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THE HYPERGRID IS READY FOR YOU

NOWMaria Korolov

Editor & Publisher, Hypergrid Businessmaria@hypergridbusiness.com

OpenSim is waiting for you

●Low prices●Full control●Backups●Vivox voice●Hypergrid●Free content

Prices

●Run on your own servers: free

●Kitely: pay-as-you-go●Commercial hosting: $10 to

$90 a month for an SL-style region

●Discounts for multiple regions

Full control

●No outside TOS●You own all the content●You create and manage all

user accounts●You schedule the

maintenance and other downtime

Backups●Save entire regions as OAR files●Save user inventories as IAR files●Save entire grids●Easily switch hosting providers●Revert to previous versions●Share OARs within your

institutions, or with the public

Vivox voice●Same voice as in Second Life●Directional, lip synched●Private and public channels●Free for small grids & non-profits●Easy setup -- add codes to .INI file●Contact: opensim@vivox.com

Hypergrid●Teleport from your grid to those of

other institutions●Your inventories are protected●You can go to meetings, attend

building classes, or hunt for freebies

●Can be turned off when class is in session to keep kids in, strangers out

Free content●LindaKellie.com

○Free OARs to get your grid started

○Dozen different regions○Landscaped○Buildings, freebies, & more

●Opensim-Creations.com●bit.ly/opensim-content

It's not either-or●You can have a private, behind-

the-firewall grid for classes●Use Second Life for networking ●Use Sim-on-a-Stick for private

building●Use Kitely regions for

collaborative building, quick public meetings

Five-step OpenSim quick start●Check out Kitely.com●Travel the hypergrid

with Hyperica.com ●Download New World Studio●Get free OARs from Linda Kellie●Ask hosting providers for free trial

Hosting checklist●Easy-to-use webpanel● Instant OAR exports, uploads ●Easy hypergrid switch●Local time zone support●Free trial, no setup fee●bit.ly/opensim-hosting

Self-hosting options●New World Studio, Sim-on-a-

Stick, Diva Distro●Have regular backups -- critical!●Hypergrid access requires port

forwarding -- an issue for some●"Free as in puppy, not free as in

beer"

Active OpenSim grids

Now at 211, with 274,441 total users and 19,159 active monthly users.

Who's got a private grid?

Types of grids● Open grid: Anyone can connect a region to grid,

even if the region is running on a home computer● Commercial grid: Grid owners are making money● Hypergrid-enabled: Grid allows teleports to and

from other grids● Public grid: Anyone can create a user account

Example: OSGrid is an open, non-profit, hypergrid-enabled public grid. Hyperica is a closed, commercial, hypergrid-enabled private grid.

Types of private grids

● Standalone: Single region● Minigrid: Group of regions hosted on a single

server, typically 4, 9 or 16 regions● Full grid: Unlimited number of regions, hosted on

any number of servers, with a separate server for grid administration and assets

Fastest, easiest way to get into OpenSim

● Login with Facebook or Twitter account, or with email address

● Use Facebook, Twitter groups to manage access to your region

● Quickly upload and download OAR files● Vivox voice, mesh, media-on-a-prim,

megaregions● No hypergrid (yet) -- but it's coming

This is what each user gets for $0 a month:

● One free region of up to 100,000 prims

● Up to two and a half hours of use each month

● Additional unlimited access to any regions where the region owner covers the access costs

This is what each user gets for $35 a month:

● Twenty (20!) regions● Unlimited access to the Kitely grid

Now with flat-rate pricing

● $40 a month for a single region● $60 a month for a four-region

megaregion● $80 a month for a nine-region

megaregion● $100 a month for a 16-region

megaregion

A-la-carte pricing

● Each new region: $0.10 a month. That's ten cents a month.

● Addional use time: $0.20 per hour. 20 cents per hour (billed to nearest minute)

Sample use case:● Students pay $5 each for up to 25 hours

of use a month, plus two regions to build on themselves

● Teacher spends $20 for ten regions, 100 hours of use

● Have different region for each classroom● Export OAR files as backups, previous

versions of builds, other classrooms

Free OpenSim downloads

In order of ease:

● studio.newworldgrid.com ● simonastick.com● opensimulator.org

Sim-on-a-Stick and New World Studio use cases

● Each student can have a free, four-region megaregion on their own computer

● With local networking, students can visit each others' worlds

● A complete world can be distributed to students or other teachers, on a USB stick

Best grids for educators● JokaydiaGrid -- the entire grid is all for

educators!● OSGrid -- visit the Educational Cooperative at

campchamp1 and surrounding regions● ScienceSim -- visit Fern Seed Info region● New World Grid -- visit the BioZone region● New Genres Grid -- visit the HyperSim and

Zerodimension regions● VirtYou -- visit DigiSchool 1, NIFLAR

Reception● Neuland -- visit Eduversa

Best of all -- your OWN grid● University of Cincinnati -- ucsim.uc.edu:8002● vCaltech -- virtual.caltech.edu:9000● Drexel University -- euler.math.drexel.edu:

9000● University of Bolton -- cluster-021.bolton.ac.uk:

3389● University of Auckland -- akl.nzvwg.org:8002● Polytechnic University of Madrid

-- 138.100.96.214:9000

(the above are all hypergrid addresses of private grids)

Links

Hypergrid Business -- hypergridbusiness.com

Hypergrid Destinations -- hyperica.com

These slides -- bit.ly/SUNY-hypergrid

Contact Info:Maria Korolov

Editor & Publisher, Hypergrid Business

maria@hypergridbusiness.comwork: 413-323-4356, cell: 413-559-9055