, builds, meet etc.
* Also, offer free moves to interesting groups who we'd like to become part of the Hippopelago, i.e., put their island next to ours.

=== Hippo Award winners' parcels ===
* Current winners' individual parcels
* Past winners' shared parcels

=== Linden open source info center ===
For displaying information of relevance to the open source community, e.g. Zero's AWG slides.

=== Linden Offices ===
* Currently only Liana Linden.
* Invite more Lindens

=== Deprecated ===
* Public sandbox

== Open Source Sandbox estates ==
Open Source Sandbox estates will be available for use by any sldev community member who has a contributor agreement on file and is in good standing. These regions will not be open to the general public.

=== Ownership and Access ===
Region type: openspace simulator (low prim)

Estate owner: Linden

Estate managers: Lindens, perhaps sldev members (e.g., Hippo Award winners?)

Access: SLdev Sandbox Group (working title)
* Upon receipt of a contribution agreement, Liana Linden will add you to the sandbox group.
* If you have other reason to believe you should have access to this estate, ping Liana.

==== Group Roles ====
SLdev Sandbox Group (working title)

Members: any sldev community member who has a contributor agreement on file and is in good standing

Officers: all Members are also Officers
* A very few officer roles will be turned off.

Owners: Lindens

=== Uses ===
How exactly will this group use this space?
* Most useful aspects/opportunities?
* Least useful?

=== Governance ===
==== Covenant ====
Draft based on answers to questions below.

==== Policies ====
Need more info
# Who decides how the sandbox sim is used?
# How are decisions made?
# What are the primary uses of the space? What are occasional allowed uses?
# How are disagreements in the group handled? By whom?

==== Abuses ====
Needs more info. See question above.

In addition to group policies on abuse,
* Abuses of the Terms of Service or Community Standards should be reported to Linden via the abuse report tool.
* Abuses of the Estate Covenant should be reported to the Estate Managers/Owner?

== Map Proposal ==
[[Image:Hippotropolis2008_v1.jpg]]

File:Hippotropolis2008 v1.jpg

2008-08-01T22:34:58Z

Liana Linden:

User:Liana Linden/Hippopelago

2008-08-01T22:34:41Z

Liana Linden: /* Open Source Sandbox estates */

'''> > This is an in-progress draft proposal < <'''

[[Hippotropolis]] is the Linden-sponsored home for the open source Second Life Viewer project and other open source community efforts.

We would like to see this single island expand into an archipelago (hippo-pelago, if you'll forgive the phrase) of open-source-centric projects and groups from across the Second Life world. Please consider the proposal below and add your responses and ideas to the Discussion tab above.

== Hippotropolis Estate 2008 ==
Currently one island. Will add regions to the estate as needed.

=== Meeting Area ===
Make this available to other groups.

=== FLOSS Expo Parcel ===
Invite other FLOSS groups and projects to put up a kiosk to share info, builds, meet etc.
* Also, offer free moves to interesting groups who we'd like to become part of the Hippopelago, i.e., put their island next to ours.

=== Hippo Award winners' parcels ===
* Current winners' individual parcels
* Past winners' shared parcels

=== Linden open source info center ===
For displaying information of relevance to the open source community, e.g. Zero's AWG slides.

=== Linden Offices ===
* Currently only Liana Linden.
* Invite more Lindens

=== Deprecated ===
* Public sandbox

== Open Source Sandbox estates ==
Open Source Sandbox estates will be available for use by any sldev community member who has a contributor agreement on file and is in good standing. These regions will not be open to the general public.

=== Ownership and Access ===
Region type: openspace simulator (low prim)

Estate owner: Linden

Estate managers: Lindens, perhaps sldev members (e.g., Hippo Award winners?)

Access: SLdev Sandbox Group (working title)
* Upon receipt of a contribution agreement, Liana Linden will add you to the sandbox group.
* If you have other reason to believe you should have access to this estate, ping Liana.

==== Group Roles ====
SLdev Sandbox Group (working title)

Members: any sldev community member who has a contributor agreement on file and is in good standing

Officers: all Members are also Officers
* A very few officer roles will be turned off.

Owners: Lindens

=== Uses ===
How exactly will this group use this space?
* Most useful aspects/opportunities?
* Least useful?

=== Governance ===
==== Covenant ====
Draft based on answers to questions below.

==== Policies ====
Need more info
# Who decides how the sandbox sim is used?
# How are decisions made?
# What are the primary uses of the space? What are occasional allowed uses?
# How are disagreements in the group handled? By whom?

==== Abuses ====
Needs more info. See question above.

In addition to group policies on abuse,
* Abuses of the Terms of Service or Community Standards should be reported to Linden via the abuse report tool.
* Abuses of the Estate Covenant should be reported to the Estate Managers/Owner?

== Map Proposal ==
[[Image:Hippotropolis2008_v1.jpg]]

User:Liana Linden/Hippopelago

2008-08-01T22:26:21Z

Liana Linden: /* Open Source Sandbox estates */

'''> > This is an in-progress draft proposal < <'''

[[Hippotropolis]] is the Linden-sponsored home for the open source Second Life Viewer project and other open source community efforts.

We would like to see this single island expand into an archipelago (hippo-pelago, if you'll forgive the phrase) of open-source-centric projects and groups from across the Second Life world. Please consider the proposal below and add your responses and ideas to the Discussion tab above.

== Hippotropolis Estate 2008 ==
Currently one island. Will add regions to the estate as needed.

=== Meeting Area ===
Make this available to other groups.

=== FLOSS Expo Parcel ===
Invite other FLOSS groups and projects to put up a kiosk to share info, builds, meet etc.
* Also, offer free moves to interesting groups who we'd like to become part of the Hippopelago, i.e., put their island next to ours.

=== Hippo Award winners' parcels ===
* Current winners' individual parcels
* Past winners' shared parcels

=== Linden open source info center ===
For displaying information of relevance to the open source community, e.g. Zero's AWG slides.

=== Linden Offices ===
* Currently only Liana Linden.
* Invite more Lindens

=== Deprecated ===
* Public sandbox

== Open Source Sandbox estates ==
Open Source Sandbox estates will be available for use by any sldev community member who has a contributor agreement on file and is in good standing. These regions will not be open to the general public.

=== Ownership and Access ===
Region type: openspace simulator (low prim)

Estate owner: Linden

Estate managers: Lindens, perhaps sldev members (e.g., Hippo Award winners?)

Access: SLdev Sandbox Group (working title)
* Upon receipt of a contribution agreement, Liana Linden will add you to the sandbox group.
* If you have other reason to believe you should have access to this estate, ping Liana.

==== Group Roles ====
SLdev Sandbox Group (working title)

Members: any sldev community member who has a contributor agreement on file and is in good standing

Officers: all Members are also Officers
* A very few officer roles will be turned off.

Owners: Lindens

=== Uses ===
How exactly will this group use this space?
* Most useful aspects/opportunities?
* Least useful?

=== Governance ===
==== Covenant ====
Draft based on answers to questions below.

==== Policies ====
Need more info
# Who decides how the sandbox sim is used?
# How are decisions made?
# What are the primary uses of the space? What are occasional allowed uses?
# How are disagreements in the group handled? By whom?

==== Abuses ====
Needs more info. See question above.

In addition to group policies on abuse,
* Abuses of the Terms of Service or Community Standards should be reported to Linden via the abuse report tool.
* Abuses of the Estate Covenant should be reported to the Estate Managers/Owner?

User:Liana Linden/Hippopelago

2008-08-01T22:26:05Z

Liana Linden: /* Uses */

'''> > This is an in-progress draft proposal < <'''

[[Hippotropolis]] is the Linden-sponsored home for the open source Second Life Viewer project and other open source community efforts.

We would like to see this single island expand into an archipelago (hippo-pelago, if you'll forgive the phrase) of open-source-centric projects and groups from across the Second Life world. Please consider the proposal below and add your responses and ideas to the Discussion tab above.

== Hippotropolis Estate 2008 ==
Currently one island. Will add regions to the estate as needed.

=== Meeting Area ===
Make this available to other groups.

=== FLOSS Expo Parcel ===
Invite other FLOSS groups and projects to put up a kiosk to share info, builds, meet etc.
* Also, offer free moves to interesting groups who we'd like to become part of the Hippopelago, i.e., put their island next to ours.

=== Hippo Award winners' parcels ===
* Current winners' individual parcels
* Past winners' shared parcels

=== Linden open source info center ===
For displaying information of relevance to the open source community, e.g. Zero's AWG slides.

=== Linden Offices ===
* Currently only Liana Linden.
* Invite more Lindens

=== Deprecated ===
* Public sandbox

== Open Source Sandbox estates ==
Open Source Sandbox estates will be available for use by any sldev community member who has a contributor agreement on file and is in good standing. These regions will not be open to the general public.

=== Ownership and Access ===
Region type: openspace simulator (low prim)

Estate owner: Linden

Estate managers: Lindens, perhaps sldev members (e.g., Hippo Award winners?)

Access: SLdev Sandbox Group (working title)
* Upon receipt of a contribution agreement, Liana Linden will add you to the sandbox group.
* If you have other reason to believe you should have access to this estate, ping Liana.

==== Group Roles ====
SLdev Sandbox Group (working title)

Members: any sldev community member who has a contributor agreement on file and is in good standing

Officers: all Members are also Officers
* A very few officer roles will be turned off.

Owners: Lindens

=== Uses ===
How exactly will this group use this space?
* Most useful aspects/opportunities?
* Least useful?

=== Governance ===
==== Covenant ====
Draft based on answers to questions below.

==== Policies ====
Need more info
# Who decides how the sandbox sim is used?
# How are decisions made?
# What are the primary uses of the space? What are occasional allowed uses?
# How are disagreements in the group handled? By whom?

==== Abuses ====
Needs more info. See question above.

In addition to group policies on abuse,
* Abuses of the Terms of Service or Community Standards should be reported to Linden via the abuse report tool.
* Abuses of the Estate Covenant should be reported to the Estate Managers/Owner?

User:Liana Linden/Hippopelago

2008-08-01T22:25:03Z

Liana Linden: /* Open Source Sandbox estates */

'''> > This is an in-progress draft proposal < <'''

[[Hippotropolis]] is the Linden-sponsored home for the open source Second Life Viewer project and other open source community efforts.

