Travelcenter and OSG6B Closing Event

Red Dragon installed the travel centre on 2 locations, Red Dragon Nite Club, and Red Dragon Shops. From there, you can now travel trough to various places OSG and the hypergrid have to offer. You can update your own, or request placement of your LM and picture on the main center in Wright Plaza. 
We also erected a smal exhibit on OSG6B west, where you can read the Blog, check some pictures of the various Red Dragon Builds, and grab some goodies.

OSGrid 6th birthday closing event will be held 1pm gridtime /pst ( This is 22.00 CET for us europeans) at OSG6B Central.Dont miss out on the last party of OSG's 6th Birthday.

“The Maritime Club on the Road”  for osgrid 6th birthday bash is featuring the following line up :

1 pm DJ Jazzy Chatterbox - classic southern rock and blues
2 pm Joaquin Gustav – live Argentinian smooth jazz guitar
3 pm truelie ellen – all original folk noir / country punk live from Nashville
3.30 pm casias falta – originals and classic blues live from Detroit
4 pm truelie ellen
4.30 pm casias falta 
5 pm DJ Stiofain X - rare irish vinyl and eclectic rock

Feel free to join and meet up with the wonderful people in OSG, and enjoy the tunes.

Happy Birthday OSG

OSB turned 6 years so the OSG6B party kicked of yesterday at D&J's close encounter region. There are 4 regions with exhibits and displays  of various OSG residents, and a central stage where party's will be held.
Freebies, region showcases, displays, sci-fi, smurfs, you will find plenty of wanna haves so make sure to pay the regions a visit. OSG6B north sourth east and west have the displays, events are on Central.

The scheduled events are listed on OSG's forums and stuff gets updated and added along the celebrations. So far you can read up on the activities below :

Friday  8/2 at 11:30 AM PST - D&J OSG6B Party @ Close Encounter

Avatar Repertory Theater presents two weekend performances on Region OSG6B West (the north lot). 
Saturday  8/3  2 PM PST - a radio drama, Ray Bradbury's Zero Hour @ OSG6B West
Saturday 8/3 3 PM PST - Opening word of OSG6B by Albertlr Landar, followed by a dance party
Saturday 8/3 11:30 AM to 12 noon PDT Osgrid viewer time, at Recreation Plaza. Speedbuild contest
Saturday 8/3 6 PM PST - Dance @ OSG6b Central

Sunday 8/4 at 1 PM PST - Live entertainment from The Maritime Club on the Road @ OSG6B Central
Sunday 8/4 at 2 PM PST - a staged reading of three works by Christopher Durang @ OSG6B West

There is also an Opensimulator Conference Loadtest this saturday, prior to the speedbuild contest. If you like to participate, visit the following link.

All Red Dragon regions will be online 24/7 during the OSG6B event, so you can come count the 100.000+ prims between the party's. On behalf of all members, Red Dragon Management wishes OSG and all it's residents a Happy Birthday, and we hope to visit many more of these. Party time !  

Grid down

Huh, The OSgrid is down. Only twitter mentions some downtime, but not what the reason is, nor how long it will take to get things back up and running. The message on twitter states :

ALERT : Grid is offline possibly for the next few days or maybe even longer, we are sorry about this inconvenience but it is unavoidable!

I assume / hope it will be back up before friday, as OSG6B is scheduled to start on that day.  I see some forum topics here and here  that could indicate something went FUBAR on the grid servers. Last outage was in august 2012  just after OSG5B. It was resolved within some hours back than.

I assume the admins will keep us posted when there is news to share. If it remains silent with updates here, you can always check OSG's Forum, Twitter, Newsfeed or scroll down to the bottom of this page, and join the IRC channels to try and get a hold of any admins. ( mind they might be to busy to chat when there trying to fix stuff ). Mind your sumilators will not start, or produce a gazzilion of errors if still "up". best shut them down, and wait for the heads up.

Update : Well that didn't take long. Looks like all is online again. Found this on Nebadons G+
UPDATE : Grid is back online we were able to do a quick band-aid to get things moving again, may be more outages later this week! Stay Tuned

OSG6B Town Hall Meeting

The OSG forums tell me that OSG's 6th birthday event will be held from 2nd to the 6th of August. Events and exhibitionspace can be requested / reserved by asking any of OSG's admins or in the OSG forum topic.
The OSG party's are generally well visited partys, with very nice exhibitions, cool new free stuff, and kick-ass events with various live DJ's / performers playing a variety of music. Last sunday there was a Town Hall meeting about the event, you can find the chat log here 

OSG management has also put out some updates in the forums regarding the meetings they have had. This is mainly about hypergrid and the metro Ban, and the legal status of the non profit organisation. The latest version of the simulator dates from the 6th of july, and can be downloaded here.  We didn't install it yet, so cant tell how it performs.Not much more news at Red Dragon, It will take aproxx. another 5 years to decorate all the huge space. Hopefully around OSG 1.0 :)

This weeks spotlight points to a very useful service in OSG, the Travel Office. It's located on Wright Plaza, maintained by Marcelia Beck and has many landmarkgivers to all the sweetspots in OSgrid, and even the hypergrid.  OSG forums have a topic on how you can upload your own Landmarks there, and the LMgivers also display if a region is up or not, so no more wasting time with teleports into oblivion either.

Newbie, or Die-Hard Metaverse Traveller, the Travel Office will get you to sims you should not miss.