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  1. da.tonyhayward@gmail.com'

    Once again David, Thank you for for this. Good Stuff

    1. You are welcome Da…and thanks to you too for that

  2. jane@singinglake.com'

    Thanks for mentioning Metaverse University! We’re adding new classes all the time, I hope people will come check it out. 🙂

    1. Jane, you are much welcome.

  3. vince.medlock@gmail.com'

    Why are my comments continually deleted? I have asked pertinent questions and offered additional valid, verifiable information that is important to the community. Why am I met with censorship?

  4. services@farworldz.com'

    Thank you David for the monthly metrics and analysis. Good job! I posted a linking topic to G+ Opensim Virtual @ https://plus.google.com/communities/116284417302234467612

    Opensim Virtual in Google plus is the longest running G+ community for Opensim & Hypergrid users and regularly picks up linked topics from Hypergrid Business. With close to 2000 members it is a great social media site to promote Opensim grids, services and products. Both commercial and community sharing is accepted and OV regularly appears in HB list of top social media sites.

    1. Welcome Talla and thanks too for sharing.

  5. wintersilversmith1@gmail.com'

    “This is despite the fact that InWorldz, the most popular OpenSim grid, did not report its land area this month.” because, like the Great Canadian Grid, they have opted out of reporting stats that are historically inaccurate and not a fair representation of the grid or its members participation in it.

    I am happy to see the investment and participation in OpenSim increasing, I just hope that some companies do not see this as an opportunity to make a profit and exploit users. We need to continue to strive to keep OpenSim affordable to all.

    1. da.tonyhayward@gmail.com'

      Yes this is it exactly. Open Sim does need to remain affordable. Whilst I am never against anyone making a fair profit, greed can destroy any business or service very quickly. Also another thing is from what I have heard and understand the Grids you mentioned and a few others I might add do provide a product/service that does work. People get very disillusioned when they pay for a product or service which is no use to them. “There are a lot of fly by nighters” or “cowboy’s” out there still, so I do recommend people to ask around and do some research before committing to any grid.

      1. 1derful61@gmail.com'

        What is affordable? Being the largest population of virtual users are in SL and pay a good amount for a single region. I do see many, Ok a lot using there own machines (PC) and having there own grid with next to no cost. Maybe that’s the future of opensims, Now that’s real affordable.

        1. da.tonyhayward@gmail.com'

          “What is affordable?” Simple what each individual is prepared to pay!
          Quality services and products do have a cost involved, that is just a fact of life. If you want a basic no thrills item or service naturally you pay less, if you want one with all the “whistles and bells” with full after sales service and support that will cost more.

          1. mikka_wanders@gmx.com'

            Spot on. After a bit of severe RL cost cutting our little group will soon be looking to rent a cost shared sim – but for the reasons Da Hayward states, choose to do so on the big grid. Not to put any down on OS, as I still maintain personal space in both (two of the ‘commercial’ grids in the OS case where I have been for a few years) and as 1erworld says, with a third luxury of *just about* running a standalone. HG with that is bonus.

        2. hanheld@yahoo.com'

          >Being the largest population of virtual users are in SL and pay a good amount for a single region.

          …implying that each user owns a single reason. People experienced with SL such as you and I know that is not the case, not by far.

          There’s no rental (parcel) business out here to speak of because there’s no need for it, in SL the high price of regions means that most of the tens of thousands of people in SL who own land own tiny fractions of a region because that’s what they can afford.

          Apples and oranges, basically.

  6. da.tonyhayward@gmail.com'

    One thing i keep noticing in threads such as this is a lot of comments keep referring back to the Big Grid, Second Life.
    This is only my opinion but SL will be around for as long as Linden Labs wish to keep it up and running, that’s the only thing which will keep it up or close it down, nothing else. I personally think most commenters here do embrace Open sim in some form so isn’t it time we focus on Open Sim instead of looking over our shoulder at SL, implying they are the cause of our woe’s? Open Sim has a great opportunity to grow by all of us focussing and saying how can we make it better.

    1. hanheld@yahoo.com'

      I think it’s fair to see how the other guys are doing -no matter the feild, in order to get a sense of what they’re doing right which you can duplicate, and what they’re doing wrong that you can take advantage of. I think it would be a mistake to not look at secondlife given both it’s success and the fact that it’s the closest comparison that can reasonably be made (as opposed to sinespace or high fidelity)

      1. da.tonyhayward@gmail.com'

        oh yes!
        but some focus on it too much to a point of distraction.
        Being aware is always good but obsessing with it isn’t the best course of action.
        Well pointed out Han

  7. graydelwood7@gmail.com'

    Hi this is Gray Delwood and i wanted your readers to be aware of a slight error in your piece above. My class on Photography is every >FIRST< Wednesday of the month (NOT every Wed). Don't want them to be looking for classes that aren't scheduled lol. Also, from the recent feedback of my students, I realized that the 101 class was a bit more advanced than I realized for most residents. SO….i am creating different 'level' classes: Photo100 – VERY BASIC use of viewer snapshots, Photo101- Mid level info and techniques (Windlight Settings, built in filters, & poses), and Photo102 – Advanced Level Photography that would apply to VL and RL photography (composition, software editing and lighting). But THANK YOU David for this great write-up!!!! I look forward to more students from across the Grids!!

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