2016 HELP: The HGProjects revealed!

The HGProjects revealed!
Updated 9/10/2016

HGProjects is a simple, searchable name for activities aimed at encouraging the use of the Hypergrid.  These activities include promotion of activities on the Hypergrid, improvement of the software infrastructure, development of entertainment and entertainment support, improvement of onboarding support, and other things that will make the Hypergrid more attractive to more people.

• I just made up that name to provide a simple, searchable name.  
• Note that you can search this blog with the search bar, upper left corner
• The Hypergrid needs more people.
• The HGProject is my name for efforts aimed at encouraging the use of HG
• It is a bit like a Chamber of Commerce for the hypergrid.
• Except we don't yet do overall planning and organization.

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Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• OpenSim Treasure Hunt. Jan 31 to March 1. An HGProject
• Hypergrid: Upcoming: Opportunities and events
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely

2016 HELP: Linda Kelley is developing Clutterfly

Linda Kelley is developing Clutterfly

Linda Kelley is well-known for her extensive and widely distributed freebie products.  Now she is creating what will surely be the mother of all freebie zones.  There is enough content already to make the place worth a visit. 

Look carefully

• There is a freebie place, too.
• And the place is adults only.  In case you did't notice. 

Clutterfly recently moved

Linda Kellie: WE ARE UP AND RUNNING ON METROPOLIS GRID! Clutterfly shopping can now be found at hypergrid.org:8002:Clutterfly Shopping   If you want to put a free store in please IM Snik Snoodle or myself (Shelby Moonlight) in world Nude beach can be found at hypergrid.org:8002:Clutterfly_Nude_Beach

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• Google community for Linda Kelley: OpenSim Everything
• News about Clutterfly: OSE, Clutterfly search 
• The G+ community search bar is on the left under the community graphic

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Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• OpenSim Treasure Hunt. Jan 31 to March 1. An HGProject
• Hypergrid: Upcoming: Opportunities and events
• Sign of the Kite Newsletter 15 Jan 16
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely

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2016 WRITE: Literature as oral tradition. Don Quixote, Baker street. Seanchai Library 8th anniversary

Seanchai Library 8th anniversary 

celebration on LEA 9 

Seanchai Library is kicking off its 2016 celebration of stories and spoken word on Linden Endowment for the Arts region 9, which has been granted to the Library for the winter and spring months. 

Starting point

• The grand opening of "Crazy Eights" on LEA 9
• Sunday, January 31st at 1:30pm, SLT (I think)
• featuring Miguel de Cervantes "Don Quixote" and 
• the work of Seanchai founder Derry McMahon: 
• Don Quixote in Words and Images.

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• Seanchai Library schedules, programs, and social media presence: 
• http://irelandslstory.blogspot.com/

Go there

• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA9/129/94/31
• SLurl: Double-Click to go or drag the slurl onto your viewer.

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Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• Hypergrid: Upcoming: Opportunities and events
• Sign of the Kite Newsletter 15 Jan 16
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely

2015 HG: P2P: OpenSim Treasure Hunt. Jan 31 to March 1. An HGProject

OpenSim Treasure Hunt.  Hunt across the Hypergrid. 
Jan 31 to March 1.  An HGProject 

A treasure hunt as wide at the Hypergrid!   Just the thing to give reason to explore the Hypergrid.  Grids and regions that participate get extra visibility and traffic.  They can give gifts with landmarks and promotional content.  Users can pick up useful gifts and can discover new HG places.  This could be a lasting institution on the HG.  

• OpenSim Treasure Hunt Jan 31 to March 1.  
• Grids/hints
• STARTS - Jan-31-2016 08:00:00 - 
• ENDS - Mar-01-2016 08:00:00

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Cavatina Short Poetry Workshop-Tue 1/26, 7pm SLT 

This week the Short Poetry Workshop presents the Cavatina, which is an Italian form dating back to the 14th century. The form has alternating rhyming and non-rhyming lines of 10 and 4 syllables. So join us at the Short Poetry Library to learn, write and share your Cavatina.

