History
Open Cobalt is derived from the Croquet software development kit (SDK) that was publicly released under the MIT License by Hewlett-Packard and the Croquet Consortium in early 2007.
In early 2008, and with the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Julian Lombardi and Mark P. McCahill, at Duke University, launched the community-based software development effort to build Open Cobalt as an open source virtual world browser application and construction toolkit.
In May 2008, Julian Lombardi was awarded a National Science Foundation grant to further strengthen the community-based software development effort and bring the Open Cobalt virtual world browser to its alpha release.
Together with John Dougan as technical project lead and a growing international community of software developers and volunteers, the l Open Cobalt project contributors released Open Cobalt Alpha in April 2010.
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