#dorenasworld — Public Fediverse posts

Please welcome @Dorena Verne! She is the admin of Dorenas World, the oldest German OpenSim grid and the third-oldest OpenSim grid that is still around (officially launched in January, 2010).

She has also got a Hubzilla channel under @Dorena Verne, but it has fallen dormant.

#FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #DorenasWorld

Please welcome @Dorena Verne! She is the admin of Dorenas World, the oldest German OpenSim grid and the third-oldest OpenSim grid that is still around (officially launched in January, 2010).

She has also got a Hubzilla channel under @Dorena Verne, but it has fallen dormant.

#FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #DorenasWorld

Our resident in-world DJs keep digging up the craziest music. I've just learned something new from one of them again:

There's a Surströmmingspolkan.

#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #DorenasWorld #Event #Surströmming #Polka

Our resident in-world DJs keep digging up the craziest music. I've just learned something new from one of them again:

There's a Surströmmingspolkan.

#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #DorenasWorld #Event #Surströmming #Polka

And Thirza's HG-Safari blog has delivered:

Metaworld Opensim Social wrote the following post Thu, 16 Jan 2025 14:47:31 +0100 HG Safari: The Mysteries of Atlas Island
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-mysteries-of-atlas-island.html?

#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #HGSafari #DorenasWorld

And Thirza's HG-Safari blog has delivered:

Metaworld Opensim Social wrote the following post Thu, 16 Jan 2025 14:47:31 +0100 HG Safari: The Mysteries of Atlas Island
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-mysteries-of-atlas-island.html?

#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #HGSafari #DorenasWorld

Celebrating a double anniversary in-world at the weekly Rock-House today:

Unofficial of Dorenas World (15 years ago, an early home-hosted instance of my home grid was launched; the official anniversary will be next month).

And Alan Parsons' birthday. So there's a lot of Alan Parsons playing today. (By the way, "grid mama" @Dorena Verne is a big Alan Parsons fan.)

#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #Grid #GridAnniversary #DorenasWorld #AlanParsons

Celebrating a double anniversary in-world at the weekly Rock-House today:

Unofficial of Dorenas World (15 years ago, an early home-hosted instance of my home grid was launched; the official anniversary will be next month).

And Alan Parsons' birthday. So there's a lot of Alan Parsons playing today. (By the way, "grid mama" @Dorena Verne is a big Alan Parsons fan.)

#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #Grid #GridAnniversary #DorenasWorld #AlanParsons

I do hope that OSgrid will come back online before the weekend.

@Dorena Verne has announced that she will update Dorenas World to OpenSim 0.9.3.0 this weekend, and if OSgrid doesn't come back until then, both grids I'm on will be offline simultaneously.

And I'm not going to join yet another grid.

#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #OSgrid #DorenasWorld

I do hope that OSgrid will come back online before the weekend.

@Dorena Verne has announced that she will update Dorenas World to OpenSim 0.9.3.0 this weekend, and if OSgrid doesn't come back until then, both grids I'm on will be offline simultaneously.

And I'm not going to join yet another grid.

#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #OSgrid #DorenasWorld

Just yesterday I learned that Dorenas World is not on ZetaWorlds' blocklist anymore.

And it hasn't been since April, 2023.

ZetaWorlds' way of keeping avatars from blocked grids out is by first letting them in, then telling them their grid is not welcome and then, after not even ten seconds, logging them out entirely.

I guess that's so annoying that I never wanted to test whether we're still blocked.

#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #Hypergrid #DorenasWorld #ZetaWorlds

Just yesterday I learned that Dorenas World is not on ZetaWorlds' blocklist anymore.

And it hasn't been since April, 2023.

ZetaWorlds' way of keeping avatars from blocked grids out is by first letting them in, then telling them their grid is not welcome and then, after not even ten seconds, logging them out entirely.

I guess that's so annoying that I never wanted to test whether we're still blocked.

#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #Hypergrid #DorenasWorld #ZetaWorlds

In Germany, dancing is banned on Good Friday.

Meanwhile, @Juno Rowland and I are at our regular Friday event in Dorenas World, dancing to wonderfully blasphemic, narcotics-inspired krautfolk music from 1971.

