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SL21B Volunteer Applications Now Open

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On Monday 15th April Linden Lab officially announced that volunteer applications for SL21B are now open. The lab are looking for residents that have a passion and have the skills to help make sure SL21B is a huge success.

Volunteers are needed to welcome new guests to the birthday celebrations and give out handy information/gifts. For all those that get accepted there will be pre-birthday training sessions that you have to complete first. Volunteers will not get paid at SL21B and volunteers have to commit to at least two hour shifts at a time.

Second Life 21st birthday opens to the public on 21st June 2024 through until 21st July 2024. There will be live performances, shopping, events and loads of interesting community exhibits to discover this year. The SL21B theme is Elements.

Current Applications For SL21B – as of 17th April 2024

Stay tuned for more SL21B news and new developments in the coming weeks on my blog.

Interesting Announcements From SL20B

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During the past week there has been some interesting new announcements from SL20B talks and discussions. For catch up visit the official Second Life YouTube channel.

Here are the ones that I think are most important below.

  1. Second Life Mobile limited “private” alpha testing starts end of 2023 / public user beta testing in 2024
  2. There are plans to further improve the Welcome Hubs and expand them into other communities/experiences. The lab will be launching new avatar customisation for new users soon (starting on the signup page new users will be able to customise their avatars. The new avatar customisation is expected to come to the viewer soon including clothing and accessories
  3. First Linden Homes theme (Ranch) for Premium Plus officially launches with more regions to be added soon
  4. More improvements are coming to the Second Life Destination Guide, Second Life Marketplace and the Land Journey
  5. Second Life over the next 10 years will go into more platforms like mobile rather than desktop/laptop environments
  6. Population counts, favourite locations, adding bookmarks coming soon to the Second Life Destination Guide – 6-12 months estimated
  7. New Thumbnail images with Inventory items and folders – try the project viewer to see the new features
  8. New Second Life Time Premium & Plus launches
  9. Launch of Sendra Starter Avatars aimed for mid-late July 2023
  10. No plans to hire in a new CEO of Linden Lab
  11. Unlikely that previously offered Last Names will be brought back
  12. Zindra plans in development possible overhaul and more new regions to be added

What news did you find most interesting during SL20B ? Feel free to share your views in comments.

SL20B Opens Today At 10am SLT To The Public

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SL20B Regions – 21st June 2023

SL20B Final Countdown

The grand opening of Second Life 20th Birthday (SL20B) opens to the public at 10am SLT on Thursday 22nd June 2023. Head over to the “SLB” regions to explore, party and discover all the new exhibitions for this year. The theme this year is Our Fantastic Future. Yay! 🙂

The SLB regions have been closed for access now until 9am SLT this morning (roughly 36 regions) so the birthday organizers can stitch the SLB estates back together with all the stages and get everything ready for the kick off.

The Second Life Birthday group will have early access today from 9am SLT until the opening at 10am SLT.

I would imagine we will hear about the future plans for Second Life, the next Linden Home theme/releases, NUX avatars, more on the SL Mobile app and much more.

> See below for the schedules, calendars and locations below. Please spread the word 🙂

SL20B Main Schedule

  • Early Access via Second Life Birthday group: 9am SLT
  • SL20B Official Opening: 10am SLT
  • Opening Ceremony: 12pm SLT

  • Live Stage Performances: 25th to 2nd July
  • SL20B Regions Close: Tuesday 11th July

> Made in Second Life: The Movie Premieres 12pm SLT on 23rd June 2023 at SL20B

SL20B Useful Links

Stay tuned for more SL20B updates soon.

SL20B Lab Gab Live Events Confirmed

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Philip Linden (founder of Second Life) and Oberwolf Linden (Executive Chairman) along with numerous other Lindens and Moles will be coming along to the brand new series of Lab Gab events which is apart of the SL20B celebrations.

Lab Gab events (Q&As) are pretty popular with a huge attendance inworld/online. This is a great way of finding out about whats coming next for Second Life directly from the Linden Lab leadership team.

  • Submit your questions here – link – deadline no later than 21st June 2023

SL20B opens 22nd June through until 11th July 2023.

Not long to go now! Yay 🙂

SL20B Fast Approaching

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Second Life 20th annual birthday celebrations (SL20B) is fast approaching with roughly two weeks to go until the big grand opening in Second Life. SL20B opens officially on Thursday 22nd June through until Tuesday 11th July 2023. This is a big milestone for Second Life to reach the 20 years milestone it’s pretty amazing right and hopefully Second Life will be around for many more decades to come. Applications have now closed for the annual SL20B birthday until next year.

SL20B Regions Map Update

There are batches of SLB regions in a cluster formation and these SLB regions are not open to the public until the grand opening of SL20B. I would imagine like in previous years the SLB regions will be merged together very soon. Keep a check on the map for the next two weeks for new visual formations.

SLB regions via map as of 7th June 2023

Spread the word about Second Life 20th annual birthday celebrations.

The wait is almost over! 🙂