LPUniversity Foundation
Encyclopedia
The LPUniversity Foundation was an umbrella community project founded on April 2, 2005 by C.A. Wayne "Tacitus" Somerville that aspired to revive the LPC community through offering community driven services, offering mutual location for education, research, development, discussion and certification
, preservation of the LPC programming language, community support, the development of standards, and a modern, collaboratively developed LPC mudlib
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Each department had a director who directed their department and the project as a whole. There were three predefined roles: Manager, Support Staff, and Developer. There were three predefined ranks that apply to individuals in a project: Senior Staff (Team Leader), Staff, and Junior Staff (New Staff).
Certification
Certification refers to the confirmation of certain characteristics of an object, person, or organization. This confirmation is often, but not always, provided by some form of external review, education, assessment, or audit...
, preservation of the LPC programming language, community support, the development of standards, and a modern, collaboratively developed LPC mudlib
Mudlib
A mudlib, short for mud library, is a library of code forming part of the technical infrastructure of a MUD. Though different varieties of MUD may be considered to have mudlibs, the term is most often used with LPMuds. In an LPMud, the mudlib consists of interpreted code written in the LPC...
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Organization Structure
There are three major divisions in the LPUniversity Project.- Administration (Admin Pot) - The administrative pot is made up of a group of individuals who fill special administrative or department unspecific roles.
- Research, Education, and Development (RED) Department - The RED department contains projects that are related to Research, Education, and Development and is made up of individuals who fill technical roles.
- Community, Service, and Support (CSS) Department - The CSS department contains projects that are related to Community, Service, and Support and is made up of individuals who fill non-technical or support roles.
Each department had a director who directed their department and the project as a whole. There were three predefined roles: Manager, Support Staff, and Developer. There were three predefined ranks that apply to individuals in a project: Senior Staff (Team Leader), Staff, and Junior Staff (New Staff).
Software and Services
The LPUniversity Foundation planned to offer many services and programs to the LPC community.- Community Website
- House-call support
- Education
- Certification
- Standards Development
- Mudlib
- Free hosting for lp related projects
- Affiliation program
- Free advertising for lp related projects
- And numerous other functions and resources are also available.
See also
- Dead Souls MudlibDead Souls MUDlibDead Souls is a MUD library , a software infrastructure for creating a text-based virtual world. It is classed in the following versions:* Dead Souls 1.1 was the final release by its original head developer, George Reese...
- Nightmare MudlibNightmare MudlibThe Nightmare Mudlib is a set of LPC programming language frameworks created by George Reese for building multi-user role playing games using the MudOS LPMud driver...
- MudOSMudOSMudOS is a major family of LPMud server software, implementing its own variant of the LPC programming language. It first came into being on February 18, 1992. It pioneered important technical innovations in MUDs, including the network socket support that made InterMUD communications possible and...
- MUDMUDA MUD , pronounced , is a multiplayer real-time virtual world, with the term usually referring to text-based instances of these. MUDs combine elements of role-playing games, hack and slash, player versus player, interactive fiction, and online chat...
- mudlibMudlibA mudlib, short for mud library, is a library of code forming part of the technical infrastructure of a MUD. Though different varieties of MUD may be considered to have mudlibs, the term is most often used with LPMuds. In an LPMud, the mudlib consists of interpreted code written in the LPC...
- LPMudLPMudLPMud, abbreviated LP, is a family of MUD server software. Its first instance, the original LPMud game driver, was developed in 1989 by Lars Pensjö...
- TMI MudlibTMI MudlibThe TMI Mudlib from The Mud Institute was an attempt to create a framework driven mudlib for the MudOS LPMud driver. It consisted of many contributors to MudOS as well as people who became influential in the LPMud community. When TMI began work in 1992, a mudlib was generally packaged with both an...
- Lima MudlibLima MudlibThe Lima Mudlib is an LPC framework for building multi-user role playing games. It was originally written for the MudOS game driver by Zachary "Zakk" Girouard, Tim "Beek" Hollebeek, Greg "Deathblade" Stein, and John "Rust" Viega...