Welcome to The Roarin' Twenties New Year's Eve Party
Tuesday, December 31 at 5 PM Grid Time
DJ Gertie Bumptious will provide the tunes for the Roarin' 20s New Years Eve bash at La Joie in Kitely! Your hosts, Freda Frostbite and Heximer Thane will provide the dances and join you in conversation and celebration. Are we celbrating the end of one decade or the beginning of another? Both, of course! Twenties garb is suggested (IF you can find em in Opensim), but semi-casual is always right at La Joie.
In

Best Poems Of The Decade 2000-2019 Open Mic
December 29 at 2:30 PM Grid Time

Join Freda for a look back at this decade's best poems. Bring your favorites written between 2000 and today, written by you or someone else. All poems will be shared in local voice. If you are unable to speak in local voice, bring your poems on a notecard, pass 'em to Freda and she will read them for you.

In Kitely: hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Belle%20Terre/24/45/30
HG: grid.kitely.com:8002:Belle Terre
V3HG: second

DJ Jeff is taking his Beach Party to the Virtual Seattle Ice Rink on the Discovery Grid Thursday evening from 6-8! Join us there for his set of retro-dance music with all the stops pulled out! It's part of the Winter Pop-up Market celebration!
http://discoverygrid.net:8002:Seattle

When: September 14 - 21, 8 days of shopping
Where: discoverygrid.net:8002:Seattle
Come to the pop up market in Virtual Seattle!!! It takes place September 14 through the 21st. See what our Discovery Grid merchants have to offer, either merchandise or services, all in one cozy flea market setting. Hypergrid visitors are also welcomed. The region is set to transact in Gloebits. However, if you want to purchase items in the local Discovery Coins (DC$) all the merchants have landmark givers and teleporters to

Encore Construction Building Class

Encore Sandbox

Who wants to learn to build in TEE? Rocky Hillburton is holding build classes every Tuesday night 4pm. There is a test after every class to be presented the following week. We voice & share screen in SKYPE so be sure you have that. Hope to see you there. Log in & holler for a TP to the sandbox. Hope to see you there!!

https://theencoreescape.com/events_calendar.html

DJ BOB "AT THE HOP"

Dec 17, 2019, Tuesday, 6:00 - 8 PM

SKATING WITH DJ BOB AT THE HOP!!

COME JOIN US FOR SOME FUN AND MUSIC AS DJ COUNTRY BOB PLAYS THE TUNES WE LOVE TO SKATE TO!! SKATES PROVIDED AND OPEN TO ALL GRIDS AND AVATARS

https://theencoreescape.com/events_calendar.html

Come get free Christmas gifts at Nemesis_3D Wonderland Park region: http://badsworld.com:8002/ wonderlandpark

Exodus Gallery Open Day
Exodus Dragons was born in 1991 and is studying CGI graphic design. He is a Digimon enthusiast and also passionate about animation in the Disney world. He creates digital sculptures using Zbrush and Unity3d program to make digital wallpaper.
"I want you to remember the times when we all played and watched the Digimon brandand above all to depict in our memories the most beautiful moments, the value of friendship, collaboration and team spirit."
- Exodus

We have more fun and entertainment planned at the Discovery Grid Winter Market! Join DJ Moonie at the Skating Rink (behind the Mural Amphitheater) on Monday, Dec. 16 from 6-8PM! Bring your skates and enjoy tunes from your skating rink days!
discoverygrid.net:8002:Seattle

KARAOKE starring YOU

Come share your talents with us, be it singing, making us laugh with some funny jokes, story telling or reading some poetry. Meet some new friends and be sure to bring your friends with you. Let's make it a party!!!

http://theencoreescape.com/

LISA LAXTON & FRANK RULOF
This presentation from Infinite Metaverse Alliance® (IMA) and Thales Group discusses development of a new open source viewer for the OpenSimulator community focused on improvements in usability, accessibility, and interoperability. Development is driven by inclusive “design thinking” while adding capabilities for the future to address gaps in development aimed at the needs of new users and those with different abilities that may be digitally marginalized.

Belinda & Troy Portland & Potlatch Fogarty LIVE TONIGHT!

Come on over and joine us as we listen & dance to the LIVE music as these wonderful singers entertain us! Gown and Suits preferred but anyone can come! We won't turn anyone away!

http://theencoreescape.com/

RACHEL UMOREN - Each year, there are 2.5 million newborn deaths, most of which are preventable. One of the top causes of neonatal mortality is when a baby does not breathe at birth. Newborn resuscitation training reduces newborn deaths, but knowledge and skills from in-person training rapidly decay, sometimes in a matter of weeks after training.

VALERIE HILL / VALIBRARIAN GREGG & ALYSE DUNAVANT-JONES - This presentation will share an overview of open sim projects developed by the Community Virtual Library. The CVL Hypergrid Resource Library, located in Avacon and Kitely, as well as several other projects will be highlighted.

Shocking Title for an OpenSim Conference I know, but let me tell you about my OpenSim Journey. This presentation will showcase the work I’ve done and then try to get answers for the depressing decline in schools and teachers interested in OpenSim collaboration and creation. Let’s talk about OpenSim and please change my mind.

KAE NOVAK & CHRIS LUCHS - Join us for an exploration of the liminal state or in-between state that exists between the metagame and players in games and virtual environments. This liminal state has now extended to transmedia experiences to include the LitRPG genre. This panel will discuss the exploration of the liminal state where a player (learner) can take advantage of the duality that facilitates deep learning and creativity.

ANABEL ORIGIN - Language Teacher & Lecturer
Our objective is to illustrate an example use case for the RezMela system.
We will focus on a few built creative scenes that can be shared by students in order to achieve specific gaming and learning goals.

The RezMela platform is primarily designed to address common usability issues that end users face when creating and using virtual worlds. We describe its core components: 1. Modules, 2. Apps, 3. App Sets, 4. Map Sets and 5. a Context sensitive Heads Up Display. We illustrate how these components work synergistically to make virtual environments easier to produce and access.

Join Mal Burns and guests Ilan Tochner, Kalila Lakeworth, and Caitlyn Meeks as they discuss open source worlds and their latest offerings in Kitely Organizations and Tivoli Cloud VR.

KAY MCLENNAN - Professor of Practice, Tulane University
While the use cases for OpenSimulator learning simulations continue to expand, many of the early types of virtual world educational simulations/activities remain relevant today. Attendees will learn about new uses for OpenSimulator learning simulations (including examples of VR-ready simulations) as well as review examples of proven in-world and out-of-world educational simulations.

LISA LAXTON & FRANK RULOF
Presentation Abstract: This presentation from Infinite Metaverse Alliance® (IMA) and Thales Group discusses progress towards improving open source code used in a self-hosted secure voice solution called EchoVoice. This is an alternative to ViVox which is commonly used for voice communication between avatars in OpenSimulator regions.