2017 PEOPLE: AvatarFest 2017 Sharing our light. Starts Saturday, September 23

AvatarFest 2017 Sharing our light.  
Starts Saturday, September 23

AvatarFest 2017 will open its doors on September 23rd. Opening weekend will run until Sept. 24th, exhibits will be open until end of October.  Two days of entertainment, and thirty days of exhibits from people around the hypergrid. Avatarfest - the non-professional end-user focused celebration of life on the hypergrid - will be beginning this coming Saturday, September 23

• The AvatarFest from last year
• Watch on YoutTube

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• AvatarFest. the third year: the hypergrid-based opensim community
• Welcome to AvatarFest.net! (Main web page)
• AVATARFest G+ Community
• Performances beginning noon California time 
• HG address: avatarfest.net:6000
• Put the HG address in the Find bar of the world map.   ClIck Find, TP

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More after the break

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Metaverse events, recent and upcoming 

• Mal Burns: Inworld Review
• Hypergrid Writer's Community
• IMA Blog
• IMA locations
• 3D web-worlds of the browser (G+ community)
• Selby's daily news collection:  Virtual worlds are real   
• Virtual Outworlding news collection 
• Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
• Destination guide: OpenSimWorld
• Hyperica, Directory of Opensimulator hypergrid destinations
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Virtual world G+ communities:  Communities virtual worlds G+

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AvatarFest: Previous years

• Avatar Fest, celebration of the Hypergrid community. Nov. 13-16.
• Fest'Avi 2015. Video as abstract art. Do you have a wall TV?
• AvatarFest is the celebration of the strength and diversity of the hypergrid user community
• AvatarFEST, the second year. Videos
• AvatarFEST 2016. Sept. 30-Oct. 2, 2016. An OpenSim Hypergrid event
• “The Hamlet Thing,” 2 to 3 PM SLT ,11/15/2015. At Avatarfest Nov. 13-16

Videos from virtual worlds

• Free video resources for virtual worlds: Screen capture beyond FRAPS
• Simple video editing with Shotcut, for virtual worlders
• Convienient video capture in Windows 10--any window

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License

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• Use as you please with attribution: link to the original.
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Entertainment in virtual worlds

• Mal Burns: Inworld Review
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• Opensim AAM Virtual Performers
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• The web show: a magazine from the virtual worlds
• Art of the Artists: Slartist@UWA Machinima Challenge (L$350,000 Prize Pool) Create a film with a work of art.
• OpenSimWorkingRadioStreams (OSWRS). Invited article by shawnkmaloney
• Aviation radio: Music to fly by. And to promote your aviation event.
• Radio for your place - Radio for the metaverse. Anyone for podcasts?

Videos from virtual worlds

• Free video resources for virtual worlds: Screen capture beyond FRAPS
• Simple video editing with Shotcut, for virtual worlders
• Convienient video capture in Windows 10--any window
• Articles about videos from virtual worlds

News and Notes

HG links-- depending on your interests 

• About  education
• About art
• Dinosaur
• Sailing in virtual worlds
• About Videos
• Sights of the virtual worlds
• People of the virtual worlds
• About business  
• The incomplete works of Ann Tree Prenyour
• Outworldz One-Click Hypergrid  (Install your own HG)
• Binder's OSWorlds Stats and Status (past week)
• Google Calendar tutorial (Used for notices of HG events)
• Hypergrid Tour 2016-01-- 167 virtual worlds
• Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid, a G+ community   
• HYPERGRID EVENTS   
• Hypergrid Destinations
• Hypergrid-related articles in this blog

Communities in the virtual worlds

• Arcadia Asylum All Around   
• G+ community: Hypergrid Safari
• G+ community: Metaverse Tours
• Opensimworld. Destination guide for the Hypergrid   
• Best metaverse communities

Radio in the virtual worlds

• OpenSimWorkingRadioStreams (OSWRS). Invited article by shawnkmaloney
• Aviation radio: Music to fly by. And to promote your aviation event.
• Radio for your place - Radio for the metaverse. Anyone for podcasts?

Metaverse beginner help

• IMA best practices
• NMA entry path 
• How to Enter Kitely Virtual Worlds
• Metaverse 101 Info + Tutorials for getting started in Opensim
• Fr43k Paine/Dealing With Griefers
• 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/zone into Google search to get your time 

The Hypergrid WIP Show

• The Hypergrid WIP is a one hour "show & tell" of works in progress. 
• Everyone is invited.  Building, scripting, entertainment-- whatever you are working on.
• Selby may capture video of presentations in voice, for posting on YouTube.
• The WIP show normally meets on 2 Sundays a month at 12 pm California time.
• The show meets at the Pandora location on the second Sunday 
• But will not meet in the summer.
• And at Cookie II on the fourth Sunday.  
• To keep up with the WIP meetings, join the Kitely group, Work in progress.
• We can go to your place if there is time.

Next WIP meeting

• Sunday September 25, noon SLT (California) time
• Cookie II location (fourth Sunday of the month)
• HG address below: paste into the World Map next to Find. Click Find, TP
• grid.kitely.com:8002:Cookie II 
• In Kitely, put Cookie II into the find bar of the world map. 

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• Suspended for Summer: Pandora Location: (second Sunday of the month)
• Pandora allows presenters to run high threat OSSL functions.
• 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

Previous Articles from the WIP show 

• Glimpses of Hypergrid Work-in-Progress (WIP) show
• WIP Show: How to with NPC, Nara Malone. Storytelling of the future
• WIP on Cookie II, Kitely, 9/20 Dolls, Discos, and Discussion
• WIP August 23, A conversation about being creative
• The WIP show, 7/18/2015: Virtual mobile art by Lucy Afarensis
• WIP Show at Hobo Sandbox on Cookie II, Kitely
• WIP Show, works in progress on the Hypergrid June 3, 2015
• Hypergrid WIP meeting. The creatives of the hypergrid

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