Kiosk Locations

[catefo...@gmail.com]

The most recent three..Rydal (listed twice) and B & T..are mistakes. I tried to set up the boards Orca gave me- each containing a Leeward Cruising Club logo, an LCC joiner poster, and an OSP 1 prim kiosk. Nothing seemed to work properly so I have removed all boards. Imagine my surprise when I found I HAD somehow made contact with the group!  At any rate, will somebody please remove those three listings? And then tell me, in simple terms, how I can set up an information/join board for this group? I LOVE this idea and will be most pleased to place them at all my sailing sites.

[Indigo Mertel]

Hi Cate...

first of all, thanks a lot for joining our project.

The kiosk system should take care of missing links by itself. Sasun
Steinbeck, the builder, made a very good system that takes care of
most things by itself. It should flag the missing kiosks or remove
them automatically. I don't remember how it handles it but I'll keep
an eye on it and will remove the kiosks if needed.

I am not sure to understand what is the problem you had. Anyway,
setting up a kiosk is very easy. All you need is a kiosk requester,
once you receive it you can click on it and you'll get a menu with a
couple of kiosks models to choose from. They are all quite simple and
low prim. Choose the kiosk you want, rezz it and place it where you
want. When the kiosk is rezzed it automatically communicate with the
remote server and register itself. That's about it.

If you don't have a kiosk requester please let me know and I'll send
you one inworld.

By the way you describe it, it sounds as Orca gave you a customized
version of the kiosk that includes extra items? You mention of a
Leeward Cruising Club logo and LCC joiner poster, which are not
included in the package we distribute. Personally, I have no objection
to that. However, if something is not working as it should we may have
to look into how Orca added these items and whether they interfere
with the kiosk functioning.

If you need help, holler... :)

* Indigo

[catefo...@gmail.com]

Thanks, Indigo...
Yep, Orca combined our club logo and joiner with the OSP board..trying to spread the word, you know. It appears to have worked for her..but not sure about others. We need to check all of the boards she handed out,

Yes, I do need a kiosk register!  I want to get the info up at all the Outposts I am responsible for..4 at the moment.
Thanks again..you have no idea how happy I am to see a group tackling these problems.

[Indigo Mertel]

Ok, there are a couple of issues to consider then:

The kiosk system is based on a central server and a network of kiosks.
The server is located at the SLCG Station Muirhead, by the way. What
makes this setup particularly appealing is that it greatly simplifies
management and distribution. The poster that is displayed on the
kiosks is not stored in the kiosk itself but in the server. If we
wanted to update the poster with a new one all it takes is updating
the poster in the server. The same goes with any object distributed by
the kiosks when people click on it, it is all configured in the
server. Even better, every poster can be associated to one or more
specific objects, so that only the objects associated to the poster
are delivered to the visitor who clicked the kiosk.

If we had hundreds of kiosks all over the SL grid we could update all
of them with a single operation. Sasun's system can be also be
configured so that it displays a different poster on a rotation every
x number of minutes/hours. Our kiosks don't rotate the poster because
at this point we don't need it, but we could.

In order to customize the poster and have a group joiner, Orca must
have added some scripts and applied her own poster on the kiosks. Fine
with me, but this kind of defeats the ease of maintenance for those
kiosks. Also, should we decide to update the poster with a new one, or
have rotating ones, the network script would prevail and Orca's kiosks
would no longer display her poster.

There is another issue: I can send you the kiosk requester but our
kiosks would have to be customized either by you or Orca.

There are 4 solutions to this.

1. You guys use your customized version of the kiosk, but you need to
understand that any configuration change made on the server would
affect your kiosks as well. That is, unless Orca removed the kiosks
scripts.

2. I can check the kiosk manual to see if we can have a special
configuration for a limited number of kiosks, so to have everything
under control of the server. I doubt it but I am going by memory.

3. I could set up a second server to manage your kiosks. I would
prefer to avoid this because it means having to run an extra set of
scripts. Not good for lag.

4. We could let all the groups sponsoring the project have their own
customized posters and have them all on rotation. This means that your
kiosks would not always display your poste,r but in turn your poster
would be displayed in other locations across the whole network. Each
group could also have custom objects associated to the poster. This
has the advantage of promoting both the OSP *and* the sponsoring
groups. It may even be an incentive for people to sponsor the OSP. I
kind of like this option, but we would have all to agree with it.

Comments anyone? What's your opinion?

* Indigo

[Tasha Kostolany]

Open Seas Project has the purest, and simplest mission statement -- lets not cloud it with other group missions  -- if, howver,  groups want to attach their name and signs to it OSP -- great -- welcome aboard. but lets not mess up  what Indigo has set up -- its simple. It works - Orca just need to get with the program

[catefo...@gmail.com]

I'm back and now I know it was ME, not the way Orca put together the board for LCC Outposts!
I have now got myself straightened out, got the kit, and put kiosks up at all Outposts belonging to me and/or Greythistle.
The last one up is Rydal which isn't showing on the list..but that will probably kick in later.

Orca was trying to create something for the Outposts, especially new ones, that would combine all our necessary stuff...our Logo and Joiner board..with the OSP kiosk. The idea being to get everybody on board and spread the word. I think she did a fine job and am pleased she thought of it. It was the thing that finally got me off my rear and got me interested enough to join. The only problem was ME..I have a way of not getting the obvious and needing to stumble around and crash into walls before things make sense.

Anyway, all is good now and I thank you all for input and for creating this project in the first place..yay!!

[Indigo Mertel]

Glad things have been sorted out.

I have asked Orca if I can add the Leeward Cruising Club to the list
of sponsors.