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Extropia is an online community in the world of Second Life, built around a positive, near-future science fiction theme. Click on the About link for an overview.
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Latest News
2009-04-01: New Directors, New Roles
Extropia continues to change and to grow. That's true of our sims, with the new activity in Extropia Odyssey, and it's true of our community as well. The Board of Directors would like to announce the following changes:
- Zada Zenovka, Deebrane String, and Sinnyo Wirefly have accepted positions on the Board of Directors.
- Argent Bury is taking an extended leave of absence.
These changes are reflected in new roles for some of our directors:
- Galatea Gynoid remains Chair for the Board.
- Sophrosyne Stenvaag is moving to Director for Media and Communications.
- Sinnyo Wirefly is taking up the Directorate for Architecture; Sinnyo will be assisted by Deebrane String as a point of contact for design and build questions.
- Deebrane String will be Director for Resident Relations.
- Zada Zenovka will serve as Director at large.
- Vidal Tripsa has taken a role as Director Emerita.
As always, the best way to contact us is to send us an instant message or a notecard in-world. In most cases, it's best to contact the director in charge of the area in question. When in doubt, for most questions, please contact Deebrane String or Zada Zenovka. For billing issues, please contact Galatea Gynoid.
2008-11-06: A New Odyssey Begins
As most of you probably know by now, Linden Labs is making changes to its Openspaces product. Four of the sims in the Extropia estate, Future Current, Dirac Sea, Skies of Tomorrow, and Port Moravec, are currently running in openspaces. Linden Labs has offered three alternatives to current Openspace owners: (1) continue to operate as Openspaces, but with extreme usage restrictions that would forbid them being used in the way we currently use them, (2) convert to Homesteads, with an extreme price increase combined with new usage restrictions (albeit not as bad as those Openspaces must suffer with), or (3) convert the Openspaces back into a normal sim.
Given these options, only the last is viable for us in Extropia. Therefore, sometime in December, our Openspaces will be consolidated into our third full sim: Extropia Odyssey. Port Moravec will be rebuilt as part of the new sim, and Second Skies will be moving to the new sim as well, along with any of our other Openspace residents who choose to join the new Odyssey. Extropia Odyssey will host our seaport, airport, and spaceport, and thus will offer plenty of open water as well as shiny new aerospace facilities that will make Skies of Tomorrow look like yesterday's news. :) So whether you sail, fly, or even surf, you'll find fun in Extropia Odyssey.
Any ideas you'd like to see implemented in the new sim? Contact Galatea Gynoid with your thoughts. If there's interest, we will be holding a planning meeting with residents before December to discuss ideas and plans. More info soon...
Event News
2009-04-19: Robert J. Sawyer Returns!
Extropia friend Robert J. Sawyer returns to Sophrosyne’s Saturday Salon on Sunday, May 24, noon PDT, to discuss his new novel, Wake. The first in a new trilogy, Wake tells the story of the unfolding consciousness of the World Wide Web:
Caitlin Decter is young, pretty, feisty, a genius at math — and blind. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eventsinextropia.wordpress.com&blog=4003892&post=212&subd=eventsinextropia&ref=&feed=1" /> (read more)
2009-04-19: May Art Exhibition: Call for Artwork
CALL FOR ARTWORK: MAY ART EXHIBITION Greetings! The city-state of Extropia is pleased to announce an Art exhibition, May 24th through June 7th, to be displayed in and around our public plazas. We invite all artists who’d like to show their works to our residents, and to the rest of the Second Life community. We’re looking for works [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eventsinextropia.wordpress.com&blog=4003892&post=209&subd=eventsinextropia&ref=&feed=1" /> (read more)
2009-04-12: Sophrosyne’s Saturday Salon: Truthseeker Young
Next Saturday, April 18 at noon SLT, Sophrosyne’s Saturday Salon hosts Extropia’s own Truthseeker Young! We’ve turned our resident mad artist loose, and he’s created something truly extraordinary in Extropia Core for the upcoming Salon. He’s described it modestly as “a tree,” but guests at Extropia’s Yuri’s Night party suspected it’s the love child of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eventsinextropia.wordpress.com&blog=4003892&post=199&subd=eventsinextropia&ref=&feed=1" /> (read more)
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