InWorldz Ninth Birthday Celebrations Starts 1st April 2018

The InWorldz ninth birthday celebrations officially start on Sunday 1st April through until Sunday 29th April 2018. This year’s birthday is sponsored by the founders of InWorldz and it will be really amazing this year.

The InWorldz ninth birthday celebrations will be held over at the InWorldz Events regions. There will be live entertainment, hunts, amazing art, a mesh Q&A panel, sim explorations and other fun activities happening next month.

There will be two special birthday parties on 1st April followed by the 6th of April for the grand opening of Jurassic Isle project. The regular birthday entertainment events will take place from 7th – 16th April. The final IW9 birthday celebration event will be the Pyromusical by PyroVR on 29th April.

The IW9 Event Schedule, landmarks, posters and other info can be picked up at the InWorldz Welcome Area.

Everyone is invited to the IW9 birthday celebrations!

2 days to GO 

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OpenSim Total Land Area Still Increasing – March 2018 Update

Land area of OpenSim’s public grids, in standard region equivalents. (Hypergrid Business data.)

According to Hypergrid Business latest report for March 2018 it looks like OpenSim total land area is still increasing month on month. Apparently OpenSim land area gained a total of 3, 400 standard region equivalents this month. The number of active users increased by 1, 300 this month.

The biggest grid on OpenSim at the moment is the OSgrid with a total of 20, 203 standard region equivalents. Kitely comes in 2nd place with a total of 17, 372 regions followed by Atek Grid with just 7, 011 regions. The grids with the most active users at the moment: OSgrid with 4, 183 users followed by Metropolis with 3, 473 users and GreekLife with 2, 313 users.

For some reason InWorldz have not reported their stats for this month or last month.

Recently Kitely reached a new milestone of 100, 000 registered users with significant growth over the past year. The Kitely Market now has “11,566 product listings in Kitely Market containing 22,261 product variations, of which 17,218 are exportable. Kitely Market has delivered items to 257 OpenSim grids to date”.

Exportable products on Kitely continue to increase. (Kitely Market Data.)

Second Life Total Land Area – As of 18th March 2018

• Total Main Grid Regions: 23, 298
• Private Estates: 16, 058
• Linden Owned: 7, 240

AvaCon Announces 5th Annual OpenSimulator Community Conference 2017

On Tuesday 12th September AvaCon announced details about their upcoming fifth annual OpenSimulator Community Conference due to take place 9th-10th December 2017. The main focus this year will be on the latest OpenSim software releases along with visions for the future of OpenSim.

The OpenSimulator Community Conference is an annual conference that focuses on the developer and user community creating the OpenSimulator software.

AvaCon hope to accommodate over 400 users in total at this year’s conference. The 2017 OpenSimulator Community Conference will feature many interesting presentations, performances, panels, workshops and much more. On the main stage there will be more in-depth talks featuring Education, Technical, Creative and Experiential topics of interest.

The annual conference is organized as a joint production by Core Developers of OpenSimulator and AvaCon. Here are the important deadlines and important dates you should know about.

• September 12, 2017 – Announcement of the Call for Proposals!
• October 8, 2017 – Proposals are due by 11:59 PM PST (Pacific Standard Time).
• October 22, 2017 – Proposal  acceptance emails and with conference information.
• October 29, 2017 – Accepted speakers must register for the conference to create an entry in the conference schedule and the program.
• November 11, 2017 – Speaker Orientation & Training sessions and Presenter Booth Setup to prepare speakers for the conference.
• November 18, 2017 – Deadline for stage props and audio-visuals (beyond textures) for conference program.
• December 9-10, 2017 – OSCC17 – Conference dates – Bring the WOWness!
• December 10, 2017 – OSCC Hypergrid tour and community events.

If you are interested in volunteering at this year’s conference, fill out this application form.

Please spread the word about the upcoming 5th Annual OpenSimulator Community Conference 2017

Welcome to the OSgrid 10th Birthday Celebrations

OSgrid turns 10!

Happy 10th Birthday OSgrid

This weekend the OSgrid is celebrating its 10th birthday and today I went along to check it out for myself. There are five specific birthday regions to explore this year: OSG10B1, OSG10B2, OSG10B3, OSG10B4 and OSG10B5 full of amazing exhibits from the OSgrid community.

For the OSG10B main stage and live music events visit the Event Plaza.

OSG10B1

Get started at the OSG10B1 region and have fun exploring 🙂

Event Plaza

The Event Plaza looks awesome with the OSG10B balloons and banners up.

Fast Teleport Board

Here are the OSG10B regions showing the exhibits from the sky. The builds look incredible from walking around and the overall layout is nicely done I think.

OSG10B1

OSG10B2

OSG10B3

OSG10B4

Head over now to the OSgrid 10th birthday celebrations and have fun with the OSgrid community 🙂 

It’s Party Time! 🙂