Today’s Designing Worlds will be rather different as Saffia talks with Ebbe Linden at SL17B

Ebbe Londen in conversation

Today’s Designing Worlds show will be rather different as rather than show an episode from our archives, Saffia will be speaking live at 2pm to Ebbe Linden, CEO of Linden Lab, as part of the SL17B Birthday Celebrations – and we’d love the Designing Worlds audience to be there!

You can join the live audience at the Auditorium on at the Celebration. The Auditorium is open in three areas – but do get there early – last year it filled up fast!

• Auditorium on SL17B Awesome
• Auditorium on SL17B Astound
• Auditorium on SL17B Fantasy

Or you will be able to see the event livestreamed at: https://youtu.be/quloVw0OVj8

The Auditorium

Ebbe Altberg came to Linden Lab with more than 25 years of experience leading teams and creating software used by hundreds of millions of users. After graduating from Middlebury College he went on to work at Microsoft, where he spent most of his 12 years leading teams that created the world’s most popular productivity products such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Office.

Saffia will be talking to him about a range of topics, including the impact of Covid-19 on Second Life, issues of diversity and equality, the situation with Sansar and the economics of Second Life – as well as what we can look forward to in 2020.

And there will be further Meet the Lindens events all week!

• Tuesday 23rd at 2pm SLT: Patch Linden – VP of Product Operations at Linden Lab
• Wednesday 24th at 2pm SLT: Oz Linden – Head of Engineering at Linden Lab
• Thursday 25th at 2pm SLT: Marketing Team (Brett, Darcy, Strawberry, Maveric, and Tara Linden) at Linden Lab
• Friday 26th at 2pm SLT: Meet the Moles (Linden Department of Public Works)

Don’t miss a new special chance to learn more about the Lindens, with a new series in the Second Life Community Forums, created by Strawberry Linden: https://community.secondlife.com/forums/topic/456100-sl17b-meet-the-employees-social-campaign

Ebbe Linden

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Have you visited the Designing Worlds site at SL17B?

Designing Worlds exhibit at SL17B

You can read all about it here (and find out how to collect our special collectible postcards!)

One of the collectible Designing Worlds postcards at SL17B

A sample postcard message

Visit Designing Worlds at SL17b here: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL17B%20Electrify/224/138/23

Read Full Post »

Visit Designing Worlds at SL17B!

Designing Worlds exhibit at SL17B

We have a beautiful site at the Second Life 17th Birthday celebrations!

Designed by Annie aka Undercoverlady, it has Designing Worlds out on a road trip in a beautiful bit of countryside.  You’ll find areas high and low to explore, even underwater! And there are some quiet corners to relax or even enjoy a picnic.

One of the collectible Designing Worlds postcards at SL17B

And because the theme of this Birthday is roadtrips and vacations, the Designing Worlds team have been busy sending postcards too! Inside the cute little figures you’ll find around the exhibit, there are a whole range of postcards, with messages from Saffia, Elrik, Aisling and Wildstar, with each card being from one of the amazing places we have visited on the web. On the reverse side, you’ll find a message from one of us – and each card also has a link to the show featured on the postcard!

See how many you can collect – each click on the figures will give you a free random postcard. You can collect and keep them all – or gift them to friends.

A sample postcard message

And, if you can, try and visit other sites we’ve been involved with:

Designing Worlds at SL17B: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL17B%20Electrify/224/138/23
Bright Star Gallery by Wildstar Beaumont: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL17B%20Electrify/68/181/24
Fantasy Faire Literary Festival: https://secondlife.com/destination/literary-festival-from-fantasy-faire-sl17b
Fantasy Faire Radio: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL17B%20Electrify/68/159/23
One Billion Rising in Second Life: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL17B%20Electrify/104/224/23

Read Full Post »

Designing Worlds mapping out Second Life … at the New Kadath Lighthouse – now on the web!

New Kadath, photographed by Wildstar Beaumont

In this episode we explore a beautiful – and absolutely fascinating – region within Second Life – New Kadath, which houses (among other delicious treats) the Lighthouse Art Gallery, home of the Museum of Second Life Maps!

DW419 – New Kadath from Richard Elen on Vimeo.

To explore the amazing Museum and the wider region, we’re joined by the Keeper and Custodian of the Lighthouse, Julianna Lethdetter and region creator Dragonia DeCuir.

New Kadath, photographed by Wildstar Beaumont

Julianna shows us around the fabulous map museum, with cartography going back to the earliest days of the Second Life grid, while Dragonia takes us on a tour of the beautiful and exotic region of New Kadath, with its fields, bunnies, dragons and flying whales – and a Cheese Shop – where you can sample the wares!

New Kadath, photographed by Wildstar Beaumont

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Visit New Kadath for yourselves: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/New%20Kadath/34/58/23

New Kadath, photographed by Wildstar Beaumont

Read Full Post »