LadyKa @LadyKa

Today, from 11am grid time, the Expo party ! some hear 3 hours of great music, and explore the 100+ booths from all over Opensim, with freebies Landmarks, information, and links to many exciting places and people!
Thanks in advance to the fabulous Zoree Jupiter, Marlon Wayne, and Zeno Stark for the music, and everyone who has participated so far, for all their hard work to make this such a fun event.

On Camballa in the news box you can find a lot of new things for Valentine's Day.
Pretty for the wonderful day with your loved one
or for a hot party
Use the teleporter to the news box
Auf Camballa in der News-Box ist für den Valentins Tag vieles neues zu finden.
Hübsches für den wunderbaren tag mit deinem liebsten
oder für eine heisse party
Nutze den Teleporter zur News Box

Very much apprciated having 25 HG Safari group members visiting WesLorien at ViBel Grid & joining them to visit Hobbiton @ Fred Bekhusen's Outworldz grid.
We had a great time, made a few new connections with the Seconde Vie French community and enthousiatically talked about animesh scripting for wandering animals with the help and a gentle push in the back of a friend who provided the core functionality here https://opensimworld.com/library?view=99

Read the full article by Thirza Ember on the HGSafari blog here: https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2022/10/into-west.html#more

On Saturday, the Hypergrid International Conference hosted more than 60 visitors who came to hear talks in German and Italian - with subtitles!
Lampithaler Artist and CapCat ragu performed spectacular art, and Marlon Wayne, Dings Digital, Lorenza Colicigno and Gianni Spada presented talks about life and creativity in Opensim! Read about the event here
https://hieopensim.blogspot.com/2023/10/saturday-at-hie-20...
https://hieopensim.blogspot.com/2023/10/saturday-at-hie-20...

HIE Starts today!
We have 3 musical guests to help us kick off this long weekend of languages...
Zoree Jupiter at 11am SLT, then DJArianna Nightfire at 12.00 and Forest Azure at 1pm SLT.
Arrive on HIE Welcome, join the Language Group so that tomorrow, you will be able to follow the subtitles,
and then jump through the portal to HIE 4 to enjoy the music!!
The event continues Saturday and Sunday from 9am SLT (6pm in Central Europe)
with talks in German, Italian, French and Spanish - plus some unforgettable art performances
For more, look at the website https://sites.google.com/view/hieopensim/home

ATLAS is pleased to host the HG Safari on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 9 PM UTC. This event is brought to you by Thirza Ember https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/02/atlas-tv.html

ATLAS aura le plaisir d'accueillir le HG Safari Mercredi 21 Février à 22 heures, heure de Paris. Cet évènement est organisé par Thirza Ember https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/02/atlas-tv.html

The new season of Safari began yesterday with two outstanding destinations ...
For this first season of 2024 we are one down and 9 more wednesdays to go, if you missed yesterday, here is what happened when we went to
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/01/nola-treat.html
New Orleans with @MsCaladium and
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/01/toshas-bilbao-wow.ht...
the Guggenheim build by @ToshaTyran
Would you like to have the safari come visit your grid or region? Send me a DM and let's get planning!

The little publicity stalls are popping up all over the HIE regions, getting ready for the conference later this year. Thanks to everyone who has contributed so far, it is already starting to look like a party! For details of how to participate, read this short post: https://hieopensim.blogspot.com/2023/07/booth-fun-at-hie.h...

For OSFest 2023 in September as of 7/12/2023, 12 of 68 exhibit parcels and 6 of 40 merchant parcels are reserved, please spread the word around the HG.
Register for your spot on the OpensimFest website
https://www.opensimfest.com/
You can start building on your home grid and transfer the build later when the grid is open.
Like to build? OSFest is looking for a creator to work on a new Welcome Center. Contact Banker Ibor on Discord or on the website for more details
Discord group: https://discord.gg/cxbnMRQB

If you missed the event over this weekend, here's a taste of what happened when about 40 of us celebrated the start of the Hypergrid International Expo, with @ZoreeJupiter @Arianna1986 and @forestofazure
https://hieopensim.blogspot.com/2023/10/friday-hie.html

HIE the multi language opensim convention continues today starting at 9am SLT (6pm in Central Europe) Join us if you can!
If you missed the great shows and talks yesterday, check out the HIE youtube channel where you will be able to watch Live!
https://www.youtube.com/@hieexpo/streams
https://sites.google.com/view/hieopensim/schedule

Hypergrid International Expo opens this Friday and sessions start Saturday in multiple languages!