• Short Poetry Workshop meets every Tuesday at 7 pm SLT 
• Location Link. Click to go or drag to the Viewer screen: 
• http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cookie/160/134/21/ 

Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• Hypergrid: Upcoming: Opportunities and events
• Sign of the Kite Newsletter 15 Jan 16
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely

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2015 WRITE: P2P: Community blogging your virtual world. HGProjects

Community blogging your virtual world 

Maybe it is a grid-wide community.  Maybe it is a themed community such as sailing, railroading, or flying.  Maybe it is a venue-oriented community, promoting entertainment events.  If you want to bring in more people, promote beyond the inworld.  Promote to the outworld.  Here is how to use blogs to do that,  

• A Virtual World Magazine could also be a blog
• Blog to tell, publicize, or promote. Summary
• Collaborative blogging, invited articles. Overview

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Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• Sign of the Kite Newsletter 15 Jan 16
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely

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2016 EDU: International immersive learning project by the Community Virtual Library: Medieval Quest

International immersive learning project  

by the Community Virtual Library: Medieval Quest

Invited article by Valibrarian Gregg

An international immersive learning project is underway in the virtual world of Second Life.  The Community Virtual Library is hosting an exhibit through collaboration with the University of Hong Kong. The goal of Medieval Quest is to explore the potential for immersive learning on a global scale.  

Medieval round table 

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An international immersive learning project is underway in the virtual world of Second Life.  The Community Virtual Library is hosting an exhibit through collaboration with the University of Hong Kong.  All are welcome to join this engaging global role-play project!
Invited article by Valibrarian Gregg

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The goal of Medieval Quest is to explore the potential for immersive learning on a global scale.  Participants are encouraged to engage at any skill level or time commitment. Learning objectives include the opportunity:

• to interact with others on a global scale in a virtual learning environment, 
• experience of new media for content delivery and instruction,
• documentation of literature-based role-play through machinima. 

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Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• Sign of the Kite Newsletter 15 Jan 16
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely

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2016 HG: PROMO: The Hypergrid Welcome Center begins operation. The HGProject. BeatThis

The Hypergrid Welcome Center begins operation. 

The HG project.  BeatThis

Recently Tom Frost proposed the development of a Hypergrid Welcome Center (HWC).  To support that effort he created a Google+ community of the same name.  Here is a report of the first development resulting from that suggestion.  Isis Ophelia has built a sim, Arcana, to serve as a HG Welcome center.  The development is ongoing.  Isis would welcome donations of freebie content suitable for newcomers

Arcana arrival

Go there

• HG address:  arcana.hopto.org:9021
• Put the HG address in the world map, next to Find.  Click Find,  TP

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Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• Sign of the Kite Newsletter 15 Jan 16
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely

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2016 P2P: NEW: Wright Plaza on Osgrid. OS developers office hours, freebies

Wright Plaza on Osgrid. 
OS developers office hours, freebies

Wright Plaza on Osgrid has a lot to offer.  Probably the most important is the OpenSimulator Developers Office Hours.

Help for beginners inside the building

• Weekly OpenSimulator Developers Office Hours 
• Meets at 2pm EST every Tuesday!
• Put the line below in the World Map, next to Find.  Click Find, TP
• hg.osgrid.org:80:Wright Plaza
• Web Site

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Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• Sign of the Kite Newsletter 15 Jan 16
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely

2015 PROMO: HG: Stores: lose the roof, put a sign on the floor

Stores: lose the roof, put a sign on the floor

In a virtual world people fly. The also cam up to get an overview of the place.  And it does not rain.   So the roof is not just unnecessary, it cuts off a valuable promotion view.  It is there to look like the stores in the old world.  Here are some suggestions on making better use of the new world in your computer.

Roofless shows more

• A sign on the floor would show even more
• Image taken at the Kitely Merchant's fair.
• Kitely Merchant Fair 2015!!! Oct . 18-Nov 1, 2015

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Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• Sign of the Kite Newsletter 15 Jan 16
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely

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2016 HG: NEW: Skills analysis for new people in virtual worlds and for the HGProject

Skills analysis for new people in virtual worlds 
and for HGProjects

To bring people into virtual worlds, we need to teach them how to use virtual worlds.  That means we need to specify the skills needed to use virtual worlds.  So we start with a skills analysis.

• Here I propose a straw-man version, based on my policy: 
• It does not have to be right at the start--just at the finish.   
• I will later propose some instructional plans or report on existing instruction.

Basic skills--needed by everyone

• Log on and off
• Move avatar locally: walk, fly
• View control:  Zoom, cam around
• Manage inventory
• Interact with things: Sit, stand, click
• Communicate: Typed chat, Voice, IM
• Interact with people:  Identify, find, friend 
• Avatar select, wear, adjust
• Play local music
• Teleport, ingrid and over HG

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Emotion Poem Short Poetry Workshop-Tue 1/19, 7pm SLT

This week at the Short Poetry Workshop guest host Ngagpa Writer will present Emotion Poems, which are short poems that describe emotions, good or bad. So join us at the Short Poetry Library to learn, write and share your Emotions.

