The Hippos return!

We are now accepting nominations for the second annual Linden Lab Innovation Awards. Also known as The Hippos, these awards honor open source community members who have had the most significant impact on the Second Life viewer project over the last year. Who are these folks? They are C++ developers who have submitted more than 200 patches that have been incorporated into the main Second Life viewer in the last twelve months. They are people with varied talents and backgrounds who have done an enormous amount of work documenting protocols, triaging bugs and contributing to the development of the viewer in countless ways. Linden Lab thanks all these contributors, and we look forward to honoring the community superheroes who are making the Second Life viewer project a success.

This year, we are honoring open source contributors in five categories. If you’d like to make a nomination, read about the work of current nominees or learn more about the Hippos, then please read on. (more…)

The first ever Linden Lab Innovation Award winners were announced today in conjunction with SLCC. This year’s awards focused on open source contributors who are making the Second Life experience better for everyone. Speaking to the SLCC audience in Chicago and in-world, Rob Linden described a community of talented and dedicated open source contributors, and he gave his warmest thanks to all who are helping to make open source Second Life a success. Read on to see the notes from his speech and the names of the 5 winners of what we fondly call the Hippo Awards. If you see these exceptional people in-world, don’t hesitate to let them know you appreciate their hard work as much as we do.
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If you’re not at the Second Life Community Convention in Chicago, you can still catch Rob Linden announcing the winners of the first annual Linden Lab Innovation Awards.

The announcement will take place during the tech panel, from 10am-11am Central Daylight Time (8am-9am PDT/SLT). To hear Rob via Second Life, tune-in to the “social track” audio stream provided by Phreak Radio, or visit one of the official in-world SLCC locations.

Did you know that 36 community programmers have contributed 98 patches that have been included in the Second Life Viewer code so far this year? These Open Source contributors have been doing an amazing job of improving the Second Life experience for everyone. The level of participation in the Open Source Program has been thrilling, and we’re enormously grateful to all of these folks.

To show our thanks, we’ll be giving out Linden Lab Innovation Awards to the best of this year’s Open Source contributors. Nominations are now being accepted in five Open Source categories. To learn more about the Awards and Open Source, or to make a nomination then read on …

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27 Oct: Bandwidth issues have been resolved (see post “Amazon S3 for the Win“). Many thanks to those who reported performance issues with this release. The reports have been aggregated, and developers are actively working on fixes. For those still unable to install or use the Mac client, please see Josh’s forum post for troubleshooting tips and further information.
If you have further issues to report about v. 1.12.3, please use the bug report option in SL or contact Support.
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The release version number is now 1.12.3(4), and the following additional fixes have been added:

* Closing/opening the inventory clears the search bar
* Improved load balancing for Orientation Islands
* Corrected network throttle to relax it after it has been tightened
* Fixed tooltips appearing for invisible windows
* Fixed dropping image on your profile sending image to last profile viewed

We are planning to release Second Life 1.12.3(3) on Wednesday, 25 October 2006. The grid will be closed from 7:00 AM PDT/SLT to 12:00 PM PDT/SLT, and you will need to upgrade to the newest version to login afterwards. Release notes follow … (more…)