I'm thinking about open-sourcing the Second Life piece of the totem system.
This would enable anyone to build their own type of visualization, that works with totem... and use it to render any data anyone has uploaded to totem, given the right gql query.
We need a collaborative, community-driven website for totem... also that will enable the contest we will be doing:
A contest for the most significant truth revealed through use of totem. Data art in Second Life.
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by the way, if you need an invitation code for registration to use totem, just use friends45
ps - and yes, if you created your own type of visualization, you could charge L$ and sell your own assistant objects
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Good idea. Bold and enabling. If there is anything approaching truth out there, the wisdom of crowds is likely to reveal it.
Open source under a GNU license, presumably? Have you considered a Creative Commons license? I don't know how material the differences would be in practical terms but it might make a difference in perception. I suspect that Creative Commons is viewed as a more commercially oriented approach as when a musician or composer allows her original song or composition to be sampled or otherwise used by others. Something to consider if you haven't looked at it explicitly. woody
I wonder what the Green Phosphor community thinks about the differences between GNU and CC?
woody
Why not just release it under both? Provided that does not cause a code fork :)
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