#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #DorenasWorld #GoodFriday #Karfreitag #Tanzverbot #Krautrock #FolkMusic #Krautfolk

In Germany, dancing is banned on Good Friday.

Meanwhile, @Juno Rowland and I are at our regular Friday event in Dorenas World, dancing to wonderfully blasphemic, narcotics-inspired krautfolk music from 1971.

#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #DorenasWorld #GoodFriday #Karfreitag #Tanzverbot #Krautrock #FolkMusic #Krautfolk

I'm at a unique event right now which at the same time isn't unique at all.

It's the tenth anniversary of the weekly Rock-House in Dorenas World. It's Rock-House no. 514, but a tenth anniversary can only be celebrated once.

If you feel like joining, and you don't mind that the event language is German: hop://dorenas-world.de:8002/Nihilon

#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #DorenasWorld #Event #Anniversary #AnniversaryCelebration

I'm at a unique event right now which at the same time isn't unique at all.

It's the tenth anniversary of the weekly Rock-House in Dorenas World. It's Rock-House no. 514, but a tenth anniversary can only be celebrated once.

If you feel like joining, and you don't mind that the event language is German: hop://dorenas-world.de:8002/Nihilon

#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #DorenasWorld #Event #Anniversary #AnniversaryCelebration

We've got two DJs in Dorenas World with a safeword.

One of them even has a "poison cabinet" jingle.

So beware when you come attend our DJ sets.

#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #DorenasWorld

We've got two DJs in Dorenas World with a safeword.

One of them even has a "poison cabinet" jingle.

So beware when you come attend our DJ sets.

#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #DorenasWorld

I can't help but notice how hard it must be to find the most important event locations in Dorenas World.

For your reading pleasure: The grid of hidden clubs

#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #Events #DorenasWorld

I can't help but notice how hard it must be to find the most important event locations in Dorenas World.

For your reading pleasure: The grid of hidden clubs

#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #Events #DorenasWorld

The last minutes of a grid birthday are on-going. A small event for what might be the fourth-oldest still active grid.

Happy 14th anniversary, Dorenas World!

#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #GridAnniversary #DorenasWorld

The last minutes of a grid birthday are on-going. A small event for what might be the fourth-oldest still active grid.

Happy 14th anniversary, Dorenas World!

#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #GridAnniversary #DorenasWorld

If I should ever write The Rules of the Metaverse about OpenSim, this would be one:

If you're a German-speaking user, and you have been in OpenSim since at least 2020, you've had at least one avatar in Metropolis. Or you still have one in Dorenas World. Or both.

Another two:

Everyone has at least one OSgrid avatar.

If not, they'll register one eventually.

#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #Metropolis #DorenasWorld #OSgrid

If I should ever write The Rules of the Metaverse about OpenSim, this would be one:

If you're a German-speaking user, and you have been in OpenSim since at least 2020, you've had at least one avatar in Metropolis. Or you still have one in Dorenas World. Or both.

Another two:

Everyone has at least one OSgrid avatar.

If not, they'll register one eventually.

#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #Metropolis #DorenasWorld #OSgrid

It doesn't happen often that an in-world event in OpenSim celebrates its 500th time.

But it's happening right now: The 500th weekly Rock-House at the eponymous location in Nihilon, Dorenas World, presented by DJ Anachron Young like the 499 times before. It has started about half an hour ago plus almost one hour of spontaneous lead-in, and it'll continue for another four and a half.

#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #DorenasWorld #Event #Milestone

It doesn't happen often that an in-world event in OpenSim celebrates its 500th time.

But it's happening right now: The 500th weekly Rock-House at the eponymous location in Nihilon, Dorenas World, presented by DJ Anachron Young like the 499 times before. It has started about half an hour ago plus almost one hour of spontaneous lead-in, and it'll continue for another four and a half.

#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #DorenasWorld #Event #Milestone

One thing I love about #DorenasWorld is how that #grid is chock-full of people with an abnormal music knowledge.

