Minutes of February 13, 2009 ScienceSim Senate

On the call: Andrew Fitz Gibbon, Joel Morrissette, Johan Berntsson, John Hengeveld, Mic Bowman, Tom Murphy, Wilf Pinfold

Next senate meeting: Feb 20, 2009 in SciSim at Kepler (193, 191, 45)

Inworld transcript from Keplar:

Software Mainland requirements

• goal is to put minimal burden on mainland server
• clear that things like security fixes need to be done immediately
• issues currently facing us
  • Mic is seeking a new stable release to incorporate some security fixes
  • Joel is working on audio and documenting process/problems in adding a new server to the mainland
  • Fitz is building AMD 64 bit server to demonstrate Johan's molecules
• The ScienceSim infrastructure portion has been very stable
  • namely the five services ScieneSim provides to sciensim servers: user, grid, asset, inventory, and messaging services
• we need a Senate Opensim Software Foundation Committee
  • which is effectively Mic right now, with Johan, Joel and Fitz likely candidates
  • to recommend to senate
    • changes mainland servers must do
    • changes any Sciensim server must do
    • coordinate rolling upgrade when there is a significant change to server interfaces and behavior

SVN

• It is hard to craft the right dependencies to provide both a 32 bit and 64 bit debian package repository
• build from source is recommended
• Long term this is a “good thing” to provide Scienesim servers
• Short term, lets stay with 32 bit
• Joel will be using one of his blades to start crafting a 64 bit debian package repository

Audio

• Johan is close to having a 3Di version of audio working for ScienceSim. This version is not currently targete to be a general part of OpenSim
  • Joel has this working on Internal network
  • Will only on windows client
• Mic suggested another possibility might be to create a Skype opject in the room that would serve up a Skpe session in a sererate window
• sounds like spacial voice will be a ways off

Legal-ease

• Wilf has some recommendations from Intel legal as a kind of shrink-wrap license agreement before people use ScienceSim
• Wilf figues ACM and IEEE will also want to chime in on this at some point

SLURLs

• I just realized the need for SLURLS and for us using many different browsers
• I am using the SL browser on Mac and got caught in TPing to Newton
  • I saw myself in Kepler and everyone else saw me in Newton
  • I TPed to Yellowstone to try to clear things out since TPing to Newton or Kepler was failing
  • The connection crashed in Yellowstone and every attempt to get back failed because server was reported to be down
• I needed a SLURL or some other mechanism to be able to TP at browser startup to a place other than where you last were
• This will be particularly valuable when the last place you were was on a server that will be down for a awhile

                                             ... Tom Murphy