Is RunRev marketed to developers mainly?

[J. Landman Gay]

Kay C Lan wrote:

> As an aside, for Jacque who felt she needed to put a bag over her head,
> obviously in Second Life your Avatar can look really good.

It does. :) Well, sort of good. I didn't want to stray too far from reality.

> But from my own
> perspective, thanks for not putting a bag over your head so I could put a
> face to one of the most helpful people on the List. Thanks also for
> providing a couple of other names to faces (and ears and forearms) of other
> Revers;-)

You're welcome. I hope the targets I named weren't offended. So far, no 
hate mail.

> And lastly way OT, at the risk of offending some, IMO the only 'way cool'
> thing my wife's done in Second Life is go off and get a Tibetan flag and
> then proceed to visit every Beijing Olympic site...

What happened to me when I was a naive, SL noob: I met someone in SL who 
needed a programmer. I blurted that I was one, so they immediately hired 
me without checking my qualifications. At that point, I craftily deduced 
that I'd better learn the language. Linden Script is a strongly typed 
language similar to C++ in some ways, full of curly brackets and 
semicolons, totally foreign to me. It took me 2 weeks before my first SL 
script would finally compile, allowing me to create something I could 
have written in Rev in ten minutes. In the morning. Before coffee.

I got paid 1,000 Lindens for it though. I was so proud. That's about 
three dollars.

But to keep this on topic: I've recently heard of several businesses and 
corporations who are holding live meetings, conferences, and teaching 
sessions in SL. Many U.S. companies have a presence there, and some 
universities are holding accredited classes in SL. Teachers have found 
that students learn more when they have an instructor to interact with, 
even if it is a virtual one. Other companies use SL as an extension of 
the real world; i.e., selling products and services, and giving out 
small freebies as incentives. SL can link to the "real" internet too, so 
you can have (somewhat limited) interaction between the two.

What I really want, and I've thought about it, is a Rev stack that would 
produce Linden Script. But the languages and environmental behaviors are 
so very different that I don't see how it would be possible. But I sure 
wish.

If RR decides to open a presences there, I would love to get hired to 
staff the place. :)

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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