Name a possible music theme for a DJ set while you're at a party. Twenty minutes of collective brain-storming later, you've got enough songs for two hours or so. Maybe even much more, depending on how easy the theme is and how much prog rock or oversized blues tunes people come up with.

Also, chances are that one of our DJs will actually play that theme.

Just a few minutes ago, we've brain-stormed large parts of a playlist with an #LGBTQIA theme for Monday. Suggestions ranged from Marianne Rosenberg to Lou Reed to the Kinks to Bronski Beat to Judas Priest to the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds

One thing I love about #DorenasWorld is how that #grid is chock-full of people with an abnormal music knowledge.

Name a possible music theme for a DJ set while you're at a party. Twenty minutes of collective brain-storming later, you've got enough songs for two hours or so. Maybe even much more, depending on how easy the theme is and how much prog rock or oversized blues tunes people come up with.

Also, chances are that one of our DJs will actually play that theme.

Just a few minutes ago, we've brain-stormed large parts of a playlist with an #LGBTQIA theme for Monday. Suggestions ranged from Marianne Rosenberg to Lou Reed to the Kinks to Bronski Beat to Judas Priest to the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds

It's frightening how fragile the sims which I've listed in my mesh clothes shopping guide for the #Ruth2 family seem to be.

When the guide was still an unfinished draft, 100 Dresses disappeared from Catena di isole on the #VirtualHG grid. It has yet to resurface. Until then, the line is commented out.

Even earlier, Remmy Ravenhurst closed her sims in #OSgrid to start her own grid together with Tanned Babe. She has made a whole lot of textures for older mesh clothes. I'm still waiting for the grid to open. Another commented-out line.

Not long after I've published the guide, #DorenasWorld suffered from hard drive failure and spent three weeks offline during which it was impossible to get certain Klarabella Karamell creations and almost impossible to get the Deva Moda products. Now Klara is leaving the grid and relocating her own sims to OSgrid so I have to edit these lines. I myself am looking for a

While Dorenas World was already down, #Artdestiny got into software-side trouble, but it came back quickly.

The #EtheriaGrid had its own share of trouble several times, making certain exclusive textured #Clutterfly items unavailable. I hope it's halfway stable now.

Sabi Breen has completely redesigned Shopaholic once again, and she has yet to bring back her Damien Fate clothes.

Recently, Cloe Kegel, owner of the #Astralia Shopping City, posted something that sounded like she had also closed Shopping City for reconstruction. This could have meant the removal of older layer and mesh items, some of which can only be found there anymore. Fortunately, Shopping City is still open and complete.

And just a few minutes ago, I thought that Birch Grove on #Neverworld had been shut down in favour of its own spring variant which lacks some of the original's shops. It's still there, just not listed on #OpenSimWorld anymore. The spring variant with its new pride shop will receive a special mention when I make my list of shops with layer clothes useful for #BakesOnMesh bodies like Ruth2 v4.

#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #RuthAndRoth

It's frightening how fragile the sims which I've listed in my mesh clothes shopping guide for the #Ruth2 family seem to be.

When the guide was still an unfinished draft, 100 Dresses disappeared from Catena di isole on the #VirtualHG grid. It has yet to resurface. Until then, the line is commented out.

Even earlier, Remmy Ravenhurst closed her sims in #OSgrid to start her own grid together with Tanned Babe. She has made a whole lot of textures for older mesh clothes. I'm still waiting for the grid to open. Another commented-out line.

Not long after I've published the guide, #DorenasWorld suffered from hard drive failure and spent three weeks offline during which it was impossible to get certain Klarabella Karamell creations and almost impossible to get the Deva Moda products. Now Klara is leaving the grid and relocating her own sims to OSgrid so I have to edit these lines. I myself am looking for a

While Dorenas World was already down, #Artdestiny got into software-side trouble, but it came back quickly.

The #EtheriaGrid had its own share of trouble several times, making certain exclusive textured #Clutterfly items unavailable. I hope it's halfway stable now.

Sabi Breen has completely redesigned Shopaholic once again, and she has yet to bring back her Damien Fate clothes.

