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| 'CANadian Community Region on CANdy Region' -from previous forum. (Australia) |
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Arcadia Xanadu |
I've picked the Candy sim and would like to propose that it become the community region for Canadian OpenlifeGrid participants. I have found a lot of Canadians here on my travels already, and we need a space to call our own! The sim is located next to both FrancoFolie and La Bibliothèque Francophone (which is important since English and French are Canada's two official languages), and also near the Italian and German community regions, and it will be right next-door to the region I am claiming when the pioneer landsale begins, Aqua. I am willing to take responsibility for the community region, and I am sure that other Canadians already here will join with me as volunteers in maintaining the region.
(I am the alt of Ryan Schmidt, hopefully soon to be renamed Ryan Schultz through the good graces of Sakai :-)
I am trying to avoid the situation that has developed on Second Life, where unlike the Australians and most other nationalities, there is *no* central gathering and meeting space for Canadian avatars in-world. The closest to success so far has been the Tim Horton's donut shop, but even that has fallen by the wayside. Having such a community sim will stimulate Canadian interest in, and development of the OpenlifeSim project. We can even have areas set aside to represent the various regions, e.g. the Maritimes with a lighthouse, a model of the CN Tower for Ontario, etc. etc. We can provide spots for newbie Canadians to build homes and set up stores, cultural displays etc., help them get up on their feet.
I'd like some show of support from the Canadians already on here, I know you're out there! Speak up, please. Thank you. :-)
--Arcadia Xanadu (a.k.a Ryan Schmidt/Schulttz), Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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03-Feb-2008 13:55:39
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Tsuyoi Kaze |
Hello. =)
Sorry, I would have posted sooner, but I seem to have had some trouble somewhere between email and password registering. All is well now.
I recently have been thinking along the same lines as Ryan and so support this idea. With my support I would also be happy to offer my services as builder/maintainer of this region, where ever it may be, with Ryan.
Though I don't have many ideas yet myself, being an art fan, I like the idea of having stores and cultural displays, and think the CN Tower would be a lot of fun to build(and the Golden Boy would never stop shining. =P).
As for where the region might be held, being a born and raised Terrafirman, I'm rather drawn to the east. However, I personally think any community region, especially country related, should be kept close to the main entrance region(Welcome to Openlife) so as to make it easier for lost newbies to find their way by seeing something familiar.
Though I liked how Candy was tied into Canadian, I know it's a sandbox and think it's a little too far inland for my taste anyway...not that this is about me. Though I've been to every sim and so have a good idea what and where things are being built, I don't know what regions have officially been taken, so I can't really give my opinion on which sim I think it should be in. I will say however, that I think one of the sims to the north of WOL would make a good spot. It also ties in well with Canada being so far north... So Quartz, Utopia, Prim, maybe even Terra? I wouldn't dream of saying Box, don't want to ruin the fort. =P I'm rather taken with Quartz actually, but to my current knowledge, there's not a whole lot of, if any, serious building action in any of these sims, so any of them sound good to me.
Is there any place we can go to find out which sim is being used for what purpose? If there isn't, I think it would be a good thing to have. That topic is however for another thread.
So, I hope this idea works out. Meeting people from around the world is great, but meeting people from your own country is really exciting, and in some ways even better.
Thanks,
Tsuyoi
Sorry for the length, I like typing. |
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| Re: 'CANadian Community Region on CANdy Region' -from previous forum. (Canada) |
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how about building a FULL SIZE replica of the CN tower? It's 553.33 m tall, well within the maximum height for building. With the rex viewer, we can make megaprims to order. so we could even build the basic superstructure of the base to the pod in under 100 prims! |
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| Re: 'CANadian Community Region on CANdy Region' -from previous forum. (United States) |
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How about a large stature of nine Beavers P ____ing on a frog?
Sorry folks ... :-) |
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| Re: 'CANadian Community Region on CANdy Region' -from previous forum. (Canada) |
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swap out the frog for an eagle and we're in business! |
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| Re: 'CANadian Community Region on CANdy Region' -from previous forum. (United Kingdom) |
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I was just about to post that that must be a Canadian in-joke and that I didn't understand it...
... but then I realised that I do indeed understand the significance of an eagle :-)
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| Re: 'CANadian Community Region on CANdy Region' -from previous forum. (United States) |
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In fact it is a very old "in joke" from the flag debate of the 1960's! THe whole series was very well done, but naturally all the "college crowd" latched on to that one image.
What made this memorable was that the point worked both for English and French speakers, but in different ways. :-)
I guess I am showing my age again ... :-( |
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| Re: 'CANadian Community Region on CANdy Region' -from previous forum. (Canada) |
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I'm yet another Canadian OL resident chiming in with my support. I'd be happy to help out in any building & design capacity. (My day job is demanding and has me travellng too much for extensive admin duties.)
I'm also Québécoise and happy to translate texts of reasonable length into les deux langues officiels.
My RL passion is for the outdoors and the diversity of Canada's natural regions, so while landscape is not my area of expertise, I would be keen to work on wetlands, forests, hot springs, ice floes, and fjords (the last being of course an hommage to Slartibartfast). A boardwalk over a pond where you can paddle a canoe... a sugar shack where you can get maple taffy on snow or go cross-country skiing through the forest... the only thing better I can imagine is the real thing. :)
~ Phy
Darest thou now, O Soul,
Walk out with me toward the Unknown Region,
Where neither ground is for the feet, nor any path to follow?
~Walt Whitman |
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