Very Unofficial OpenSim London Meetup
Hi folks,
Darren Guard (founder of OpenSim & TribalMedia, consultant for Rezzable), Chris Hart (CTO of ReactionGrid) and myself, Justin Clark-Casey (OpenSim core developer, consultant, ex-IBM and Black Dress developer, notorious killjoy) recently began to talk about having a face-to-face mini OpenSim meetup.
Since we’re all in the UK (at the moment) we’re going to meet in London at a pub called “The Jugged Hare” near Victoria station.
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=the+jugged+hare%2C+london
on Sunday 31st January 2010 between 12:30pm and 5:30pm.
Rather than just do this by ourselves, we thought it would be very cool to open the invitation up to everybody, especially as it’s more or less coincidental with OpenSim’s 3rd birthday!
This is going to be a very informal event - there won’t be any banners or formal presentations. It’s really just a bunch of us sitting around talking about OpenSim and virtual worlds. Oh, and we’ll be having a few beers too 
So if you’re interested or involved with OpenSim (or even other virtual worlds/environments) in any way and want to come along we would be very pleased to see you! Just show up any time between 12:30pm and 5:30pm or if you want us to look out for you, just tell us that you’re coming (by e-mail, blog post comment or any other way you like). I’m sure we’ll be tweeting on the day too.
Until then, all the best!
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Hi Justin
I am going to try to make this Meetup if at all possible.
I am on the wagon from January 1st to April 29th to lose weight so wont be drinking (sulk) but I would very much like to meet you guys and am willing to watch you guys drink for 5 hours, just to do it. Hopefully this will be the first of a few meet ups over the year and I can get my share of the drinking done next time. Thats the nature of community effort we all have to what we can.
I run a small Opensim based grid called PMgrid with my friend Peter so hopefully we can both make it.
You will be able to spot me easily. I am the overweight chap with the soft drink in his hand looking sad… LOL
Best Regards… Bob Wellman
@Bob - I doubt I’m going to be drinking all that much myself - I need to drive at the other end. There should be a good few of us there, judging by the response on the OpenSim mailing lists, on Twitter and by a couple of people direct to ourselves.
Look forward to seeing you! Hopefully you can recognize me, there’s a picture on http://justincc.org/blog/about, but it’s not a huge pub anyway.
I will listen for a conversation with the word “OAR” in it and then I know its either you guys or a rowing team.
@Bob - Ha ha ha
@bob - I just stumbled across some pictures of the PMgrid regions
http://www.osgrid.org/elgg/pg/photos/album/81147/bob-wellman-pmgrid-romenna
They look very nice!
[...] folks. Just a small reminder about the OpenSim London Meetup happening next weekend in London. It’s a very informal event but I’ve been pleasantly surprised at how many people [...]
@Justin
Those photos are now 108 days old. That particular build (Romenna by Nick Lassard) was like that in PMgrid all that time ago. Then we used OAR (written by some smart guy called Justin) to move it to another grid called Arda grid (run by Reaction grid) where it continued to be developed, whilst a new project (Gondolin by Nick Lassard) was started in PMgrids limited server space.
Recently we used OAR to move a copy back to PMgrid so we could test having it as a 16 sim megaregion in Pmgrid whilst building work continues in Arda grid. There are some problems with that but we are endevouring to locate the cause.
You should see the build now. Its over 19,000 prims and still growing. In fact feel free to come see it in either Pmgrid or Arda grid sometime.
I must say OAR is a real masterstoke. It opens up such opportunities for swapping builds around. I thank you so much for writing it. I may even buy you a beer to say thanks on Sunday.
Please tweet and blog, very interested but will be in the aquarium (also not drinking:))
@Marie - I’ll certainly be tweeting tomorrow, though annoyingly the Twitter SMS gateway doesn’t reply to a register request from my Orange mobile phone (amazingly, I don’t yet have a smartphone). I will also blog about what happens tomorrow next week.
Ah, the Twitter gateway was just being slow - I now have full SMS to Twitter capability so everything should be fine.
Hey guys, it was good meeting you this afternoon. Unfortunately didn’t get to speak to everyone, as I had to leave early, although much of the conversation was above my level of experience at the moment. If anyone wants to get in touch you should be able to through my website linked through from here
[...] folks. As many of you know, last Sunday (Tuesday 2nd Feb 2010) we had an OpenSim real-world meetup at The Jugged Hare in London. It was a really great event - lots of very interesting people came [...]
@Darren Thanks for coming along. I’m sorry we didn’t get much of a chance to talk - hopefully we will in the future!
Pity I had to miss this but was in Wales - would really like to attend any future ones.
@Leon - I’m thinking of July for the next one, avoiding the August holidays. Any opinion?
July sounds just about right Justin. Maybe good to fix a date soon. That way people can avoid booking it for holidays.
You’re probably right, Bob. This probably won’t be a little while since I’m heavily loaded with a few other things at the moment but I’ll certainly keep it in mind.