Recently, Cloe Kegel, owner of the #Astralia Shopping City, posted something that sounded like she had also closed Shopping City for reconstruction. This could have meant the removal of older layer and mesh items, some of which can only be found there anymore. Fortunately, Shopping City is still open and complete.

And just a few minutes ago, I thought that Birch Grove on #Neverworld had been shut down in favour of its own spring variant which lacks some of the original's shops. It's still there, just not listed on #OpenSimWorld anymore. The spring variant with its new pride shop will receive a special mention when I make my list of shops with layer clothes useful for #BakesOnMesh bodies like Ruth2 v4.

#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #RuthAndRoth

I've been productive again for a change. Productive enough to have something to offer.

Recently, I've put out the first five boxes with #Clutterfly items which I've upgraded to #SFposer. The first two of them contain stuff I've converted months ago already.

My first SFposer conversions were the bean bag chairs. Linda herself had already converted them from MLP to PMAC. The Clutterfly OAR still contains the original MLP versions of everything, but I've got two sources for the PMAC conversions. In theory, conversion from PMAC to SFposer is easy; both use the same notecard format, and you only have to remove the PMAC script and add a few SFposer items. In practice, I usually clear the items of all remains of older sit scripts and customise the settings for the specific use-case.

Next came the bathtubs, my only conversions from MLP so far. Linda didn't convert them to PMAC because they've got props controlled by the sit script which PMAC doesn't support. SFposer does, but the coordinates for the props have to be converted into a different format. It took me a while to figure that out. In fact, unlike MLP, SFposer even supports attaching props to avatars, so I changed the magazine from a static, hovering prop to one that attaches to the avatar's right hand. Eventually, I could get the bathtubs done after planning and eventually discarding new features which turned out not to work as planned, if at all.

I've packaged both sets on Sunday. And while I was at it, I've also converted the beach towels, the innertubes and the pool floaties from PMAC to SFposer and packaged them.

For now, you can get them in #DorenasWorld in Santiago at the Kaufrausch Mega-Store. They can be found on the ground floor where you rez on arrival anyway, placed inside my own prim shelves which you can get there, too.



In case you're wondering why I've done all that: The advantages of SFposer over PMAC are a) support of prop rezzing and b) all avatars being able to adjust their positions, not only the owner.

The advantages of SFposer over MLP include but aren't limited to a) way easier setup and customisation, also due to fewer notecards, b) only one script instead of loads of them, therefore much much less load on the grid server, c) no need to start up the scripts first and waiting for one or multiple poseballs to rez before sitting down, d) more flexible prop handling and, again, e) all avatars being able to adjust their positions.

SFposer even has advantages over AVsitter. For example, AVsitter needs a minimum of one basic script plus two per avatar plus extra scripts for extra features. SFposer covers everything with one script, even if you were to build a dance floor for 99 individually adjustable avatars. This also means that SFposer comes with NPC support out-of-the-box; in the case of AVsitter, you'll have to hunt down rare NPC-equipped furniture to obtain that extra script. Finally, SFposer doesn't make you fumble around with coordinates in notecards. Avatar positions are as easy to adjust as with PMAC.

I guess #OSSL does have some useful extra features that #LSL doesn't offer.

#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds

I've been productive again for a change. Productive enough to have something to offer.

Recently, I've put out the first five boxes with #Clutterfly items which I've upgraded to #SFposer. The first two of them contain stuff I've converted months ago already.

My first SFposer conversions were the bean bag chairs. Linda herself had already converted them from MLP to PMAC. The Clutterfly OAR still contains the original MLP versions of everything, but I've got two sources for the PMAC conversions. In theory, conversion from PMAC to SFposer is easy; both use the same notecard format, and you only have to remove the PMAC script and add a few SFposer items. In practice, I usually clear the items of all remains of older sit scripts and customise the settings for the specific use-case.

Next came the bathtubs, my only conversions from MLP so far. Linda didn't convert them to PMAC because they've got props controlled by the sit script which PMAC doesn't support. SFposer does, but the coordinates for the props have to be converted into a different format. It took me a while to figure that out. In fact, unlike MLP, SFposer even supports attaching props to avatars, so I changed the magazine from a static, hovering prop to one that attaches to the avatar's right hand. Eventually, I could get the bathtubs done after planning and eventually discarding new features which turned out not to work as planned, if at all.

