Mark Kingdon, CEO of Linden Lab, assures me that while there is a great deal of interest in exploring the idea of merging the Teen and Main Grid in some fashion, this is NOT currently on the Lab’s roadmap.
Several people had contacted me about an event at which a Linden Lab employee seemed to indicate that the idea of a merger was something being actively pursued. This was clearly, however, speculation or ‘off-the-cuff’ thinking.
Quoting Kingdon:
“There is indeed interest in Linden Lab and the wider Second Life community in having a mixed grid but it would come with a long list of challenges. As such, integrating the grids is not on our current roadmap. It would be a significant policy change for the Lab and we would engage the community in a deeper dialog well in advance of such a move should we decide to make it a strategic priority.”
While I updated my previous post, I wanted to clarify in a separate posts to draw attention to the clarification.
OK. Now. Where were we?
Linden Lab badly needs a faster decisional cycle. Elegant circumlocutions for ‘too hard basket’ really do not cut it. At least we can be reasonably confident no-one will be struck by lightning on the road to Damascus and proclaim that the Teen Grid is like a terrarium, or a garden chair, or an XVIII Dynasty ritual object.
But it DOES run on electricity, and that’s the future anyways Alberik. Oh, that and electric iPhone enabled love machines and steak burritos.
Thanks for the update, Dusan. Disappointing news for educators as well as any of us who are STILL waiting to use Second Life with the younger members of our families…
Thanks for clarifying, Dusan. The employees who most frequently think aloud about the topic are probably Philip and I because we’ve both said we see it as an important next step for the grid…at some point in the future…
Phew!!! The rumour last week was that the teen grid was already closed, which immediately went in the unsubstantiated rumour file when I fired up the website.
You said it Laval. We dodged that bullet, at least for awhile.Beer is on me.
*Places the cover back on the eject button.