We would like to see this single island expand into an archipelago (hippo-pelago, if you'll forgive the phrase) of open-source-centric projects and groups from across the Second Life world. Please consider the proposal below and add your responses and ideas to the Discussion tab above.

== Hippotropolis Estate 2008 ==
Currently one island. Will add regions to the estate as needed.

=== Meeting Area ===
Make this available to other groups.

=== FLOSS Expo Parcel ===
Invite other FLOSS groups and projects to put up a kiosk to share info, builds, meet etc.
* Also, offer free moves to interesting groups who we'd like to become part of the Hippopelago, i.e., put their island next to ours.

=== Hippo Award winners' parcels ===
* Current winners' individual parcels
* Past winners' shared parcels

=== Linden open source info center ===
For displaying information of relevance to the open source community, e.g. Zero's AWG slides.

=== Linden Offices ===
* Currently only Liana Linden.
* Invite more Lindens

=== Deprecated ===
* Public sandbox

== Open Source Sandbox estates ==
Open Source Sandbox estates will be available for use by any sldev community member who has a contributor agreement on file and is in good standing. These regions will not be open to the general public.

=== Ownership and Access ===
Region type: openspace simulator (low prim)

Estate owner: Linden

Estate managers: Lindens, perhaps sldev members (e.g., Hippo Award winners?)

Access: SLdev Sandbox Group (working title)
* Upon receipt of a contribution agreement, Liana Linden will add you to the sandbox group.
* If you have other reason to believe you should have access to this estate, ping Liana.

==== Group Roles ====
SLdev Sandbox Group (working title)

Members: any sldev community member who has a contributor agreement on file and is in good standing

Officers: all Members are also Officers
* A very few officer roles will be turned off.

Owners: Lindens

=== Uses ===

=== Governance ===
==== Covenant ====
Draft based on answers to questions below.

==== Policies ====
Need more info
# Who decides how the sandbox sim is used?
# How are decisions made?
# What are the primary uses of the space? What are occasional allowed uses?
# How are disagreements in the group handled? By whom?

==== Abuses ====
Needs more info. See question above.

In addition to group policies on abuse,
* Abuses of the Terms of Service or Community Standards should be reported to Linden via the abuse report tool.
* Abuses of the Estate Covenant should be reported to the Estate Managers/Owner?

User:Liana Linden/Hippopelago

2008-08-01T21:35:45Z

Liana Linden:

'''> > This is an in-progress draft proposal < <'''

[[Hippotropolis]] is the Linden-sponsored home for the open source Second Life Viewer project and other open source community efforts.

We would like to see this single island expand into an archipelago (hippo-pelago, if you'll forgive the phrase) of open-source-centric projects and groups from across the Second Life world. Please consider the proposal below and add your responses and ideas to the Discussion tab above.

== Hippotropolis Estate 2008 ==
Currently one island. Will add regions to the estate as needed.

=== Meeting Area ===
Make this available to other groups.

=== FLOSS Expo Parcel ===
Invite other FLOSS groups and projects to put up a kiosk to share info, builds, meet etc.
* Also, offer free moves to interesting groups who we'd like to become part of the Hippopelago, i.e., put their island next to ours.

=== Hippo Award winners' parcels ===
* Current winners' individual parcels
* Past winners' shared parcels

=== Linden open source info center ===
For displaying information of relevance to the open source community, e.g. Zero's AWG slides.

=== Linden Offices ===
* Currently only Liana Linden.
* Invite more Lindens

=== Deprecated ===
* Public sandbox

== Open Source Sandbox estates ==
Open Source Sandbox estates will be available for use by any sldev community member who has a contributor agreement on file and is in good standing. These regions will not be open to the general public.

=== Ownership and Access ===
Region type: openspace simulator (low prim)

Estate owner: Linden

Estate managers: Lindens, perhaps sldev members (e.g., Hippo Award winners?)

Access: SLdev Sandbox Group (working title)
* Upon receipt of a contribution agreement, Liana Linden will add you to the sandbox group.
* If you have other reason to believe you should have access to this estate, ping Liana.

==== Group Roles ====
SLdev Sandbox Group (working title)

Members: any sldev community member who has a contributor agreement on file and is in good standing

Officers: all Members are also Officers
* A very few officer roles will be turned off.

Owners: Lindens

=== Uses ===

=== Governance ===
==== Covenant ====
Draft based on answers to questions below.

==== Policies ====
Need more info
# Who decides how the sandbox sim is used?
# How are decisions made?
# What are the primary uses of the space? What are occasional allowed uses?
# How are disagreements in the group handled? By whom?

==== Abuses ====
Needs more info. See question above.

In addition to group policies on abuse,
* Abuses of the Terms of Service or Community Standards should be reported to Linden via the abuse report tool.
* Abuses of the Estate Covenant should be reported to the Estate Managers/Owner?

User:Liana Linden/Hippopelago

2008-08-01T21:35:12Z

Liana Linden: /* Sandboxes estates */

'''> > This is a draft proposal < <'''

[[Hippotropolis]] is the Linden-sponsored home for the open source Second Life Viewer project and other open source community efforts.

We would like to see this single island expand into an archipelago (hippo-pelago, if you'll forgive the phrase) of open-source-centric projects and groups from across the Second Life world. Please consider the proposal below and add your responses and ideas to the Discussion tab above.

== Hippotropolis Estate 2008 ==
Currently one island. Will add regions to the estate as needed.

=== Meeting Area ===
Make this available to other groups.

=== FLOSS Expo Parcel ===
Invite other FLOSS groups and projects to put up a kiosk to share info, builds, meet etc.
* Also, offer free moves to interesting groups who we'd like to become part of the Hippopelago, i.e., put their island next to ours.

=== Hippo Award winners' parcels ===
* Current winners' individual parcels
* Past winners' shared parcels

=== Linden open source info center ===
For displaying information of relevance to the open source community, e.g. Zero's AWG slides.

=== Linden Offices ===
* Currently only Liana Linden.
* Invite more Lindens

=== Deprecated ===
* Public sandbox

== Open Source Sandbox estates ==
Open Source Sandbox estates will be available for use by any sldev community member who has a contributor agreement on file and is in good standing. These regions will not be open to the general public.

=== Ownership and Access ===
Region type: openspace simulator (low prim)

Estate owner: Linden

Estate managers: Lindens, perhaps sldev members (e.g., Hippo Award winners?)

Access: SLdev Sandbox Group (working title)
* Upon receipt of a contribution agreement, Liana Linden will add you to the sandbox group.
* If you have other reason to believe you should have access to this estate, ping Liana.

==== Group Roles ====
SLdev Sandbox Group (working title)

Members: any sldev community member who has a contributor agreement on file and is in good standing

Officers: all Members are also Officers
* A very few officer roles will be turned off.

Owners: Lindens

=== Uses ===

=== Governance ===
==== Covenant ====
Draft based on answers to questions below.

==== Policies ====
Need more info
# Who decides how the sandbox sim is used?
# How are decisions made?
# What are the primary uses of the space? What are occasional allowed uses?
# How are disagreements in the group handled? By whom?

==== Abuses ====
Needs more info. See question above.

In addition to group policies on abuse,
* Abuses of the Terms of Service or Community Standards should be reported to Linden via the abuse report tool.
* Abuses of the Estate Covenant should be reported to the Estate Managers/Owner?

User:Liana Linden/Hippopelago

2008-08-01T20:28:28Z

Liana Linden: /* Sandboxes estates */

User:Liana Linden/Hippopelago

2008-08-01T20:25:07Z

Liana Linden:

User:Liana Linden/Hippopelago

2008-08-01T20:21:53Z

Liana Linden: /* Hippotropolis Estate */

User:Liana Linden/Hippopelago

2008-08-01T20:21:06Z

Liana Linden: /* Hippotropolis Estate */

User:Liana Linden/Hippopelago

2008-08-01T20:18:17Z

Liana Linden: New page: '''> > This is a draft proposal < <''' Hippotropolis is the Linden-sponsored home for the open source Second Life Viewer project and other open source community efforts. We would lik...

Open Source Meeting/Agenda

2008-07-24T22:07:15Z

Liana Linden: /* Agenda */

Open Source Meeting/2008-07-24

2008-07-24T22:06:09Z

Liana Linden: New page: == Agenda == * "Fixed Internally" number is ballooning again. Is there a process to reconcile shipped code? Gigs Taggart 17:41, 23 July 2008 (PDT) * {{jira|VWR-81...

== Agenda ==

* "Fixed Internally" number is ballooning again. Is there a process to reconcile shipped code? [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]] 17:41, 23 July 2008 (PDT)

* {{jira|VWR-8194}} Anyone got a clue what is happening and why my fix works? [[User:Michelle2 Zenovka|Michelle2 Zenovka]]

* (Replacing my old issue) Memory leaks and corruption, what can we do to try to hunt them down? (-Michelle2)

* Valgrinding, I've done quite a bit and identified quite a few issues, most minor but things like uninitalised vars used for branch decisions with in the viewer code, is this worth chasing? shall i open JIRA's for each small issue or just jump it together? [[User:Michelle2 Zenovka|Michelle2 Zenovka]]

* Quickie update on [[pyogp]]... [[User:Saijanai Kuhn|Saijanai]] 13:50, 24 July 2008 (PDT)

* Viewer 1.21 branching shortly - be ready for cmake --[[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]] 13:59, 24 July 2008 (PDT)

