The Chilbo Community

It began as a dream among a few people, a place where people could live not just as virtual neighbors, but a community. Since then, Chilbo has grown not just in area and numbers, but has attracted and continued to attract a number of artists and musicians, while continuing to help newcomers to Second Life. Today, Second Life takes a look at the Chilbo region and community.

To read the story, go to Community.

Live in Sunweaver Islands: A Bargain Home in Second Life

Finding a place to live in Second Life for an affordable price can be a challenge. Sign up for Premium Membership to get a “free” Linden home, one will be paying $9.95 US dollars a month. One can rent land, allowing one to stay a free resident and skip the fee, but the prices for rental land and homes can be high, a thousand Lindens a week or more.

How about a place in Second Life where you pay not a thousand Lindens per week, but per month?

At the Sunweaver Islands, 1000L will get you for four weeks, a rate of 250L a week, a 512 square meter plot, 16m x 32m in size, with a 117 prim limit. One can rent as many lots as are available, and the staff will join them into a larger lot if possible, so one can build the house of one’s dreams.

The Sunweaver Islands have both public islands and private islands available:

Public Islands allow one the flexibility of having either a house, store or both. As the name suggests, they are fully open to the public.

Private Islands allow one greater privacy, but are restricted to residents of Sunweaver Islands only. One is allowed to build stuff for sale, but no selling is allowed here. Control over who gets on the islands and behavior is enforced.

For more information on rental space in the Sunweaver Islands, please contact one of the rental managers: Nydia Tungsten, Wensleydale Dinkins, Shockwave Yareach, and Rita Mariner.

Also ask what move-in specials are available. As of now, the first month is half-off the normal price for new renters.

Memories of Woodlin: Part Two

Woodlin was a great place to hang out and live in Second Life, with great friends and great scenery. Sadly, our home came to an end. But it didn't mean we had to stop being neighbors.

For the story, go to Community

Memories of Woodlin: Part One

Many residents in Second Life have memories of a special place where they made good friends and had great fun. For one reporter in SL Newspaper, one place stands out: Woodlin.

For the story, go to Community.

Breezes Thoughts on Skybeam

Yep My dear friends, I am up a tree

Ah, well so to speak. I do want to show you my home in beautiful SkyBeam Estates. This is a community so vastly full of the most talented, friendly group of residents that one could ever hope to meet much less live amongst. I am going to take you to many different regions, I hope you will come see us all I promise you will not be disappointed. The peace and tranquility here is above all the most pleasant. I wish I had a video to show you all the scenery that has been built and cared for by so many. It is the desire of Charlene Trudeau to make you welcome with her love of these lands.

ahhh our Community Center

Dancing and play cards and relaxing with friends . a sharp fast game of Darts maybe? Terrific DJ's for your dancing pleasure.

Lobo estates is where we have many a fun dance

Memorial Rockin 26 hrs of dancing. This is BCreative Wilde DJ and sim provided for by Wiccan Sojouner owner of Bewitched all for the benefit of Relay for Life, American Cancer Society, of which we are all working for the big cure. Come join us!
So many members I wish to acknowledge I can fill the pages with you all, where to begin I cannot imagine you are all at the top of my list. There is no where on the earth or Second Life any more wonderful than right here at SkyBeam
This, my friends, is the Mall at SkyBeam Muse Oh I do love these shops and you will too. oh i also meant to tell you, we have riding horses all through all the sims and you can spend forever going from sim to sim to see some awesome builds and I know you will love your experience. Invite your friends and make yourself at home

Find out more about SKYBEAM HERE and come and visit us
Breezes Babii

ARA Best Home Fundraiser and Contest

Do you enjoy decorating your home? Have you put a lot of effort into its design and appearance? Are you curious to see how your home compares with others in Second Life?

Our organization, *Animal Rights Advocates*, is launching Second Life's First Annual "Best Home In Second Life" competition and exhibit. This will be a prestigious event! If you are proud of your home and your creativity, you are strongly encouraged to enter.

All submissions will be reviewed by our fundraising board. The top ten homes will be chosen and left open to residents to vote for the winner. The top three homes will receive substantial monetary prizes.

A Black Tie Affair awards ceremony will conclude our fundraiser.

Stop by the enclosed location for an entrance ballot and for further information including the details of this exciting event!

http://slurl.com/secondlife/San%20Miguel/223/27/22

Expect media coverage. Demand high competition. Anticipate Linden attendance.

Will your home be voted as Second Life's best?

Eye on the Blog - About the Homestead Launch and Script Limits

As we have previously blogged, Homesteads will be launched as a new product on Monday 5th January. Those of you that own an Openspace should already have received emails from us explaining the changes taking place; this post is to ensure that you have as much information as possible ahead of the change.

In launching a new product, there are many areas that will change, including additions to the website, new knowledgebase articles, and of course, changes to the Land Store itself.

Timing:

• January 5th: From 8am until 12 noon SLT, Land Store closed for maintenance. Upon opening, both Homesteads and Openspaces will be available as options for island owners.
• January 5th: All Openspace regions to undergo rolling restart. Most will happen before Noon SLT.

Billing

• If your normal monthly bill date is before the 5th you will be billed your new rate in February 09
• If your normal monthly bill date is on or after the 5th, you will be billed the new rate in January 09
• Educators that have paid for a half or full year in advance will be unaffected by rate increase until their renewal date. For more information and to confirm renewal dates contact the Concierge team.

Script Limits

• We will need to implement script limits to prevent a heavily overloaded region from negatively affecting the performance of another region.

Timing for Script Limits:

• In Q1, we will be gathering data on script load, and sharing this usage data with the community before deciding what the most appropriate limits are.
• In Q2, we expect there to be Viewer changes to allow you to monitor your script usage against those limits.
• In Q3 we will begin enforcing script limits.

Read the full post HERE
Source: The official SecondLife Blog