HG Address: craft-world.org:8002:HIE Welcome

For full information go here: https://hieopensim.blogspot.com/

Another nice blog entry from Thirza Ember about her latest private visit to NOVALE: https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2022/12/canadian-advent-ure....

Teleport link at: https://opensimworld.com/hop/76561

Servers & Grid closed
The grid is definitively closed due to a bad manipulation on the databases, we have tried everything to try to repair but it turns out to be impossible, in the absence of exploitable asset backup, from February 20, 2022 at 6:35 p.m., the gate is officially closed, we are sorry for the inconvenience, we ask you all to stop your automatic payments and all donations!!!

▁ ▂ ▃ ▄ ▅ ▆ ▇ OPENING today / ERÖFFNUNG heute ▇ ▆ ▅ ▄ ▃ ▂

We are moved and the City grow / Wir sind umgezogen und die Stadt hat sich erweitert
C&C Worldwide Mall - SHOPPING CENTER
OPENING TODAY / ERÖFFNUNG HEUTE
Sunday / Sonntag 09.April 2023
Today/heute starts ◕10:00 OS time / 19:00 Uhr europ.

OPENING / ERÖFFNUNG - with / mit PARTY
in the mix with/mit ☊DJ CRAZY
Dance Hall- feel good beats and classic Remix
▶▷▶ at our new MALL / im neuen Shopping Center

Dance/CHILL/good mood / shopping / explore and more
Tanzen / chillen / gute Laune/ einkaufen / entdecken und mehr

TAXI : hg.osgrid.org:80:C&C Worldwide Mall
*NUR ERWACHSENE* ADULTS ONLY*

░░▒▓◙█◙█◙ C&C WORLDWIDE MALL ◙█◙█◙▓▒░░

Il me tarde d'être à samedi, pour ce magnifique évènement que nous prépare la grid Atlas. c'est sans aucun doute un des grands évènements d'opensim de 2023, à ne rater sous aucun pré-tesque. annuler toutes vos obligations réelles, annuler même vos propres activités virtuelles, pour venir assister à ce grand défilé comme vous n'en aviez jamais vue !!!

https://opensimworld.com/events/95879

le taxi pour Atlas : atlasgrid.fr:8002:Atlas

Phantom Rose Grid turns 3 years old! Presents new Musical Vignette at the Welcome Region Opera House. New Blog Post:
https://lannorrasion.wordpress.com/2022/01/26/happy-birthd...

Lundi 5 Février 2024, à 21h30 (Paris), Atlas reçoit un invité spécial en la personne de Kelso Uxlay qui animera un atelier sur l'animation des objets avec la fonction llSetKeyFrameMotion. Kelso a présenté ses travaux à l'Hypergrid International Expo ainsi qu'à l'OpenSimulator Community Conference. C'est avec grand plaisir que nous le recevons pour cette série d'ateliers. Une connaissance de base des scripts est demandée, ainsi qu'un micro-casque fonctionnel. http://atlasgrid.fr:8002:Atlas-Ecole

Talks in French and talks in Spanish, and art shows by Tosha Tyran and Rage Darkstone... if you missed the Sunday part of the Hypergrid International Expo,
you can watch it here https://www.youtube.com/@hieexpo
and you can read about it here https://hieopensim.blogspot.com/
Want to take part in the next one, like LadyKa and Minord Loup, pictured here? Join the HIExpo group here in opensimworld, and leave a message.
https://opensimworld.com/groups/1041

German and Italian talks and art performances by Lorenza Colicigno, Dings Digital, Lampithaler Artist, Gianni Spada, Marlon Wayne and Capcat Ragu yesterday at HIE... and much more happening today
If you missed the great shows and talks yesterday, check out the HIE youtube channel where you will be able to watch Live! ' even better if you come in person!
STARTS AT 09am SLT
https://www.youtube.com/@hieexpo/streams
https://sites.google.com/view/hieopensim/schedule