I've packaged both sets on Sunday. And while I was at it, I've also converted the beach towels, the innertubes and the pool floaties from PMAC to SFposer and packaged them.

For now, you can get them in #DorenasWorld in Santiago at the Kaufrausch Mega-Store. They can be found on the ground floor where you rez on arrival anyway, placed inside my own prim shelves which you can get there, too.



In case you're wondering why I've done all that: The advantages of SFposer over PMAC are a) support of prop rezzing and b) all avatars being able to adjust their positions, not only the owner.

The advantages of SFposer over MLP include but aren't limited to a) way easier setup and customisation, also due to fewer notecards, b) only one script instead of loads of them, therefore much much less load on the grid server, c) no need to start up the scripts first and waiting for one or multiple poseballs to rez before sitting down, d) more flexible prop handling and, again, e) all avatars being able to adjust their positions.

SFposer even has advantages over AVsitter. For example, AVsitter needs a minimum of one basic script plus two per avatar plus extra scripts for extra features. SFposer covers everything with one script, even if you were to build a dance floor for 99 individually adjustable avatars. This also means that SFposer comes with NPC support out-of-the-box; in the case of AVsitter, you'll have to hunt down rare NPC-equipped furniture to obtain that extra script. Finally, SFposer doesn't make you fumble around with coordinates in notecards. Avatar positions are as easy to adjust as with PMAC.

I guess #OSSL does have some useful extra features that #LSL doesn't offer.

#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds

Good news:

#DorenasWorld is back online! And I could log back in!

#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds

Good news:

#DorenasWorld is back online! And I could log back in!

#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds

This may seem like coincidence, but still.

The #Hypergrid is experiencing a surge of new freebie sims. Most of them are basically the same as always, only upgraded. This means that everything they offer is illegal, stolen from #SecondLife. If something legal pops up somewhere, it's usually "by-catch" from raiding older freebie sims, mostly outdated versions of Ruth 2.0 (RC#2, RC#2 or even the test release), and the sim owners don't even know what it is that they slap against their walls. "Upgrade" means that, next to Maitreya Lara Athena and Slink Physique Hourglass Decadence-HG, the more recent and not renamed Legacy and eBody Reborn are being offered, along with outfits for them.

Interestingly, however, sims that are dedicated to legal freebies seem to be on the rise. In #Groovyverse, Doctor Dave is building a sim named San Juan. @Juno Rowland has met him already; I shall go meet him, too. Many of the shop buildings on this sim are filled with legal clothes for #Ruth2 to wear, and Dave said he has still got lots of clothes collected from a grid he couldn't remember the name of that he hasn't put into stores yet. Next to Groovyverse itself whose founder @Hyacinth Jean Landry not only forked her own body LuvMyBod off Ruth 2.0 RC#2, but also made mostly "body offset" mesh clothes for both Ruth 2.0 RC#2 and LuveMyBod, the only grid to offer original, full-perm Ruth 2.0 clothes in larger quantities is #DorenasWorld.

And just recently, Froot Loops started working on a new sim on #KinkyHavenGrid named HandMade. This sim shall only offer legal creations made in and for #OpenSim, full stop. In fact, instead of dividing the content into themes, it's the creators who get their own "stores" dedicated to them. After all, Froot Loops only wants to offer content which she can trace back to its origins. I hope she'll leave lots of space for more. For once Dorena's World is back online, Juno and I will have lots of content to bring her.

Speaking of which, once Jeanne Lefavre is done rebuilding the #Caribou sims in #OSgrid, I may become a shopkeep there. Chances are good she'll give me one of the stores to fill. If I get one in the building I've already laid eyes on, I'll use the ground floor as a #RuthAndRoth body shop like the one I already have in Dorena's World, i.e. part museum, but with more explanation and guidance on the walls. That way, Caribou will have the Ruth2 and #Roth2 product lines offered by someone who actually knows them.

