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Speaking at the NVWN on Wednesday

September 5, 2011
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Speaking at the NVWN on Wednesday

Update 18:36pm 6th September – Location SLurl changed. Hi folks.  Just a brief note to say that Robin Teigland kindly invited me to speak at the Nordic Virtual Worlds Network’s Virtual Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Second Life on Wednesday 7th September 2011, 16:00 – 17:00 CET (7:00 – 8:00 am SLT/PST). This is…

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A look back at my OpenSim 2010 predictions

December 31, 2010
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A look back at my OpenSim 2010 predictions

So, it’s that time of year again when those of us rash enough to make predictions for the year ahead get to look back and regret them.  Actually I shouldn’t say that – I think that I’ve done pretty well this year!  Or perhaps I just don’t take enough fun risks.  Anyway, on with the…

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Pretty OpenSim 0.7 diagrams and updated grid setup instructions

July 30, 2010
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Pretty OpenSim 0.7 diagrams and updated grid setup instructions

Hi folks.  Just thought I’d let you know that I’ve once again undertaken the sisyphean task of updating the OpenSimulator configuration instructions   This time, I’ve updated the grid setup instructions to reflect the current situation in OpenSimulator 0.7.  In fact, I wrote a whole new set of steps based on my experiences in setting…

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Predictions for OpenSim in 2010

January 15, 2010
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Predictions for OpenSim in 2010

Hello folks. Having assessed my 2009 predictions at the end of last year, I meant to get this post out very shortly afterwards but, as so often, life intervened . Still better a couple of weeks late than never, so here are my predictions for OpenSim in 2010. Just to conform with everyone else, I…

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Accurate? My Guesses for OpenSim in 2009 Reviewed

December 31, 2009
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Accurate?  My Guesses for OpenSim in 2009 Reviewed

Hi folks.  I thought that I would spend a little bit of time today assessing the guesses I made for OpenSim back at the start of 2009.  It might be less than usually coherent since I’ve been struck down by a cold today, so please forgive that.  Next year I’ll stick my head out again…

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The Tao of OpenSim

April 11, 2009
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The Tao of OpenSim

In today’s long and rambling post I want to address two topics which have come up for me recently.  The first is the assumption that OpenSim is just trying to be a cheaper Second Life.  The second is the idea that OpenSim development is something that will inevitably be provided by other people and companies. …

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Is a Universal Virtual Worlds Viewer possible?

March 20, 2009
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Is a Universal Virtual Worlds Viewer possible?

Introduction – the Problems of a Universal Viewer In common with quite a few other people, I’ve speculated before about a very different internet architecture for virtual worlds from that of the current Second Life.  Instead of virtual worlds comprised of big ‘grids’ of simulators sharing central services, there would be a much larger number…

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Reflections on Writing an OpenSim Region Module

February 27, 2009
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Reflections on Writing an OpenSim Region Module

Introduction A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that I planned to post something about my experiences in writing the Parallel Selves Message Bridge module.  This is that post, albeit a little bit later than planned   It isn’t a region module writing tutorial – the OpenSim project wiki has one of those if you’d…

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Guesses for OpenSim in 2009

January 9, 2009
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Guesses for OpenSim in 2009

So, I thought I’d somewhat belatedly indulge in that favourite blogging staple, predictions for the coming year.  In my case, I’m going to stick to speculation about OpenSim (or speculation about events that may affect it).  And in the interests of truth in advertising, I’m going to call these guesses as they’re based largely on…

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The democratization of virtuality

September 26, 2008
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The democratization of virtuality

Anybody reading this blog may have noticed that I haven’t posted anything much for the past few weeks, apart from weekly OpenSim development summaries.  The truth is that I’ve wanted to but just haven’t been able to get the time – as I’m sure everyone knows, travelling and starting a new job tends to leave…

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ABOUT ME

Hi, I'm Justin Clark-Casey, an OpenSim core developer and professional software engineer.

On the Linden Lab grid I go by the name of Lulworth Beaumont. On other grids I'm just plain old Justin Clark-Casey.

I'm currently working as a freelance consultant specializing in OpenSimulator and related technologies. If you're interested in learning more then please read the Hire Me page.

I've also written a paper on distributed virtual environments, which examines how virtual worlds could become more like the web, rather than individual silos of users and content.

I often attend the OpenSim Office Hours on a Tuesday on Wright Plaza at OSgrid.org