== Raw Transcript ==
* [14:02] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: We can give it a couple more minutes for folks to trickle in...
* [14:02] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: But Rob's gone today and probably won't be logging in. We'll still work off the agenda
* [14:02] [[User:Saijanai Kuhn|Saijanai Kuhn]]: hmmm come to think of it I havent' seen a whiteout view in a while. Maybe that got fixed...
* [14:02] [[User:Carjay McGinnis|Carjay McGinnis]]: Rob not in today?
* [14:02] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Open_Source_Meeting/Agenda
* [14:02] [[User:Carjay McGinnis|Carjay McGinnis]]: oh, ok
* [14:03] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: Right. So he'll miss the fun. We'll make lots of exciting changes without him.
* [14:03] [[User:Carjay McGinnis|Carjay McGinnis]]: oh dear, do we even have an agenda?
* [14:03] [[User:Michelle2 Zenovka|Michelle2 Zenovka]]: a short one yes
* [14:03] [[User:Squirrel Wood|Squirrel Wood]]: In case of emergency, rejoice knowing that help is underway. See [http://edmol-life.sakura.ne.jp/transformation/TF-Pikachu2.jpg] for details.
* [14:04] [[User:Carjay McGinnis|Carjay McGinnis]]: well, longer than some others
* [14:04] [[User:Michelle2 Zenovka|Michelle2 Zenovka]]: hehe
* [14:04] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: Hey, let's jump in.
* [14:04] [[User:Squirrel Wood|Squirrel Wood]]: head first?
* [14:04] [[User:Michelle2 Zenovka|Michelle2 Zenovka]]: why not
* [14:05] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: "Fixed Internally" number is ballooning again. Is there a process to reconcile shipped code? Gigs Taggart 17:41, 23 July 2008 (PDT)
* [14:05] [[User:Squirrel Wood|Squirrel Wood]]: I personally would rename "fixed internally" to "In QA testing"
* [14:05] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: So yes, once 1.20 is finalized, someone will go through and mark all of those as resolved and close them.
* [14:06] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: Well, the place people are seeing that the most is on 1.20 branches, where source is available. You can download and test that yourself if you like.
* [14:06] [[User:Squirrel Wood|Squirrel Wood]]: as to 1.20 being finalized... [http://blog.secondlife.com/2008/07/24/second-life-120-viewer-is-available-today/]
* [14:06] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: Right. So shortly someone will clear those out for the VWR- issues.
* [14:06] [[User:Aimee Trescothick|Aimee Trescothick]]: lol, was just going to say that "about now then "
* [14:06] [[User:McCabe Maxsted|McCabe Maxsted]]: someone from LL, or a volunteer?
* [14:07] [[User:Carjay McGinnis|Carjay McGinnis]]: right, I saw that
* [14:07] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: If there are SVC- issues where that's not getting cleared, then that should change.
* [14:07] [[User:Michelle2 Zenovka|Michelle2 Zenovka]]: oh crap, thats my bandwidth screwed
* [14:07] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: I'm not sure who's done it in the past, if it was a Linden or a resident.
* [14:08] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: Anyone got an older issue on hand that went through that cycle? You can look at the JIRA history.
* [14:08] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: Otherwise, I'll dig one up here...
* [14:08] [[User:Carjay McGinnis|Carjay McGinnis]]: don't dig too deep, you never know what you might turn up
* [14:08] [[User:Squirrel Wood|Squirrel Wood]]: likely something nasty :p
* [14:09] [[User:Carjay McGinnis|Carjay McGinnis]]: with claws
* [14:09] [[User:Aimee Trescothick|Aimee Trescothick]]: might disturb the foundations
* [14:09] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: I see Alexa's done a few.
* [14:09] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: I'll make a note to ask her if she's the one who will do that this time through, or if we should be searching for volunteers.
* [14:09] [[User:McCabe Maxsted|McCabe Maxsted]]: if nobody's going to do it, I wouldn't mind going through the release notes and close them
* [14:09] [[User:McCabe Maxsted|McCabe Maxsted]]: likes keeping the JIRA tidy
* [14:09] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: Cool, thanks :>
* [14:10] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: I'll ping Alexa and let you know what I hear.
* [14:10] [[User:McCabe Maxsted|McCabe Maxsted]]: kk
* [14:10] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: Anything else on the first item?
* [14:10] [[User:Squirrel Wood|Squirrel Wood]]: cake.
* [14:10] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: Next is...
* [14:10] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: * VWR-8194[c
* [14:10] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-8194
* [14:11] [[User:Michelle2 Zenovka|Michelle2 Zenovka]]: Yea strange gfx corruption, i do not understand why that fixes it
* [14:11] [[User:Michelle2 Zenovka|Michelle2 Zenovka]]: its seems pushing more that 660 nodes on a single matrix blows my gl context
* [14:11] [[User:Michelle2 Zenovka|Michelle2 Zenovka]]: and not only me this time one other has seen it too
* [14:12] [[User:Michelle2 Zenovka|Michelle2 Zenovka]]: Carjay who has nvidia and also 64bit does not see it
* [14:12] [[User:Carjay McGinnis|Carjay McGinnis]]: which it should not do, I checked the specs, they say there is no limit
* [14:12] [[User:Carjay McGinnis|Carjay McGinnis]]: for how many primitives you can send down during a Begin/End
* [14:13] [[User:Carjay McGinnis|Carjay McGinnis]]: so it's mysterious
* [14:14] [[User:Michelle2 Zenovka|Michelle2 Zenovka]]: other than try to dump the exact gl calls and repo external i'm stuck
* [14:14] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: did we skip over the fixed internally item or did I miss it?
* [14:14] [[User:Carjay McGinnis|Carjay McGinnis]]: you just managed to miss it by 20 seconds or so
* [14:14] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: oh heh
* [14:14] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: ok can someone send me a notecard please
* [14:15] [[User:Michelle2 Zenovka|Michelle2 Zenovka]]: so it probably should be filed as "why does it allways happen to me" and left at that
* [14:15] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: I'd like to pass it to one of the rendering gurus
* [14:16] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: That you have a speicific fix might tip one of them off
* [14:16] [[User:Michelle2 Zenovka|Michelle2 Zenovka]]: that would be cool Soft to know if there is something there
* [14:16] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: I'll import this after the meeting and push it to the rendering guys
* [14:17] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: Gigs, you get a card?
* [14:17] [[User:Michelle2 Zenovka|Michelle2 Zenovka]]: cool, just a quick look, would be cool i suspect a nvidia issue but hey
* [14:17] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: `soft now
* [14:17] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: In a nutshell, it's time to clear those out with the VWR- issues in 1.20. I'll ping Alexa who flipped those over last time.
* [14:17] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: no
* [14:17] [[User:Tree Kyomoon|Tree Kyomoon]]: I'll send one, Gigs.
* [14:17] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: thanks
* [14:17] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: Thanks!
* [14:18] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: Next item was: (Replacing my old issue) Memory leaks and corruption, what can we do to try to hunt them down?
* [14:18] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: Whose was this?
* [14:18] [[User:Michelle2 Zenovka|Michelle2 Zenovka]]: mine again
* [14:18] [[User:Michelle2 Zenovka|Michelle2 Zenovka]]: Any good plans for trying to weed out these leaks
* [14:18] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: uninit vars shouldn't cause leaks
* [14:19] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: I don't actually know what tools we're using right now.
* [14:19] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: soft I brought up a static analysis a while back
* [14:19] [[User:Michelle2 Zenovka|Michelle2 Zenovka]]: this pretty much relateds to my next issue, that was about the unint vars but they are used for if() decisions
* [14:19] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: thanks liana
* [14:19] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: accepted your inventory offer.
* [14:20] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: Are there any open source malloc libraries that fence allocations to look for overwrites that don't add huge runtime overhead? Even on a debug build, most of those are painfully slow. Enough that people wouldn't use them for day-to-day development.
* [14:21] [[User:Michelle2 Zenovka|Michelle2 Zenovka]]: for whatever reason glibc malloc() is kind of doing this by ungracefully crashing, and there are notes about this in malloc.c
* [14:21] [[User:Saijanai Kuhn|Saijanai Kuhn]]: Apple's tools (instruments) might do it, but they're platform specific
* [14:22] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: Well, even that would help if it were on by default on Mac debug builds and didn't punish Mac developers too badly.
* [14:22] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: It would sure be nice to be cross-platform though.
* [14:22] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: I haven't used any, which ones have you tried already soft?
* [14:22] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: In games, we always seemed to reinvent the same tools every time.
* [14:23] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: the only one that comes to mind off the top of my head open source wise is electricfence.
* [14:23] [[User:Carjay McGinnis|Carjay McGinnis]]: is it any good?
* [14:23] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: Have you used it?
* [14:23] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: No, not more than just a trivial test of it :P
* [14:23] [[User:Nyx Linden|Nyx Linden]]: arent we moving to tcmalloc?
* [14:23] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: Bruce Perens maintains it.
* [14:23] [[User:Saijanai Kuhn|Saijanai Kuhn]]: they do a application startup from within a special shell of test services. NOt sure how fast they run, but I've heard good things
* [14:24] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: From the description: "Electric Fence (efence) stops your program on the exact instruction that overruns (or underruns) a malloc() memory buffer. GDB will then display the source-code line that causes the bug. It works by using the virtual-memory hardware to create a red-zone at the border of each buffer - touch that, and your program stops. Catch all of those formerly impossible-to-catch overrun bugs that have been bothering you for years. "
* [14:24] [[User:Carjay McGinnis|Carjay McGinnis]]: wow, that sounds great
* [14:24] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: To catch the exact instruction, you'd pretty much have to be working with page permissions. I doubt that's cross-platform
* [14:24] [[User:Carjay McGinnis|Carjay McGinnis]]: now for the small prints...
* [14:24] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: Well if we catch them on one platform :)
* [14:24] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: Requires gdb, anyway
* [14:24] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: Right. It will catch the problems in the common code.
* [14:24] [[User:Tree Kyomoon|Tree Kyomoon]]: Sounds like it could do my dishes too.
* [14:24] [[User:Carjay McGinnis|Carjay McGinnis]]: yes and will probably need huge amounts of memory
* [14:25] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: I would estimate 95% of the viewer is common.
* [14:25] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: Don't you agree?
* [14:25] [[User:Carjay McGinnis|Carjay McGinnis]]: well, but I doubt it will do windows
* [14:25] [[User:Michelle2 Zenovka|Michelle2 Zenovka]]: dosn't valgrid do that too and if its implementing a custom malloc with tracking it should have similar penilities too>
* [14:25] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: Well anyway I have no idea how fast or slow it is on an app of this magnitude. :P
* [14:25] [[User:Carjay McGinnis|Carjay McGinnis]]: hm, I thought valgrind was not able to detect overruns
* [14:26] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: If it's putting every allocation on its own page, that's going to require a 64-bit build, and it'll constantly blow out the MMU set. So yeah, it's going to have a performance penalty.
* [14:26] [[User:Carjay McGinnis|Carjay McGinnis]]: just a wee bit :)
* [14:26] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: why would it require 64-bit? Electricfence is ancient
* [14:26] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: Because we've got irresonsible numbers of tiny allocations.
* [14:26] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: oh
* [14:26] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: :P
* [14:27] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: And the viewer already runs up to 1 gig pretty easily.
* [14:27] [[User:Michelle2 Zenovka|Michelle2 Zenovka]]: if it can run fast enough to process server messages and keep the viewer alive, tis enough, you can walk off and leave it untill it catches something
* [14:27] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: well I can take a look at it and see
* [14:27] [[User:Nyx Linden|Nyx Linden]]: I believe we're moving to replacing malloc with tcmalloc - a quick google search turns up some options for heap-checking with tcmalloc, but I havent personally looked into the details
* [14:27] [[User:Michelle2 Zenovka|Michelle2 Zenovka]]: oh god, the viewer, valgrind and gdb use an enormous amount of memory
* [14:27] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: heh
* [14:27] [[User:Carjay McGinnis|Carjay McGinnis]]: ah, ok, it just does not do this with static or stack arrays
* [14:28] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: the heap is where you get in trouble most of the time anyway
* [14:28] [[User:Carjay McGinnis|Carjay McGinnis]]: indeed
* [14:28] [[User:Carjay McGinnis|Carjay McGinnis]]: yes, see Michelle
* [14:28] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: I would hope we are not newb enough to be be blowing the bounds on our stack arrays too often hehe
* [14:28] [[User:Carjay McGinnis|Carjay McGinnis]]: well, you should use std::vector for that anyway
* [14:29] [[User:Saijanai Kuhn|Saijanai Kuhn]]: [http://developer.apple.com/documentation/developertools/Conceptual/InstrumentsUserGuide/Built-InInstruments/chapter_9_section_8.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40004652-CH6-DontLinkElementID_25]
* [14:29] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: So the one thing that always saved us in game development was checking a little guard area we inserted before and after every allocation. Those were prefilled with a fixed value, and over the course of a couple seconds those were all checked - a fraction of them every frame to avoid a significant runtime penalty.
* [14:30] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: soft that sounds like what electricfence does
* [14:30] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: No, it looks like electric fence catches the problem right when it happens with a page fault.
* [14:30] [[User:Michelle2 Zenovka|Michelle2 Zenovka]]: i've got an instance running now
* [14:31] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: Michelle2 - what does memory use look like with that going?
* [14:31] [[User:Michelle2 Zenovka|Michelle2 Zenovka]]: ElectricFence Exiting: mprotect() failed: Cannot allocate memory
* [14:31] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: hehe
* [14:31] [[User:Michelle2 Zenovka|Michelle2 Zenovka]]: *sigh*
* [14:31] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: I hope that wasn't the 64-bit build :)
* [14:31] [[User:Michelle2 Zenovka|Michelle2 Zenovka]]: yea
* [14:32] [[User:Saijanai Kuhn|Saijanai Kuhn]]: its mac specific but you guys really should loo at the instruments options...
* [14:32] [[User:Carjay McGinnis|Carjay McGinnis]]: hm, I can't seem to find a project page for electric fence
* [14:32] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: Should we take this back to the sldev list, with electricfence and instruments as suggestions?
* [14:32] [[User:Michelle2 Zenovka|Michelle2 Zenovka]]: yea, if we can get any working it might produce results
* [14:32] [[User:Carjay McGinnis|Carjay McGinnis]]: how much memory do you got, Michelle?
* [14:32] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: To the agenda item - it does sound like we could be doing more. Maybe Brad or Nyx can also add details on what tcmalloc brings to the table.
* [14:33] [[User:Michelle2 Zenovka|Michelle2 Zenovka]]: right now 1G actual many gigs swap, but i'm upgrading to as much as i can jam in
* [14:33] [[User:Nyx Linden|Nyx Linden]]: Brad is working on it, I only work next to him ;)
* [14:33] [[User:Carjay McGinnis|Carjay McGinnis]]: 1G is not much
* [14:33] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: Cool :)
* [14:33] [[User:Michelle2 Zenovka|Michelle2 Zenovka]]: no i know
* [14:33] [[User:Saijanai Kuhn|Saijanai Kuhn]]: Its a special shell that launches the application. You can use the predefined instruments as modules, or customize your own. It will record things and even let you playback input to recreate the bug
