Chilbo Community Blog

-= Chilbo Town Hall Agenda - July 2008 =-

What:  Town Hall Meeting
When: Sunday, 7/13/08 @ 11:30AM  to 1:00PM SLT (PST)
Format: Text chat
Moderator: Fleep Tuque
Where: Chilbo Town Hall  SLurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Chilbo/112/230/121

1.  Welcome New Residents - Friend Exchange!
2.  Community Updates:
-  Art in Chilbo (report from artists)
-  Business in Chilbo (report from business owners)
-  Education in Chilbo (report from educators)
-  Non-Profits in Chilbo (report from non-profits)
3.  Chilbo’s recent land expansions, auctions, and prim use
4.  Chilbo Community on the Web and in other virtual worlds
5.  Second Life Community Convention in Tampa, FL and in SL
6.  Announcements?  Other?

Following the regular meeting, a 30 minute planning session will be held for the Chilbo Community Fair scheduled for July 20 - 26, 2008.

In order to provide information for those who cannot attend, a transcript will be made of the Town Hall proceedings and distributed via group notice and an archive stored in the Town Hall.  If you do not wish to have your contribution included in the transcript, please IM Fleep Tuque to have your comments removed.  Openness is encouraged, however, as the Town Halls are considered public events.

Please send questions, comments, or additional agenda item suggestions to Fleep Tuque prior to the meeting.

See you there!

- Fleep

Fleep Tuque
Land Steward, Chilbo Community Building Project
Chilbo Landowners Association
http://chilbo.org
fleep.tuque@gmail.com

Hello Chilbo!

The past few weeks have been a flurry of activity as we clean up the sim in preparation for the Chilbo Summer Faire. The Faire will take place on July 20th through July 26th, and we hope you’ll help us get ready! But first, news from the sims…

Sidewalk Repaving Completed, New Lamps/TP posts

In order to conserve on the number of prims used for infrastructure in the community, a massive re-paving project was undertaken in the past few weeks. A pleasant brick-like path way was chosen and Scalar Tardis developed a ribbon-like lamp post with an illuminated column to replace the hodge podge of lamps around the sim. The old black and blue Teleport to Town Hall posts were also removed and incorporated into a banner that teleports the user to Town Hall upon left-clicking. Together these efforts saved over 380 prims in the combined sims!

Residents may want to check their plots to see how the sidewalk now connects. Some minor discrepancies may need to be fixed, since megaprims are much less flexible and difficult to work with. Please contact Fleep Tuque or Rachel Corleone if you need minor terraforming or adjustments at your place!

Banking & Exchange Kiosk

Situated just in front of the Town Hall, a new kiosk with terminals for Linden dollar transactions and the popular web-based Second Life shopping exchanges SLExchange and OnRez is now available for our residents’ convenience.

New Information & Events Kiosk Area

A new plaza was created south of the Shrubbery Amphitheatre & Park to display notices and information about live entertainment events in Chilbo or elsewhere. Residents, be sure to use low prim displays!

New Bridges in Madhupak

We’ve taken advantage of megaprims to attempt to connect the sidewalks on either side of the Madhupak road. If anyone can build a better bridge that’s more aesthetically pleasing, Fleep would love to know about it! Have a walk down south and check them out.

Chilbo Summer Faire - Fairgrounds going up!

Planning and development has commenced for the Chilbo Summer Faire, scheduled for July 20 - 26th. The Faire will showcase the many talents of our residents, have live events and performances, as well as games and exhibits. Come join us for a virtual summer faire celebrating community! If you would like to showcase a project or help with the planning, contact Fleep Tuque or Rachel Corleone.

Poet Cecilia Delacroix performed her first public reading at The Shrubbery Amphitheatre in Chilbo on Saturday, May 3rd.

Clearly inspired by the beauty and power of nature, Cecilia’s works centered around a theme of the seasons. Her first readings were a celebration of the rebirth, lush growth, and the playfulness all life feels in the new Spring. She then turned to the warmth of Summer, evoking the “salt breeze” of the ocean and and lazy carefree days. With “The Edge of Maybe” and the end of summer, Cecilia explores her search for peace with herself and the world, and in “September Lonely”, she perfectly captures the melancholy of Autumn. Finally, in “Winter Solstice” and “Fresh White”, she feels the solitude of winter and and the wonder of a snow-blanketed earth.

All an all an excellent and perfectly appropriate inaugural event at The Shrubbery Amphitheatre & Park! With many thanks to Cecilia for a wonderful performance and Rachel Corleone for arranging the event!

