Hi Elly! I share your vision of an Openlife free of the common human vices, but realistically, you may expect these to appear as soon as the LSL will allow it. And it will surely boom when residents figure out a way to use currency in Openlife, even if the exchange of currency happens somewhere else than in Openlife.

People are always looking to make a buck whenever they can. Not many are content just to create something beautiful for everyone to enjoy freely.

On this, let's not be pessimistic and let's try to lead by example. Since we are among the first Foundation residents, let our creativity shine and maybe, just maybe some people will follow in and open their mind on another way of looking at the universe that does not involve greed at all cost...

Hi Elly and Pratyeka :-)

I also am quite optimistic, competition can improve OpenSims and also Second Life, if we'll let these Grids to inter-communicate, since I think that for a few months or years we have to triplicate our presence, First Life, Second Life and Open Life (I like very much this last definition!)

Ciao ciao

Lapsus (Weinstein, SL)

I agree with what your saying... and yes i agree i can control what goes on in my parcel....but as a community here right now, will we be given a choice to what we will and wont tolerate on openlife...like child avatars ...thats my main concern....Surely, openlife might come up with some sort of policy to not tolerate this type of behaviour!!!  Thats my hope, that this type of behaviour will be kept out of openlife.

Elly

I can safely say that I also share the vision for a cleaner and safer OpenLife.

And in my own sim, I will for certain be placing quality of content 100% above any plans for a quick buck.

I was around to see the launch of Second Life, and it was quite a painfull experience. This has outdone the LL grid and come away shining from its current launch states. Back then, taking into account the economic cliemates also it was not reasonably priced and this, even with the modest region fees is a bargain in comparison. You had to pay $10USD a month just for basic access back then, the equivilent of todays LL free basic account before the stipends were dis-continued for new accounts. I was present (as an innocent onlooker who frequented the venue, and was in no way actually involved) to see the Club Elite experience and the mirriad of problems that started there that form the foundations of many of the LL grids current social problems.

As early adopters we have the ability if we work together to set a precedent that can carry far into the future of this grid.

It's an exciting time for "The Grid" in general. With home based sims just a hop, skip and short/medium jump away.

I think we can keep most of the nuisance things almost under control with the terms of service agreements.
Because the annoying places will have somewhere else to go, and even better for them they can just do it them selves. Make their own rules. The sex trade will boom BIG time and are probably warming up their servers just waiting for the opensims and some private ones, along with LL to get organised, get the sims connected (and the tech problems sorted) and their victims to sign up. If they aren't/haven't already.

But yeah, there will be a cost to us I think. they will need to advertise and need collection and transfer points. but I think we won't get the actual casinos and sex trade here. People might be paid to 'guide' newcomers to their help island.

Anyway..I reckon, Servers and grids, along with home based regions, are going to be popping up like websites did and with the varied range that goes along with it. And as the web grew, so did trouble which governments took years to see it was there and make some rules.
I'm guessing the journey will be similar but we do already have some rules in place. I look forward from Australia to the "Grid Griefer Bill" though.

Cheers!

In SL, I could not afford to have control over a whole sim. Here I do. Within the boundaries of Splendid I will be able to complete the project I had started in SL but was forced to abort because of the state of anarchy all over the mainland. Here in Openlife, it's the pioneer spirit all over again, like the early days of SL.

Just what I was going to say: we have at least one 15 year old on the grid already; why shoudln't 15 year olds be allowed to look 15?  And I certainly hope that we will not end up with the SL witchhunt of short avies.  I'm short in RL and short in my second and open lives.

A case of premature acquisition, no doubt!

I don't know - I only caught the conversation as s/he was being told that the grid was 15+  and then s/he demanded money back and was told to contact Sakai.

Will it end up like secondlife, with brothels, casinos, chiild avatars?

That's what I read Elly, sorry if I misunderstood.