* [14:34] [[User:Carjay McGinnis|Carjay McGinnis]]: "things"?
* [14:34] [[User:Saijanai Kuhn|Saijanai Kuhn]]: user input and the like
* [14:34] [[User:Saijanai Kuhn|Saijanai Kuhn]]: keypresses, mouse movement, etc
* [14:34] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: That's awesome. I know there's a similar tool for Windows that costs huge $$$
* [14:34] [[User:Carjay McGinnis|Carjay McGinnis]]: hm, ok, sounds like a QA tool
* [14:34] [[User:Saijanai Kuhn|Saijanai Kuhn]]: free with Leopard
* [14:34] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: Next issue on the list:
* [14:35] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: Valgrinding, I've done quite a bit and identified quite a few issues, most minor but things like uninitalised vars used for branch decisions with in the viewer code, is this worth chasing? shall i open JIRA's for each small issue or just jump it together? Michelle2 Zenovka
* [14:35] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: Windows 3.1 used to come with the excellent macro.exe
* [14:35] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: I was sad when MS removed that
* [14:35] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: I'd open individual issues if they're spread all over. If you see a few in one area of code, go for it.
* [14:36] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: Single patches that touch a ton of different files tend to get frowned at massively.
* [14:36] [[User:Michelle2 Zenovka|Michelle2 Zenovka]]: they are spread,but 99% are things like overridden constructor where something was not initalised in one version, but it tends to be only start up code and sorts itsself out later so nothing ground breaking
* [14:36] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: It's tough to create good QA plans for that. "Test everything teleport-related, inventory-related and rendering-related"
* [14:36] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: Right.
* [14:37] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: Key thing though is the related system still needs to go through QA. And if there's a fix fail on it, that means all those systems need to get retested when resubmitting that JIRA.
* [14:37] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: michelle looks like DUMA is a fork of eFence that is more up to date.
* [14:37] [[User:Carjay McGinnis|Carjay McGinnis]]: lol
* [14:38] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: [http://freshmeat.net/projects/duma/]
* [14:38] [[User:Carjay McGinnis|Carjay McGinnis]]: sounds russian
* [14:38] [[User:Michelle2 Zenovka|Michelle2 Zenovka]]: apt-get install duma
* [14:38] [[User:Carjay McGinnis|Carjay McGinnis]]: Detect Unintended Memory Access
* [14:38] [[User:Carjay McGinnis|Carjay McGinnis]]: ah, kay
* [14:39] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: Next item is:
* [14:39] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: Quickie update on pyogp... Saijanai 13:50, 24 July 2008 (PDT)
* [14:39] [[User:Saijanai Kuhn|Saijanai Kuhn]]: Ah, just a heads up. We're meeting three times a week
* [14:39] [[User:Saijanai Kuhn|Saijanai Kuhn]]: MWF at 9:30 am. The Friday meeting is at Enus' office hours
* [14:40] [[User:Saijanai Kuhn|Saijanai Kuhn]]: we gots a pjira entry, irc, mailing list and website set up now
* [14:40] [[User:Michelle2 Zenovka|Michelle2 Zenovka]]: ok duma looks useful but need to link it agains the binary
* [14:40] [[User:Tree Kyomoon|Tree Kyomoon]]: Great, Saijanai. Thanks.
* [14:40] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: I thought you linked electricfence too
* [14:40] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: it's been quite a few years since I looked at it
* [14:40] [[User:Saijanai Kuhn|Saijanai Kuhn]]: https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Pyogp and https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Pyogp/Links
* [14:41] [[User:Carjay McGinnis|Carjay McGinnis]]: the German article mentions Visual C++ 6.0
* [14:41] [[User:Carjay McGinnis|Carjay McGinnis]]: so seems to work on VC, too
* [14:41] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: There's a 10 second summary of pyogp for anyone who's unfamiliar. From Saijani's first link:
* [14:41] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: Pyogp is an open source project between Linden Lab and AWG to support the testing of the Open Grid Protocol (OGP). Written in Python, Pyogp will consist initially of a client library and test functionality that will enable testing of OGP enabled virtual worlds like Second Life and compatible OpenSim implementations.
* [14:42] [[User:Saijanai Kuhn|Saijanai Kuhn]]: Main Instruments intro: [http://developer.apple.com/documentation/developertools/Conceptual/InstrumentsUserGuide/Introduction/chapter_1_section_1.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40004652-CH1-DontLinkElementID_87]
* [14:42] [[User:Saijanai Kuhn|Saijanai Kuhn]]: its pretty slick and easy to do simple meinded thigns with
* [14:42] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: That's been seeing a heck of a lot of activity on that, visible in the sl svn.
* [14:43] [[User:Saijanai Kuhn|Saijanai Kuhn]]: once it gets going, it should be the backbone of testing. We're hoping to support all the old protocols as well as the OGP ones
* [14:43] [[User:Saijanai Kuhn|Saijanai Kuhn]]: so you could do a swarm test with 1,000 avatars just aftar a rolling restart
* [14:43] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: Oh god please don't :)
* [14:44] [[User:Saijanai Kuhn|Saijanai Kuhn]]: hey stress tests are important...
* [14:44] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: Right! Just - please try it on the dev grid first. Rumor is the main grid gets pretty shaky around that 55k mark.
* [14:44] [[User:Saijanai Kuhn|Saijanai Kuhn]]: just have them TP, rez something delete it TP out and repeat
* [14:45] [[User:Saijanai Kuhn|Saijanai Kuhn]]: could run them all from a text file
* [14:45] [[User:Carjay McGinnis|Carjay McGinnis]]: you need to register those 1000 avatars before you can do that though
* [14:45] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: Cool. Anything else on that update, or on to the last item?
* [14:46] [[User:Saijanai Kuhn|Saijanai Kuhn]]: Enus has about 500 or so I think
* [14:46] [[User:Carjay McGinnis|Carjay McGinnis]]: lol
* [14:46] [[User:Saijanai Kuhn|Saijanai Kuhn]]: xxx Tester
* [14:46] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: Right. If you need to register a bunch of avatars for testing, we could probably help out on that with a bit of advance warning. Raise that on sldev with a description of what you mean to try - and again, ideally make it for the dev grid first.
* [14:47] [[User:Saijanai Kuhn|Saijanai Kuhn]]: absolutely. Enus would be in charge of that anyway
* [14:47] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: It would be nice to see new scaling issues appear on the dev grid rather than the production grid.
* [14:47] [[User:Squirrel Wood|Squirrel Wood]]: 1000 avatars in a single sim ...
* [14:47] [[User:Saijanai Kuhn|Saijanai Kuhn]]: well, probably not
* [14:48] [[User:Tree Kyomoon|Tree Kyomoon]]: On a similar note, if you need parcel control access for testing, let me know. I might be able to give you access to a parcel on Hippotropolis for testing.
* [14:48] [[User:Saijanai Kuhn|Saijanai Kuhn]]: kool Far in the future. Tao is still trying to get the automated build and svn stuff working with WIndows right now
* [14:48] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: Definitely not 1000 on a sim any time soon. Sadly, there are still a number of O(n^2) things happening on the simulator.
* [14:48] [[User:Carjay McGinnis|Carjay McGinnis]]: thought 50 as the limit
* [14:48] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: at least not 2^n
* [14:48] [[User:Carjay McGinnis|Carjay McGinnis]]: was
* [14:48] [[User:Tree Kyomoon|Tree Kyomoon]]: / "you" being any sldev-ers
* [14:49] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: I think the cap, including god mode emergency access, is 100 right now.
* [14:49] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: Things still run surprisingly smoothly at 80.
* [14:49] [[User:Saijanai Kuhn|Saijanai Kuhn]]: Zha has 100 in her sim, so that sounds right
* [14:49] [[User:Squirrel Wood|Squirrel Wood]]: I've seen 150 once I believe
* [14:49] [[User:Carjay McGinnis|Carjay McGinnis]]: god mode emergency access, oh, sounds nice
* [14:49] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: estate owners can lock themselves out :(
* [14:49] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: at leats lindens can't
* [14:50] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: That's a bit silly. There's already a JIRA for that?
* [14:50] [[User:Carjay McGinnis|Carjay McGinnis]]: lol
* [14:50] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: I'm thinking EMs should have unconditional access.
* [14:50] [[User:Aimee Trescothick|Aimee Trescothick]]: wonders if there's a god mode emergency exit too
* [14:50] [[User:Saijanai Kuhn|Saijanai Kuhn]]: we got griefed at Which's O H so bad onc, his viewer crashed when he tried to use God Mode
* [14:50] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: soft a tenant with EM access set his sim to 0 once
* [14:50] [[User:Saijanai Kuhn|Saijanai Kuhn]]: that particular bug was fixed pretty fast though
* [14:50] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: Oh nice
* [14:50] [[User:Carjay McGinnis|Carjay McGinnis]]: did it happen to you, Gigs?
* [14:50] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: two bugs really, that you can set it to 0 and also that EMs count toward the limit
* [14:50] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: yeah carjay a tenant set his sim to 0 limit
* [14:51] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: I had to call a linden :P
* [14:51] [[User:Carjay McGinnis|Carjay McGinnis]]: ah, ok, I would think 0 means "no limit"
* [14:51] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: Gigs - if there are JIRAs for those (or if you want to make 'em real quick) I'll import those directly.
* [14:51] [[User:Carjay McGinnis|Carjay McGinnis]]: obviously, it doesn't :)
* [14:51] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: soft let me see
* [14:51] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: That's it for the agenda.
* [14:52] [[User:Tree Kyomoon|Tree Kyomoon]]: Any other updates -- from Lindens or otherwise?
* [14:52] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: I have a concern
* [14:52] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: Oh, sorry- there was one more item - from me, no less.
* [14:52] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: Go ahead though, Gigs?
* [14:52] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: cmake pretending that it is a package manager is annoying me to no end
* [14:52] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: it is nearly impossible to do a non-standalone build with newer libs because cmake keeps trying to download and overwrite my newer libs
* [14:53] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: with older ones that it thinks are better
* [14:53] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: this is really a step backward from the old way
* [14:53] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: Isn't there a command line option that prevents downloading and installing?
* [14:53] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: just standalone
* [14:53] [[User:Kiosk: SL|Kiosk: SL]]: Open Source General Info whispers: Thank you! Your items will be delivered to you soon!
* [14:53] [[User:Michelle2 Zenovka|Michelle2 Zenovka]]: sounds like we need a command line
* [14:53] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: but standalone prefers system libs
* [14:53] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: and we might not want that
* [14:53] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: Gotcha, so you don't want to do a standalone, but you have a few specific libs you've swapped out
* [14:54] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: what I did was comment out everything in prebuild.cmake
* [14:54] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: and then it works the way I like
* [14:54] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: so if everything in prebuild.cmake could be conditional then that would be nice :P
* [14:54] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: You may be able to slash them out of install.xml as well
* [14:54] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: anyway I have a feeling that you will see more complaints along these lines once cmake version goes mainstream
* [14:55] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: I'd JIRA/sldev that one. The people working on that aren't here, but do read sldev.
* [14:55] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: thanks
* [14:55] [[User:Squirrel Wood|Squirrel Wood]]: other things... any plans on setting up a group for volunteers to get the wiki back in shape? like, add/complete information in the lslwiki and such ? Or does such a group already exist?
* [14:55] [[User:Tree Kyomoon|Tree Kyomoon]]: Gigs: Yes, please Jira your concerns. I'll be sure to ping the cmake team.
* [14:55] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: Unfortunately, that whole download system went in without advance warning. I'm not sure why it didn't go through a public branch first like the rest of the cmake changes did.
* [14:56] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: soft hehe
* [14:56] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: I don't know of anything like a community wiki work team.
* [14:56] [[User:Tree Kyomoon|Tree Kyomoon]]: We could sure use one though, Squirrel.
* [14:56] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: It would be helpful to start by flagging pages that need attention somehow. Would that be a good use of the category feature?
* [14:57] [[User:Squirrel Wood|Squirrel Wood]]: that could work
* [14:57] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: Or a template that added that category and also put a warning at the head of the page. "This page may contain outdated or incorrect information. Here's how you can help..."
* [14:57] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: soft: [http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-79]
* [14:58] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: already imported with 49 votes
* [14:58] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: estate owner locked out of own sim
* [14:58] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: Gigs: Internally that's marked as 'open' instead of 'proposed' so it's not hitting triage. I'll fix that.
* [14:58] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: thanks
* [14:58] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: Or I'll just triage it now. Feh.
* [14:58] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: being able to set limit to 0 is probably another bug
* [14:58] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: but if this one is fixed it doesn't matter as much
* [14:59] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: Yeah - please do a separate one for that, if you would.
* [14:59] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: ok
* [14:59] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: I think that one would sail through without opposition. The full one will need some discussion.
* [15:00] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: [http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-8319]
* [15:00] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: now
* [15:00] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: I haven't reproed this
* [15:00] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: for obvious reasons
* [15:00] [[User:Gigs Taggart|Gigs Taggart]]: but a tenant did manage to do it several months ago
* [15:00] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: Okay - I'll import this one in a sec.
* [15:00] [[User:Saijanai Kuhn|Saijanai Kuhn]]: By the way, this [http://developer.apple.com/documentation/developertools/Conceptual/InstrumentsUserGuide/ViewingandAnalyzingData/chapter_6_section_2.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40004652-CH5-DontLinkElementID_61]
* [15:01] [[User:Saijanai Kuhn|Saijanai Kuhn]]: and this [http://developer.apple.com/documentation/developertools/Conceptual/InstrumentsUserGuide/WorkingWithaMasterTrack/chapter_5_section_4.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40004652-CH8-SW4]
* [15:01] [[User:Saijanai Kuhn|Saijanai Kuhn]]: give an idea of how slick instruments is
* [15:01] [[User:Saijanai Kuhn|Saijanai Kuhn]]: not sliders for "playback"
* [15:01] [[User:Saijanai Kuhn|Saijanai Kuhn]]: note* sliders
* [15:01] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: The last issue on the agenda - the 1.21 viewer branches shortly. If you haven't already, please have a go at building release/. That's to become the viewer branch. If you see anything just hideously horribly wrong or confusing with the cmake build system, now's the best time to hear about it.
* [15:02] [[User:Aimee Trescothick|Aimee Trescothick]]: been there done that :P
* [15:02] [[User:Soft Linden|Soft Linden]]: Otherwise, what you see in there is likely to be close to 1.21, minus the bugs fixed in a (hopefully much shorter) RC cycle.