Even though I'm likely to have enough space for them, I'm not sure if I will also offer @Sean Heavy ✅🤙🏻☯🏳️‍🌈's #RuthToo and #RothToo boxes. Sean is a pretty good shopkeep already with various shops on at least two grids (speaking of which, the two OSgrid outlets still lack the layer underwear boxes). Besides, not all older boxes seem to be full-perm, and I'm not sure if that's by mistake or intentional.

Upstairs, although there's a teleporter making up for a lack of actual stairs, I want to revive Deva Moda in a place that's easier to reach.

#OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds

This may seem like coincidence, but still.

The #Hypergrid is experiencing a surge of new freebie sims. Most of them are basically the same as always, only upgraded. This means that everything they offer is illegal, stolen from #SecondLife. If something legal pops up somewhere, it's usually "by-catch" from raiding older freebie sims, mostly outdated versions of Ruth 2.0 (RC#2, RC#2 or even the test release), and the sim owners don't even know what it is that they slap against their walls. "Upgrade" means that, next to Maitreya Lara Athena and Slink Physique Hourglass Decadence-HG, the more recent and not renamed Legacy and eBody Reborn are being offered, along with outfits for them.

Interestingly, however, sims that are dedicated to legal freebies seem to be on the rise. In #Groovyverse, Doctor Dave is building a sim named San Juan. @Juno Rowland has met him already; I shall go meet him, too. Many of the shop buildings on this sim are filled with legal clothes for #Ruth2 to wear, and Dave said he has still got lots of clothes collected from a grid he couldn't remember the name of that he hasn't put into stores yet. Next to Groovyverse itself whose founder @Hyacinth Jean Landry not only forked her own body LuvMyBod off Ruth 2.0 RC#2, but also made mostly "body offset" mesh clothes for both Ruth 2.0 RC#2 and LuveMyBod, the only grid to offer original, full-perm Ruth 2.0 clothes in larger quantities is #DorenasWorld.

And just recently, Froot Loops started working on a new sim on #KinkyHavenGrid named HandMade. This sim shall only offer legal creations made in and for #OpenSim, full stop. In fact, instead of dividing the content into themes, it's the creators who get their own "stores" dedicated to them. After all, Froot Loops only wants to offer content which she can trace back to its origins. I hope she'll leave lots of space for more. For once Dorena's World is back online, Juno and I will have lots of content to bring her.

Speaking of which, once Jeanne Lefavre is done rebuilding the #Caribou sims in #OSgrid, I may become a shopkeep there. Chances are good she'll give me one of the stores to fill. If I get one in the building I've already laid eyes on, I'll use the ground floor as a #RuthAndRoth body shop like the one I already have in Dorena's World, i.e. part museum, but with more explanation and guidance on the walls. That way, Caribou will have the Ruth2 and #Roth2 product lines offered by someone who actually knows them.

Even though I'm likely to have enough space for them, I'm not sure if I will also offer @Sean Heavy ✅🤙🏻☯🏳️‍🌈's #RuthToo and #RothToo boxes. Sean is a pretty good shopkeep already with various shops on at least two grids (speaking of which, the two OSgrid outlets still lack the layer underwear boxes). Besides, not all older boxes seem to be full-perm, and I'm not sure if that's by mistake or intentional.

Upstairs, although there's a teleporter making up for a lack of actual stairs, I want to revive Deva Moda in a place that's easier to reach.

#OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds

As #DorenasWorld is currently offline and in recovery due to hardware failure, this week's Monday party has been transferred from its original location to a pretty much identical one on #OSgrid.

Some of the Dorena's World regulars are missing, but everyone else of us seems to have at least one old or spare OSgrid #avatar. So do @Akira Sonoda, @Juno Rowland and I. A few visitors have brought more than one avatar, heh...

Like I've said, sooner or later you'll have an OSgrid avatar anyway.

#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds

As #DorenasWorld is currently offline and in recovery due to hardware failure, this week's Monday party has been transferred from its original location to a pretty much identical one on #OSgrid.

Some of the Dorena's World regulars are missing, but everyone else of us seems to have at least one old or spare OSgrid #avatar. So do @Akira Sonoda, @Juno Rowland and I. A few visitors have brought more than one avatar, heh...

