I suggested something like that a while ago. I think we still need
the IRC channel for folks who cannot get started, but we also need at
least one permanent stable croquet space for people to connect to and
interact in, and a web page with pointers to the IRC channel and the
various stable croquet spaces. Folks are making some nice tutorials
and there are some nice data sets that have been made (but are not
publically available) but we need some place to collect and collate
that information. Sort of a google for croquet-space.
Within the stable croquet world could be a series of portals to other
stable worlds.
The stable world would be a server on a public network and have a
croquet space that resembles a virtual bizarre or park, with a
bulletin board, some basic instructions and some portals to other
worlds. It would be similiar to the intro world on second life, so
new folks could get oriented. There would be other worlds with
tutorials and AI entities to help folks get up to speed.
It's just a thought.
Janet
PS It seems a lot of people are building large worlds for various
grants, but I cannot seem to get access to those spaces or datasets.
Is anyone making there worlds open for others to copy?
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Wm Annis <
wm.annis@...> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Hans N Beck <
private@...> wrote:
> > why not use Croquet/Cobalt for itself to build a community ? To use
> > them as the medium ?
>
> Forgive me for making a me-too post, but I was thinking this yesterday.
> How about have a portal in the "default place" that points somewhere
> other people might be? The only non-theoretical interest I've ever had
> in Croquet was when I ran across other actual humans tootling around
> in the Collaborative for Croquet public world.
>
> --
> William S. Annis
> www.aoidoi.org
>
