[Opensg-users] openSG Status, August 2015

[Daniel Sperka]

Hi,

I've been happily using OpenSG 1.8 for a number of years, but I've been
concerned about a decrease in activity and recently I haven't been able to
find OpenSG on the web anywhere. I'm considering an upgrade to 2.0, but I
cannot find a website, source code, or any docs on how to migrate from
OpenSG 1.8 to 2.0. The old site www.opensg.org has been offline for months,
and the IP address currently points to an address that does not respond to
pings.

Can anyone give me an update, info on access to source code or a
website? For what its worth, I'd be interested in contributing if I can,
but I have no idea how or where.

Thanks!

Dan

[Carsten Neumann]

Hello Daniel,

Post by Daniel Sperka
I've been happily using OpenSG 1.8 for a number of years, but I've
been concerned about a decrease in activity and recently I haven't been
able to find OpenSG on the web anywhere.

yes, sadly at least Dirk and I have not been able to devote any
significant amounts of time to OpenSG for a while now.

Post by Daniel Sperka
I'm considering an upgrade to
2.0, but I cannot find a website, source code, or any docs on how to
migrate from OpenSG 1.8 to 2.0. The old site www.opensg.org
<http://www.opensg.org> has been offline for months, and the IP address
currently points to an address that does not respond to pings.
Can anyone give me an update, info on access to source code or a
website? For what its worth, I'd be interested in contributing if I can,
but I have no idea how or where.

We no longer have physical access to the machine that was hosting the
website and the system appears to have suffered a hardware failure. The
source code is available on sourceforge
(http://sourceforge.net/p/opensg/code) and Gerrit's github repo
(https://github.com/vossg/OpenSGDevMaster).

Cheers,
Carsten

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[Altenhofen, Christian]

Hello everyone,
we are facing the same issue over and over again.
We are using OpenSG 2.0 in our department and new colleagues or students always ask for OpenSG documentation and tutorials to get started and to learn about Cores, Beacons, Chunks Stages and what not.

I asked this question several times now:
Why don't you just re-upload the old opensg.org website to another server and host it there?
That would help a lot of people with their daily work.

Best regards,
Christian



-----Original Message-----
From: Carsten Neumann [mailto:***@gmail.com]
Sent: Mittwoch, 26. August 2015 05:43
To: opensg-***@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Opensg-users] openSG Status, August 2015

Hello Daniel,

Post by Daniel Sperka
I've been happily using OpenSG 1.8 for a number of years, but I've
been concerned about a decrease in activity and recently I haven't
been able to find OpenSG on the web anywhere.

yes, sadly at least Dirk and I have not been able to devote any significant amounts of time to OpenSG for a while now.

Post by Daniel Sperka
I'm considering an upgrade to
2.0, but I cannot find a website, source code, or any docs on how to
migrate from OpenSG 1.8 to 2.0. The old site www.opensg.org
<http://www.opensg.org> has been offline for months, and the IP
address currently points to an address that does not respond to pings.
Can anyone give me an update, info on access to source code or a
website? For what its worth, I'd be interested in contributing if I
can, but I have no idea how or where.

We no longer have physical access to the machine that was hosting the website and the system appears to have suffered a hardware failure. The source code is available on sourceforge
(http://sourceforge.net/p/opensg/code) and Gerrit's github repo (https://github.com/vossg/OpenSGDevMaster).

Cheers,
Carsten

[Johannes]

Hello,

Post by Altenhofen, Christian
Why don't you just re-upload the old opensg.org website to another server and host it there?

- who is paying the bill?
- who is doing the work?
- who is qualified to do the work?
- who is maintaining the server?
- who is working on the content?

I would really be interested to get some feedback about who is working
and in what way with OpenSG as of today.

What do you think is the future of OpenSG?

Are there enough interested parties around to vivify OpenSG again?

Please speak up so that we can gain some measure of the relevance of OpenSG.

We, my company and I are using OpenSG in a commercial product line.
OpenSG is important for us, but we are lacking of man power and know how
to drive OpenSG substantially. We are once transitioned from 1.8 to 2.0
successfully and never looked back wistfully.

What I would like to see is some community exchange about problems that
the individuals have already solved, e.g. with respect to modern render
techniques, fancy materials etc. I did provide some examples to OpenSG
for problems that I have faced in my venture in 3D with OpenSG.

Best,
Johannes



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[Victor Haefner]

Hello,

I started with OpenSG in 2009 and switched to 2.0 quite some time ago.
My VR authoring system (https://github.com/Victor-Haefner/polyvr) heavily
builds on OpenSG!

I am currently trying to get some things up like SSAO but I am paid for
doing other stuff and I have a wife ;)
Also I would love to be able to contribute, but I am lacking the know how
for that.

I myself am mainly on GitHub, I would suggest to put the old tutorials
there..
I would start it if someone grants me the rights and give me the old
website data, and where to put it.. (gerrits github?)

Best regards,
Victor

Post by Johannes
Hello,

Post by Altenhofen, Christian
Why don't you just re-upload the old opensg.org website to another

server and host it there?
- who is paying the bill?
- who is doing the work?
- who is qualified to do the work?
- who is maintaining the server?
- who is working on the content?
I would really be interested to get some feedback about who is working
and in what way with OpenSG as of today.
What do you think is the future of OpenSG?
Are there enough interested parties around to vivify OpenSG again?
Please speak up so that we can gain some measure of the relevance of OpenSG.
We, my company and I are using OpenSG in a commercial product line.
OpenSG is important for us, but we are lacking of man power and know how
to drive OpenSG substantially. We are once transitioned from 1.8 to 2.0
successfully and never looked back wistfully.
What I would like to see is some community exchange about problems that
the individuals have already solved, e.g. with respect to modern render
techniques, fancy materials etc. I did provide some examples to OpenSG
for problems that I have faced in my venture in 3D with OpenSG.
Best,
Johannes
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