From roughly two months of my exploration with our virtual museum project, or the Second Life platform as a whole, the collaboration feature is one of its beauties.  The fact that creative and technical minds from all over the world could meet and prototype together in one virtual space is really amazing to me.

Many thanks to Siiri4 Hirvi and Soaring2 Kondor, both are high-tech professional that live and work in Germany, for spending their time and effort in helping us to work out a solution that links events in Second Life into real life, and vice versa.  Their solution is based on the XML-RPC mechanism, where a Python script on the client computer communicates with a LSL script running inside a Second Life object.  This opens up the door to a lot of useful applications that I could think of.  Soaring2 did the whole Python and LSL scripting in just a day in his Linux box, but the porting of his mechanism into my Windows platform took much longer.  At one point when I was about to give up due to problems with the serial implementation of my Windows-based Python, Soaring2 pulled out his old Windows box that he no longer use, and worked out all the details to make it work.

Wonderful collaboration experience, wonderful peoples.

-Emil