Global Asset Repository (Idea)

[Krull Kitty]

I've had an idea.

What if Kitely implemented a "Global Asset Repository".

What is the vision of a Global Asset Repository?

It's a digital library of assets created and donated by any and all creators / residents
of a grid.

Who needs to catalog these assets? Librarians would classify, sort, name and curate the growing collection.
And Kitely has ACTUAL librarians capable of implementing these classification and sorting
methodologies. The only difference is that the assets are not books but virtual assets instead.

What "Assets" am I referring to?

Textures, Clothing, Meshes, Sculpties, etc... etc... donated by residents and creators to the public
library of assets.

I've noted that grids have basic assets such as textures and clothing and scripts in their basic
library. But nothing like those free assets comes close to what I'm referring to.

A growing repository could potentially be shared by many grids on one single collective asset
server.

The clear caveats here are simple, The person donating an asset to the global library must be 100%
the creator of the item('s) donated.

Donation of third party assets, where the creator made the asset full perms would also qualify,
but would have to be carefully curated by the librarians of the catalog making sure that proper
credits were assigned to the individual creator('s).

The reason for this important 3rd party consideration is that the hypergrid contains many freebies
which residents can bring back to their own grids with them.

Right now there are so many free assets everywhere it's hard to find any cohesive point for any of them.
But a global library would certainly make things more fluid.

Certain standards for asset donations would need to be employed, such as boxing an asset in order
to ensure easier asset management in world and for asset delivery to anyone requesting a copy.

There are certain considerations that would have to be made in order to ensure proper delivery.

So that's my idea.

[Snoots Dwagon]

Thank you Krull,

There is a time and money cost associated with creating, managing, hosting and handling the liabilities arising from providing virtual goods to the Hypergrid. We've had a lot of experience doing so with Kitely Market and there is a good reason why we don't allow giving out content for free from our marketplace. Even with our existing fees in place this service is highly subsidized by Kitely's virtual world hosting line of business. Providing free content would greatly increase our costs and associated liabilities while offering no benefit to our company. As a personal advise to anyone wishing to build such a service, I'd recommend you consider how much you value your free time and whether you are willing to deal with DMCA claims and potential legal liabilities arising from you hosting and distributing unvetted user-provided content.

[Krull Kitty]

Totally understand, I was just thinking out loud

Errr. Thinking in text hehe.

[Tess Juel]

Right now there are so many free assets everywhere it's hard to find any cohesive point for any of them.
But a global library would certainly make things more fluid.

But... but... the hunt for the gems is part of the fun!

[Snoots Dwagon]

Tess, it's my opinion you may want to consider becoming a Dwagon. Your thought processes seem to fit right in. I'm sure Ilan would agree we don't have near enough Dwagons on Kitely yet.

[Trouble Ahead]

There is one more. A huge egg broke and today the baby dwagon Scurvy was born
https://tessinkitely.wordpress.com/what ... right-now/

[John Smith 4]

Hmmm i wonder who?

[Krull Kitty]

John Smith you say? Oh My, and the 4th to boot

Since the first 4 John Smiths there literally have been millions of them, they are kind of like the
Agent Smith of the Matrix Movies, they just stick their hand into your chest and voila, another one morphs
into existence.

I am now wearing, anti-agent Smith, arm in the chest body Armour, by the Anti-Agent Smith, arm in the chest body Armour company llc.