Gigs Shrugged

Since the Seventh Sun is discontinued currently, and I am not sure of the future hosting situation there, I am reproducing this article for historical interest here.

Gigs’ Corner: SL Grid 08

by Gigs Taggart, Correspondent

This month begins a new regular feature of The Seventh Sun by contributing correspondent, Gigs Taggart. Gigs is a software engineer who is working with Zero Linden and others on the next generation architecture for the Second Life (SL) grid. This month’s topic is the development of an open grid, what Linden Lab refers to as “SL Grid 08.”

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On Wikipedia, a community proposal has been made to remove Jimbo Wales from his postition of absolute authority.  Wales has always enjoyed a title of “benevolent dictator”, even though he dislikes that particular wording.

It is unknown what such a proposal might mean, as Wales would still be on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees.  The proposal has currently garnered mixed results, with about half of the comments positive and half negative.