Preparations for HIE 2023 are well in hand! It's a chance for opensim residents whose first language is not English to tell their stories, share their experiences, demonstrate their art - all in their own languages. Simultaneous 'subtitles' will make it possible for everyone to follow the event - even English speakers! To learn more, follow the HIE blog https://hieopensim.blogspot.com/
Thanks to all the presenters who have already signed up!
The HIE team:
Mal Burns, James Atlloud, Kelso Uxlay, Tosha Tyran, Thirza Ember

Did you ever try our 7km cross-country ski tour ?
Get your ski gears at the kiosk near landing and sit on the block
The treck is in Sections, the block here is for the 2nd part of
the frozen mountain pathway, bringing you to the polar bear world.
The Ride is pre-programmed, just enjoy the landscape

Ouverture de la Chasse de l'Avent à Novale
hg.creanovale.ca:8052:NOVALE

La Chasse de l'Avent de Novale est en quelque sorte un hybride entre le calendrier de l'Avent traditionnel et une chasse au trésor.

Lorsque vous cliquez sur la boule de Noël du jour dans notre arbre calendrier, vous recevez un indice pour vous aider à retrouver la boule cadeau du jour dissimulée quelque part dans la région. Cela encourage nos visiteurs à explorer d'avantage les beautés de Novale. Il faut faire un petit effort de recherche pour obtenir son cadeau, mais cela en vaut la peine. Un nouveau cadeau à chaque jour jusqu'au au 24 décembre.

(German beaches in a nutshell)

Since Nico has already mentioned it in her comment on part 1 (https://opensimworld.com/post/85841), and since this has been my plan from the very beginning, here's the other part of my "beach talk". What about beaches that aren't in the tropics?

Way too many beaches are a) tropical with lots of naturally-grown palm trees and b) flat. It's a trope that's commonly known in Second Life as Tropical Beach Paradise (http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Tropical_Beach_Paradise). The reason for the abundance of these may be that most beaches are built by people who only know beaches from TV and have never seen one in real life.

But there are so many other ways to build a beach, at least in theory, sometimes actually carried out. Beaches that may be more relatable to especially those of us who know beaches.

Something that has been done, for example, is the kind of beach you often find in Mediterranean coastal towns in southern France. A seawall with a more or less wide beach in front of it and something that could qualify as a promenade on top of it. Destination Fécamp (https://opensimworld.com/hop/86967) has quite a good one, realistic to the point of only one lounger on the entire beach being free and so much surf that you start asking yourself if you should actually go into the water (which you can because Fecamp does that right). Les pieds de sable (https://opensimworld.com/hop/79417) used to have a somewhat different one with less sand and more seawall.

The North American boardwalk beach has been done more often than you may think. For one, there are the many iterations of Linda Kellie's Boardwalk Amusement Park; Lucia Island (https://opensimworld.com/hop/83640) and AMSmediterrania (https://opensimworld.com/hop/87777) both make use of it. One of the best examples, however, has to be scratch-made Coney Island (https://opensimworld.com/hop/87886) where the rides alone can keep you busy for quite a while.

Most of TexLand (https://opensimworld.com/dir/?grid=texland.no-ip.biz:8002) is somewhere in-between because it mimicks islands on the South Texan Gulf coast. There are palms, yes, but there are also seawalls, there are no traces of Tiki style, and it still feels very close to the U.S. mainland.

What I'd like to see done on a somewhat larger scale than at Gridtalk (https://opensimworld.com/hop/78056) are the various styles of northern German beaches. Gridtalk mimicks what formerly West German Baltic Sea beaches often look like, and that's an interesting style, but it could be taken further. In this style, the dunes behind the beach are a given, but they need grass on top and maybe the occasional seagull nest. Speaking of fauna: seagulls, seagulls, jellyfish (which fortunately aren't available on the Hypergrid; I hope it stays that way) and more seagulls (notice how I didn't mention mosquitos).

