Chilbo Summer Fair!

August 16 - August 31 - in and around Chilbo & neighboring sims

The Chilbo Summer Fair was conceived as an idea to celebrate our community - an excuse for everyone to get together and have fun and invite friends!

Please check the Chilbo Summer Fair Planning Wiki for the possible schedule changes.

Chilbo Summer Fair Scheduled Events!

August 16 - August 31 - in and around Chilbo & neighboring sims

Open throughout the Fair:

Chilbo Fairgrounds: rides and fun!
SLurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Madhupak/15/65/65
Ferris Wheel , Go-Cart Race Track, Boat Ride, Avatar Cannonball, Skydive Ride, Bouncy Castle, The Dormouse’s Tea Party Ride

Exhibits & Builds:

• The Maze - SLurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Madhupak/16/29/65
• FlowerBall (Douglas Story interactive art) - above the Nature Preserve & Boat Ride - SLurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Madhupak/202/61/53
• AIDS Memorial Quilt - SLurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Madhupak/145/80/59

Scheduled events:

Saturday, August 16

11AM SLT - Walking Tour: The History of Chilbo - Fleep Tuque
Location: Starting at the Town Hall
SLurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Chilbo/112/230/121

Join us for a walking tour of the Chilbo sim! We’ll poke into the nooks and crannies of the community, visit the places and spaces where Chilbo began, and explore the hidden treasures and artifacts of our community’s history!

12 PM SLT - FlowerBall Reception
The tour will finish up at the FlowerBall, an interactive art build that was voted one of the “Ten Best Art Installations of 2007″ by New World Notes. The charming, witty, and extremely attractive co-creators Douglas Story and Desdemona Enfield will be on hand to answer your questions - and hell….maybe musician Aldomanutio Abruzzo if we can get him to come by.
If you do visit, be sure to follow the annoying directions - you’ll get a much better experience if you do. Also - scripters take note: there’s a great deal of complex and interesting scripting involved in the pre-loading of the music clips that makes them play smoothly. Desdemona’s achievement is that you don’t notice all this.
SLurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Madhupak/166/45/68

1pm SLT - Presentation: HIV 101: What is HIV and How Does it Attack the Immune System? - Lizzette Zenovka
Location: SL HIV Education & Prevention Center
SLurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Madhupak/130/80/60

3PM SLT - Go Kart Race - START YOUR ENGINES!!!
Location: Chilbo Fairgrounds
SLurl:

Join us for a smashing good time at the Go Kart racetrack in the fairgrounds! Contestants will compete for the best time around the track, feel free to practice ahead of time, but all scores will be reset before the race! First Prize: $1000L Second Prize: $500L Third Prize: $250L

4PM SLT - Poetry Reading - Cecilia Delacroix
Location: Chilbo Shells Plaza
SLurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Chilbo/80/100/116

On Tuesday evening, Poet Cecilia Delacroix will perform some of her favorite works in the Chilbo Shells Plaza. Cecilia previously gave a reading centered on a nature/seasonal theme in the Shrubbery Amphitheatre, and is memorialized there for donating the lovely backdrop of images that graces the area behind the stage. Beyond her poetry, Ceclia also enjoys wine, jazz, and running many art galleries in Islandia’s canal district in Second Life. Please join us to celebrate her latest poetry!

6 PM SLT - Virtual Artists Alliance workshop
Location: Chilbo Sandbox
SLurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Chilbo/197/20/93

Led by Rezago Kokorin, the premise of these sessions is simple: the host introduces a concept or technique that can be applied to building in Second Life, and the remainder of the session is dedicated to experimentation, using the concept or technique for artistic application. Rezago is an accomplished sculptor and photographer in both realities. The workshop sessions are very open and feature a lot of sharing of knowledge among the participants. It’s always interesting to see the variety of creations from a group of people all starting from the same point. Join us for some fun with the prims in the sandbox.

3 PM SLT - Virtual Worlds Day Panel - Fleep Tuque
Location: Shrubbery Amphitheatre
SLurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Chilbo/167/129/109

This panel will feature a discussion about the current state of virtual worlds and how they may evolve in the future. What do we hope to see? What would be a “bad” outcome? Panelists: Malburns Writer, Tara Yeats, Olando7 DeCosta

Noon SLT - How does reading inspire your virtual life? (about 50 minutes)
Location: Shrubbery Amphitheatre
SLurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Chilbo/167/129/109

Olando7 Decosta (Roland Legrand) is not a professional philosopher, though he graduated in philosophy, but he still feels the urge to read some philosophers when he tries to make sense of his life as a Second Life resident. Olando7 will present some of his favorite thinkers in this context (Derrida, Deleuze&Guattari, Baudrillard) during 15/max. 20 minutes, and invites the audience to share their favorite philosophers and writers (also fiction!) and how reading throws some light on their virtual experiences.