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If the contribution does not make a single or combined work with the viewer, it may be accepted in an aggregated form no matter who the copyright holder is at the time.

If the contribution uses the standard GPL and you are not the copyright holder of the contribution, Linden Lab will not be able to re-license the contribution directly from you. Here, the copyright holder is only able to give such permission to re-license their code. Linden Lab cannot incorporate someone else's copyrighted work from you.

If you are the copyright holder and the contribution is under the standard GPL, you must allow Linden Lab to also copyright the contribution in order for them to re-license the contribution.

== Why does Linden Lab want to re-license the contribution? ==

* The Viewer Software is distributed under the GPL+FLOSS terms, which is not currently GPL-compatible
* The binary client distribution may contain unreleased source changes
* Linden Lab offers permissive commercial licensing terms to third parties

== What are the GPL+FLOSS terms? ==

The terms are based on the standard GPL but with an exception known as the FLOSS Exception. The FLOSS Exception allows Linden Labs to approve of licensed software and that may link, combine, or create a single work with the Viewer Software. Normally, the standard GPL does not allows other non-GPL works to link, combine, or create a single work that is under the GPL. In this sense, the exception creates the incompatibility with the GPL. Note, the base work of the Viewer Software may be derived or modified to remove GPL-incompatible works and the FLOSS exception may be removed, which would render a standard GPL'd version of the Viewer Software.

== What is FLOSS? ==

Free/Libre/Open-Source Software (FLOSS) denotes software that is freely available and free of charge.

