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SL9B category added to Second Life Destination Guide
Linden Lab have added a new category on the Second Life Destination Guide this week called SL9B and so far there are three SL9B event listings added. I’m sure more events for SL9B will be added during the next few weeks as the community celebrates 9 years of Second Life. 17 days left until the large SL9B community event happens.
http://secondlife.com/destinations/sl9b
Yay!
SL9B countdown continues to tick down
There are now 18 days left until the grand opening of the resident run supported SL9B community event which takes place in Second Life on 18th June 2012. Already the 20 sims for this event are starting to take good shape and exhibitors will be starting building for SL9B from 4th to 16th June 2012. The SL9B team are currently going through applications. You will be contacted ASAP!
For SL10B there is talk of planning will take place in early 2013 and hopefully with community support there will be more regions etc.
I will be taking snapshots the SL9B regions to share the progress of the sims via the map. Check out today’s snapshot showing the SL9B parcels being created and other related builds for SL9B. In the next few weeks you can expect the regions to full up and starting to look fantastic.
Today logging into Second Life it looks like Linden Lab are now wanting the SL community to submit events for SL9B if you are planning a celebration of any sort. You can submit SL9B events to the Destination Guide Suggestion Page.
This year I am a SL9B Greeter, SL9B Flickr/Twitter/Blog admin and a member of the SL9B press team. I’m really excited about the SL community SL9B event and i’m looking forward to enjoying/covering the birthday celebrations when the sims open to the public next month.
While we wait for the grand opening you can watch the funny SL9B – The Angel Of Death videos uploaded by Crap Mariner. Watch the latest video #9 below showing a sneak preview of the SL9B sims.
Updated SL9B Key Dates
- Applications open NOW!
- Applications close 3rd June
- Notification for Exhibitors 3rd June
- Exhibitors start building 4th June
- Exhibitors Finish Building 16th June
- Performers and DJs Notified 10th June
- Other Volunteers Notified 11th June
- Technical Rehearsal 17th June
- SL9B Opening & Keynote 18th June 11am SLT
- Entertainment starts 18th June 12pm SLT
- Entertainment finishes 24th June
- Exhibts close 27th June
SL9B Useful Links
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27 days until SL9B Community Event
The clock continues to tick down until the big day when Second Life turns nine years old. Next year Second Life will mark a decade and i’m sure its going to be even bigger for SL10B. For now the resident SL9B Community Event now has 20 sims and preparations are now taking place to get the sims ready for the first exhibitor builds starting on 4th June until 16th June 2012. Join The SLB Community group with (135 members) in the group. Join for news updates on SL9B and for more details visit the SL9B blog regularly.I’m really excited about this SL9B Community Event. 
Latest blog post from the SL9B blog > Update and Some Info > 22nd May 2012
Crap Mariner has uploaded some great SL9B videos and there are more on the way as the days go by.
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SL9B resident centralised birthday formal announcement
As expected there was a SL9B resident centralised birthday formal announcement yesterday on Prim Perfect’s blog about the birthday celebrations next month. Great to hear that the SL9B community supported birthday event opening will start from 11am SLT on Monday 18th June until Sunday 24th June 2012. The SL9B theme for this resident centralised birthday is community which was specified by Linden Lab last month. Thanks to Saffia Widdershins and the team for making this happen.
The SL9B logo
Dream Seeker Estates have kindly donated ten sims for this SL9B resident centralised birthday which is fantastic news. I have already applied on the SL9B community event site to be a SL9B Greeter and also the Public Relations role which i’m much looking forward to. I’ll be uploading snapshots on my SL Flickr stream and will be posting updates from SL9B on my SL social sites. Spread the word about this!
SL9B Key Dates
- Applications open NOW!
- Applications close 3rd June
- Exhibitors start building 4th June
- Exhibitors Finish Building 16th June
- Technical Rehearsal 17th June
- SL9B Opening 18th June 11am SLT
- Entertainment starts 18th June 12pm SLT
- Entertainment finishes 24th June
- Exhibts close 27th June
A month+ left to go!
I found out that there will be special resident made SL9B cake and a SL9B capsule made. There will be a big main stage and other music stages nearby in the ten sims. There will be new freebies and gifts to take away at SL9B. There will be tv broadcasts, bloggers, djs and more during the duration of this SL9B community event.
SL9B Resources
- SL9B Community Event Website
- Join SL9B Community Celebration group on Flickr
- SL9B Twitter page
- #SL9B on Twitter
I’m really excited about SL9B!
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SL9B resident centralised birthday update 1
On Monday 14th May 2012 Saffia Widdershins will be making a formal announcement about a SL9B resident centralised birthday which is very exciting news indeed. Well done to those planning SL9B well ahead of time and it’s going to be interesting who will hosting SL9B events during June 2012 in the SL community. Prim Perfect mentions some early SL9B details. See below.