Unless it's a natural beach, have a promenade behind the dunes with fences between the promenade and the dunes and all kinds of amenities from small shops to hotels (I recommend at least one big hotel tower, even if it's just a few textured prims) on the land side of the promenade. If you're daring enough, build an indoor pool right behind the promenade as well. Just because it's a beach, doesn't mean it's perpetual summer. Instead of lifeguard chairs, install one DLRG station for the entire beach. Also, LOTS of beach baskets. If you want to take the German-ness to the logical extreme, make tiny parcels for the beach baskets which can be rented.

The formerly East German variant would combine this with a long wooden structure between a pier and a boardwalk that extends from the raised promenade across the beach into the water. We call it a "sea bridge". These things were built in times when the wealthy tourists who came there didn't dare to step into the water yet. Somewhere on top of it should be a white-walled wooden building with at least a café/restaurant and an event location in it.

The North Sea variant usually doesn't have beach baskets and a promenade because it isn't part of a town (unless you want to mimic places like St. Peter-Ording or Westerland which would be beach themes of their own). No trees because the area has probably been treeless for centuries (chances are, part of it was sea until a few decades ago). Replace the dunes with a dyke. Optionally, fence the dyke in and add sheep on the dyke to the fauna. (Only sheep because cattle would ruin the dyke.) Add vast mudflats on the seaside which may or may not be under water (set the mud to phantom for extra fun so your feet sink in up to your ankles). Any and all architecture on the sim must be Frisian. Dress code: barefoot (or Wellingtons), rolled-up jeans, windbreaker.

You could make it eerier by building it as a varsim with even vaster mudflats from which sometimes a church bell rings even though there isn't a single church on the sim, much less out on the mudflats.

Also, the North Sea allows for small islands, only that they're called "holms" instead of "islands". Surround the whole thing with mudflats. Don't skimp on sheep. And instead of having dykes, every last building has to be built on a mound no less than four or five metres high.

But let's go back to the Baltic Sea. Natural beach variants should have cliffs. Not rocks, clay. Or white chalk (works both in former East Germany and Denmark). But preferably clay. If it's clay, boulders on the beach are a given. This is the kind of beach where campfires are the most likely.

Something in-between (not quite natural, no beach baskets, no promenade, but the occasional shop and the DLRG station) exists, too. It often comes with a camping site behind it which is a requirement for surf spots. This kind of beach is also the typical German nudist beach. Don't forget "FKK" signs. However, keep the rating Moderate and sex furniture inside the campers or tents. If you really want to go full cliché, fill the camping site behind your FKK beach with Trabants, Wartburgs and QEK campers.

Danish beaches would be similar to German ones, but even less urban, more likely with wooden summer cottages behind the dykes/dunes (per-week rent boxes, anyone?) and always clothing-optional. Oh, and think twice before you put up Linda Kellie's hot dog cart: In Denmark, hot dogs are sold at least from a trailer, if not a snack bar. But one of these is pretty much mandatory. Also, røde pølser (red sausages).

starting in about an hour, the Hypergrid International Expo! Come hear the talks, be amazed by the erperformances, and explore the expo in the park!
Jump to HIE Welcome, then use the portals to reach the 3 auditorium sims ... grab a table, take a seat, and enjoy!
The event website is here https://sites.google.com/view/hieopensim/home

Premier décembre 2022 - Rencontre mensuelle des francos

Rencontre de francophones et francophiles le premier jeudi de chaque mois, chez-eden.venez.fr:8002:Chez-Eden à 21h00 (heure de Paris, soit 15h00 heure de Montréal, ou 12h00 SLT)

Discussion informelle et visite en groupe d'une région.

L'événement se passe de vive-voix et en français.

ATLASGRID a pris sa vitesse de croisière avec cours tous les lundis. Nous travaillons actuellement sur les scripts. Les étudiants de premier cycle ont réalisé de très jolies boules puantes. Les events n'ont plus de secret pour eux, mais l'algorithmie laisse encore un peu à désirer. Les cours de script se font sur inscription car il faut constituer des classes homogènes.