The new OSW beacon is now in the OSW package in our region. The new beacon includes some bug fixes and a new Like / comment button that allows people who visit your region to give likes and comments to your region. Get it from our region along with the new HUD!

As no-one else who was at the meeting has posted this yet, here's kind of good news from Sunday:

OSgrid will not shut down forever!

It will shut down on December 31st at midnight, yes. But it'll shut down in order to wipe the asset server. Same thing as the Asset Reset last year. Then it will come back online.

This means your accounts and your avatars are safe. They will not be deleted. You will not have to register new accounts or create new avatars. You will get to keep the avatars which you have now. They'll just have empty inventories.

This also means you've got time until December 30th to save the stuff you have in OSgrid that you need to save. But please don't wait until the last moment. If all those who can export IARs do it at the same time, this will overload the asset server. (Yes, IARs are safe. They're copies of your inventory. Your inventory is not poisoned, even though the asset server itself is.)

If you have land attached to OSgrid, you may export an IAR. If not, I myself recommend you to send the items that you absolutely need saved to an avatar in another grid (and items that can be picked up from freebie stores right now don't fall under this category). Basically the same as last year, remember?

If you don't have land, but you absolutely need an IAR export for some reason (and laziness is no such reason, sorry), you may send albertIr Landar an e-mail, and he'll export an IAR for you. He will need your OSgrid login password for that. Again, don't wait until the deadline and ask him then. Even albertIr can only export so many IARs at any given time, and if 100 users mail him to export their IARs on December 30th, he most certainly won't get all 100 done before the shutdown.

One thing will change: OSgrid won't let anyone and everyone attach sims just like that anymore, starting next year. Only "trusted" hosters will be allowed to attach sims. Don't ask me what exactly that means; the OSgrid board hasn't published a definition yet either. I've overheard at the meeting that those who have sims attached to OSgrid right now count as trusted. But don't take this for official information.

If you want official information from the board: Wait until the OSgrid wiki is updated.

I am freezing Opensim-Aura at version 1.1 and polishing it before moving to dotnet10.

Opensim-Aura is focused on HyperGrid Simulators rather than closed grid config.
If you want to test it you can download the latest release at:
https://github.com/amandaleeang/OpenSim-Aura/releases

Implemented so far:
- Attachment scripts running after HG teleport
- Server side bakes (Firestorm SSA)
- Distributed UUID among participating grids’ nodes, (UUID DHT (HyperGrid UUID locator)
- HG visitors’ assets stay in cache only, not in the db.
- Concurrent HTTP requests
- Xbakes use outfit deterministic ID instead of uuid
- Improvements to HG Friends, HG IM, HG Profiles, HG Group Profiles
- Display Names, HG compatible with Aura sims.

For Stand alone:
- HG groups in Sqlite
- HG Offline messages in Sqlite
- FSAssets for Standalone and Sqlite

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🎨❤️🖤 **OSFest 2026: FINAL GUIDED TOUR!** 🖤❤️🎨
Join **Star Ravenhurst and Drew Blood** for one last ride through *Neopop Art Ludic*, the vibrant, playful world of artist **Tina Bey**, featured on Imagination Island in the Le Beau Retrouvé Art Gallery Complex!
Grab your skateboard and come explore this colorful, surreal landscape where pop art and imagination collide. This is your final opportunity to experience the exhibit before the 2×2 region is cleared for the next artistic adventure!
📅 **Oct 22, 2026 11 AM – 12 PM Grid Time**
📍 **Imagination Island, Tenth Dimension Grid**
🚀 **Hop:** grid.tenthdimension.org:26002/Imagination Island/128/128/22
Come for the art, stay for the fun, and help us give this extraordinary exhibit a fabulous OSFest send-off! ✨🛹

Exhibit presenters
* OSF_ Aphra Hendrix Exhibit

It's your OSFest! Make it fun everywhere
OSFest celebrates the creative talents of residents in the decentralized Hyperverse. We welcome merchants, exhibit presenters, and entertainment artists. For two full weeks, including weekends, we'll have music, dance, art, and merchant expos in one place - the OSFest Grid!

I actually screamed out loud...lol.
OSFest 2026 - Space Alien Zombies Quest!
Tons of awesome prizes! Fresh Mesh for the Halloween Season!
hop://grid.opensimfest.com:8022/OSF_NW_Expo/357/141/504

Hey guys! Looking for a new home? Why not get your own grid? Cooper Swizzle and I use Hosting 4 OpenSim to help run ours.
Josh is fantastic, and it's a lot easier than you think to get started!

Josh will be at OSFest tomorrow at 10 AM GridTime to answer any questions you may have about owning your own grid!
hop://grid.opensimfest.com:8022/OSF_N_Expo/329/40/464
Click below to see video on facebook
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/16JTYmeTuQ5/

🤠🎸 OSFest 2026 – Get Ready to ROCK the Country! 🎶🔥

Dust off those cowboy boots, grab your hats, and get ready for an afternoon of Country & Rock at OSFest 2026!

