Showing posts with label houses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label houses. Show all posts
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Housing Officer
An Associate Lecturer took on the inworld role of OUtopia Housing Officer last week, beating off stiff competition from a very strong shortlist. Her Second Life avatar is Hatshepsut Linette, one of the original OUtopia residents.
Friday, May 1, 2009
Home improvement
Since moving onto Open Life Village, community members have been enthusiastically organising and creating.
Having developed a way of installing curtains for every window of her house using only one prim in total, one resident (Jadis Mai) packaged the item and then ran an in-world tutorial to share her technique.
Similarly, another resident (Eshala Tabacznyk) shared her expertise in constructing an in-world television at zero cost.
More recently, discussion on the OUSA forum prompted another resident (Hennamono Morpork) to create his own map of the island. When finished it will joing the curtains and television in the village shop.
Another resident (Elsbeth Biedermann), who is a keen photographer in Real Life, has taken it upon herself to organise the first exhibition to be hosted at the Open Minds exhibition space.
Finally, Eshala - not content to rest on her TV laurels -has agreed to be guest editor for the first edition of "LOL" - a magazine for and by Open Life users and residents.
Having developed a way of installing curtains for every window of her house using only one prim in total, one resident (Jadis Mai) packaged the item and then ran an in-world tutorial to share her technique.
Similarly, another resident (Eshala Tabacznyk) shared her expertise in constructing an in-world television at zero cost.
More recently, discussion on the OUSA forum prompted another resident (Hennamono Morpork) to create his own map of the island. When finished it will joing the curtains and television in the village shop.
Another resident (Elsbeth Biedermann), who is a keen photographer in Real Life, has taken it upon herself to organise the first exhibition to be hosted at the Open Minds exhibition space.
Finally, Eshala - not content to rest on her TV laurels -has agreed to be guest editor for the first edition of "LOL" - a magazine for and by Open Life users and residents.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Opening night
Open Life Ocean and Open Life Village opened last Saturday at 8.00pm with a party and Easter Egg hunt, that encouraged people (and a pink rabbit) to move all over the island.
We displayed a list of successful applicants and their assigned addresses. 24 of the parcels are claimed. 25 of the houses are occupied (one person has failed to “buy” their plot.) Another 12 people have confirmed by e-mail that they will be moving in. That’s 37 out of 61 definitely taken. All of the unclaimed ones were offered to ex-Sholokhov residents who have not been seen for a while. They have until 17 April to accept the AUP etc and move in, as there are 17 still on the waiting list.
Three allotments have been taken. Initially, the allotment scheme was only offered to those who had applied for houses but failed to get one. We will advertise the remaining ones more widely soon.
We displayed a list of successful applicants and their assigned addresses. 24 of the parcels are claimed. 25 of the houses are occupied (one person has failed to “buy” their plot.) Another 12 people have confirmed by e-mail that they will be moving in. That’s 37 out of 61 definitely taken. All of the unclaimed ones were offered to ex-Sholokhov residents who have not been seen for a while. They have until 17 April to accept the AUP etc and move in, as there are 17 still on the waiting list.
Three allotments have been taken. Initially, the allotment scheme was only offered to those who had applied for houses but failed to get one. We will advertise the remaining ones more widely soon.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
First residents get keys to the door
The sixty most eligible applicants are sent an e-mail offering them a house. At 2.30am sixty Open University students and staff were sent an e-mail saying that their application for a free house in the new residential and social region had been successful. They should be able to move in before the end of the weekend.
Monday, April 6, 2009
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Houses nearly done
All sixty residents' houses are in place and work is due to start on internal teleports.
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Free houses up for grabs!
Accommodation "Waiting List" is opened during OL Rock Night. A transcript of the announcement will be posted here shortly.
Open Life Village will be open to all visitors, but if you are an Open University student, or member of Open University staff, you can apply for a free tenancy in one of the island's 60 houses.
The standard length of residency is 6 months.
We hope you will join our new community, no matter who you are, what you do or how long you've been in Second Life.
It's not every day that 6000m of residential space in Second Life is up for grabs, so get you name down early. Places are limited.
Put your name forward and/or request a copy of the Residency Charter by e-mailing greg@eygus.co.uk
IMPORTANT NOTE: This offer is open to Open University students and staff only. Therefore only e-mails sent from addresses @open.ac.uk (e.g. from FirstClass) will be read; all other mail is automatically deleted.
Open Life Village will be open to all visitors, but if you are an Open University student, or member of Open University staff, you can apply for a free tenancy in one of the island's 60 houses.
The standard length of residency is 6 months.
We hope you will join our new community, no matter who you are, what you do or how long you've been in Second Life.
It's not every day that 6000m of residential space in Second Life is up for grabs, so get you name down early. Places are limited.
Put your name forward and/or request a copy of the Residency Charter by e-mailing greg@eygus.co.uk
IMPORTANT NOTE: This offer is open to Open University students and staff only. Therefore only e-mails sent from addresses @open.ac.uk (e.g. from FirstClass) will be read; all other mail is automatically deleted.
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