In memoriam

A couple of weeks ago, sad news was posted in G+ about Cornflakes Woodcock, a very creative prim artist that had his home in OSgrid since 2010. He passed away almost a year ago. The news spread very slowly, as when people go "offline" for shorter or longer periods, there generally just shifting interests / grids etc. and often it's hard / impossible to keep track of all people and their alts & interests. (I really thought he just left to Metro).

Thirza Ember, editor from the Pingsfromtheafterlife blog has had various interviews with residents and friends of Cornflakes in OSgrid (including yours truly) and wrote the following beautiful article on her Blog :
Tribute to Cornflakes .

If you have had the privilege to meet him, you might want to go and check the article and all the great anecdotes and pictures she collected. (I promised to integrally repost the article here as well, but since it has all the pictures, i decided to just post this article pointing towards it).

Cornflakes has left us with his inspiring builds, and some "hidden messages" in his builds. Much of his works have been saved, and there are various tributes and even a complete "Cornflakes Museum" was erected. You can find all details in the article mentioned above. On a personal note, I would like to share the most important "lesson"  Cornflakes left me (this was back in 2011 already, but nevertheless ) :

Regions Updated to VAR "compatible"

When i tried to teleport from the Red Dragon Club to the OSG7B regions last night, i received this message : "Destination is a variable-sized region, and source is an old simulator. Consider upgrading.". So i immediately shutdown all regions, and upgraded all servers  to the latest build. Not that the regions weren't doing fine, but our visitors should be free to leave to whatever place they like, also if that region is a VAR.

OSGrid only made mention of  this fix / change on it's G+ page,  so you might have missed it, but the message is pretty self explanatory. If you want to be able to teleport in and out of VAR regions, you have to be on a region running their latest build. Alternatively you can make a hop in-between on either one of the plaza's or another normal size region running the latest build (software version). This is probably to prevent you from running into other problems due to code changes between the builds.

If you just joined OSgrid in the last few weeks, and just have your first build on your regions, now is an excellent time to create a backup OAR (it's a full export of your region / terrain / objects / settings), and upgrade to the latest build. It's not a requirement, but does prevent you and your visitors to "failing" teleports, as you can assume much more people will run VAR regions in the near future.

Opensimulator conference 2014

" AvaCon and the Overte Foundation are pleased to announce the second annual OpenSimulator Community Conference 2014, to take place virtually on the OpenSimulator Conference Center grid on November 8-9, 2014.  The OpenSimulator Community Conference is an annual conference that focuses on the developer and user community creating the OpenSimulator software. Organized as a joint production by AvaCon and the Overte Foundation, the virtual conference features two days of presentations, workshops, keynote sessions, and social events across diverse sectors of the OpenSimulator user base. " Source

If you missed last years conference, i truly recommend you to visit this year, and if you like / have an interest in Opensim based worlds, this is a party you simply don't want to miss out on. Apart from "seminars" on various very interesting subjects, you will find great freebies, see awesome builds on the display regions, and meet interesting people of a various grids. 

Since I was impressed by last years conference, great organisation, with very interesting sessions on a variety of subjects, "Red Dragon Nite Club" decided to become a community sponsor. So this year we will attend the conference, and be represented with a small booth focused on representing our club in OSgrid. 

As in the end, one has to relax and socialize after scripting and hurling prims on his private simulator all day.   

We are "inworld" for the nice & interesting new people we meet, to create without limits, to have fun, enjoy party's, with DJ's and music and to learn, and share our knowledge and experiences. Our only goal is to simply enjoy virtual life, build a bit, and share good times. OSgrid has a vibrant community of "users" next to all the developers, content creators and people chasing a particular goal. So also if you are not a coder, scripted, developer or builder, still feel free to pop by and visit. Be amazed and inspired. 

Some handy links : 

If you are interested in becoming a community sponsor as well, find the proper link to register here :

http://conference.opensimulator.org/2014/sponsors/crowdfunder-campaign/ 

If you want to run an event on your own grid / region, right after the conference, try this :

http://conference.opensimulator.org/2014/socials/social-event-sign-up/ 

Road trip trough OSG

Just another weekend teleporting around the map in OSgrid makes you stumble into beautiful worlds. (getting tips from friends does as well). Feel free to drop me an LM if you find / built a little gem on the map. Check some pictures of my travels below, a couple of the cool ones you can slip into (click for large) :

Steam

Danger Island

   

Mystic Forest

Cuteulala Park

Steam has tons of zeppelins and airships, and is an industrial region with loads of ground to explore. Check the machines, the shops, and don't forget to visit the docks. The Danger Island is a gloomy harbor carved out of rocks in the sea, with great sailing ships and a shipyard. It's a VAR that also is home to the beautiful Mystical Forest, where the fairy's linger. You can space out on a giant mushroom here.... And if your done with that ride, visit Cute's Park. It's is OSG's coaster park. With working roller coasters and waterslides. Need I say more ?  It's never boring flying into other worlds.