Like I've said, sooner or later you'll have an OSgrid avatar anyway.

#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds

I guess it doesn't happen to Thirza Ember every week that she and her #HGSafari entourage find themselves at a birthday party.

Today's first stopover was on #DorenasWorld (home sweet home). Normally, the grid is next to empty because everyone goes partying over on #Dereos. Today, however, we stayed home, for it's the birthday of our grid mama, @Dorena Verne.

I'm not sure if Thirza knew beforehand. The other safaristas definitely didn't. Anyways, the old grid and its oldest sim took the big crowd with no apparent problems.

And now I have to get my newest shop corner done before people decide to come back. And I have to visit the second stopover of today's safari because it looks pretty cool on the pictures.

#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds

I guess it doesn't happen to Thirza Ember every week that she and her #HGSafari entourage find themselves at a birthday party.

Today's first stopover was on #DorenasWorld (home sweet home). Normally, the grid is next to empty because everyone goes partying over on #Dereos. Today, however, we stayed home, for it's the birthday of our grid mama, @Dorena Verne.

I'm not sure if Thirza knew beforehand. The other safaristas definitely didn't. Anyways, the old grid and its oldest sim took the big crowd with no apparent problems.

And now I have to get my newest shop corner done before people decide to come back. And I have to visit the second stopover of today's safari because it looks pretty cool on the pictures.

#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds

Come to think of it...

On Wednesday, Wolem Wobbit played a one-hour #VirtualConcert with #CrosbyStillsAndNash songs as part of the #GridAnniversary of #DorenasWorld. As usual, I joined him on stage on the keys, along with the grid owners on bass and drums.

And then #DavidCrosby passed away...

#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #DavidCrosbyRIP

Come to think of it...

On Wednesday, Wolem Wobbit played a one-hour #VirtualConcert with #CrosbyStillsAndNash songs as part of the #GridAnniversary of #DorenasWorld. As usual, I joined him on stage on the keys, along with the grid owners on bass and drums.

And then #DavidCrosby passed away...

#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #DavidCrosbyRIP

Yes, it's possible to dress avatars entirely in clothes made in and for #OpenSim. And that doesn't mean that you have to resort entirely to layer and prim clothes from 2011 or earlier.

Here's a picture of my in-world sister @Juno Rowland and me, taken less than an hour ago.



First of all, both Juno and I are wearing mesh bodies made in and for OpenSim. Mine is #Roth2 v2, Juno's is #Ruth2 v4, both from 2020 and fully enabled for #BakesOnMesh. Both bodies can be found, for example, on the official #RuthAndRoth sim on #OSgrid (hg.osgrid.org:80:RuthAndRoth).

As far as clothes and accessories are concerned, I am wearing Taarna Welles creations from head to toe. My new glasses (reMake Urban Glasses, modified by myself to have clear lenses), the hoodie (reMake Hoodie Men Grey Text) and the jeans (reMake Jeans Base Black) can be found on Taarna's more recent sim Savvy on her own #Bubblesz grid (bubblesz.nl:8002:Savvy). The LB Furio Sneakers, these are the black ones, are still made of sculpties and can be found on her old sim La Baronnie (bubblesz.nl:8002:La Baronnie).

Juno's outfit started with a Sasa pullover dress made by a friend of ours, Loru Destiny; it's available in her small shop at Needful Things on #PangeaGrid (pangeagrid.de:8002:Needful Things). Unfortunately, as you can see, this dress is rather short, too short for weather that justifies a knit dress and too risqué (or even risky) for dancing. Fortunately, while many Second Life creators build dresses against the skin of the corresponding mesh body, this one, while rigged for a predecessor of Juno's body, leaves enough room to wear mesh jeans rigged for the same body underneath it.

In this case, they are straight-cut jeans made by Klarabella Karamell, another friend of ours. You can get the piece of clothing itself and various textures for it at Bella Klara on #DorenasWorld (dorenas-world.de:8002:Bella Klara). Finally, the boots, reBoot Dune Middle Boots, are made by Taarna Welles again, and they can be found on Savvy.

#OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #VirtualClothing #VirtualFashion

Yes, it's possible to dress avatars entirely in clothes made in and for #OpenSim. And that doesn't mean that you have to resort entirely to layer and prim clothes from 2011 or earlier.

Here's a picture of my in-world sister @Juno Rowland and me, taken less than an hour ago.



First of all, both Juno and I are wearing mesh bodies made in and for OpenSim. Mine is #Roth2 v2, Juno's is #Ruth2 v4, both from 2020 and fully enabled for #BakesOnMesh. Both bodies can be found, for example, on the official #RuthAndRoth sim on #OSgrid (hg.osgrid.org:80:RuthAndRoth).

As far as clothes and accessories are concerned, I am wearing Taarna Welles creations from head to toe. My new glasses (reMake Urban Glasses, modified by myself to have clear lenses), the hoodie (reMake Hoodie Men Grey Text) and the jeans (reMake Jeans Base Black) can be found on Taarna's more recent sim Savvy on her own #Bubblesz grid (bubblesz.nl:8002:Savvy). The LB Furio Sneakers, these are the black ones, are still made of sculpties and can be found on her old sim La Baronnie (bubblesz.nl:8002:La Baronnie).

Juno's outfit started with a Sasa pullover dress made by a friend of ours, Loru Destiny; it's available in her small shop at Needful Things on #PangeaGrid (pangeagrid.de:8002:Needful Things). Unfortunately, as you can see, this dress is rather short, too short for weather that justifies a knit dress and too risqué (or even risky) for dancing. Fortunately, while many Second Life creators build dresses against the skin of the corresponding mesh body, this one, while rigged for a predecessor of Juno's body, leaves enough room to wear mesh jeans rigged for the same body underneath it.

In this case, they are straight-cut jeans made by Klarabella Karamell, another friend of ours. You can get the piece of clothing itself and various textures for it at Bella Klara on #DorenasWorld (dorenas-world.de:8002:Bella Klara). Finally, the boots, reBoot Dune Middle Boots, are made by Taarna Welles again, and they can be found on Savvy.

#OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #VirtualClothing #VirtualFashion

Starting on January 16th, #DorenasWorld will celebrate its 13th #GridAnniversary with six days of events.

13 years are quite an age for an #OpenSimulator grid. And indeed, as far as I know, Dorenas World is the fourth-oldest grid on the #Hypergrid now; only #OSgrid (launched in 2007, shortly after #OpenSim itself), #3rdRockGrid and #Kitely (both launched in 2008) are older. Dorenas World is also the oldest German grid since #Metropolis shut down last summer.

It has become a grid tradition to celebrate the anniversary with almost a week of events, going through at least some of the many event locations Dorenas World has to offer.

While still a WIP and incomplete, the event schedule currently includes five DJ nights, one of them following an in-world winter sports event, and one concert.

I'm probably going to enter the events of the days into my public calendar and publish the schedule itself once it's final. If you decide to come attend them, fair warning ahead: The events will be in German, including spoken comments by the DJs. But most of the people there know English.

#Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #Grid #Anniversary #AnniversaryCelebration

Starting on January 16th, #DorenasWorld will celebrate its 13th #GridAnniversary with six days of events.

13 years are quite an age for an #OpenSimulator grid. And indeed, as far as I know, Dorenas World is the fourth-oldest grid on the #Hypergrid now; only #OSgrid (launched in 2007, shortly after #OpenSim itself), #3rdRockGrid and #Kitely (both launched in 2008) are older. Dorenas World is also the oldest German grid since #Metropolis shut down last summer.

It has become a grid tradition to celebrate the anniversary with almost a week of events, going through at least some of the many event locations Dorenas World has to offer.

While still a WIP and incomplete, the event schedule currently includes five DJ nights, one of them following an in-world winter sports event, and one concert.

I'm probably going to enter the events of the days into my public calendar and publish the schedule itself once it's final. If you decide to come attend them, fair warning ahead: The events will be in German, including spoken comments by the DJs. But most of the people there know English.

#Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #Grid #Anniversary #AnniversaryCelebration