Rarified announced on the OpenUru forums today the opening of the Minkata test shard . Why is this important? As rarified explains: The test shard will be the place where programming (and hopefully in the future, content) contributions to open source Uru projects can be experienced by players, and ...

So far, so good...

Thanks, rarified!

Where should discussions about the test shard take place? Where should we report potential bugs or problems? For example, I have just linked back to Relto for the first time after collecting KI, then going to the city and adding nexus links to Tokatah and the Library, then going to Minkata to get th...

Gosh, thank you all!

Bravo, Andy!

As an aside and possibly of interest, one of the opensource SL/OpenSim viewers, Imprudence, seems to be going through a similar process. See Why doesn’t Imprudence have multilayers, inventory links, or mesh rendering?

That sounds fine to me. Good luck with all the projects!

Would you be interested in a Devokan story thread being developed around this? I can imagine what might be there in the ruins.

Similarly for the Mechanical Area...

Thanks, Nye.

By the way, I'm not just talking about game delivery, but a more general-purpose tool: something that non-programmers might be able to use to bring in info that they are able to create/change from the web.

Would it be worth spinning this discussion into a separate thread? It is something I would be very interested in, and potentially could be used as a general model/method beyond the social area, which is strictly the topic of this thread.