== Should I contribute under an approved license listed in the FLOSS Exception instead of the GPL? ==

Using something like the BSD/MIT license would help solve the issues with the GPL-compatibility, and the ability to relicense, but it does not solve some of the patent issues within the contribution normally covered by the standard GPL. Linden Lab offers the Contribution Agreement, instead. Also note that some of the licenses listed in the FLOSS exception are GPL-incompatible.

== Should I sign the Contribution Agreement? ==

Consider a comparison. With license agreements other businesses have offered about contributions, you may find they tend to lean towards non-disclosure terms or that you have to give up ownership of your contribution. In comparison, the Linden Lab's Contribution Agreement is an excellent offer that allows you to continue to own your contribution. However, you may wish to communicate directly with Linden Lab to perfect an agreement if you do not find the default terms of the Contribution Agreement acceptable.

== Is the artwork that comes with the client GPLed? ==

No, it is released under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license]. Be careful to heed the [http://secondlife.com/corporate/trademark/ trademark] policy if you plan on distributing this artwork.

== What about the in-client LSL documentation? ==

Linden Lab has not made an official policy announcement in regard to this. Informally, however, they have said that they will allow it to be posted to this wiki, so one might assume it is under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 also.

== Is the new Voice feature proprietary? ==

Yes, at least in part. Linden Lab seems to be trying to keep it in a separate process so that the viewer code will not need to be linked directly to any proprietary dependency, avoiding further GPL incompatibility. The codec it uses is covered by patents, so it is doubtful it will ever be fully distributable. This is tentative information as of March 2007, and may change as this feature develops.

== Does the contribution agreement make me give up all rights under any patents I might hold? ==

No. The agreement only requires you to grant a license on patents that cover your contribution, for that contribution. However one should carefully consider the ramifications. Because Linden Lab offers permissive licensing to third parties, they are also licensing your patents that cover your contribution to those third parties. This could affect the enforceability of your patents against those third parties. A consultation with a patent lawyer would be in order if you think this might affect you.

== Which Libraries that the client uses are GPL-incompatible? ==

Please see [[Third_Party_Libraries]].

Linden Lab Innovation Awards

2008-06-25T22:56:49Z

Liana Linden: /* Nominations */

= News: 2008 Call for Nominations =
The hippo returns!

We are now accepting nominations for the second annual Linden Lab Innovation Awards. Also known as The Hippos, these awards honor community members who have had the most significant impact on the Second Life open source viewer project over the last year. Please help us acknowledge the work of your peers by nominating candidates in the categories listed in the "How It Works" section below.

Thanks to this community, the Second Life open source project has grown quite a bit this last year, with excellent contributions showing up not only in the issue tracker but also in documentation and community participation. Consider these highlights: Since this time last year, we have seen sldev list membership double and total patches accepted into the release viewer almost triple. Community members have joined in the Architecture Working Group effort to write open protocols for virtual worlds. Bug triages, office hours and team meetings have been well-attended, with invaluable guidance, technical assistance and organizational help coming from the community. You're all to be congratulated. On behalf of Linden Lab, I thank you for the thought and effort you have put toward the success of this project.

Read on and help us thank the superheros of our community!

Best,
Liana

P.S. By the way, if you're not familiar with the hippo meme, The hippo has long been "the mascot" of Second Life. In the early days, Linden service announcements on the public forums would often feature the dramatic doings of super-powered yet secretive hippos who kept the grid safe from bugs released by evil gnomes. It seemed an appropriate icon for the open source project.

- - - - -

'''HOW IT WORKS'''

== Nominations ==
If you would like to nominate your open source peers for a Hippo Award, then please
* sign in to the [https://jira.secondlife.com Issue Tracker] and add the person's Second Life avatar name as a subtask to the appropriate category (below), and
* write a comment about what their contribution was and why you find it to be exemplary. Please cite jira issues, wiki pages or other examples of the contribution wherever possible.

Nominations are open from 2008 June 25 through 2008 July 8 at noon PDT.

Additional notes:
* Although the issue tracker has a voting feature, winners will not be selected by popular vote but through the jury process described below.
* Please create only one jira issue per nominee per category. You are welcome to second a nomination by commenting on the jira opened in that nominee's name.
* People may be nominated in multiple applicable categories.

=== Eligibility ===
* Nominees are eligible to win if their contribution was made between 2007/07/01 and 2008/06/30.
* Linden Lab employees and family members are not eligible to win.

=== Judging ===
These are juried awards, and winners will be selected based on a point system used by the judges. The judges panel will be comprised of Linden open source team members and developers.

== Categories ==
Nominees should exhibit not only a great track record in their respective categories but also exemplify core community values of collegiality and respect.

Visit the jira links below to read a description of the category and make nominations.
* Best Documentation [https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/MISC-1301 MISC-1301]
* Best Project Organizer [https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/MISC-1302 MISC-1302]
* Best Contribution [https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/MISC-1303 MISC-1303]
* The Jesse Malthus Award for Best Community Influence [https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/MISC-1304 MISC-1304]
* Contributor of the Year [https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/MISC-1305 MISC-1305]

We have redefined some of the categories from last year and added a new one in order to reduce overlap and increase coverage of the breadth of work coming from the community.

== Awards ==
Award winners will be announced in early September. I'll be sending another message with the exact date, time and location of this event. You can see last year's award announcement on the blog.

=== Prizes ===
The 2007 Hippo Award winners received a rent-free parcel on the open source island Hippotropolis for one year and a gift of Linden dollars. The Contributor of the Year also received a Macintosh computer. Based on feedback from the 2007 winners, we'll be making some changes to the prize types and distribution this year, though the overall value of the prizes will be similar. A later announcement will detail this year's prizes.

= About the Awards =
The annual Linden Lab Innovation Awards, known as The Hippos, recognize excellence in developing the Second Life platform. The awards acknowledge outstanding work on the open source Second Life Viewer.

= Why the Hippo? =
The hippopotamus has long been a kind of unofficial mascot of Second Life. When the Viewer source code was first published in January 2007, the open source community quickly discovered the llhippo.cpp easter egg and claimed the humble hippo as it's own.

= Links =
== Past Announcements ==
In August of 2007, Linden Lab [http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/08/25/innovation-award-winners-announced/ announced] the first Hippo Award honorees: Nicholaz Beresford, Alissa Sabre, Able Whitman, Gigs Taggart and Strife Onizuka.

- - - - -

The LINDEN LAB INNOVATION AWARDS are for entertainment purposes only and have no monetary or other value. LINDEN LAB, LINDEN RESEARCH, and SECOND LIFE are trademarks or registered trademarks of Linden Research, Inc.

{{Category:Open Source Portal}}

Linden Lab Innovation Awards

2008-06-25T22:55:15Z

Liana Linden: /* Nominations */

= News: 2008 Call for Nominations =
The hippo returns!

We are now accepting nominations for the second annual Linden Lab Innovation Awards. Also known as The Hippos, these awards honor community members who have had the most significant impact on the Second Life open source viewer project over the last year. Please help us acknowledge the work of your peers by nominating candidates in the categories listed in the "How It Works" section below.

Thanks to this community, the Second Life open source project has grown quite a bit this last year, with excellent contributions showing up not only in the issue tracker but also in documentation and community participation. Consider these highlights: Since this time last year, we have seen sldev list membership double and total patches accepted into the release viewer almost triple. Community members have joined in the Architecture Working Group effort to write open protocols for virtual worlds. Bug triages, office hours and team meetings have been well-attended, with invaluable guidance, technical assistance and organizational help coming from the community. You're all to be congratulated. On behalf of Linden Lab, I thank you for the thought and effort you have put toward the success of this project.

Read on and help us thank the superheros of our community!

Best,
Liana

P.S. By the way, if you're not familiar with the hippo meme, The hippo has long been "the mascot" of Second Life. In the early days, Linden service announcements on the public forums would often feature the dramatic doings of super-powered yet secretive hippos who kept the grid safe from bugs released by evil gnomes. It seemed an appropriate icon for the open source project.

- - - - -

'''HOW IT WORKS'''

== Nominations ==
If you would like to nominate your open source peers for a Hippo Award, then please
* sign in to the [https://jira.secondlife.com Issue Tracker] and add the person's Second Life avatar name as a subtask to the appropriate category (below), and
* write a comment about what their contribution was and why you find it to be exemplary. Please cite jira issues, wiki pages or other examples of the contribution wherever possible.

Nominations are open from now through 2008 July 8 at noon PDT.

Additional notes:
* Although the issue tracker has a voting feature, winners will not be selected by popular vote but through the jury process described below.
* Please create only one jira issue per nominee per category. You are welcome to second a nomination by commenting on the jira opened in that nominee's name.
* People may be nominated in multiple applicable categories.

=== Eligibility ===
* Nominees are eligible to win if their contribution was made between 2007/07/01 and 2008/06/30.
* Linden Lab employees and family members are not eligible to win.

=== Judging ===
These are juried awards, and winners will be selected based on a point system used by the judges. The judges panel will be comprised of Linden open source team members and developers.

== Categories ==
Nominees should exhibit not only a great track record in their respective categories but also exemplify core community values of collegiality and respect.

Visit the jira links below to read a description of the category and make nominations.
* Best Documentation [https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/MISC-1301 MISC-1301]
* Best Project Organizer [https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/MISC-1302 MISC-1302]
* Best Contribution [https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/MISC-1303 MISC-1303]
* The Jesse Malthus Award for Best Community Influence [https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/MISC-1304 MISC-1304]
* Contributor of the Year [https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/MISC-1305 MISC-1305]

We have redefined some of the categories from last year and added a new one in order to reduce overlap and increase coverage of the breadth of work coming from the community.

== Awards ==
Award winners will be announced in early September. I'll be sending another message with the exact date, time and location of this event. You can see last year's award announcement on the blog.

=== Prizes ===
The 2007 Hippo Award winners received a rent-free parcel on the open source island Hippotropolis for one year and a gift of Linden dollars. The Contributor of the Year also received a Macintosh computer. Based on feedback from the 2007 winners, we'll be making some changes to the prize types and distribution this year, though the overall value of the prizes will be similar. A later announcement will detail this year's prizes.

= About the Awards =
The annual Linden Lab Innovation Awards, known as The Hippos, recognize excellence in developing the Second Life platform. The awards acknowledge outstanding work on the open source Second Life Viewer.

