Taken from the ‘about OSMOSA project”:
"Anyone can add, modify, or remove art from OSMOSA. Likewise, anyone can add, modify, or remove elements of the OSMOSA building."
…and taken from a billboard on site:
"2. Anyone can add, edit, or remove* art from OSMOSA. Any art that you contribute to OSMOSA must allow copying and modification. *To remove art from the space, move it to the storage area under the building."
It appears that OSMOSA is intending for contributors to delete/remove other fellow contributor’s prims/objects. As an open source project I believe this is a crucial necessity, but as it's currently set up, no one can delete anything within the OSMOSA project, since none of the prims/objects, that contributors offer to the project, are set to a particular group (such as the OSMOSA group). Unfortunately moving them down into the 'storage area', as a way of removing them, is not a viable option either, since the parcel will quickly max out on the number of prims it can hold.
In order to archive a prim/object(s) and not have it count against the number of prims a parcel can support, you'd have to save the prim/object(s) within another prim. Since this is not the most user-friendly procedure, I'd recommend posting step by step archiving instructions on site.
The SL group, ‘RL Architects in Second Life’ is conducting a similar experiment called Wikitecture 2.0, to determine just how feasible a collaborative approach in design might be for the architectural profession. We ask our contributors after they are done building for the day to archive their work at an ‘Archiving Kiosk’ on site. The archiving instructions, here, could potentially be used as a starting point for informing the archiving procedures for the OSMOSA project.
I really feel if this is project is truly going open-source, you have to allow the individual contributors the power to modify in all capacities, which includes deleting.
Regards,
Theory Shaw
3 comments:
Agreed! We're working out the details, but we only plan on staying in our present location until Mid-May. Once we make the move, it will be an OSMOSA group set-up similar to your project (and then participants will be able to delete).
I need to look over those archiving directions. I'll get back to you with questions for sure.
cheers!
kiera
What Kiera said is totally correct. Our objective is to make this as totally open-source as possible in this infrastructure. That being said, on our current property, we cannot allow for such modification of prims, but once we move (sometime this month!) it will definitely be allowed.
What Kiera said is totally correct. Our objective is to make this as totally open-source as possible in this infrastructure. That being said, on our current property, we cannot allow for such modification of prims, but once we move (sometime this month!) it will definitely be allowed.
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