At this meeting visited the region Wizzy on ReactionGrid. At this location, Wizard Gynoid has created a giant model of the E8 Polytope, one of the most complex and elegantly beautiful geometric objects known to mathematicians.
Read on for a full transcript and photos of our adventure.
I’ll be offline for a week starting Jan 12. So I won’t be around to host the next four meetings of the Hypergrid Adventurers Club.
But the show must go on!
Vanish Seriath frequently attends our club meetings, and he has graciously offered to lead the next three meetings.
Our Hypergrid Adventurers Club continues to grow. At our last meeting we set a new record by having people from 5 completely different grids attending our club via Hypergrid connections. We typically have about 20 people attending our big Sunday meetings. And we’re even expanding our collaborative efforts to other grids.
In addition to our weekly inworld meetings, we stay in touch with each other via this blog, our #HGAC hashtag on Twitter, and our IRC channel.
It’s always good to have different options for communicating. And it’s especially important to use the right tool for the right job.
With that in mind, I’ve decided to create a Google Groups mailing list for the Club. This will allow us to have more detailed ongoing discussions. I also hope this new list will allow us to talk about broader topics such as education and the exploration of all kinds of different virtual worlds.
I’ve had very good success with mailing lists in the past. They’re a great way to help a growing community evolve.
And boy, we are growing!
Take care,
-John “Pathfinder” Lester
This past Sunday we made two excursions to the region Physics on NewWorldGrid, where we discovered and explored a giant-sized physics lab as well as a planetarium.
In our second meeting of the day we met with the creator Aime Socrates, who also built the amazing CERN nuclear physics area we explored in a previous visit.
Read on for a full transcript and many photos from our two meetings on Sunday.
At this meeting we learned about an Opensim whiteboard tool designed by Trevor Meister and visited a There.com outpost on NewWorldGrid created by Mike_37uk There.
We also briefly discussed dachshunds. A subject very dear to me.
Read on for a full transcript and many photos of our adventure.
For today’s meeting, we visited VWERGrid, the new home of the Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable community.
On November 11th, 2010, the Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable announced the opening of their second virtual home on their own Opensim grid called VWERGrid. Today we traveled to VWERGrid and had a chance to speak with AJ Kelton, the founder of the VWER.
Read on for a full transcript and many photos of our adventure.
At the end of each calendar year, it’s common for people to offer up their predictions for the new year ahead.
Such predictions are fun to make and fun to read. Since I mostly swim in the waters of online communities and virtual worlds, most of the predictions I come across have to do with the future of technology.
I have a prediction for the coming year. And while my prediction involves the technology landscape of virtual worlds, what I predict will happen actually has nothing to do with technology.
This past Sunday we made two excursions to a very special Christmas Festival on FrancoGrid.
The creative force behind the festival was Nani Ferguson, who also created the amazing Pandora region we visited in a previous tour.
This festival features a beautiful Christmas Village, free winter clothes, skiiing, ice skating, and a challenging Christmas Hunt full of freebies.
The festival will be open until Jan 19th, so be sure to check it out before it closes!
There are 3 full regions to explore (Winter, Pole Nord, and Noel), including a hidden underground chocolate maze full of surprises.
Read on for many photos and a full transcript of our discussions.
The map on the left is my first attempt to summarize all the different grids and regions we’ve visited with the Hypergrid Adventurers Club. It also shows the hypergrid routes we’ve taken in the course of our exploration.
I deliberately did not include things like coordinates and hypergrid addresses, since I wanted this map to be an overview and more of a conceptual outline.
We’ve been pretty busy, yes?
And there’s still so much more for us to explore.
Read on for help making your own maps, and learn about an exciting new project called HyperBase42.
For today’s meeting, we explored the region CERN on New World Grid.
In real life, CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is one of the world’s largest and most respected centres for scientific research. The instruments used at CERN are particle accelerators and detectors. Accelerators boost beams of particles to high energies before they are made to collide with each other or with stationary targets. Detectors observe and record the results of these collisions.
The region CERN on New World Grid features detailed recreations of real life architecture at CERN as well self-guided tours of models of particle accelerators.
Read on for a full transcript and many photos of our adventure.
Be Cunning and Full of Tricks 