Time TBD - Second Life Community-Building: What We’ve Learned - Tara Yeats
Location: Shrubbery Amphitheatre
SLurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Chilbo/167/129/109

This panel will take a look at some lessons learned that can make - or break - communities in Second Life. Potential focus on emerging plans for Mainland zoning and how that may impact existing communities and new ones. Panelists: TBA

6 PM SLT - Virtual Artists Alliance workshop
Location: Chilbo Sandbox
SLurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Chilbo/197/20/93

Led by Rezago Kokorin, the premise of these sessions is simple: the host introduces a concept or technique that can be applied to building in Second Life, and the remainder of the session is dedicated to experimentation, using the concept or technique for artistic application. Rezago is an accomplished sculptor and photographer in both realities. The workshop sessions are very open and feature a lot of sharing of knowledge among the participants. It’s always interesting to see the variety of creations from a group of people all starting from the same point. Join us for some fun with the prims in the sandbox.

Time TBA - Music in the Shrubbery - Tara Yeats/Leslee McCarey hosting
Location: Shrubbery Amphitheatre
SLurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Chilbo/167/129/109

Live performers throughout the day. Schedule to come.

Chilbo Town Hall Meeting Minutes - 7/13/08

In Attendance:   Fleep Tuque, Cosimo Urbanowicz, Monarchy Republic, Malburns Writer, Corcosman Voom, Tommy Brouwer, Emru Rau, Gem Blue, Tara Yeats, Gann McGann, Ra Deemster, Kim Link, Ryan Snook, Felicity Parx

-=  ACTION ITEMS  =-

1.  Send a friend request to anyone listed above who isn’t already connected to you!

2.  If your profile is not yet included on the Chilbo blog at http://www.chilbo.org/blog/residents/ - please contact Fleep asap to be included.  All active members of the community are asked to participate, as this helps new residents and visitors get to know us and find people who share common interests.

3.  If you can make it to Tampa, FL for the Second Life Community Convention, Fleep and Wainbrave will be in attandance and want to meet other Chilbo residents!   Register at:  http://slconvention.org

4.  If you have artistic items you’d like you sell, contact Emru Rau.

5.  If you have other items you’ve created that you’d be willing to sell, please set up a stall in the Chilbo Farmers Market so it gets more use/traffic!

6.  Visit the new Chilbo Planning Wiki to see how you can help contribute to the Chilbo Summer Fair, August 16 - 31st.  http://chilbo.wikispaces.com (Also linked from the main Chilbo website at http://chilbo.org)

7.  Residents with pictures and snapshots of Chilbo or activities in Chilbo, please contact Tommy Brouwer and Malburns Writer, they need images for an “Illustrated History of Chilbo” project they are working on.

8.  A new automated Bike Tour has been set up in front of the Chilbo Town Hall plaza.  Please send feedback to Fleep Tuque, she’ll be working on an improved version soon.

NEXT TOWN HALL:   SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 2008  @  11:30AM  SLT

-= Town Hall Summary =-

1.  Introductions - Welcome new members!

2.  Community Reports

- ARTISTS:  Corcosman reported on the Art scene in Chilbo, suggests visiting Chilbo resident Douglas Story’s installation “EVil Nemesis” at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Chi/118/36/22

- BUSINESS:  Emru Rau is interested in seeing more commercial activity from residents in the sim.  Discussed the use of the Farmers Market stalls, residents should include more things they’ve created for sale there, possibly opening another store on Chilbo Main Street for selling our things?  Emru would like to display artistic items for sale by his garden in Mujigae.

- EDUCATION:  Several classes have used the GUILD Academy in Chilbo for courses, and the Second Life Education Community Conference has used Chilbo as a temporary Headquarters leading up to the SL Community Convention in Tampa, FL this year.

- NONPROFITS:  Liz wasn’t at the meeting, not sure how the SL HIV Center is doing, hope to get an update at the next meeting.

