Littlefield Grid's monthly State of the Grid meeting. All Residents and HG Visitors are welcome!

Friday 09/01/2023 1:30PM Pacific

Today's Topics:
9-11 Memorial Observance, End of Summer Beach Party, Rogue Galaxy performances added, Family Game Night, New Residents.

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It`s Partytime
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with New York EXPO – mit New York Ausstellung

Saturday / Samstag 02.September 2023
starts ◕11:00 OS time / 20:00 Uhr europ.
back to the 2000`s tunes / zurück zu den 2000`s
with/mit ☊ DJ TOMMY WHITE & DJ CRAZY
▶▷▶ at our NEW YORK Rooftopclub
good mood / gute Laune

TAXI : map input / Karte Eingabe : CC CLUBREGION
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For any Gloebs users out there, are you having issues with the system not delivering items? It's also not taking out the cost of the item but is taking a fee for the transacation.

Id also like to know from anyone if you think Gloebs or podex is better to use? Or paypal?

This is just one of the many beautiful sights to see at the Wildlife Preserve called Peaceful Enclave located on the Lioness Den region of our grid. Glow worms are such a beautiful sight to see in their dark caves and this little cave is no exception to that rule. Stop in and tour the region, enjoy the animals and the landscape, there is just so much to see and you can tour on foot, on a horse or use one of our many vehicles available. Blessings and much love, Lavia.

A great alternative to vivox is mumble. It's changed a lot since the mumble-whisper project for opensim back in 2010. I run a mumble server right here at my house, and anyone can connect to it and try it out. On windows just download the mumble client https://dl.mumble.info/latest/snapshot/client-windows-x64 or on apple mac download this client https://dl.mumble.info/latest/snapshot/client-macos-x64
Mumble also has clients in most linux package managers already ready to go. Mumble has super high voice quality and it's totally private. I've already used it at my grid with several people and the quality was amazing. Plus the fact the mumble server runs on a small raspberry pi at my home with zero problems. If you wish to connect to it, just use cyberdatastorm.com as the server address and you can try it out on port 64738. There are also mumble 'servers' for windows, mac os, and linux. So you can run it on something besides a raspberry pi, and have your completely secure and private own voice server. I understand a lot of people worry about vivox listening in to their private conversations. ok. Here's an alternative. What's great about it is you can play opensim with mumble in the background so it doesn't affect the game play at all, AND it's great voice quality.

80's Tunes Today at 12 to 14 SLT - Angels Club Caribou with DJ Ruth

Friendly, Beautiful, Exciting. Free Homes, Islands, Hideaways, Adult Playgrounds, soft Love, BDSM. For AVs from all grids. Ask Jeanne or Angelic at events.

AVs from all grids welcome in Caribou. Yes we are LGBTQ+.

As we are 18+ we dont need much restrictions. With our few rules you are safe.

Kids, please grow to 18+. Not so much about size, more the impression. Ask Jeanne...

hg.caribougrid.com:16002:Caribou

New homes hideaways play venues every day... Explore!

Make a Caribou Avatar? http://hg.caribougrid.com:16002

I am creating a few outfits of your favorite characters and adding them to the Classic Closet store. The first one is Nurse Chapel- Strange New Worlds!

**for the Classic Avatar**

Christine Chapel-Star Trek-Strange New Worlds

https://blog.trekcore.com/2023/07/star-trek-strange-new-wo...



Strange New Worlds revealed that Nurse Chapel helped develop the technology Starfleet uses to alter human DNA to turn them into aliens.

I adore this character so much that I wanted to create the outfit for her.
Pair it up with your favorite short blond hair!

Badge attribution
Jesperhansen1972, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Thank you Ferd Frederix for your inspiration! virtual-hg.com:8002:Monentes Jewelry

Asking for money is not the solution.

In the past, as Copper mentioned, Opensimulator users have already been "cheated." So why go further and ask them for money when many grid owners might need funds to keep their grid running as a hobby and source of entertainment, where they don't earn much money?

The individuals who design Opensimulator, to whom we owe our deepest gratitude, and those who work on derivatives, those who offer "ALL-IN-ONE" solutions like Fred with Dream and Kubwa with their product, do not receive money to feed their families. Even there, there are hours and hours of work, programming, bug fixing; it's not just a simple pastime. Programming to offer a free product is a highly demanding passion.

There's no need to fund the EchoVoice project and continually ask for money. It would be more appropriate to try to find a programmer and contributors to work on an active project, making it compatible with Opensimulator, perhaps developing it in parallel. That would be fantastic, or a team of volunteers who start from scratch by studying the protocols.

Why do I have this idea? Simply because every grid owner could load voice software onto their server in this way, having an independent and parallel voice in Opensimulator.

Why am I against funding EchoVoice? Simply because it would fund a company that employs a programmer and centralizes the voice server, limiting users' freedom of use. I don't believe this is the right path.

Furthermore, the campaign opened by someone insists on saying that open source and projects created by volunteers don't pay rent and don't provide food. I respond again by inviting all of you to think about Ubit, who manages Opensimulator and the contributors to the project, about Fred with Dream Grid that many of you use, and about Kubwa. But this is just one example in the opensim world. There are authors of many viewers who do it out of passion without earning anything. But to go further, it's not true that Red Hat Linux is paid for; all GNU/Linux distributions are free, services are paid for. So, this person who claims that even Linux is paid for is trying to make you believe something that is absolutely not true. Paying for advanced support service or some defined pro features in Linux is equivalent to having something exclusive that that company offers. But even there, you pay about $99 a year to have a SERVICE.

With EchoVoice, you end up funding a company that will need to ask for funding every time until it can generate its own money to pay a programmer for a simple update. Is it based on Opensimulator? If Ubit were to ask for $1 a month for everyone using his (and the contributors') hard work, he would be very wealthy. The same goes for Dream Grid, and this is where the difference lies: the passion with which you program without asking for money, because perhaps through donations you can still achieve a sum.

These individuals, as well as others behind free projects that don't ask for money, started programming and working without asking for anything; that's how trust is gained.

And anyhow, centralizing the EchoVoice service would be wrong.

Think it over carefully.