🎵 We've got two fantastic DJs ready to keep the music flowing and the dance floor hopping!

🌟 12 PM – 2 PM Grid Time
🎧 DJ Garth Brooks
Bringing you a great mix of Country & Rock!

🌟 2 PM – 4 PM Grid Time
🎧 DJ Sasha King
Keeping the party going with more Country & Rock favorites!

🎸 Whether you're a country music lover, a rock enthusiast, or just looking for a great time with friends, there's something for everyone!

✨ Great Music! Great People! Great Times!

Come for the music, stay for the friendships, and celebrate the spirit of community at OSFest 2026!

🤠 Put on those dancing boots and we'll see you there!

🌐 TELEPORT TO grid.tenthdimension.org:26002/Yellowstone/128/128/22

🎉 OSFest 2026 – Where Music, Friendship & Community Come Together!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yfgiVzvapo

Coming Soon: REDLIGHT COCK-TALES – THE BLACK BOOK

A satirical look behind the scenes of a glamorous club scene, featuring stories about power, rumors, loyalty, and the little and big secrets of nightlife.

What is merely a façade, what is fiction, and what is left to the reader’s interpretation?

A story about human weaknesses, grand ambitions, and the question of how far some people are willing to go for success.

Sometimes, fiction is more intriguing than any supposed truth.

Disclaimer: This is a satirical work of fiction. Characters, actions, and events are presented as literary creations. Any resemblance to real persons or actual events is unintended and should not be interpreted as a statement of fact.

Silver Basin opens wide beneath the mountains, where the desert floor gives way to pines, rock, and rising trails. It’s one of those places in Sanctuary Canyon where you can stop for a minute and see how much country there is left to explore. Some areas are still being constructed, but there's much to explore freely and much, much more to come!!

Land of Enchantment • Sanctuary Canyon • Long Ranch

◥▧▧▧▧Sunday 18th October 10AM Grid Time▧▧▧▧◤
⇨ ᴡʜᴇɴ : 10/18/26 -- start is 10Am Grid Time
█◄♫►█ ⇨ DJ Marlon Wayne
█◄♫►█ ⇨ DJ Adriana Darkheart
█◄♫►█ ⇨ PUTRI SOLO LIVE SINGER
█◄♫►█ ⇨ ᴡʜᴇʀᴇ:Ricks Cafe
█◄♫►█ ⇨ GRAB YOUR FRIENDS and come :))))
hop://pangeagrid.de:8002/7%20Miles%20Jamaica/102/251/32

Coming to you at 6am PDT/SLT/OST/Grid Time, 2 hours of fun, laughter and banter, kicking off your Saturday with a bang!, come one, come all, all are welcome to come and join in party and have fun!
hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/Alternate%20Metaverse/35...

🎧🔥 DJ YANA DAKOTA — LIVE TODAY! 🔥🎧

THE LEGEND IS BACK BEHIND THE DECKS!

Get ready for powerful beats, fantastic music and a whole lot of energy!

No drama, no nonsense — just great music, good company and a dance floor full of life!

🎶 DJ YANA DAKOTA
📅 Saturday, October 17, 2026
🕒 3 AM Grid Time
🏝️ Solmara – Sun-Kissed Cove Beach

Dresscode: Swimwear or nudity

📍 TELEPORT:
hop://grid.virtual-worlds.zone:8002/Solmara/77/100/23

TURN UP THE VOLUME, BRING YOUR ENERGY AND LET'S MAKE SOME NOISE! 🔥🎶

See you on the dance floor!

❤️ DJ Yana Dakota

DreamGrid statistics from the last 9 months:

39,918 regions hosted

250,962 standard Second Life-sized region equivalents

For comparison, Second Life has approximately 54,760 standard-sized region equivalents at the high end.

That's an extraordinary amount of virtual land supported by DreamGrid installations!

https://www.reddit.com/r/DreamGrid/comments/1x7uhpv/dreamg...

You will notice our website is inactive, that is because we are transitioning to Joomla 4. fingers crossed 6.2 is coming, its been a bit quiet. But in order for 6.2 you have to update to 4 first.

I got it successfully on Joomla 4, now we have to get it looking like a website and re enable plugins/modules one by one so we dont crash the site. The previous template we used isn't compatible with 4.

Chat gpt was a big help in helping me figure out which plugin was causing the MysqliDriver::query() error, since its deprecated in 4.

This also means no new members at this time.

