Have you noticed that we have a little piece of Etopia right here on Netroots Nation Island? This is just bit of what you can expect to find atEtopia Eco-Village and Etopia Prime Plaza, inworld experiments in energy and social sustainability. Etopia is a showcase of real world solutions and a really lovely place to live, work, and visit.
Drop by the booth to pick up a great book on Etopia. This is a book you drag to the ground and read. If you are new to Second Life, do this where one of the Netroots Nation mentors can help you.
In your box of Etopia freebies, you will also find a bamboo bike. Ride this around Etopia Island or Netroots Nation Island. Here’s my little secret. I also fly this bike around my home island because I think it makes me look like the wicked witch of the West. But that’s just me.
If you’ve been to Netroots Nation Island already, you may have noticed a large red zeppelin over the booth area. Not completely surprisingly, that would be Red Zeppelin — the official Marxist - Lennonist Party Headquarters. Yes, Groucho and John united.
This after hours club has music, drinks, food, games, and movies every week. It’s like Mystery Science Theatre without the bad movies. These are great movies every Sunday at 7:00pm SLT.
July 17 - Special Netroots Nation Thursday 9 pm, The Corporation
July 20 - Duck Soup
July 27 - Harold and Kumar go to White Castle
August 4 - Be Here to Love Me - the Townes Van Zandt Story
August 11 - The Day the Earth Stood Still
August 18 - Hair
Notice that first item? TONIGHT! Special for Netroots Nation tonight, The Corporation at Red Zeppelin starting 9pm SLT.
Drop by the booth on the south side of Netroots Nation Island. There is free, uh, stuff to be had there.
First - don’t panic!
Netroots Nation in Second Life is a very popular place! But don’t worry, we have several different places to watch the Netroots stream if the Netroots sim is full. Just click on one of the following locations and be whisked away.
Wellstone’s Donkey
InWorld Studios Amphitheater
Commonwealth Island 1
Commonwealth Island 2
Commonwealth Island 3
Commonwealth Island 4
To insure that everyone has an enjoyable time, please observe the following rules to help reduce lag:
*No weapons
*Please remove items such as jewelry, boots, or other attachments that are prim heavy or have “bling” scripts.
*Please remove or turn off scripted items such as Mysti-tool.
For more information on fighting lag, please visit the second Life blog here.
Today I visited went to Better World Island to visit the Center for Water Studies. Netroots Nation Island has been so busy. I needed a place to sit and think for a bit. I sat wading in a pond and in the ocean. These are just two of the micro water habitats at the Center. The habitats are changing all of the time, and new they welcome suggestions for new habitats.
- Mangrove Swamp
- Pacific Northwest Rainforest
- Pondlife
- Waterfall with pool and stream
- Coral Barrier Reef
- Ocean beach and Undersea Marine life
If all you want is to surf or swim in peace, this is your place. This is a great place to hold a small meeting. Drop by the Center for Water Studies booth at Netroots Nation Island. Contact Delia Lake inworld for details.
Tonight is opening night for Netroots Nation in Second Life! Yes, we are excited. We have had several social events in Second Life this week, but tonight starts the Netroots Nation ball rolling. Whoo hoo!
Here is a list of the scheduled events today and tonight. All times are Second Life Time, also known as Pacific Daylight Time:
1:00 PM — An SL/NN Meetup! Here’s a chance to do some comingling with the Austin crowd at Netroots Nation. Yes, Austin and Second Life will meet. Head for the Netroots Arena.
5:30-6:30 PM — Austin Keynote Address: Gov Howard Dean and (ret) Gen Wes Clark. This will stream into Netroots Arena.
6:30-7:30 PM — “What They Said” Commentary by Joan McCarter (McJoan), Jimbo Hoyer, GenJCChristian Homewood and Cliff Schecter. This is a Second Life panel held at Netroots Arena.
7:30-10:00 PM — SL Opening Party. We’ll be chatting and dancing at the same time – very easy to do in Second Life – at the Netroots Island Ballroom.
9:00-whenever – “The Corporation.” It’s a special Netroots Nation screening of “The Corporation” at the Marxist/Lennonist Party Headquarters (this will open up the SLURL for the location, which is not on Netroots Nation Island ).
My advice? Get there early. Netroots Nation can fill up. If you do have trouble getting to Netroots Nation arena to watch the presentations, try some of our other venues. This page allows you to see the number of people in each location. If the number gets high, we’ll open up another venue.
Please join us!
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