2020 VW: IMA: SceneGate for OpenSimulator: the Market button, grid money notice and button, and find friends online

SceneGate for OpenSimulator:
the market button, 
grid money notice and button 
and find friends online

SceneGate will adjust its services to fit OpenSimulator, cleaning up some viewer features left over from services on a previous grid.  Since SceneGate must adjust for multiple grids, the adjustment is complicated. 

A viewer can do better than that

• From comments in the Kitely Sunday meeting and conversations on the forum, I learned of four items of user interest:
• A Market button on the viewer should take the user to a market they could use.
• The Buy grid money button should take the user to where they can buy grid money.
• The grid money amount notice should give the correct amount for the avatar.
• Some users wanted a notice of friends online before they login.
• The first three of those are viewer issues, so i asked the SceneGate devs about them.
• The fourth item is a grid issue, but suggested a feature that SceneGate is aiming for.

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A custom viewer?

• IMA can provide a customised version of SceneGate.
• This should be of interest to commercial grids and Kitely organizations.
• In particular, school grids will want to control the Market destination.
• Especially those below college level.
• One private educational grid has already ordered a customized version.
• Probably the first customisation: remove other grids from the preference listing.
• Educators will not want to show students how to go to unapprove places.
• Commercial grids may prefer a viewer that does not list their competitors. 
• Commercial grids may want to determine the functions of the grid money amount notice and the two buttons.
• The cost of customisation would vary with the details.

Buy Gloebits on Depot Grid

SceneGate buttons and notice now

• The Marketplace button presently gets an error message.
• The Buy grid money button in SceneGate presently only works in a Gloebits region.
• The grid money amount notice gives me a zero in Kitley.   That is incorrect. 
• These things be fixed, but the details are still under consideration. 

Marketplace button on SceneGate

The "friends online" Issue

• My first thought was that this is strictly a grid issue.  And it is.
• But then I thought "Why would a person want that information?"
• If it is to be actionable intelligence, it would probably be used to decide whether to enter the grid or not.  
• Or it might be used to choose which grid to enter.
• In either case, this is a subgoal.  The larger goal is to contact someone.  
• SceneGate may be able to help on that larger goal.
• The top priority for the ScenGate dev team is EchoVoice.
• IMA and Thales work towards improved voice in OpenSim (SceneGate), including security, accessibility, and features
• An objective of that feature is connections to systems beyond OpenSim.
• To such places as web-worlds, Discord, and Frendica.
•  A connection to Discord would allow quirk contact with friends.
• At least with those that are also your friends in Discord.  
• So we need to be sure that the connection part of SceneGate works even if no grid is connected.  

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