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Ubit Umarov is at OSCC. With his OSgrid avatar.

Which means that OSgrid is back online for a change.

#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #OSCC #OSCC2024 #OSCC24 #OSgrid

@vrsimility Don't ask @Cheryl Furse for #OpenSim stats. She'll tell you what she believes as if it's a proven fact, and at the same time, she claims that all official stats, even those automatically submitted by grids to #HypergridBusiness, are all bogus.

The July stats on Hypergrid Business know of 419 active grids, but Hypergrid Business relies on people reporting the existence of grids to them which is why "new" grids have often been up and running for several months already. Anyways, 419 active grids and 200 world-wide OpenSim users would mean that everyone would have more than two grids practically constantly running on average.

According to the same stats, #DreamGrid has been installed 3,435 times so far. However, due to the nature of DreamGrids often residing on personal Windows computers at people's homes which are only started up when they're needed, there are no stats on how many of them actually count as active.

As for #OSCC, they don't publish any attendance stats AFAIK. All I know is that the grid is designed for 350 avatars of all roles combined. That's why visitors have to register first, and registrations are capped. Any given presentation may normally have some 70 or 80 avatars attending. It'd be pretty senseless to come to an OSCC presentation and bring a bunch of alts with you, especially since you're already encouraged to reduce the complexity of your main avatar for attending OSCC.

@Holocluck Henly There's the #OSCC (OpenSimulator Community Conference; #OSCC23 in December; official website) which is an annual multiple-day conference with five adjacent expo regions.

Then there's the #HypergridInternationalExpo, #HIE in short (October 7th/8th; official website) which is practically the same for presenters and an audience whose native language is not English. And it doesn't have five standard regions worth of expo, "only" some booths along a path.

Then there's #OpenSimFest. You already know that, I guess. It doesn't have a website AFAIK, but here is a post on #OpenSimWorld.

The nearest major event is #OSG16B, the 16th #GridAnniversary of #OSgrid, the first, oldest and biggest #OpenSim #grid and the one with the most users (July 24th to 30th).

You can be glad that you haven't asked me in February. I would have had to explain #CornflakesWeek to you.

@Holocluck Henly There's the #OSCC (OpenSimulator Community Conference; #OSCC23 in December; official website) which is an annual multiple-day conference with five adjacent expo regions.

Then there's the #HypergridInternationalExpo, #HIE in short (October 7th/8th; official website) which is practically the same for presenters and an audience whose native language is not English. And it doesn't have five standard regions worth of expo, "only" some booths along a path.

Then there's #OpenSimFest. You already know that, I guess. It doesn't have a website AFAIK, but here is a post on #OpenSimWorld.

The nearest major event is #OSG16B, the 16th #GridAnniversary of #OSgrid, the first, oldest and biggest #OpenSim #grid and the one with the most users (July 24th to 30th).

You can be glad that you haven't asked me in February. I would have had to explain #CornflakesWeek to you.

Just a few reminders for #OpenSimulator #events this year:

The first and oldest #OpenSim grid, #OSgrid, will most likely celebrate its 16th birthday next month, probably towards the end of the month. The exact dates and the schedule for #OSG16B have yet to be announced, though.

The next date will be #OpenSimFest. Led by @Shelenn Ayres, #OSFest2023 is scheduled for September 15th to 30th and will feature events as well as (mostly commercial) merchants. See also here.

Not much time to catch your breath until #HypergridInternationalExpo (official website) which will return on October 7th and 8th after six years. And again, the organisers @Thirza and @Mal Burns Opensim are in the Fediverse already. #HIE is basically the #OSCC for non-English speakers; otherwise, the concept is very similar.

Speaking of which, we'll most likely have another OpenSimulator Community Conference this year. I expect #OSCC23 to take place in early December again, but this date is still TBA, too.

#Metaverse #VirtualWorlds