Serina Gee^✦ @SerinaG

OSFest is user friendly, for all levels of ability.
Event Organizer Shelenn says: " Some thoughts for those planning on participating as exhibitors or merchants...
Builders and Creators in SL/OS, did you know how you build matters when it comes to accessibility? Did you know some users with visual, cognitive, and motor challenges use a viewer named Radegast? The Radegast viewer has an option to "read" the object name field of every object and its parts to the user. The number of disabled users in Virtual Worlds is a much higher percentage than in the offline global population. When a build is not accessible, it is painfully obvious and unusable for many.
When creating content for SL/OS, please make your builds accessible by:
1) Properly naming all parts (so Radegast does not blabber on meaningless information like primitive, primitive, primitive... or object, object, object...). Not properly naming parts disables others who need them described for them. Review your existing builds. TIP: If you have a linkset with many parts that take a long time to rename, you can right click the linkset to edit, select edit linked parts, then give them all (parts not used by scripts) the same name.
2) Scripting cues as in when building and scripting your scenes, people who cannot hear well need visual cues and people who cannot see well need aural cues. Providing aural cues for visual events and visual cues for aural events in your builds via scripting is practicing accessibility by design and makes them more immersive for everyone!"
Join us at OSFest this September. Want to participare in OSFest this year? Check us out on Discord. https://discord.gg/8QMqVpr5KW

The Event Between Events Event.
What do you do if one event ends at 2pm and the next one isn't until 3pm? Why, come to our Event Between Events Event, conveniently held between 2 - 3pm OS time!

This is a soft opening of the Tribute Club on the Central Collective Region. By soft opening I mean, don't expect a DJ, strippers, a stripper DJ, or DJ strippers. It also means we aren't quite ready for a Grand Opening. That's happening soon. (You wouldn't be a stripper would you?)

The Event Between Events Event! See you at 2pm!
hop://login.friends-grid.com:8002/Collective Central/128/128/28

Bring your horse to meet Smokey!

We know there are a lot of horse lovers in opensim. One of the biggest challenges to horse owners is having large, beautifully landscaped areas to ride. the second challenge is having ridable trails over uneven terrain. It sounds simple, but can sometimes make a person say bad words when building it. then you also have issues of will the horses physics work on the uneven terrains.

At friends grid we offer the amazing horses from my friend,Roland Francis, and we have two totally different trails for you to enjoy. Now, you can now bring your own horse!

Friends Stables - Enjoy a ride which will take you through the beautiful stable area with ocean views, continue on to the working friends farm. and then ride over the mountains and into the beautiful rainforest! There are many different trail options here.
hop://login.friends-grid.com:8002/Friends/676/462/27

Friends Mall - this is a beautiful easy trail located in back of the mall. This is a simple trail...you cannot get lost. You will ride along the landscaped path viewing the ocean and gradually climb high into the mountains.
hop://login.friends-grid.com:8002/Friends%20Mall/428/325/2...

If you don't have a horse, feel free to use my horses. After you enjoy riding these wonderful creations by Roland Francis, you can go to my store and get your own horses.
hop://login.friends-grid.com:8002/Friends%20Mall/454/337/2...

enjoy your virtual life!

What is this little island?

Dreams

This little island can help people live their virtual dreams:
terraforming
building
landscaping

yes...this island is Dreams

approx 1 sim in size,
water is connected to entire grid for amazing sailing
10,000 prim
rent free!

However, we are very selective about who we add at friends-grid. We do not want house collectors who get free land on every grid...then never use it. That is a waste of our time and resources.

If you want to make this your main home and be an active part of a growing community , then maybe we should talk.....

about this little island making YOUR dreams come true.

https://friends-grid.com/

Contact @zuzubahro or @safinemahoe2 for details.

I LOVE YOU >>>>>>> friends
Our friends from the ILU (Iloveyou) grid have had problems recently ... but are trying to get back to the OS world . If you are free, and want to , please come Saturday at 12noon grid time. for a Party , to welcome them back to the grid ! I wouldn't normally advertise other grids on this platform - but the ILU folks are our friends and i respect a friend of ours... Come if you can ....We are a Friends Army !

Taking an early morning shower in the rainforest waterfall is a rejuvenating experience. The sound of the water cascading down the rocks is mesmerizing, and the misty droplets create a peaceful ambiance. The cool water feels invigorating against the skin, energizing the body and awakening the senses. The natural surroundings add to the experience, with the lush greenery and wildlife adding to the beauty of the moment. This is not just a shower but a spiritual experience that cleanses the body, refreshes the mind, and renews the soul.

Hello everyone
I have some exciting news to share. this is not complete.....but you will get a sneak preview. Our tech team decided they wanted to give us a present.....and so they made us a really cool web page!
https://friends-grid.com/
this site will help new people learn about friends grid...and residents can log in and see more.
(if you have admin powers ....please do not go clicking in the admin area yet until we have it figured out.)

the about us page needs to be written as do a few other places....but this is a super cool website!

this is a mini video that Josh made to show the technology behind friends-grid https://youtu.be/YV09CY5Xock

You will see more on this web page very soon.....I just have to figure it all out!

At the top of the web page you will see menu buttons:
How to connect - teaches people how to add the grid to firestorm
Gallery - will be pics
News- changes
events
forum
Support - all the legal info I needed
Map- super cool

Hello friends
I decided to make a change sooner than I had planned. I want to improve user experience….. so friends-grid now has dual servers.

I am also putting together a schedule of when I will be restarting every region on a weekly basis and I will post it here.

We had a wonderful sail today with new and old friends. Those who didn't know how to sail joined us in using the wind boats. What great fun those are. So you don't need to know how to sail. You can use any boat and have just as much fun.

thank you all for taking time out of busy schedules. Huge thank you to Reggie for playing some amazing music! It was an evening I will not forget, and I thank each of you! and ty Lily for the Pic! 31 people!!!!!

Good morning everyone.....have decided to use the Party Mountain location for this Sunday's party because I don't want Pin or me or others building like frantic maniacs. Sometimes that is fun, but this week a little rest might be good.

friends-grid
Grand Opening Dance
with our amazing DJ Reggie
Sunday June 25
12 noon grid time

In memory of Sinéad, I'll be playing her album, "Throw Down Your Arms", great reggae songs covers..
If you love her, if you love reggae, come to Reggie's on Saturday 7/29 at 12 SLT for an hour of music and dance.
Peace !

Please help me Welcome :
Dominic Soler from Argentina to friends-grid. Dominic will be living in the Hispanic Village and he loves building and wants to help friends- grid anyway possible.

Antony Veeper from Chiapas Mexico. Anthony has been in open sim for 3 years and wants to be involved with our community. Anthony will be living in the Hispanic Village.

Please help me Welcome Zuzu Bahro to friends-grid. Zuzu is from the US and has been in opensim for a nuber of years. Zuzu's fav online hobby is landscaping. Zuzu will be living on friends region.....please say hi when you see her.

Hello everyone, some days I really hate time zones and not getting to see my friends.

I have a favor to ask. I would like you all to use this group page on osw as a way to share what we are doing….even though our schedules may not allow it.

I LOVE seeing posts and pics from you all.

Here are some ideas:

Funny things… like Pin’s goat coming in her window

In progress pics of your building projects

Activity pics showing what you like to do at friends-grid (within reason)

I think it gets people interested in what we have here when they see people doing things.