🎉 OSFest 2026 – Saturday Night Entertainment! 🎶✨
Get ready for another fantastic day of music, fun, and celebration at OSFest 2026! 🎊
Join us on Saturday, October 17, as we keep the excitement going with four incredible performers bringing their music and energy to the OSFest stage!
🎵 SATURDAY'S ENTERTAINMENT LINEUP
🎩 2:00 – 3:00 PM | Austin Moores
🎤 3:00 – 4:00 PM | Maribol Inshan
🎧 4:00 – 5:00 PM | DJ Nay Kell
🎶 5:00 – 6:00 PM | Lavia
⏰ All times are Grid Time.
🌟 And there's more than just music!
While you're visiting, take some time to explore the amazing exhibits, discover unique shops, pick up freebies, and experience the creativity that makes the OpenSim community so special!
💃 Bring your friends, put on your dancing shoes, and enjoy an afternoon of great entertainment and wonderful company!
🌐 TELEPORT TO OSFest 2026:
hop://grid.opensimfest.com:8022/OSF_Welcome/236/400/565
🎉 OSFest 2026 – Where Creativity, Community, and Celebration Come Together!
See you on the dance floor! 💃🕺🎶

hop://grid.opensimfest.com:8022/OSF_Welcome/236/400/565
FRIDAY NIGHT IS MUSIC NIGHT AT OSFEST 2026!
Get ready to turn up the volume and kick off your weekend with an incredible afternoon of music, dancing, and fun at OSFest 2026!
We've got four fantastic DJs ready to keep the music flowing and the dance floor hopping!
Friday, October 16, 2026
2:00 PM – 6:00 PM Grid Time
YOUR FRIDAY DJ LINEUP:
2:00 – 3:00 PM | DJ Austin Moores
3:00 – 4:00 PM | DJ ROOI
4:00 – 5:00 PM | DJ Tom Southmoor
5:00 – 6:00 PM | DJ Fiona Sweet
And there's more to explore!
Before the music starts, take some time to wander through OSFest's amazing exhibits, discover creative builds, visit the shops, and pick up some fabulous freebies!
Whether you're coming to dance, explore, or just hang out with friends, there's something for everyone!
Bring your friends, put on your dancing shoes, and let's make Friday at OSFest unforgettable!
TELEPORT TO OSFEST:
hop://grid.opensimfest.com:8022/OSF_Welcome/236/400/565
See you on the dance floor!
#OSFest2026 #OpenSim #VirtualWorlds #LiveDJs #Hypergrid #VirtualEvents

THE JOURNEY IS ALMOST HERE HOURS AWAY!
Join Kimm Starr and Cooper Swizzle for the OSFest 2026 tour as we invite you to step into a world alive with color, music, tradition, remembrance, and a little unexpected magic.
DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS: A Journey Beyond
It’s just days away!
This is more than a tour, it’s an immersive journey created to surround you with the sights, sounds, stories, and spirit of Día de los Muertos.
The journey begins October 16th!
Time: 12:00 AM Grid Time
Location:hop://login.thezones.icu:8002/Day%20of%20the%20Dead/131/12...
Hypergrid into the vibrant world of Día de los Muertos, (Day of the Dead). But this isn't your ordinary tour, You won't just LOOK at the experience. You'll STEP INTO it. You'll EXPLORE it.
And encounter a few surprises along the way!
It’s an immersive experience where the environment comes alive around you. Bring your sense of adventure, because you never know what might happen when you step through the portal!
Mark your calendar, and everyone’s invited.
Friendly reminder: Please remove any jewelry, AOs, HUDs, attachments, and other scripted objects.

Dies ist ein POST von SMAILI:

Adore zu deinem Post hier im OSW wegen Tomi Balboa, finde ich das es unverschämt von dir ist, dass du irgendetwas gehört hast und sofort mit Freude eine schlechte Nachricht, eine Todesnachricht veröffentlicht hast.
Von Tomi Balboa Seite aus waren du und er zum Schluss noch nicht einmal mehr gute Freunde, auf näheres dazu will ich nicht eingehen. Carmen und Crazy sind im virtuellen meine enge Familie, wenn die Carmen oder der Crazy verstorben wäre hätte ich das nie veröffentlicht, sondern dies obliegt alleinig nur Carmen oder Crazy und diese hätten es veröffentlicht wenn sie bereit dazu gewesen wären. Und ich Smaili war noch nicht bereit etwas wegen Tomi zu veröffentlichen.
ADORE ich vergesse meine gute Erziehung : Du ADORE bist ERBÄRMILICH !!!

This is a Message from Smaili:

Adore, regarding your post here on OSW about Tomi Balboa: I find it outrageous that, upon hearing something, you immediately and gleefully rushed to publish bad news news of a death.
As far as Tomi Balboa was concerned, you and he were not even close friends toward the end I won’t go into further detail on that. In the virtual world, Carmen and Crazy are like close family to me; if either Carmen or Crazy had passed away, I would never have been the one to announce it. That is a decision that rests solely with Carmen or Crazy themselves they would have shared the news when they were ready. And I, Smaili, was not yet ready to post anything regarding Tomi.
ADORE, I’m going to set aside my good manners for a moment: You, ADORE, are PATHETIC!!!