Gridnaut

Earlier this week I was accepted into the Gridnaut program. For those who don’t know what a gridnaut is, A gridnaut is one of the beta testers for the Open Grid public beta. It allows me to use the Open Grid client and access both Second Life simulators and OpenSim simulators (that have applied the patch).

There is a lot of work that still needs to be done before this will reach the primetime but the developers are already working hard on this.

UPDATE - Radar asked in the comments about how he could sign up to be a gridnaut because dumb old me forgot to add that information in, so here it is  (Quoted from the Second Life Wiki) :

  1. To participate as a developer, please send a request to join the Open Grid Public Beta Mailing List.
    • Please subscribe using an email address associated with your SL account. We may discard subscription requests that we can not confirm belong to Second Life residents.
  2. Once you’re subscribed, you’ll be invited to join the inworld group for participants.
    • You will receive two invitations, one from the main grid, and one from the Preview Grid (aditi). We recommend joining the group on both grids, however only Preview Grid membership is required for intergrid teleporting.
    • To accept the preview grid invitation you will need to log onto the preview grid normally. You can use the normal preview grid viewer, available from the downloads page, or you can use your main SL viewer. To use the main viewer, hit shift-ctrl-g from the login screen and then select “aditi” from the pulldown menu that appears.
    • If you have more than one avatar associated with the same email address, we will invite one of them. If our guess wasn’t the av you wanted to participate, email us at ogpb-info@lindenlab.com
  3. Claim a space on the map for your OpenSim region.
  4. Download the Open Grid Beta Viewer.
  5. Build an OpenSim region with the OGP patch.
  6. Use the Open Grid Client to Teleport between Region Domains

Open Grid - 1 - Ruth at Open Sim

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2 Comments

radar  on August 10th, 2008

do they have an official web site? where do i sign up?

Gridnaut Linden Bear « Dedric Mauriac  on August 23rd, 2008

[...] as per instructions. Hopefully I’ll figure out what is going on. At this point, I’m asking friends to try and log-in, hoping it’s just an internal network issue.posted by Dedric Mauriac on Ambleside [...]

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