= Why the Hippo? =
The hippopotamus has long been a kind of unofficial mascot of Second Life. When the Viewer source code was first published in January 2007, the open source community quickly discovered the llhippo.cpp easter egg and claimed the humble hippo as it's own.

= Links =
== Past Announcements ==
In August of 2007, Linden Lab [http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/08/25/innovation-award-winners-announced/ announced] the first Hippo Award honorees: Nicholaz Beresford, Alissa Sabre, Able Whitman, Gigs Taggart and Strife Onizuka.

- - - - -

The LINDEN LAB INNOVATION AWARDS are for entertainment purposes only and have no monetary or other value. LINDEN LAB, LINDEN RESEARCH, and SECOND LIFE are trademarks or registered trademarks of Linden Research, Inc.

{{Category:Open Source Portal}}

Linden Lab Innovation Awards

2008-06-25T22:27:10Z

Liana Linden: 2008 call for nominations posted

= News: 2008 Call for Nominations =
The hippo returns!

We are now accepting nominations for the second annual Linden Lab Innovation Awards. Also known as The Hippos, these awards honor community members who have had the most significant impact on the Second Life open source viewer project over the last year. Please help us acknowledge the work of your peers by nominating candidates in the categories listed in the "How It Works" section below.

Thanks to this community, the Second Life open source project has grown quite a bit this last year, with excellent contributions showing up not only in the issue tracker but also in documentation and community participation. Consider these highlights: Since this time last year, we have seen sldev list membership double and total patches accepted into the release viewer almost triple. Community members have joined in the Architecture Working Group effort to write open protocols for virtual worlds. Bug triages, office hours and team meetings have been well-attended, with invaluable guidance, technical assistance and organizational help coming from the community. You're all to be congratulated. On behalf of Linden Lab, I thank you for the thought and effort you have put toward the success of this project.

Read on and help us thank the superheros of our community!

Best,
Liana

P.S. By the way, if you're not familiar with the hippo meme, The hippo has long been "the mascot" of Second Life. In the early days, Linden service announcements on the public forums would often feature the dramatic doings of super-powered yet secretive hippos who kept the grid safe from bugs released by evil gnomes. It seemed an appropriate icon for the open source project.

- - - - -

'''HOW IT WORKS'''

== Nominations ==
If you would like to nominate your open source peers for a Hippo Award, then please
* sign in to the Issue Tracker and add the person's Second Life avatar name as a subtask to the appropriate category (below), and
* write a comment about what their contribution was and why you find it to be exemplary. Please cite jira issues, wiki pages or other examples of the contribution wherever possible.

Nominations are open from now through 2008 July 8 at noon PDT.

Additional notes:
* Although the issue tracker has a voting feature, winners will not be selected by popular vote but through the jury process described below.
* Please create only one jira issue per nominee per category. You are welcome to second a nomination by commenting on the jira opened in that nominee's name.
* People may be nominated in multiple applicable categories.

=== Eligibility ===
* Nominees are eligible to win if their contribution was made between 2007/07/01 and 2008/06/30.
* Linden Lab employees and family members are not eligible to win.

=== Judging ===
These are juried awards, and winners will be selected based on a point system used by the judges. The judges panel will be comprised of Linden open source team members and developers.

== Categories ==
Nominees should exhibit not only a great track record in their respective categories but also exemplify core community values of collegiality and respect.

Visit the jira links below to read a description of the category and make nominations.
* Best Documentation [https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/MISC-1301 MISC-1301]
* Best Project Organizer [https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/MISC-1302 MISC-1302]
* Best Contribution [https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/MISC-1303 MISC-1303]
* The Jesse Malthus Award for Best Community Influence [https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/MISC-1304 MISC-1304]
* Contributor of the Year [https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/MISC-1305 MISC-1305]

We have redefined some of the categories from last year and added a new one in order to reduce overlap and increase coverage of the breadth of work coming from the community.

== Awards ==
Award winners will be announced in early September. I'll be sending another message with the exact date, time and location of this event. You can see last year's award announcement on the blog.

=== Prizes ===
The 2007 Hippo Award winners received a rent-free parcel on the open source island Hippotropolis for one year and a gift of Linden dollars. The Contributor of the Year also received a Macintosh computer. Based on feedback from the 2007 winners, we'll be making some changes to the prize types and distribution this year, though the overall value of the prizes will be similar. A later announcement will detail this year's prizes.

= About the Awards =
The annual Linden Lab Innovation Awards, known as The Hippos, recognize excellence in developing the Second Life platform. The awards acknowledge outstanding work on the open source Second Life Viewer.

= Why the Hippo? =
The hippopotamus has long been a kind of unofficial mascot of Second Life. When the Viewer source code was first published in January 2007, the open source community quickly discovered the llhippo.cpp easter egg and claimed the humble hippo as it's own.

= Links =
== Past Announcements ==
In August of 2007, Linden Lab [http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/08/25/innovation-award-winners-announced/ announced] the first Hippo Award honorees: Nicholaz Beresford, Alissa Sabre, Able Whitman, Gigs Taggart and Strife Onizuka.

- - - - -

The LINDEN LAB INNOVATION AWARDS are for entertainment purposes only and have no monetary or other value. LINDEN LAB, LINDEN RESEARCH, and SECOND LIFE are trademarks or registered trademarks of Linden Research, Inc.

{{Category:Open Source Portal}}

Linden Lab Innovation Awards

2008-06-25T22:12:56Z

Liana Linden:

= News: 2008 Call for Nominations =
The hippo returns!

We are now accepting nominations for the second annual Linden Lab Innovation Awards. Also known as The Hippos, these awards honor community members who have had the most significant impact on the Second Life open source viewer project over the last year. Please help us acknowledge the work of your peers by nominating candidates in the categories listed in the "How It Works" section below.

Thanks to this community, the Second Life open source project has grown quite a bit this last year, with excellent contributions showing up not only in the issue tracker but also in documentation and community participation. Consider these highlights: Since this time last year, we have seen sldev list membership double and total patches accepted into the release viewer almost triple. Community members have joined in the Architecture Working Group effort to write open protocols for virtual worlds. Bug triages, office hours and team meetings have been well-attended, with invaluable guidance, technical assistance and organizational help coming from the community. You're all to be congratulated. On behalf of Linden Lab, I thank you for the thought and effort you have put toward the success of this project.

Read on and help us thank the superheros of our community!

Best,
Liana

P.S. By the way, if you're not familiar with the hippo meme-- The hippo has long been "the mascot" of Second Life. In the early days, Linden service announcements on the public forums would often feature the dramatic doings of super-powered yet secretive hippos who kept the grid safe from bugs released by evil gnomes. It seemed an appropriate icon for the open source project.

- - - - -

'''HOW IT WORKS'''

== Nominations ==
If you would like to nominate your open source peers for a Hippo Award, then please
* sign in to the Issue Tracker and add the person's Second Life avatar name as a subtask to the appropriate category (below), and
* write a comment about what their contribution was and why you find it to be exemplary. Please cite jira issues, wiki pages or other examples of the contribution wherever possible.

Nominations are open from now through 2008 July 8 at noon PDT.

Additional notes:
* Although the issue tracker has a voting feature, winners will not be selected by popular vote but through the jury process described below.
* Please create only one jira issue per nominee per category. You are welcome to second a nomination by commenting on the jira opened in that nominee's name.
* People may be nominated in multiple applicable categories.

=== Eligibility ===
* Nominees are eligible to win if their contribution was made between 2007/07/01 and 2008/06/30.
* Linden Lab employees and family members are not eligible to win.

=== Judging ===
These are juried awards, and winners will be selected based on a point system used by the judges. The judges panel will be comprised of Linden open source team members and developers.

== Categories ==
Nominees should exhibit not only a great track record in their respective categories but also exemplify core community values of collegiality and respect.

Visit the jira links below to read a description of the category and make nominations.
* Best Documentation link
* Best Project Organizer link
* Best Contribution link
* The Jesse Malthus Award for Best Community Influence link
* Contributor of the Year link

We have redefined some of the categories from last year and added a new one in order to reduce overlap and increase coverage of the breadth of work coming from the community.

== Awards ==
Award winners will be announced in early September. I'll be sending another message with the exact date, time and location of this event. You can see last year's award announcement on the blog.

=== Prizes ===
The 2007 Hippo Award winners received a rent-free parcel on the open source island Hippotropolis for one year and a gift of Linden dollars. The Contributor of the Year also received a Macintosh computer. Based on feedback from the 2007 winners, we'll be making some changes to the prize types and distribution this year, though the overall value of the prizes will be similar. A later announcement will detail this year's prizes.

= About the Awards =
The annual Linden Lab Innovation Awards, known as The Hippos, recognize excellence in developing the Second Life platform. The awards acknowledge outstanding work on the open source Second Life Viewer.

= Why the Hippo? =
The hippopotamus has long been a kind of unofficial mascot of Second Life. When the Viewer source code was first published in January 2007, the open source community quickly discovered the llhippo.cpp easter egg and claimed the humble hippo as it's own.

= Links =
== Past Announcements ==
In August of 2007, Linden Lab [http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/08/25/innovation-award-winners-announced/ announced] the first Hippo Award honorees: Nicholaz Beresford, Alissa Sabre, Able Whitman, Gigs Taggart and Strife Onizuka.

- - - - -

The LINDEN LAB INNOVATION AWARDS are for entertainment purposes only and have no monetary or other value. LINDEN LAB, LINDEN RESEARCH, and SECOND LIFE are trademarks or registered trademarks of Linden Research, Inc.