For the moment I can say that it will be ten sims. There will be stages, resident plots, art plots, and there are plans to link to other community events across the grid.
There will be a birthday cake and a time capsule.
But there will be no involvement by Linden Lab. This a 100% resident event (which is being organised by some of the volunteers behind past Birthday and Burn events).
Stay tuned for the formal announcement on SL9B next week. Yay!
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SL9B Street Fair and Pub Crawl
This afternoon when I was checking through my SL Facebook friend stream I found out that Brandy Maltas who is one of SL friends published with a few others are in process of co-ordinating their own SL9B event. This will be SL resident supported and this event will be hosted at six well known SL Live Music venues around the grid. This is the first event I have heard about so far for SL9B and i’m sure there will be more in the coming weeks.
- Event title: SL9B Street Fair and Pub Crawl
- Dates: 19th-24th June 2012
- Time: 6pm-9pm SLT
- Musicians: 18+
- Locations: Club Graffiti, Gwampa’s Dance Kamp, Key West, Boom Pony, Ground Zero and San Diego City
Since Linden Lab is not hosting an SL9B (SL 9th B-day Event), Seth Regan/Mankind Tracer in SL and I have decided to co-ordinate our own. The Tracer | Birman Agency will be producing the SL9B Street Fair & Pub Crawl. The event will be held June 19th -24th, 6pm -9pm, at six established and respected SL Live Music venues. Participating venues are: Club Graffiti, Gwampa’s Dance Kamp, Key West, Boom Pony, Ground Zero and San Diego City.
6 Days – 6 venues – 18 Live Musicians!!!
Keep an eye out for more information to come!!!
The SL9B Street Fair and Pub Crawl logo.
Unlike previous SL birthdays, all musicians will be paid. There will be 12 sponsors and 100% of the sponsor money is to pay the musicians which sounds great. This is good news for SL musicians I think and i’m sure more will be interested in this special live music birthday event.
Interested? If you have planned any events/plans for SL9B then feel free to share in comments. I will be blogging SL9B events that will be happening during June 2012. I believe Linden Lab will be adding SL9B community supported events on the Second Life Destination Guide soon.
SL8B week 2 highlights
This week was the last week to explore the SL8B exhibits around the birthday sims. The SL8B gates closed around midnight on Saturday 2nd July 2011 to the public and now the exhibitors will be taking down their SL8B builds during the next few days.
Exhibitors then have till 11.59pm July 5th to pick up their builds. After that, everything on the sims will be returned. If you don’t want your exhibit returned to your lost and found as one large lump, please pick up your build on the 2rd, 4th or 5th of July.
SL8B builds will be auto-returned during next week and then the SL8B birthday sims will go offline later. This week I have been checking out areas that I didn’t visit last week and overall its been great fun this year. Linden Lab plan to release this year’s SL8B statistics sometime next week so that will be interesting to find out. SL9B countdown has started!
- Stage2 Team SL8B
- SL Build Tour
- Tiny Encounters (and Resident Builds) at SL8B with Designing Worlds
- Designing Worlds explores resident builds at SL8B
- Mal Burns at SL8B
- Berlin Project exhibit at SL8B
Second Physics special event at SL8B on 1st July 2011
Second Physics, founded by Talete Flanagan, is an Italian italian non-profit group for the popularization of science in Second Life. On Friday 1st July they will hosting a special event at their exhibit in SL8B Magnificent starting at 1:30pm SLT. Sounds interesting and worth attending to check it out.
Since 2009 Second Physics has organized Scienza on the Road, in collaboration with Immersiva.2life, Italian group for the popularization of culture and art. Scienza on the Road brings science in the Italian lands, and also into the English-speaking ones starting from this year. Physicists, teachers and experts hold conversations on a number of scientific subjects, with the use of captivating interactive tools – sculptures, fractals, atomic models, optical illusions, and the active participation of the audience. Thanks to its touring structure, the project can reach a varied audience in the lands where they usually hang out and a greater number of people, in comparison to any other residential activity. A number of disciplines have been dealt with so far: Sub-nuclear physics, High Energy Physics, Mathematics, Acoustics, Optics, Astronomy, the History of Electricity, Neurology, Medicine, Age Setting of Cultural Goods, Emotional Economy, Science and scientific fiction, Astrophysics, Cosmology, Cyberscience, Computer Science, Music and Mathematics, Molecular Biology… to be continued…
The conversations are in Italian voice and English text chat.
The SL8B sims will be closed on 2nd July 2011 (11:59pm). Last week for exploring and snapshots of SL8B. Linden Lab will be releasing the SL8B statistics in the first week of July 2011. Yay!
