It’s courted controversy; it’s been met with everything from joy to indifference, with a fair measure of consternation. But from Monday of next week SL’s eighth birthday celebration kick-off.
The SL8B official blog is still pretty light of any meat on the celebrations (what is going on? Anything?) – which kind-of makes it hard to stir up the “whoopie!” factor.
Some dates have been released on the SL official blog, but even these are pretty lightweight, comprising:
- Kim Linden’s opening address at 11:00am SLT on the 20th
- Rodvik’s appearance on the main stage at 3:00pm SLT on the 23rd
- Err, that’s it.
There is apparently a “press preview” on the 18th – and one assumes it will be open to members of the SL Press Corps (that’s what we’re here for, right? To report on things going on in SL?); but event that is bereft of any details such as “when” and “where” – making it kind-of hard to plan on being there. If it is left to an 11th hour Press Corps Group Notice for the details to be supplied, I’ll be sorely disappointed.
On a broader front, I appreciate that we still have a couple of days to go before everything kicks-off, and that the “special celebrations” don’t take place until the 23rd – so there is still time to “get the news out”. Nevertheless, the lack of any real calendar of activities at this point in time runs the risk of the entire event passing most people by – which has, if I’m honest, frequently been the case in previous years.
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