{{Category:Open Source Portal}}

File:LianaL-taxi-headshot-sm.jpg

2008-05-30T17:48:30Z

Liana Linden: uploaded a new version of "Image:LianaL-taxi-headshot-sm.jpg"

File:LianaL-taxi-headshot-sm.jpg

2008-05-30T17:46:53Z

Liana Linden:

User:Liana Linden/Office Hours

2008-05-30T17:41:13Z

Liana Linden:

{{Office Hours
|Resident=Liana Linden
|location=[http://slurl.com/secondlife/Hippotropolis/225/93/23/ Liana's office]
|topics=
I work on the [http://secondlifegrid.net/programs/open_source Open Source Viewer Program] and related initiatives like the [http://secondlifegrid.net/programs/awg Architecture Working Group]. You can find me at the weekly public open source meeting (time listed below). You can also IM me if you'd like to discuss something that doesn't fit on the open source meeting [[Open_Source_Meeting/Agenda|agenda]].
|times=* Thursday @ 2:00pm - 3:00pm Pacific Time (UTC/GMT -8 hrs; -7 hrs during daylight savings time)
|}}

User:Liana Linden/Office Hours

2008-05-28T17:17:22Z

Liana Linden:

{{Office Hours
|Resident=Liana Linden
|location=[http://slurl.com/secondlife/Hippotropolis/210/114/21/ Liana's office]
|topics=
I work on the [http://secondlifegrid.net/programs/open_source Open Source Viewer Program] and related initiatives like the [http://secondlifegrid.net/programs/awg Architecture Working Group]. You can find me at the weekly public open source meeting (time listed below). You can also IM me if you'd like to discuss something that doesn't fit on the open source meeting [[Open_Source_Meeting/Agenda|agenda]].
|times=* Thursday @ 2:00pm - 3:00pm Pacific Time (UTC/GMT -8 hrs; -7 hrs during daylight savings time)
|}}

Eventlet

2008-05-22T18:25:59Z

Liana Linden: License info added

= Eventlet =

Eventlet is a networking library written in Python. It achieves high scalability by using [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-blocking_IO#Select.28.2Fpoll.29_loop non-blocking io] while at the same time retaining high programmer usability by using [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coroutine coroutines] to make the non-blocking io operations appear blocking at the source code level.

* Example code: [[Eventlet/Examples]]
* Subversion repository: http://svn.secondlife.com/svn/eventlet
* Unstable mercurial (hg) repository: http://www.donovanpreston.com:8888/eventlet
* Trac page: http://svn.secondlife.com/trac/eventlet
* Mailing list: https://lists.secondlife.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/eventletdev

== Documentation ==

'''Note: The documentation refers to the unstable mercurial branch'''

[[Eventlet/Documentation]]

== Releases ==

{| cellpadding="6"
|-
| '''Name''' || '''Date''' || '''Zip''' || '''SVN'''
|-
| beta-1 || Aug 24, 2007 || [http://svn.secondlife.com/trac/eventlet/changeset/8/branches/beta-1?old_path=%2F&format=zip] || [http://svn.secondlife.com/svn/eventlet/branches/beta-1]
|}

== Requirements ==

Eventlet runs on Python version 2.3 or greater, with the following dependencies:
* [http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/greenlet greenlet]
* [http://pyopenssl.sourceforge.net/ pyOpenSSL] if you want to use ssl sockets
* (if running python versions < 2.4) a deque object in a <code>collections</code> module. One option is to copy [http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/259179 this deque] into a file called <code>collections.py</code>.

== Eventlet at Linden ==

eventlet is the networking library used to implement the [[backbone]] architecture. Backbone is primarily an http server, and as such uses the eventlet.httpd module. eventlet itself is responsible only for handling http protocol-level semantics; "web framework" concepts such as URL traversal and html rendering are implemented in a separate python package, [[mulib]].

== Limitations ==

* Not enough test coverage -- the goal is 100%, but we are not there yet.
* The SSL client does not properly connect to the SSL server, though both client and server interoperate with other SSL implementations (e.g. curl and apache).
** We could use a) a unit test that reproduces the bug (rather than the hand-testing we have been doing) and b) a fix for said bug.
* Not tested on Windows
** There are probably some simple Unix dependencies we introduced by accident. If you're running Eventlet on Windows and run into errors, let us know.
** The eventlet.processes module is known to not work on Windows.

== Eventlet History ==

Eventlet began life as Donovan Preston was talking to Bob Ippolito about coroutine-based non-blocking networking frameworks in Python. Most non-blocking frameworks require you to run the "main loop" in order to perform all network operations, but Donovan wondered if a library written using a trampolining style could get away with transparently running the main loop any time i/o was required, stopping the main loop once no more i/o was scheduled. Bob spent a few days during PyCon 2006 writing a proof-of-concept. He named it eventlet, after the coroutine implementation it used, [http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/greenlet greenlet]. Donovan began using eventlet as a light-weight network library for his spare-time project [http://soundfarmer.com/Pavel/trunk/ Pavel], and also began writing some unittests.

* http://svn.red-bean.com/bob/eventlet/trunk/

When Donovan started at Linden Lab in May of 2006, he added eventlet as an svn external in the indra/lib/python directory, to be a dependency of the yet-to-be-named [[backbone]] project (at the time, it was named restserv). However, including eventlet as an svn external meant that any time the externally hosted project had hosting issues, Linden developers were not able to perform svn updates. Thus, the eventlet source was imported into the linden source tree at the same location, and became a fork.

Bob Ippolito has ceased working on eventlet and has stated his desire for Linden to take it's fork forward to the open source world as "the" eventlet.

== License ==
Eventlet is made available under the terms of the open source MIT license below.

'''EVENTLET'''

Copyright (c) 2005-2006, Bob Ippolito

Copyright (c) 2007, Linden Research, Inc.

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Architecture Working Group

2008-05-15T16:47:38Z

Liana Linden: Changed "Second Life Grid Open Grid Protocol" to "Open Grid Protocol," plus minor changes to phrasing elsewhere

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== About ==
AWG's mission is to develop the protocols that will open up the Second Life Grid from something operated solely by Linden Lab to where others can run parts of the grid.
* Linden Lab's [http://secondlifegrid.net/programs/awg overview] of Architecture Working Group
* Learn more about scope, timeframe, getting started, process and best practices in [[About AWG]].

== Meetings ==
=== AWG Meetings ===
Formal meetings will likely be held 3-4 times/year and located in Second Life to facilitate broad participation. Meetings will be coordinated on [[SLDev]].
* [[AWG Meeting 2]] held 18 March 2008: Follow link for chat log, audio recording and other resources.
* [[AWG Meeting 1]]: Agenda, transcript, work items, participant responses and other resources.

=== Zero's Office Hours ===
Engineering Director Zero Linden hosts technical discussions about Second Life Grid development at his office hours 2x/week. Date, time, location and transcripts available at [[User:Zero Linden]].

NB: Task-based work groups are encouraged to self-organize community meetings to move forward particular work areas and discuss hot topics as needed. See [https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User:Liana_Linden/AWG_homepage_draft#Resources Resources] below.

== Documents and Resources ==
=== Specifications ===
The current, and first, draft of the proposed "Open Grid Protocol" can be found here:

* [[SLGOGP Draft 1 | Open Grid Protocol Draft 1]]
** also available in [http://secondlifegrid.net.s3.amazonaws.com/docs/specs/SLGOGP-draft-1.html HTML] and [http://secondlifegrid.net.s3.amazonaws.com/docs/specs/SLGOGP-draft-1.pdf PDF]

Please Note:
* The draft page is locked because we want a stable reference for discussion and to base the next draft on. Each section in the draft has a link on the right to a discussion for that particular section. Discuss!
* Previously, we referred to this document as "Second Life Grid Open Grid Protocol" or "SLGOGP." This has now been shortened to "Open Grid Protocol," but you may see the old terms on some documents and links.

=== Design Documents ===
The current state of the group's design:

* [[Second Life Grid]]: Description, motivation and goals.
** [[Architectural Principles]]
* [[Structural Design]]: Overview of structure, description of agent and region domains, etc.
** [[Agent Domain]]
** [[Region Domain]]
* [[Second Life Grid Protocols]]: Description of current Second Life Grid architecture
** [[Second Life Grid Protocols/Foundation|Foundation Protocols]]
** [[Login Protocol]]
** [[Teleport Protocol]]
*** [[SLGOGP_Teleport_Strawman | Teleport Strawman]]
* [[Second Life Grid Glossary]]

=== Resources ===
* [[AWG Use Cases]] contributed by work group members.
* [[AWG_Test_Harness|AWG Test Harness]]

Related efforts, groups and work:
* [[AWG Implementations]]: Projects working to achieve interoperability with the project
* [[The Incubator]]: A place for new ideas and concepts
* [[AW Groupies]]: Informal discussions by the people that make up the AWG
* [[Viewpoint Advocacy Groups]]: A set of groups developing ideas around particular issues

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Linden Lab Innovation Awards

2008-05-01T03:33:48Z

Liana Linden:

The annual Linden Lab Innovation Awards, known as The Hippos, recognize excellence in developing the Second Life platform. The awards acknowledge outstanding work on the open source Second Life Viewer.

The hippopotamus has long been a kind of unofficial mascot of Second Life. When the Viewer source code was first published in January 2007, the open source community quickly discovered the llhippo.cpp easter egg and claimed the humble hippo as it's own.

In August of 2007, Linden Lab [http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/08/25/innovation-award-winners-announced/ announced] the first Hippo Award honorees: Nicholaz Beresford, Alissa Sabre, Able Whitman, Gigs Taggart and Strife Onizuka.

The 2008 Hippo Awards call for nominations will be posted to the [http://blog.secondlife.com/ Second Life Blog] in early summer. Stay tuned.

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The Linden Lab Innovation Awards are for entertainment purposes only and have no monetary or other value.

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Linden Lab Innovation Awards

2008-05-01T03:32:21Z

Liana Linden: updated for 2008

The annual Linden Lab Innovation Awards, known as The Hippos, recognize excellence in developing the Second Life platform. The awards acknowledge outstanding work on the open source Second Life Viewer.

The hippopotamus has long been a kind of unofficial mascot of Second Life. When the Viewer source code was first published in January 2007, the open source community quickly discovered the llhippo.cpp easter egg and claimed the humble hippo as it's own.

In August of 2007, Linden Lab [http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/08/25/innovation-award-winners-announced/ announced]] the first Hippo Award honorees: Nicholaz Beresford, Alissa Sabre, Able Whitman, Gigs Taggart and Strife Onizuka.

The 2008 Hippo Awards call for nominations will be posted to the [http://blog.secondlife.com/ Second Life Blog] in early summer. Stay tuned.

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The Linden Lab Innovation Awards are for entertainment purposes only and have no monetary or other value.

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