Adam brings good news from OSGrid. After grown over 2100 regions it starts to be comparable with Second Life.
If you haven't popped your head over onto OSGrid in a while, you
might want to take another look. We've made some reasonably big
improvements in recent weeks; above pictured is part of the new
LBSA Plaza (welcome area); but the real improvements have been in
our website.
I mentioned previously the development of Elgg integration on
OSGrid - we put that into production just over a month ago, and
have since spent quite some time refining the integration.
Initially when we deployed, there were a couple of deficiencies in
features over the old website - we've quickly gone past there, and
the new website integrates a whole bunch of shiny new features.
Many
of these features are or will be linked to popular places inworld -
such as the website event calendar being visible on billboards
inworld (using PHP+GD+osSetDynamicTextureURL). We're working on
doing some of the reverse too (such as each region getting it's own
"Page" automatically - similar to how each avatar has it's
own profile page.)
OSGrid itself has grown pretty dramatically
in this period too - it grew on almost every metric by a full 25%
in the last 4 weeks. Regions, users, active users - all shot up.
Infact, using the stats on the OpenSimulator.org grid list
(skipping grids with missing data) - OSGrid now represents between
48 and 56% of OpenSimulator grid users; it's by far the largest and
busiest OpenSim grid. OSGrid currently has about
2,100 active regions (by comparison, the Second Life mainland
is approximately 5,000 regions)
Some of the other improvements we've added was a new
achievements system (pictured above), which we will be expanding to
encourage exploration and participation in OSGrid events. We'll be
rewarding people with 'achievements' for various things such as
participating in official (and some unofficial) events, exploring,
building and more.
Which brings me to OSGrid itself - it's nearly turning 2. On the
22nd of this month, we're going to be celebrating our second
birthday. We're still sorting out what exactly the celebrations
will be - but you can find them on
OSGrid's Event Calendar closer to the 22nd.
So if you haven't already - come
register an avatar and take a peek.
[Apologies to readers for the lack of updates in the last 3
weeks - I've been buried in work, I'll be posting June's commits
wrapup in the next few days -Adam]
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