2020 HG: OSCC19 STATE OF THE OPENSIMULATOR COMMUNITY

OSCC19 STATE OF 
THE OPENSIMULATOR COMMUNITY

Presentation by Maria Korolov on the state of the opensimulator community at the end of 2019

• Watch on YouTube
• OSCC videos are up
• VidReader

• 391 grids active in 2019
• 33000 active users
• 73000 standard region equivalents
• KItely Market:  nearly 15000 exportable items
• Hypergrid Business
• Hypergrid

• Update 5/13/2020 Kitely Market Passes $250,000 in Sales. Multi-college diversity in Kitely. OpenSim grids show growth during pandemic

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Event news sites

• Promoting and finding events on the Hypergrid: Hypevents is the most comprehensive resource
• Hypevents 
• OpenSimWorld Events
• Grid List (Developing, has potential)
• Join "Jwheels Recommends" to promote your events:  Invitation 
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES

Regular events

• THIS WEEK at Seanchai Libraries  
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• Maritime Club in Virtual Belfast on OSGrid.
• hg.osgrid.org:80:Maritime Club Belfast
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• Sunday Kitely Community/Hypergrid meeting at 1 pm Pacific time
• grid.kitely.com:8002:Kitely Welcome Center

Hypergrid places, news, and tips

• Gridlist
• STAYING CONNECTED WITH OPENSIM HAPPENINGS
• Hypergrid Welcome Regions (by HG Traveller, Leighton Marjoram)
• Opensimworld. Destination guide for the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRIDABLE grids open 24/7: Interactive spreadsheet for Hypergridders.
• Sights of the virtual worlds
• To go to a hypergrid address:  hg.osgrid.org:80:Maritime Club Belfast
• Put the HG address in the Find bar of the world map, click Find, TP

Business on the MUVEs

• A new service in the GridList – GL Webinar System
• Immersive Technologies (Heritage Christian Online School)
• Facebook takes aim at e-commerce with Libra cryptocurrency
Could a Facebook currency become a major currency in OpenSim?

Radio and video in the virtual worlds

• OpenSimWorkingRadioStreams (OSWRS). Invited article by shawnkmaloney
• Video in virtual worlds. Community, Market, Resources

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