3.  Donating Tier to Chilbo

- To donate tier to Chilbo, you must have a Premium account which you can sign up for at the main SL website http://secondlife.com.   In your account information, choose the level of “tier” you wish to have and select that option on the website.

- Then come into Second Life and go to Edit - Groups - Chilbo Community Building Project - Info button - Land tab - and type in the amount of tier you wish to donate (it will show you your maximum amount).

- IMPORTANT!!  If you ever wish to remove your tier contribution, please give us as much advance notice as possible so we can be sure to cover it if it is being used to support land we own.  Thanks!

4.  Chilbo Summer Fair

- Fleep has had some personal obligations come up preventing her from doing a good job organizing the Fair.  She asked for someone(s?) to volunteer to take over the organization.

- A wiki site has been created to allow the community to collaboratively plan for the fair.  The major building is mostly done down in Madhupak.

- The dates of the Fair were pushed back to August 16 - 31

5.  Chilbo in Other Virtual Worlds?

- A place on the Chilbo website will be created to include links or pointers to Chilbo residents/places in other virtual worlds.

6.  Communication on the Blog/Community Notices

- Chilbo residents can request an account on the blog and/or the ability to send Group Notices.  All communications through these methods should be a) spell checked  b) professional language (nothing inappropriate for work) and c) used to communicate things of interest to the community in moderation (an announcement and one reminder, for example).  We want to avoid spamming the community or sending/writing communications that don’t reflect well on the community, so professionalism is encouraged.

7.  Other/Announcements?

- Tommy Brouwer and Malburns Writer both are looking for images of Chilbo to include in some future community projects.  If you have pictures, snapshots etc. of Chilbo or activities in Chilbo, please contact them to see how you can help out.

- Monarchy Republic discovered that Chilbo means “seven treasures” in Korean, we’d like to figure out how to work that theme into the community in some way.  Any ideas?

8.  Meeting Adjourned, all took the new automated Bike Tour that is sitting in front of the Chilbo Town Hall plaza.   Send feedback about the ride to Fleep Tuque!

NEXT TOWN HALL:   SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 2008  @  11:30AM  SLT

A full transcript of the meeting is available in the Town Hall.

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!

posted by Fleep Tuque on Chilbo using a blogHUD : [blogHUD permalink]

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]

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.
posted by Fleep Tuque on Madhupak using a blogHUD : [blogHUD permalink]


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!
posted by Fleep Tuque on Chilbo using a blogHUD : [blogHUD permalink]

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]

What is Chilbo?

In the beginning, we came to Second Life (SL) out of curiosity, but we stayed for the promise of an open, collaborative, convivial space where we can grow our personal projects and form new relationships, friendships, partnerships, and organizations. Chilbo is just the place to fulfill that early promise with a minimum of distraction and a maximum of interaction and fun. Your ‘project’ might be anything from personal to professional, but if you want to pursue it ‘in public’ with the casual involvement of friends and neighbors, then you will want to settle into a place like Chilbo.

Chilbo is the name of the sim where our project began, and the “cultural center” of our community, but encompasses the surrounding sims and all of the people who collaborate on our projects, whether they “live” in Chilbo or not.

Chilbo is newbie friendly, part of our mission is helping new residents find their way in Second Life since we all remember those confusing early days.

Chilbo supports artists, musicians, writers, teachers, students, creative thinkers, entrepreneurs, and those who are interested in contributing to the public good.

Chilbo is our home in Second Life. We may work or play in places all over the grid, but Chilbo is where we practice, experiment, relax, and enjoy the company of good friends and neighbors.

Community Organizations

The Chilbo Community Building Project (CCBP) is the organization that holds community land, defines community standards, makes agreements with tenants, and supports community projects.

The CCBP is a Second Life group that holds land in Chilbo and surrounding sims, currently Mangyeong, Mujigae, Mindulle, Kuwol, and Madhupak.

All community members are welcome to join the group. Membership allows you to create objects on community land, to become a tenant on a sliding scale, and to be notified of community events.

Members are encouraged to contribute tier to support monthly land costs.

The CCBP is owned by Fleep Tuque and Cosimo Urbanowicz. This means that they have put in the original capital to buy the land. Privileges currently held exclusively by the owners are: terraforming, land permissions; sales, purchases, and leases; banning; revisions of community standards.

