AW Groupies
Purpose
Serious technical discussion about Linden Lab's Architecture Working Group (AWG). "AW Groupies" is an unofficial, Resident-operated group, though most (all?) members also participate in the AWG.
Invite only (apply in-world to Zha Ewry), but the criterion is simple. Show up and contribute to the AWG, at Zero Linden's office hours, or on the Wiki, or on SL-Dev.
Activities
Currently, we seem to be meeting once or twice a week in-world, and the group IM chat has been quite lively.
Also members are quite active on the wiki and in the SLDEV mailing list.
A public SVN repository is open to all AW Groupies members here:
Contact anyone with root on openmv.org for an account if you are in the AW Groupies group in-world.
Architecture Working Group meetings
- AWG I annual meeting transcript, participants' responses, etc
- AWG II annual meeting transcript, video, participants' responses, etc
In-World Meetings
Meetings are scheduled via the "SL AW Groupies" google calendar"
- XML
- ICal
- Calendar ID: pdd5mpktklo89bgmfgi076mcc4@group.calendar.google.com
- Add to your Google Calendar
Meeting Agendas
Each meeting should have an agenda --- which will be distributed via
- google calendar entry
- in-world notice to the SL "AW Groupies" group
- the AW Groupies In-World Meeting Agenda wiki page
Chat Logs
Chat logs of the in-world meetings are published and accessible via the links below:
- 2007 meetings
- 2008 meetings
- Zero Linden's Office Hour Transcripts
- Which Linden's Office Hour Transcripts
- OpenSim chat logs
- mono beta meeting discussion of het-grid
(if you post chat logs, you might want to use the sllog2wiki perl script to turn them into a more readable wiki table format ready to copy & paste into the chat log page)
Chat logs of AWGroupies meetings should be summarized on the wiki.
Viewpoint Advocacy Groups
Viewpoint Advocacy Groups - groups to focus on specific requirements.
AWG-specific VAGs
- Core Grid Services, Protocols, and Structures VAG
- Event Scalability VAG
- Geometry and Physics VAG
- Live Performances VAG
- Quality Assurance VAG
- Scalability VAG
Work-In-Progress
Work-in-progress wiki pages are architecture pages that are (as the name implies ;-)) work in progress. Once the group has reached consensus that a particular topic is "good-to-go" we'll graduate that page to the main AWG page.
General Concerns
Communications
Documenting current protocols
AWG and citizen pages
- Current_login_protocols
- Current_Sim_Capabilities
- Example_protocol_code
- Hegemons_Login_Analysis#Very_simple_C.23__server
Linden Lab pages
- "Satellite's Eye" view of the Second Life architecture from a service disruption POV
- Message_System_and_Capabilities
- Viewer_Authentication
- Protocol
- LLSD
- Certified_HTTP_Escrow
- ImprovedInstantMessage
- client command line parameters and stuff
libsecondlife reference pages
opensim reference pages
Future Protocols
- deprecated in favor of:
- Second Life Grid Open Grid Protocol (SLGOGP_Draft_1)
- Ongoing next generation protocols documentation effort by Linden Lab
Possible future directions
Asset Security
Scaling Issues
Other
Thinking-in-Progress
- Have a look and contribute to the brainstorming page.
- It's early days on the Multi-Process Client VAG -- draft, but we would highly appreciate input to help with design choices and direction.
External Resources
Stuff of interest to or in connection with the AW Groupies or the Architecture Working Group:
Mailing Lists
IRC
- irc://irc.efnet.net/#opensl
- irc://irc.freenode.net/#opensim * irc://irc.freenode.net/#opensim-dev
- irc://irc.efnet.net/#libsl * irc://irc.efnet.net/#libsl-dev
- irc://irc.freenode.net/#openviewer * irc://irc.freenode.net/#openviewer-dev
- irc://irc.freenode.net/#realxtend (Finnish language but can handle English if needed)
Misc
- discussion of new Map API and related issues
- Open Source Portal --index to all things Open Source for Linden Lab
- Capabilities theory and practice
Members
Founder Zha Ewry