If you know of any other special events at SL8B this week, feel free to contact me.
Second Life Birthday statistics so far
Here are the latest Second Life birthday statistics for SL3B, SL4B, SL5B, SL6B, SL7B and SL8B that I have managed to find. Feel free to comment if you know of stats I have missed out please. Check out the stats below…
SL8B Stats
- SL8B Sims: 21 regions
- SL8B Stages: 5
- SL8B Greeters members: 118
- SL8B Exhibitor members: 1, 104
- SL8B Birthday group members: 908
- Exhibits: Over 300 with 700 people building them
- Performers: Over 300 live performers
- Linden Guests: Kim Linden, Rodvik Linden, Esbee Linden, Lexie Linden, Ringo Linden, Michael Linden, Esbee Linden and Torley Linden
- Prim limit: 234 prims
- Maturity ratings: General
- Pod tour duration: 30 minutes
SL7B Stats
- Sims: 21
- Parcels used by residents: Over 300
- Builders: 750+
- Performers: 250+
- Linden Guests: Philip Linden & M Linden
- Volunteers: 100+
- Performance hours: Over 450
- Stages: 5
- Total prims over: 100, 000
- Active TRAMs: 169
- Total Rezzed: 3, 317
- Time Elapsed: 2280:42:09 (hh:mm:ss)
- Total Passengers: 2, 774
SL6B Stats
- Resident Staff: 50+
- Sims: 20
- Mentor/Greeters: 68
- Exhibitors: 300+
- People who helped build those exhibits: 899
- Futurist & Android Stage DJs: 103
- Main Stage Live Musicians: 100+
- Regions: 20 (plus one from the Teen Grid)
- Scheduled Events: 815
- Unique visitors: 17,712
- Hours spent: 23,662
- Countries represented: 140
- Advertising kiosks placed: 698
- Event calendar page views: 23, 260
- People who caught alien gift thieves: Only 94!
- Most aliens caught by one person: 139
- If anyone knows stats for SL5B – feel free to comment below!
- Sims: 20
- Peak attendance was 350 during the opening (record turnout)
- Sims: 9
- Around 38,000 unique visitors turned up
SL8B week 1 highlights
Wow, what a fun packed week it’s been at Second Life’s 8th birthday celebrations. The SL8B sims are open until 2nd July 2011 so there’s still time to explore the exhibits at SL8B. There should be less lag next week and it should be quieter.
I have enjoyed exploring the wonderful magic builds at the 21 SL8B sims and the live music events as well. I have enjoyed greeting and stage managing this year. From what I could tell this year there’s been a lot of coverage of SL8B on SL resident blogs, Twitter, Plurk and Flickr. So far I have captured many amazing SL8B snapshots (395) so far this year with more to come next week at SL8B. That’s more than in previous birthday events in Second Life.
I’m trying to find out the latest SL8B stats for this year and when I know I will publish them.
My SL8B blog coverage from week 1…
- SL8B Press Preview
- SL8B Opens
- SL8B locations to visit
- SL8B Rodvik Linden joining celebrations
- Happy 8th Birthday Second Life
- Rodvik Linden visits SL8B Main Stage
- Latest cool SL8B videos
- Linden staff at SL8B
- Tinies invasion at SL8B
- SL8B BURN2 presentation
SL8B BURN2 festival 2011 presentation
MC, DM, Ladyslipper Constantine & Honour McMilan gave a hour long presentation during Saturday afternoon at the SL8B Auditorium about the upcoming BURN2 festivial 2011 happening in October. Join the Burn2.0 group for the latest news updates and be part of the celebrations this year. There are now 97 days left and counting until the BURN starts.
BURN2 Details
- BURN2 this year will start on 1st October and will run through until 9th October 2011
- Burn2 will be moderate maturity this year & there may be a General sim and a kids’ camp
- There will be 20 lottery camps available this year
- 24/7 entertainment
- There will be art car vehicle races, cruise-ins, and an Art Car Retrospective showcasing some of the incredible vehicles created for past Burns
- BURN2 is self funded and the core will be 8 sims at $2000 each
- BURN2 team are hoping for sim donations to get up to 18 or more
Linden staff at SL8B
During my visit to SL8B this week I have seen many Linden staff wondering around the SL8B sims. Have you came across any Lindens this year at SL8B?. Check out these photos below.
Rodvik Linden at the SL8B main stage
Lexie Linden at the SL8B main stage
Ringo Linden at the SL8B Auditorium
Michael Linden at the SL8B Cake Stage
Esbee Linden at the DJ Stage
- Check out this snapshot of Kim Linden taken by Marianne Mccann during the opening of SL8B.
- Zed Linden checkin out Suzan’s set
