Safari goes to Inworldz

As many of you already know, earlier this week OSGrid has gone offline due to a failure of the RAID drives in the asset system. This is a big deal, because although everyone's assets on OSGrid are backed up, they will now have to be restored - billions of bits and bobs, and it's going to take a while. Fun fact, while you weep for your missing shoes and sculpties, I'm told that RAID stands for Redundant Arrays of Independent Drives. Did that help? I was afraid not.

Fortunately, Opensim isn't just one grid, we are many! so while we're all sorry to lose our homes/stuff in OSGrid, and hope very much to get it back, if possible, many of us have options, even duplicates, on other worlds, and can carry on without missing a beat. Always wise to diversify! So this week's Safari trip is on track.

 The Safari trips are aimed, as you know, at getting more acquainted with the grid-jumping process, and in learning more about the great galaxy of hypergrid connected worlds. This week, while Thirza is away, something slightly different happened.

Fuschia in black and white (Photo by Praline B)

This week's trip HG Safari Week 14 was organized by Fuschia Nightfire, who wanted to show the group her gallery on Inworldz, with a follow-up trip to Sendalonde, a region for literature and art, by Alexina Procter and Prax Maryjasz.

The meetup was on Inworldz's Sandbox1 which made a lot of sense, since the clubhouse on Osgrid is obviously not available, and in any case, this was not a hypergrid jump kind of trip.

One of the cool things about multiple homes within Opensim is that you can spread your work out all over the place. In this case, Fuschia, who in SL is a working artist specializing in affrescoes, and inworld is well known as an installation and 2D artist, was able to port a show she has in Second Life to this other, less expensive grid, where it's possible for her to keep the art on show without paying a fortune. Here on Inworldz, Fuschia's exhibit space is on a sim called Falathrim, and the show is called "Not Everything is Plain Black and White". These two photos are by friend of the Safari and FrancoGrid stalwart, the beautiful Praline B

Zebras at 'Not everything is black and white' (Photo by Praline B)

Inworldz is an opensim grid, in the sense that it belongs to the family of non SL grids, so - places with the same infrastructure, so that the viewer that works in SL and, say, on Francogrid or Craft, also works in Inworldz. For those interested in the back end, Inworldz uses Halcyon code, and forked from the main Opensim code about four years ago, so they have various bells and whistles that operate a bit differently. Inworldz was founded in 2009, so it's not in the first generation of grids but it's still quite old in VW terms, and it is run on commercial lines, with its own currency and most people expect to pay for everything here, albeit at prices much lower than in SL. 

It's not accessible by Hypergrid, so the only way to get here is using a local Avatar.

The second destination this week was to the Sendalonde Library, which is a literary and theater community. Here in Inworldz the group is big enough to put on plays, and to promote reading of great literature, and of course, principally to have fun! here's a video of the grand opening of the library.

(Not!) HG Addresses 

Fuschia's gallery and Installation

secondlife://inworldz/secondlife/Falathrim/215/204/1015 The Sendalonde Library

secondlife://inworldz/secondlife/Sendalonde/57/85/36