There are practical limitations to group controls in SL that have lead to the ‘benevolent dictatorship’ form of government that Chilbo currently has. We are quite open to increased democratization, and anticipate that as the community grows, and as other residents develop a deeper stake in Chilbo, that the inclusive decision-making process we currently employ can grow into a fuller democratic process. In the meantime, we have taken the approach that we are all moving forward as a community in a very low-overhead, consensus sort of way.

The Chilbo Arts Foundation manages several arts and culture facilities in Chilbo, and supports arts and culture projects. The CAF is intended as a fully immersionist organization, or at least one that quite simply is from a place called Chilbo.

There are also various Neighborhood Associations. These are typical of SL, and are not a formal part of the project. If anything, we are just another (oversized) association member.

Land Use Intent for Community Lands

Second Life can be very asynchronous, since not everyone is around at the same time; this is just a reality of the medium. We have made a distinction between public and private uses with the intent of clustering the more active uses in the center Chilbo sim to enliven the community. More passive uses, visited by only a few people, are an important support, but we’ve located them at the edges to leave prims and traffic resources to the public uses.

The Chilbo sim will eventually be prioritized for public uses and some private uses that are open to the public and enhance the public experience. With the exception of some fascinating hold-outs and grandfathered uses, this means that walking around in Chilbo proper will mean walking past things that are intended for the public — that you might expect to be interested in, and certainly things you are invited to participate in. The intent is to keep Chilbo active with overlapping events and opportunities to interact spontaneously. We aren’t a centralized monoculture though — each build in Chilbo will be created and maintained by a fairly independent group of active people, with their own tastes and enthusiasms. You won’t see very many residences or other typical private uses. The experience so far has been that private homes either fall into disuse, or grow in size and prims to the point where they aren’t a good fit. We have tended to move residences away from the center of Chilbo, but if a resident had an active ’salon’ culture going in their front room, we might want to move them the other way — toward the center of things.

Outside of Chilbo — NIC (Not In Chilbo)

This is where private and low-intensity uses go. Projects and residents that are new generally are located in NIC until they come up to speed and can better show what they contribute to the community. And people who want a workshop or an office, or a home, locate here to take advantage of Chilbo’s cleaner environment without being right in the bustling heart of things. Other benefits to the surrounding sims are that you can make more of a mess here — work on your stuff out in the yard without any worries about image.

Community Standards

The Community Standards are kept at Town Hall. Please forward comments and suggestions for future revisions to Fleep or Cosimo.

Membership

Chilbo is open. If you are interested in joining, you should hang around and talk to residents, and then find Fleep or Cosimo. We can give you a few months’ use of a mini house at no cost. As you settle in and sort out what you really want, we can usually find a more permanent location for you.

We expect long-term residents to help with tier, but we also have a few tier vouchers available on a rolling basis. Community service is encouraged, this includes keeping an eye out for litter, parcels for sale near our holdings, or other new developments that the community might want to know about.

Those with special talents in building, graphic design, scripting, or other content creation skills are invited to help develop Chilbo resources and facilities.

Community Facilities

These areas are maintained by Fleep and Cosimo for member or public use:

Chilbo Town Hall
Sand Box
La Bella Dam Jazz Club
Chilbo Market
Chilbo Museum Center
Main Street Newbie Stores
Public Parks

Community Projects

These projects are the works of Chilbo residents but receive support in the form of tier, land use, or extra prims by the Chilbo community:

GUILD at Chilbo
Chilbo Road Press
Second Life Best Practices in Education HQ
Reform Seminary
SL HIV Prevention Center
SkyeRanger Kiosk

Community Shopping & Entertainment

Businesses and shops owned by our residents:

Berlin Bar (entertainment)
Chilbo Flower Shop (garden and landscaping)
CoaPec Furnishings (furniture)
Lunicima (clothing)
SunQueen Creations (furniture)
Tara’s Retreat (park and gazebo)
The Loft @ Chilbo (art gallery)
Varsity Theatre (movies)

This TED talk from James Howard Kunstler has implications for creating spaces in the metaverse as much as it addresses suburbia in the US. 20 minutes well worth your time (but note profanity in the talk, so NSWF):

In James Howard Kunstler’s view, public spaces should be inspired centers of civic life — the physical manifestation of the common good. Instead, he argues, what we have in America is a nation of places not worth caring about. Reengineering our cities will involve more radical change than we are prepared for, he believes, but our hand will be forced by earth crises stemming from our overconsuming lifestyle. “Life in the mid-21st century,” Kunstler says, “is going to be about living locally.” Passionate, profane and funny, this talk will make you think about the place where you live.