March 2013 – Page 6 – Ciaran Laval

March 3, 2013

Fantasy Faire 2013 Store Registration Now Open

Fantasy Faire 2013 is coming and so are the details about participating. I was sent a notecard inworld detailing registration details for merchants, which I will share with you here, if you are interested in having a merchant presence in this year’s Fantasy Faire then please read the information carefully, also check out the related links from where you can apply. I like posts like this because I have to do less work, this is mostly the work of Elizabeth Tinsley, I just get to copy and paste, hurrah! Anyway, on with the show:

Dear Creator

Please accept our invitation to participate in Fantasy Faire 2013, Second Life’s largest gathering of fantasy designers, enthusiasts & performers. Join us April 20-28, for a week of commerce, special events, live music concerts & fundraising over 10 sims to benefit Relay for Life and the fight against cancer.

Bringing together the top Creators from a wide range of fantasy genres, the Fantasy Faire strives to showcase the depth and breadth of SL’s fantastical possibilities and that’s why we’re contacting you.

As the fifth annual Fantasy Faire of Second Life, we are projecting an even higher turn-out both for Creators and for visitors. We plan to make it fun and easy for hundreds of people to find you and your products.

There are a number of ways you can be involved:

FANTASY FAIRE PARTICIPATION LEVELS:

a) Themed Store (TEN per themed sim) – L$2500

25 x 15m store & 350 prims allocation

b) Featured Creator Store (SIX per themed sim) – L$ 8,000

30 x 25m store & 700 prims allocation

(Centrally placed near sim sponsor & sim landing point )

c) Featured Creator Store + Event Sponsor – L$33000

d) Event/Hunt Sponsor – L$30,000 (Does NOT include a store) This opportunity can be combined with a Themed or Featured Creator Store if you desire. Advertising at all Events including the Hunt, on the FF blog, on Fantasy Faire radio & in any promotional materials.

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March 2, 2013

CHUI Observations Another Example Of Collaboration

The CHUI issues are now coming to light thanks to Linden Lab implementing CHUI in the beta viewer, there are a couple of good Jira’s on CHUI:

The first issue deals with an issue whereby when you tear a chat window off from Chui, typing into the torn off window results in the main communications window having a lot of wasted space, this is definitely true. The screen space is indeed wasted in this scenario.

The second issue is a list of a general observations and is a very good Jira. There are a number of issues here, and presented in a good fashion.

On top of that there are a couple of threads in the forum on Chui:

Both threads show pro’s and cons of the CHUI features and there’s some good input there, again we see good collaboration.

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March 2, 2013

I Would Cocoa If The Project Viewer Worked

In their recent blog post on improvements to Second Life, Linden Lab point to an interesting new viewer for Mac users, the Cocoa Project Viewer. However, as Mikki Miles points out in a post on the official forums, the current release of this project viewer does not work.

However, if you’ve used the project viewer before, then there is hope, because in yet another example of how collaboration is a good thing, Siona Qinan posts a workaround:

I found a fix on another forum (a post from “Eris” on a forum that covers Second Life and the whole Universe). Apparently the arguments.txt file is bad – replacing it with one from an earlier build did the trick for me.

Right click, “Show Package Contents”, open Resources folder and replace the argument.txt file.

Unfortunately I don’t have an earlier build, but for those who do have an earlier build, here’s a way of using the new cocoa viewer release.

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March 2, 2013March 3, 2013

An Apology To Scylla Rhiadra

You know when newspapers print an article about someone and then when it gets proven the newspaper is talking rubbish, they hide an apology away on page 15. Well I don’t do that, although in this case it’s a matter of me not correctly checking how my posts read.

Back in January I blogged: Those Who Seek Offence Will Find It. In that post I complained that people who were seeking objectionable content should not complain about finding it. I also typed:

“Scylla Rhiadra used to be a very vocal critic of certain types of content in Second Life and would argue against its existence. Scylla was part of SL Left Unity and its offshoot of The Left Unity Feminist Network. I’m not sure how active such groups are in Second Life these days or if Scylla is even still around. There are ways and means of making your points, but I don’t agree with AR parties for content that isn’t against the TOS.”

My intent here was to cite Scylla as an example of someone, whom whether you agreed with her or not, made her points in a more sensible fashion than the article I was referencing in the blog post. However I can now see that it reads as if I was suggesting Scylla led AR parties, that was not my intent but it does seem to read that way.

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March 1, 2013

Could Linden Lab Follow The Draxtor Despres Lead?

One thing that Draxtor Despres has exemplified so well in his opening episode of The Drax Files is how well video can be used to promote Second Life. The question therefore must be, where Draxtor Despres leads, can Linden Lab follow?

Let’s rewind a little first, Linden Lab, in association with The Linden Endownment For The Arts, used to run a an official month of machinima. The playlist can still be viewed on youTube. Whereas this playlist has many films, they are films first and Second Life related second, that’s no bad thing and is a good demonstration of machinima in Second Life, but it doesn’t do what Draxtor has achieved with his mixed real person virtual person production.

On their blog, Linden Lab give a lot of time and space to the Second Life Picture Of The Day. There are some stunning images on there and a picture can speak a thousand words, it’s good promotion but it doesn’t get behind the person or the place in the way that Inara Pey and Honour McMillan do…. they’ve both blogged about the University of Western Australia’s machinima contest, with one million Linden Dollars worth of prize money, including a top prize of 200,000 Linden Dollars. I have a pub to go to and beer to drink, I don’t have time to be sidetracked like this! Go read Inara or Honour for more details.

Where was I, oh yes, telling the story of the person behind the images. Linden Lab did try and get something like this going with some blog posts, Strawberry Singh was one of the guest bloggers, writing a post about twelve months ago, but the concept didn’t really gain traction. Highlighting the difficulties Linden Lab face regarding editorial content on these issues.

One challenge that Linden Lab face that, with all due respect, Draxtor, Honour and Inara don’t face, is that of editorial impartiality, if Linden Lab feature one resident, lots of other residents will complain.

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