• Short Poetry Workshop meets every Tuesday at 7 pm SLT 
• Location Link. Click to go or drag to the Viewer screen: 
• http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cookie/160/134/21/ 

Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• Sign of the Kite Newsletter 15 Jan 16
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely

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Metaverse beginner help

• Metaverse 101 Info & Tutorials for getting started in Opensim
• A Dimension Beyond
• Virtual Outworlding Table of Contents. Summary
• Newcomer help in virtual worlds
• Virtual worlds are about people. Communities, communication, shared goals
• Time conversion: put time/time zone into Google search to get your time 
• Scroll down for News, Notes, and Info

2016 HG: P2P: Tips for tour travel on the Hypergrid

Tips for tour travel on the Hypergrid 

Tours are one way for newcomers to get acquainted with the HG.  Here are some things to know about that may make your trip easier.

Hypergrid Tours

• Metaverse tours
• HG Safari 
• Hypergrid Nights
• Others?  Put in comments on this article.

At the start

• Friend the others so you can IM them on the trip
• Set prefs for doubleclick TP so you can TP to any place you click on.
• Start  IM with tour leader, 
• Get LMs for destinations
• Find you suitcase in your inventory
• Be sure you know how to use the people button to find nearby people
• Know how to use the Firestorm Hop.

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Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• Sign of the Kite Newsletter 15 Jan 16
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely

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Metaverse beginner help

• Metaverse 101 Info & Tutorials for getting started in Opensim
• A Dimension Beyond
• Virtual Outworlding Table of Contents. Summary
• Newcomer help in virtual worlds
• Virtual worlds are about people. Communities, communication, shared goals
• Time conversion: put time/time zone into Google search to get your time 
• Scroll down for News, Notes, and Info

2016 P2P: The Drax Files: People get together

The Drax Files:  People get together 

A video account of people  who started using a virtual world to make a living and progressed to using it to make a marriage.  

• Watch on YouTube

The mainstream media likes to point out how "living online" destroys relationships in the "real" world but for one American-Scottish couple the virtual world of Second Life became a facilitator: a conduit to finding each other's "soulmate".

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Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• Sign of the Kite Newsletter 15 Jan 16
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely

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Metaverse beginner help

• Metaverse 101 Info & Tutorials for getting started in Opensim
• A Dimension Beyond
• Virtual Outworlding Table of Contents. Summary
• Newcomer help in virtual worlds
• Virtual worlds are about people. Communities, communication, shared goals
• Time conversion: put time/time zone into Google search to get your time 
• Scroll down for News, Notes, and Info

2016 STAGE: Avatar Repertory Theater is looking for a few good voices!

Avatar Repertory Theater is looking for a few good voices! 

Avatar Repertory Theater is looking for a few good voices! Our upcoming shows scheduled so far this year:  Shakespeare's "Two Gentlemen of Verona" in February, Taming of the Shrew and Titus Andronicus TBA, in OpenSim, at our Cookie II world at the Kitely grid. We'll also be starting a virtual world theater workshop series at our Cookie II world on the Kitely grid in a few months.

Avatar Repertory Theater is looking for a few good voices! 

• Our upcoming shows scheduled so far this year:  
• Shakespeare's "Two Gentlemen of Verona" in February, 
• Taming of the Shrew and Titus Andronicus TBA, 
• Theses in OpenSim, at our Cookie II world at the Kitely grid. 
• We'll also be starting a virtual world theater workshop series 
• at our Cookie II world on the Kitely grid in a few months.
• Please contact adaradius@gmail.com
• Avatar Repertory is the longest running virtual world troupe, since 2008,
• with over 280 performances under our virtual belts.

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Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• Sign of the Kite Newsletter 15 Jan 16
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely

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Metaverse beginner help

• Metaverse 101 Info & Tutorials for getting started in Opensim
• A Dimension Beyond
• Virtual Outworlding Table of Contents. Summary
• Newcomer help in virtual worlds
• Virtual worlds are about people. Communities, communication, shared goals
• Time conversion: put time/time zone into Google search to get your time 
• Scroll down for News, Notes, and Info

2016 WRITE: PEOPLE: If you want people to talk about your blog, don't lock them out

If you want people to talk about your blog, 
don't lock them out

Do you want comments on your blog posts? Do you want people to send your post to Facebook, Goggle or other social media?  Then be sure it is easy for them to do what you want them to do. 

