Tag: SL11B

The days are counting down to the to opening of the SL11B Community Celebration, and the start of a week’s worth of festivities to mark the eleventh anniversary of Second Life throwing wide its doors to the world at large.

The sims have been laid out, and across all of them, people are busily putting together their exhibits. Across the rest of Second Life, entertainers are readying themselves to participate in a 24/7 round of entertainment which will run throughout the celebrations.

While the gates officially open to the public at noon, SLT on Sunday, June 22nd, bloggers and members of the SL press can get to see all of the builds across the 11 regions of the celebrations ahead of the rush.

The SL11B Community Celebration Press Day will be held on Saturday, June 21st. The regions will open at noon, and those attending are welcome to take snapshots, videos and blog about the regions, the exhibits and the attractions. Press packs will be provided to all those attending, containing lots of additional information, as well as goodies donated by exhibitors.

There will also be a series of press tours taking place during the day, all of which will commence at the Welcome Area and will be open to anyone attending the Press Day. Tours will start at 14:00, 16:00 and 18:00 SLT, and will visit all the main attractions.

If you are a blogger or member of the SL press, and would like the opportunity to preview the SL11BCC regions, please complete and submit the follow below (posted on behalf of the SL11BCC team) before  noon SLT on Wednesday June 18th:

 

Related Links

• SL11B Community Celebration blog
• SL11BCC on Twitter
• SL11BCC on Facebook
• SL11BCC on Flickr
• My SL10BCC coverage (2013)
• All SLB coverage in this blog

 

On Thursday May 29th, the SL11B Community Celebration team announced that all exhibitor application notifications have been sent out.

If you applied for exhibition space at SL11BCC, but haven’t seen / believe you may not have received the e-mail, please:

• Check the same account as the e-mail you provided in your application
• Check your spam folder.

The e-mail will have come from “The SLB Team”, and should be easy to spot.

If you did not receive a positive notification, please note that your name has been added to a list. Should any parcels remain unclaimed after June 2nd, 2014, they will be offered to those on the list.

If you’re received a positive notification, please read the e-mail carefully, as it contains a lot of valuable information, which should answer most questions prior to the gates opening and exhibitors being allowed into the SL11BCC regions.

The regions will be opening to exhibitors at midday SLT on Friday May 30th.

Keep in mind that there is a set procedure for gaining access to your exhibit parcel, details of which are in your acceptance e-mail. However, key points to note are:

• You should be a member of The SLB Community group.
• After the regions have opened to exhibitors, send a request to the group asking for an Exhibitor Assistant (EA).
• When an EA is available, they will IM you  – please be patient; this may take a little while, as EAs deal with the initial rush
• As a part of your conversation with the EA, they will provide you with:
  • An invitation to join the SLB Exhibit and Performance group (so you will need two free groups slots – one for this and one for The SLB Community group, if you have not already joined that)
  • A teleport invitation to your parcel
• Make the SLB Exhibit and Performance group your active group (this should be your active group throughout all your building on the parcel) and claim your parcel by rezzing a prim on it
• Prior to building your exhibit, take a moment to re-acquaint yourself with the SLB Exhibitor Policies.

Given that there will be an inevitable rush to access the regions, why not leave it a while avoid the crowd? As long as you have claimed your parcel by Monday June 2nd, 2014, you’ll be fine.

Saffia Widdershins and Marianne McCann have produced a short video going over these points and a few more as well.

Once again, the important dates of note for SL11BCC are:

• Friday, May 30th, noon: Sims open for builders
• Wednesday, June 15th, noon: Sims close to builders
• Saturday, June 21st, noon: Press day
• Sunday, June 22nd, noon: SL11BCC opens!
• Monday, June 23rd: Second Life’s Official 11th Birthday!
  
• Sunday, June 29th: final day of celebrations
• Monday, June 30th to Saturday, July 5th: Sims will remain open for viewing. No performances.
• Sunday, July 6th to Tuesday, July 8th: Breakdown
• Wednesday, July 9th: Sims go offline

Related Links

• SL11B Community Celebration blog
• SL11BCC on Twitter
• SL11BCC on Facebook
• SL11BCC on Flickr
• My SL10BCC coverage (2013)
• All SLB coverage in this blog

Applications for the SL11B Community Celebration closed on Tuesday 20th May 2014 – and it seems that many of you are eager to hear back on you applications – which is great!

However, please, please bear in mind that in all, the organising team have received over 1,000 applications, including:

• 426 exhibitor applications
• 440 performer applications
• Over 300 volunteer applications.

Obviously, the volume of applications means that it is going to take time to sort through everything and, in particular, figure out how to get 426 exhibitors and 440 performers into 243 plots and 3 stages.

While priority is being given to exhibitor applications, do keep in mind that exhibition parcels don’t actually open for building until noon SLT on Friday May 30th, so please give the organising team a little more time to work through the applications, assess them, and get acceptances out. Someone will get back to you as soon as they are in a position to do so, and ahead of the start of the building window.

