Re: [OpenVerse] [Fwd: Fwd: Communities.com Announcement]

[owner-openverse@daytona.com]

On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Steve Baker wrote:

> OK Openverse, Electronic Communities has just royally pissed off their
> Palace users with this announcement: They are abandoning Palace. Here's
> your chance to convert all those people to Openverse! Start a campaign!
> 

I didn't know there were any other palacers on this list.  I've been
lurking on the sidelines of this list because I have felt for about a year
now that Communities.com (previously Electric Communities) was going to do
something (I didn't know what) which would leave the palace community
hanging.  Perhaps now is the time to become more active.

At present, virtual.dyc.edu hosts 3 palaces, one an educational palace
which CC gave our college for free.  While the server will work for a long
time, the clients will not as OS's are upgraded.  The code is not open,
and so we cannot recompile it for new platforms.  Further, it is illegal
to redistribute the binaries for the client. It will not be long before
the community on those palaces fades away. 

I am now going to actively explore using openverse for educational
purposes.  My collegue and I who started virtual can program in C/C++,
Java, Perl among others.  I'm working on TCL/TK.  I also can translate
help files into Italian --- I heard there was such a need.  Perhaps I may
be of service in making OpenVerse better than anything to come out of CC.

(I feel like saying something stupid at this point like, "Long live the
Open Source Revolution!", but I shall refrain ... or did I just say it?)

Anthony G. Basile, Ph. D.
Assist. Prof. of Physics,
Dept. of Math and Natural Sciences
D'Youville College,
Buffalo, NY 14201

(716) 881-8134
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