I follow lots of blogs.   Often I want to mark a Like, send one to my Google stream, or make a comment .  Sometimes I can.  Too often I find no way to do that easily or at all.  If you are not offering your readers an easy way to comment on your blog and an easy way to pass on your article to others, you are missing a valuable way to promote your work.  

I also write a blog. So I have to deal with these matters from both sides.   After the break I will offer some suggestions.  
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Timely Information

• Information which may be immediately important to some people
• The case of the vanishing suitcase

Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• VWBPE Call for papers, Meet 3/9-12/2016. Proposals due by 1/17/2016
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely. 

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Metaverse beginner help

• Metaverse 101 Info & Tutorials for getting started in Opensim
• A Dimension Beyond
• Virtual Outworlding Table of Contents. Summary
• Newcomer help in virtual worlds
• Virtual worlds are about people. Communities, communication, shared goals
• Time conversion: put time/time zone into Google search to get your time 
• Scroll down for News, Notes, and Info

2016 WRITE: BIZ: Intersections, and the legacy of Myst, writing linking books in virtual worlds

Intersections, and the legacy of Myst,
writing linking books in virtual worlds

Intersections is a 4x4 megaregion on Kitely developed from the idea originated in Myst, that it is possible to create and visit worlds by writing about them.   Extending that idea to virtual worlds led to the creation of worlds where people can visit, explore, do things, chat with friends and enjoy in ways that go far beyond solving puzzles.  

Christmas in a virtual world

Go there

• In Kitely, put the line below in the Firestorm nav bar, enter
• hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Intersections/569/695/34
• On HG, put the line below in the World Map, next to Find.  Click Find, TP
• grid.kitely.com:8002:Intersections
• Web page: https://www.kitely.com/virtual-world/Dot-Matrix/Intersections 

In the original Myst

• You could only go to a few spots where the images had been prepared.
• You were all by yourself, alone.
• You had to solve a puzzle to get back from where you went.
• Myst.
• 'Myst' is getting a TV series

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Pirouette Short Poetry Form-Tue 1/12, 7pm SLT 

This week the Short Poetry Workshop presents the Pirouette, an invented form of 10 lines with 6 syllable per line and a “turn-around.” No ballet shoes or tutu required. So join us to learn, write and share your Pirouette.

• Short Poetry Workshop meets every Tuesday at 7 pm SLT 
• Location Link. Click to go or drag to the Viewer screen: 
• http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cookie/160/134/21/ 

Timely Information

• Information which may be immediately important to some people
• The case of the vanishing suitcase

Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• VWBPE Call for papers, Meet 3/9-12/2016. Proposals due by 1/17/2016
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely. 

• Next WIP show: Sun. Jan 10, Noon SLT
• Fred.Beckhusen tells a lotl
• Location:  world.narasnook.com:8900
• Put the line above in your World Map next to Find.  Click Find. TP
• At Narasnook, use World Map to search for Pandora

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Metaverse beginner help

• Metaverse 101 Info & Tutorials for getting started in Opensim
• A Dimension Beyond
• Virtual Outworlding Table of Contents. Summary
• Newcomer help in virtual worlds
• Virtual worlds are about people. Communities, communication, shared goals
• Time conversion: put time/time zone into Google search to get your time 
• Scroll down for News, Notes, and Info

2016 WRITE: STAGE: 2016: Seanchai Library announces new immersive literary adventures in virtual worlds

2016:  Seanchai Library announces new 
immersive literary adventures in virtual worlds

Seanchai Library announces new projects for 2016.

Bradley University, Second Life – Among the longest active literary programs on the Second Life grid, Seanchai Library will be celebrating its 8th anniversary in 2016 with several projects in addition to its regular weekly schedule of literature and stories.  Seanchai Library (Shanna-key, which means "Storyteller" in Irish.) was founded in March of 2008 in Second Life. 

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Timely Information

• Information which may be immediately important to some people
• The case of the vanishing suitcase

Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• VWBPE Call for papers, Meet 3/9-12/2016. Proposals due by 1/17/2016
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely. 

• Next WIP show: Sun. Jan 10, Noon SLT
• Fred.Beckhusen tells a lotl
• Location:  world.narasnook.com:8900
• Put the line above in your World Map next to Find.  Click Find. TP
• At Narasnook, use World Map to search for Pandora

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Metaverse beginner help

• Metaverse 101 Info & Tutorials for getting started in Opensim
• A Dimension Beyond
• Virtual Outworlding Table of Contents. Summary
• Newcomer help in virtual worlds
• Virtual worlds are about people. Communities, communication, shared goals
• Time conversion: put time/time zone into Google search to get your time 
• Scroll down for News, Notes, and Info