Once you do hear back on your application, again, please be patient! Read and follow the procedure in your acceptance email and please don’t IM the group before May 30 asking to be let in to the SL11B community Celebration regions; it won’t happen.

Also, the team would like to point out that water plots are extremely limited this year and so will be going to exhibitors that really need them. If all you need is shallow water or part water, then your needs may well be met through the use of a land plot. The team ask for your understanding with this, and offer their apologies in advance to anyone requesting a water plot but who does not get one.

If you’ve applied to be a volunteer or performer – don’t worry, you’ll not be forgotten, either. Replies just might take a little longer to organise, and the team will be posting dates on which  performers can expect to hear from them in a while.

In the mean time, here’s the updated timeline for the celebration:

• Friday, May 30th, noon: Sims open for builders
• Wednesday, June 15th, noon: Sims close to builders
• Saturday, June 21st, noon: Press day
• Sunday, June 22nd, noon SLT: SL11BCC opens!
• Monday, June 23rd: Second Life’s Official 11th Birthday!
  
• Sunday, June 29th: final day of celebrations
• Monday, June 30th to Saturday, July 5th: Sims will remain open for viewing. No performances.
• Sunday, July 6th to Tuesday, July 8th: Breakdown
• Wednesday, July 9th: Sims go offline

Related Links

• SL11B Community Celebration blog
• SL11BCC on Twitter
• SL11BCC on Facebook
• SL11BCC on Flickr
• My SL10BCC coverage (2013)
• All SLB coverage in this blog

On Friday May 16th, Linden Lab issued an invitation to users and communities planning their own events and activities to mark Second Life’s eleventh anniversary, to submit their details for inclusion in the SL Destination Guide.

The blog post reads in part:

Happy Birthday to …. Second Life!

While it’s only the middle of May, June is fastly approaching and the time is now to start planning your Second Life Birthday celebrations! As in past years, we’ll wrangle the best of the best in Second Life Birthday events and corral them into a special SL11B category on our Destination Guide during the month of June.

The blog post goes on to note that the community itself is organising its own celebratory event, and includes a link to the SL11B Community Celebration website.

Anyone who is planning a celebration of their own can submit details of the event / activity for inclusion in the special SL11B section of the Destination Guide by completing the official submission form using the “misc” category. Alternatively, the details can be submitted via e-mail to the Destination Guide editor, using “SL11B” is the subject line of the e-mail.

As with SL10B in 2013, the Lab is planning some surprises of its own to mark the occasion, and news on these will likely be appearing in due course in the official blog.

There are just six days to go before applications to be a part of the SL11B Community Celebrations close at midday SLT, Tuesday May 20th.

The organising team have been thrilled with the response so far, but are urging anyone wishing to take part in this year’s celebrations, and who has not already submitted an application to do so sooner rather than later. After all, you don’t want to go and put it off until tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow – and suddenly find it’s the 21st!

the application forms only take a couple of minutes to fill-out, and you can find them as follows:

• Performers (for any of the event’s main stages) should apply here
• Speakers and performance artists wishing to use the auditorium should apply here
• Volunteers ready, will and able to help keep SL11BCC ticking along should apply here (training will be given!)
• Exhibitors seeking a parcel of land on one of the 11 regions should apply here.

An Important Note to Exhibitors

All exhibition space applications must conform to the SLB Exhibitor Policies, which should be read prior to submitting an application, as they do contain important information.

When completing your Exhibitor Application, please keep foremost in your mind that the SL11B Community Celebration is a non-commercial event intended to showcase the best ideas, creativity, content and craftsmanship that the SL community has to offer. As such, applications which suggest an exhibit is little more than advertising space for a business or an organisation or a group, etc, and lacks any real attempt to fit with the event theme or match its celebratory nature, might be rejected.

This does not mean that if you have a business, or organisation or group you cannot apply for exhibitor space. Rather it means that:

• You can apply, and use your brand name, etc., so long as there is more to your exhibit than just your brand name
• You can give out gifts, landmarks, information and have group subscribers within your exhibit again, as long as there are not just what you exhibit has alongside your brand name
• You can integrate your brand or product(s) into a build, so long as the build is focused on the SL11BCC theme or celebrating SL 11th anniversary, and not solely about product promotion. Think of things that make people engage and not just look – interactive pieces, games, puzzles, exhibits which tell a story, etc.
• You cannot sell goods or services or use your exhibit space simply as a product catalogue showing off your goods or services.

To help understand what might or might not be acceptable with exhibitor applications, a short video has been produced, which underlines the above points and provides some examples of things you might want to consider when applying.

If you have already applied for exhibitor space, but feel your application may not meet the criteria the organisers are seeking, you can reapply. Just make sure your new application is entered before the closing deadline of midday SLT, Tuesday May 20th.

Related Links

• SL11B Community Celebration blog
• SL11BCC on Twitter
• SL11BCC on Facebook
• SL11BCC on Flickr
• My SL10BCC coverage (2013)
• All SLB coverage in this blog