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Nope, just playing with the Advanced > Rendering > Info Displays options mentioned in the last blog post on the main SL site. This option in particular is “Render Batches”. Crazy colors!
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Residents of Chilbo joined Lizzette Zenovka as she celebrated the opening of the new SL HIV Prevention and Education Center Annex at Tethea.  The main center is located in Chilbo, but the new Annex will provide additional opportunities for outreach.  “We’re working to fight the stigma of AIDS in Second Life,” said Director Lizzette Zenovka, “we’re all at risk.”  Chilbo resident Krystale Bailey will be hosting a fundraiser for the Center on the Modus Vivendi sim on May 24th and 25th.   We hope to see you there and make sure to stop by and check out the new Annex!   posted by Fleep Tuque on Tethea using a blogHUD : [blogHUD permalink]

Fleep Tuque dancing with Alanagh Recreant at the island opening of Virtual Africa!  Created by Uthango Social Investments, Virtual Africa works to create a gateway for Africans into virtual worlds, and specifically into Second Life, to advocate for their real world innovative programmes in sustainable development and establish linkages with like-minded pioneers.  See the Virtual Africa blog at http://slafrica.wordpress.com/ and make time to stop by and learn more about their work!  posted by Fleep Tuque on Robben Island using a blogHUD : [blogHUD permalink]

New Chilbo resident Malburns Writer recently moved the Malburns MetaHUB to Chilbo! Metanomics events will now be broadcast in the sim at 11AM SLT on Mondays - come join us!
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The SL HIV Prevention & Education Center and the Chilbo Community Building Project are sponsoring the AIDS Memorial Quilt display through June 2008. Stop by to visit this touching reminder of lost friends and family, and view the prim quilt squares that have been contributed by Second Life residents from around the world. For more information, contact Lizzette Zenovka, Director of the SL HIV Center, or Jase Byrne, Caretaker of the Quilt.
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Chilbo Resident Scalar Tardis has filed a bug report on the JIRA - SVC-1905 regarding an issue with the collision tolerance of the new Havok 4 physics engine. Any physics projects that rely on things to be very close together may not move properly, or may not move at all with the new physics engine - so if you have any models or demonstrations with closely aligned moving parts, it’s likely to break when the rollout goes grid wide. Thanks for the report Scalar and if you’re a Second Life resident - go vote to get this fixed!
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Nuuna Nitely and Alain Delpiaz recently moved into the Kuwol sim just east of the Duck Pond in Chilbo! From Estonia, they plan to open a small shop and perhaps create a conference area. Please stop by and welcome them to the Chilbo community! - Fleep
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Thanks to a heads up from Scottmerrick Oh, it’s come to my attention that Fleep’s Deep Thoughts has been nominated for ISTE Blog of the Month! Wow! After checking out the other nominated blogs, I’m especially flattered considering the good company. Stop by the ISTE Blogger’s Hut in world to vote for your favorite blog, and check out the previous winners as well. Definitely adding some new feeds to the ole reader.. =)
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Someone said to me the other day that sometimes they felt like Chilbo was empty. Sometimes it is quiet, but if you go to the Town Hall and take a look, you’ll see that Chilbo residents are quite active in the world, they’re just out and about! The nice thing about an active and involved community is we don’t all need to be in the same virtual location to feel that sense of community - just look at the faces of Chilbo in the Town Hall and you will see your friends and neighbors, and know that they’re just an IM away.
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Chilbo resident Lizzette Zenovka recently opened the SL HIV Prevention & Education Center in the Madhupak sim area of the Chilbo Community. The center works to promote HIV awareness and provide resources for testing and treatment to Second Life residents. “The Chilbo community lends itself to those who want share their passion and creativity to help the SL community,” said Lizzette. She is available for Risk Reduction Counseling and individual appointments for the Second Life community. Congratulations to Liz and the SL HIV Center! Stop by to say hello and wish her a warm welcome, and visit the new SL HIV Center Blog at http://hivpreventionandeducationcenter.blogspot.com/.
posted by Fleep Tuque on Madhupak using a blogHUD : [blogHUD permalink]

Longtime resident and original First Lander of Chilbo, Ra Deemster donated 1024m of land to the Chilbo Community Building Project this evening. Adjacent to the newly proposed amphitheatre and park in The Shrubbery, the plot will contribute to the park like nature of the center of the sim. “It’s the least I can do to the community of which I have been part of for a long time,” said Ra. Our great thanks to Ra for his contribution, and his continued involvement with Chilbo! - Fleep
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Thanks to Rachel for creating the latest map of group owned land in Chilbo: