DG Community Meeting 2019-01-26

1PM

Tenbears Running: says this in voice and in text chat

Hello everyone, please be seated.

We reserved the first ten minutes to let people set up their voice chat.

We are not expecting you to have to speak in voice, but we do need you to be able to hear us speak.

[In text chat] Did you hear what I said in voice?

[In text chat] Is there anyone who cannot hear us? Let us know now and we will help you with the settings.

[Spoken and text chat] Also, we want to give priority seating to our local residents. We can handle up to 80 avatars, but if we start to fill up we need to ask visitors to make room for our locals – we truly appreciate that.

1:10PM

Balpien Hammerer

Greetings, thank you for coming to the first community meeting of 2019. I am Balpien Hammerer owner/operator of this grid.  Let me introduce to you the Discovery Grid staff: our admins are Jay Copperfield, Lindee Ellsmere, and Tenbears Running. Our Greeter Manager and Events Manager is Lily Lightcloud. On staff doing tech is Kayaker Magic and me.

Touch the sign In front of this podium at the end of this meeting to get a copy of the meeting agenda. To get the full meeting minutes go to https://discoverygrid.net click on the {KnowledgeBase} button then navigate to the meeting minutes folder. They will be posted this evening. Also, the knowledgebase meeting minutes will include all the text chat of this meeting.

Brief word on the New Year’s Eve Party

We had a great time at the new year’s eve party. The New York scene and fireworks was created by Neytiri Omatikaya. It is unique in its attention to realism a master work of art and technology. We had over 70 people on the region, no lag, and perfect execution. If you missed the event, you can watch the vid at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAca4eePcJY&t=84s .

State of the Grid

Running a commercial grid has been quite an undertaking. It was not something I planned to do originally; I was just doing the IT to bring commercial grade service and WEB site to a growing grid. In the end, I took ownership because the grid was overwhelming Angel, the previous owner. She needed long term time off to deal with her RL needs and no one, including her, wanted to see a vibrant grid go back into the mists.

So, I took it on in August, but it would not have been possible without the tireless work of the admins of the grid: Jay, Lindee, and Tenbears, and the help of staff volunteers Kayaker and Lily.

A driving requirement on taking on the development and day to day responsibility is to make a stable grid. This is made difficult by instabilities and outright bugs in the core OpenSim codebase. But then, complex software and especially real-time software will always have some problems, so code is fixed where it can be, and vexing problems are mitigated as much as possible.

Choosing a commercial server hosting company for the grid servers proved to be enormously a good thing. They take care of the hardware and networking problems, making sure the environment is rock solid in physical performance and clean bandwidth. OVH provided and continues to bring the best in class service to the grid.

There were also activities that we chose specifically not to do because of the risks they entail. Specifically I chose to continue the practice of not having the grid do cash-in or cash-out conversions of the local fictive currency: the Discovery Coins (DC$). Doing so meant having to face a ton of U.S. IRS and other country taxing agency regulations. It meant having to maintain a reserve fraud risk pool, and it meant possible instant death of business if the reserves were not sufficient to cover a large fraud claw-back. So, the grid continues to pass that activity onto two currency conversion companies: Gloebit and PODEX. They take on all that risk. This is why the two companies charge cash-out fees.

In January of 2018, the grid had emerged from a complete reconstruction of its databases. We had one Robust server, three region servers and a backup/test server. The dedicated backup server had to go because the grid was in the red, so important data was replicated onto the region servers. That change brought the grid into profitability and set aside crisis thinking.

From January until July, with stabilization processes in place, the grid went through a slow growth period. More people joining meant more profits and we turned that back into further improvements. I put a lot of work into developing the grid's WEB portal which serves its residents and also automated many of the day to day administrative processes. Creating regions went from an hours long manual process to just filling out a form and click on "Create Region".

With our automated processes in place we found ourselves in a good position when the Inworldz grid imploded in late July. Our active accounts doubled in a matter of hours. By Early August we had a spike of region orders which kept the entire staff running on short hours of sleep for weeks. Our paid region count jumped sixfold in a matter of a month, much higher in terms of land area.

All that high growth did bring us some problems both technical and social. On the technical side I learned (often the hard way) of the limitations of the OpenSim code and its tendency to fail rather spectacularly when it reaches limits. So as we grew and regions started to host 50-60 avatar events, we started to suffer inexplicable region crashes. If that were not bad enough, the grid started to receive a series of DDOS and SYN attacks. They were quite specific and the pattern of the attacks revealed they were designed to hit specific weaknesses of OpenSim. With outside help we configured both hardware and software to shield us from these attacks. On the social side the growth brought some griefers, a few persistent ones that required developing an efective IP ban solution.

The grid now has four instances of Robust running behind an nginx load balancer. We can easily add more instances as needed. This ensures that the anemic http handler in Robust never gets overloaded. The grid runs its regions in eight region servers with distributed region databases.

Presently, the grid has 290 total committed regions. In terms of 256m region equivalents it is 12298 standard regions yielding a total land space of 806 square kilometers.

The grid is back on a slow growth track. People come, people go. They have the luxury of finding the best place for their needs. Our growth has a gentleness to it, and I consider that a success.

That said, we have had problems in the social sphere. In the past year we have had to ban 4 people who violated the Terms of Service. This is a small number in absolute and percentage terms.

Email Verifications Fixed

We had a really bad problem especially for residents who use yahoo.com, outlook.com, live.com email addresses. In the past, we've been blacklisted several times from those email providers, mainly because of the advert based group notices that look like spam to the email filters. We were treated poorly because we did not properly digitally sign outgoing emails. I fixed that problem last week, and it looks like that was enough to get us delisted. It took several days, as the updated DNS records propagate through the planet, many of your will again be receiving emails from DG. Also, if you have friends who tried to create avatars and could not get past activation, ask them to try again.

New Features

Adding to the 2x2, 4x4, and 8x8 region offerings, we have added 6x6 regions (45K and 60K prims). A 6x6 is roughly half the land area of an 8x8, so if you are having problems seeing the terrain of an 8x8 render quickly enough, then consider a 6x6. The speed of terrain rendering depends entirely on your network bandwidth.

The Discovery City region has received a bit of urban development. Look for the new  expanded Hall of Regions and expanded Clubs/Merchant Area.

We also added two new freebie regions. The region “Discovery Freemendous” contains several of the Linda Kellie collections, free for the taking. The region “Discovery Freezone” contains carefully curated freebies in a form where you can see, touch and/or walk on. The items are curated by Modee Parlez and Ciena Wyllo. They spent countless days combing the metaverse for interesting freebies. If you see that any of our freebies are copybotted, please notify the admins (use a support ticket) and we will take down the offending content.

New Work in Progress

What I will present are things I am working on.

New Billing System

Classifieds

Event Calendar Change

Fix money server

Self-service selectable Terrains and terrain height

Self-service region settings:

-        Whisper/say/shout distance

-        Voice clamp and limit distance

-        Gravity

Support Tickets

If you run into problems, whether logging in, having region problems, please file a support ticket. You access the support portal through the Discovery Grid WEB page. Log in using your avatar name and password, then click on the {Support Portal} button. Fill out a ticket and submit it. The admins and/or I will be alerted to the ticket and one of us will handle it. Support tickets are audited and authenticated. They are seen only by the admins. What this means is they are private, safe, and we know it is you asking for help. But most important it means we admins get to see the problems collectively, and we can then act collectively on issues.

We do not act on personal IMs sent to us. For one, we might see an IM for quite a while, and also IMs are not seen by all of us, meaning they are not witnessed. Because we have handled over 400 tickets since the support came online last October, that’s 100 support tickets a month, we need to keep things streamline to best service all of you, so please use the portal.

We also handle anonymous tickets. This happens when you are unable to log into the DG WEB site. Remember that if you forgot your password, you can change it on your own. But there are times when access to your account fails and so we leave the anonymous ticket option open to help people get going again. But because we cannot verify you, we do not act on anonymous tickets other than to get you set up again. Please bear in mind there are laws now that require we do everything to protect your personal data, so we must be careful to not violate that.

On Lag

Our regions usually run very well, but we have seen cases and have received complaints of lag. The source of lag can vary considerably but these three areas are a common problem that cause severe lag:

-        Long sleeping scripts: the OpenSim xengine scripting engine has a severe design bug. Unlike in SL and in the old InWorldz grids, if a script executes the llSleep(…) function where the interval is greater than a second, that delay will hang on to the thread resource. If many scripts are doing this, then all the scripting resources will get tied up and none of the scripts in the region will stall. Go through your scripts, check for the use of llSleep, and fix it. If you are not sure how to do that, go find a scripter to help. I encourage some advanced script to consider running a scripting workshop event to help teach people how to fix these scripts.

-        Heavy particle usage: If you want to totally lag out your viewer, turn on several particle scripts and set their burst rate to zero. That rate of particle generation will lag out most viewers. This problem does not exist in SL or the old InWorldz because both grid limit the rate to approximately 0.05 seconds. OpenSim does not do that. To mitigate this problem modify your particle scripts to never let the rate go below 0.05.

-        Mesh Clothing/Avatars: This problem is specific to OpenSim v0.9.x. There seems to be a bug in which textures destined for avatar skin and the mesh geometry files take a very long time to load. Although part of the problem is that many mesh avatars have extreme triangle counts, not unusual to see a tri-count of 500,000, there is nonetheless a very long load time for mesh avatars in v0.9 regions. There are bug reports written to the core developers about this. What seems to be happening is that these parts are loaded by the very fast http download but instead they are loaded with the slow old school LLUDP method. This is a bit geeky, but the lay description is that in v0.9, the viewer seems to switch the slow way of loading textures and mesh files of an avatar. I have no workaround for this one.

Discovery Village Revamp

Discovery Village is going through a bit of urban renewal which we hope to have completed by March. Much of the maintenance of the village was done manually and it was taking a lot of people resources to keep it running. We are changing the system so that first time free rental of the homes will be automated. As a bonus, every local resident gets a first time one-month shot at a home.

There are several village homes scattered throughout the region. There will also be some sky homes available for those who prefer living in the clouds.

Greeters News

We have a great core group of greeters that have been in place for a couple months now. They are tasked with helping newcomers and active residents with day to day questions. We are always looking for others that are interested in helping out. This is a minimal time requirement, as we have an on-call system, that means you don't have to sit in one place anymore, you can go about your daily business and help when and if needed.

Sponsored Events

Discovery Grid will sponsor events from time to time throughout the year. We are gearing up for our first one, scheduled for March 1. This will be a short murder mystery that will be set in a 1930's era ocean side carnival. There will be plenty to see, do and interact with. We will be planning the next one very soon

If you are interested in joining either the greeters or the sponsored events team please send me a notecard with your information.

Terms of Service Changes

Please read the current Terms of Service as they go into effect February 1^st. Go to https://discoverygrid.net/tos.php. From there you will find a link to the previous TOS to help you see the differences. The summary follows:

1.      Declaration of safe harbor status

2.      Clarification of the billing cycles

3.      Change to region deletion from 30 days to 14 days

4.      Region contents are saved in direct backups, not OARs

5.      Instructions on how to relinquish a region

Meeting Chat Log
The following is the chat log during the meeting. The transcript above is what was said in voice during the following text chats. 

[12:38] Jillian2000 Quintessa is online.

 [12:38] Kira Whitehawk: I hear you

[12:39] Harmony Beningborough: I hear you!

[12:39] Kayaker Magic: I hear you

[12:39] Jay Copperfield is online.

[12:39] Harmony Beningborough: KITHHH!

[12:39] Harmony Beningborough: Hi Jay...Huggs Sis!!

[12:39] Kith Whitehawk: :) Harm

[12:39] Beau SilverMyst is offline.

[12:39] Kith Whitehawk: Hi everyone :)

[12:39] Chloe Mick: Hello everyone

[12:40] Balpien Hammerer: I'll test with a short Vogon poem.

[12:40] Kira Whitehawk: Hey Phoenix

[12:40] Phoenix Enigma: Hi Kira

[12:40] Kith Whitehawk: Hey Phoenix

[12:40] Phoenix Enigma: Hi Kith

[12:40] Balpien Hammerer: I'll talk in voice briefly.. If you do not hear me, let me know in chat.

[12:40] Froot Loops turns up her hearing aids

[12:41] Harmony Beningborough: Hi Phoenix!

[12:41] Phoenix Enigma: Hi harm

[12:41] Kira Whitehawk: Yup, heard it

[12:41] Lily Lightcloud: I heard it

[12:41] Balpien Hammerer: Did everyone hear that little bit of poetry?

[12:41] Froot Loops: υмммм ......, уєѕ?

[12:41] Kira Whitehawk: Jabberwocky would be better

[12:41] Phoenix Enigma: Yes Heard it

[12:41] Kith Whitehawk: i heard a gong lol is that poetry?

[12:41] Chloe Mick: yes

[12:41] Kayaker Magic: Some us would explode trying to MEMORYZE Vogon poetry!

[12:41] Kith Whitehawk: was very zen

[12:42] IM: Ballyrae Hanly: Hello everyone. Is there a meeting today?

[12:42] Ciena Wyllo: will u be typing for the ones that cant hear?

 [12:42] Phoenix Enigma: no he'll use sign language

 [12:43] Balpien Hammerer: ciana, having voice problems?

 [12:44] Balpien Hammerer: We do these meetings in voice chat but we do not expect people to talk back in voice, because we know some people prefer not to.

[12:44] Ciena Wyllo: did u crash?

[12:44] Balpien Hammerer: me?

[12:44] Tenbears Running is online.

[12:44] Balpien Hammerer: nope :)

[12:44] Ciena Wyllo: oops wron window

[12:44] Jewel Hunter: Everyone ..Hi Harm

[12:44] Jewel Hunter: ㋡ єℓℓσσσσσ ㋡

[12:44] Kith Whitehawk: HI Jewell

[12:44] Beau SilverMyst is online.

[12:44] Harmony Beningborough: Hi Jewel!

[12:44] Jewel Hunter: waves to Kith

[12:44] Kith Whitehawk: :))

[12:45] Harmony Beningborough: Hi jay!

[12:45] Kayaker Magic: How is Angel doing? Is she coming to this meeting?

[12:45] Jay Copperfield: Hi Harmony :)

[12:45] Jillian2000 Quintessa is offline.

[12:45] Kith Whitehawk: Hiya Jay

[12:45] Jay Copperfield: Hello everyone!

[12:45] Jay Copperfield: Kith that means you,. too :)

[12:45] Arton Tripsa is online.

[12:46] Jewel Hunter: going for coffee before the meeting starts anyone else want some

[12:46] Kira Whitehawk: Hey Jay : )

[12:46] ic Twinkies: yes

[12:46] Chloe Mick: yep

[12:46] Kira Whitehawk: hear you Ten

[12:46] Phoenix Enigma: yes

[12:46] Kith Whitehawk: I hear ya Ten

[12:46] Harmony Beningborough: Hi Ten! Yes!

[12:46] Jay Copperfield: Sure Jewel!

[12:46] Kayaker Magic: Yes, here you TB

[12:46] Jay Copperfield: Kira Hi!

[12:46] Ballyrae Hanly: Hi everyone

[12:46] Balpien Hammerer: K, angel is not doing well. She has a number of RL issues to deal with.

[12:46] Jillian2000 Quintessa is online.

[12:47] Ciena Wyllo: wb Jay

[12:47] Tenbears Running: Hello everyone, be sure, if you can, you can hear the information provided, will be very helpful to us all

 [12:47] Ciena Wyllo: what

[12:48] IM: Hazumi Kaze: hi DeeGee's   :-)

[12:48] IM: Jillian2000 Quintessa: Hi!

[12:48] Jay Copperfield: I'm glad you can see me now Ten...lol

[12:49] Jay Copperfield: Just turn around in your computer chair and here I am!

[12:49] Harmony Beningborough: JILLIAN!!!!

[12:49] Kith Whitehawk: lol

[12:49] Jillian2000 Quintessa: Hello alll!

[12:49] Jay Copperfield: Hello, Jillian

[12:49] IM: Kayaker Magic: Meeting starting in 10 minutes!

[12:49] Kith Whitehawk: Hiya Jillian :)

[12:49] Jillian2000 Quintessa: Hi Jay!

[12:49] Jillian2000 Quintessa: and Kith

[12:49] Jillian2000 Quintessa: And Harm

 [12:50] Chloe Mick: Hello everyone coming in!

 [12:50] Jewel Hunter: walks around passing out coffee that was ordered

 [12:50] Rusty Larimore: Will the meeting dialogue be voice, chat or both?

[12:50] Jillian2000 Quintessa: Green tea for me pls

 [12:50] Kith Whitehawk: oh  dang.... i missed the order??  shoot

[12:50] Jay Copperfield: Thank you Jewel :)

[12:51] ic Twinkies: thank you

[12:51] IM: Arton Tripsa: is the meeting on the rooftop?

[12:51] Desmond Lanes: hello everyone

[12:51] Kith Whitehawk: HI Froot n Twinkies....

[12:51] Kith Whitehawk: now i am hungry   :(

[12:51] ic Twinkies: hi

[12:51] Kith Whitehawk: :)

[12:51] IM: Arton Tripsa: oh wow Pu Er!

[12:51] IM: Kayaker Magic: Just go to "Welcome" on the map, the meeting is walking distance from the TP Hub

[12:51] IM: Jillian2000 Quintessa: no it is not

[12:51] ic Twinkies: lol

[12:51] IM: Arton Tripsa: ok thx

[12:51] Kith Whitehawk: lol Bal you servin lunch?

[12:51] IM: Harmony Beningborough: sending limos!

[12:52] Jillian2000 Quintessa: has anyone tested voice yet?

[12:52] Harmony Beningborough: Hi Rusty!

[12:52] Kith Whitehawk: hi Rusty

[12:52] Kayaker Magic: Yes! Voice is working!

[12:52] Kith Whitehawk: Jillian  Bal was talkin earlier

[12:52] Jillian2000 Quintessa: I just got here

[12:52] Kayaker Magic: Huzza! HOORAY!

[12:52] Scott Carpaccio: is anyone in voice yet?

[12:52] Ciena Wyllo: I dont hear voice now

[12:52] Jillian2000 Quintessa: i don't

[12:52] Kith Whitehawk: no  off air

[12:52] Scott Carpaccio: ok ty

[12:52] Kayaker Magic: Meeting in 7 minutes.

[12:52] Balpien Hammerer: yes.

[12:53] IM: Beau SilverMyst: there is also a Tp boardd at the main municiple welcome landing spot

[12:53] IM: Arton Tripsa: ty Hamony!

[12:53] IM: Harmony Beningborough: welcome!! :)

[12:53] Jillian2000 Quintessa: Hear you now

[12:53] Phoenix Enigma: HI Rusty

[12:53] Scott Carpaccio: ok i can hear you ty

[12:53] Balpien Hammerer: if anyone did not hear us, tb  will help.

[12:53] IM: Kayaker Magic: If you cannot hear voice, raise your hand.

[12:54] Froot Loops: will there be popcorn with the in-flight movie?

[12:54] IM: Harmony Beningborough: lol

[12:54] Chloe Mick: lol Froot

[12:54] IM: Harmony Beningborough: is that on my ao???

[12:54] IM: Harmony Beningborough: lol

[12:54] Kira Whitehawk: Hi Rusty!

[12:54] Rusty Larimore: hey Kira

[12:54] Rusty Larimore: hi Phoenix

[12:54] Jay Copperfield: Ooops, Ten hit the wrong key and existed stage right!

[12:54] Phoenix Enigma: Hi Rusty

[12:54] Balpien Hammerer: popcorn?

[12:55] IM: Hazumi Kaze: soory can i have an LM polease  think im in the wrong place

[12:55] Jay Copperfield: wb Ten :)

[12:55] Kira Whitehawk: lol!

[12:55] Rusty Larimore: lol Ten

[12:55] Chloe Mick: LOL ten

[12:55] MoonMaiden Horner: Hey guys :)

[12:55] Jillian2000 Quintessa: why do I hear the pink panther theme?

[12:55] Jewel Hunter: rock on Ten

[12:55] Phoenix Enigma: Hi Moonie

[12:55] MoonMaiden Horner: I did, Jillian...wasn't me lool

[12:55] Kira Whitehawk: Hi Beau!

[12:55] MoonMaiden Horner: Hey Phoenix :)

[12:56] Beau SilverMyst: hiyas everyone

[12:56] Jillian2000 Quintessa: well it's over now

[12:56] Harmony Beningborough: Entertainment has arrived! Lil! Hi Moonie!

[12:56] Hazumi Kaze: Thank you for the limo

[12:56] Kira Whitehawk: Hey, Moonie : )

[12:56] Kira Whitehawk: And Dick : )

[12:56] Harmony Beningborough: welcome! :)

[12:56] MoonMaiden Horner: Hey Harmony! Hugs!

[12:56] MoonMaiden Horner: Hugs Kira!

[12:56] OldeSoul Eldemar is online.

[12:56] Phoenix Enigma: Hi Dick

[12:57] Kith Whitehawk: Hey BEau   HI Moon

[12:57] Jay Copperfield: Rather than typing all of your names....Hello and we are glad you made it to the meeting!

[12:57] Beau SilverMyst: hey Kithers

[12:57] MoonMaiden Horner: Hugs Jay!

[12:57] Jay Copperfield: Big Hug Moon!!

[12:57] MoonMaiden Horner: Hi ya Kith!

[12:57] IM: Arton Tripsa: ty Jay!

[12:57] IM: OldeSoul Eldemar: huggies !!!

[12:57] Kith Whitehawk: :))

[12:57] Hazumi Kaze: aww we cant poke fun at Modee

[12:57] IM: Yichard Muni: Same for me :-)

[12:57] Kith Whitehawk: why not?

[12:57] Kith Whitehawk: ;00

[12:57] Kith Whitehawk: :)

[12:57] Beau SilverMyst: what do i need to switch on in order to hear voice here?

[12:58] Drew Hunter: hello everyone

[12:58] Chloe Mick: Hugs Olde

[12:58] IM: Kayaker Magic: Meeting in 2 minutes!

[12:58] Jillian2000 Quintessa: greetings Drew

[12:58] Desmond Lanes: hello drew

[12:58] Harmony Beningborough: Hi Drew

[12:58] Jay Copperfield: Hi Drew

[12:58] Phoenix Enigma: Hi Drew and Jewel

[12:58] Drew Hunter: hello everyone

[12:58] Jeff Edwards: Hello everyone

[12:58] Desmond Lanes: hi jeff

[12:58] Phoenix Enigma: Hi jeff

[12:59] Beau SilverMyst: yay

[12:59] Yichard Muni: Hello :-)

[12:59] Jillian2000 Quintessa: H Jeff

[12:59] Jewel Hunter: hey hey Phoenix

[12:59] Jeff Edwards: Going to relog to put voice in play

[12:59] Jewel Hunter: ㋡ єℓℓσσσσσ ㋡

[12:59] Jewel Hunter: looks down the row og chairs and waves to Jeff

[13:00] aminata Potez: hewooooooooooooo

[13:00] Harmony Beningborough: The Dinkies are here!!!

[13:00] Yichard Muni pulls tails

[13:00] Kira Whitehawk: Ami : )

[13:00] Harmony Beningborough: yayyyy!

[13:00] Jillian2000 Quintessa: aminata!

[13:00] Jillian2000 Quintessa: hi

[13:01] OldeSoul Eldemar: hop in a chair Aminata

[13:01] Yichard Muni: Hello Ami Hello Olde!!

[13:01] Yichard Muni: and everybuddy

[13:01] Nyx Breen is online.

[13:01] Kith Whitehawk: Aminata?  Hi!!

[13:01] Desmond Lanes: hi Yichard

[13:01] Jewel Hunter: AMI!!!!!!!!

[13:01] Jay Copperfield: Hi Yichard!

[13:01] OldeSoul Eldemar: nuu Ami- you cannot sit on Balpien's lap again

[13:01] Kira Whitehawk: Olde and Yichard : )

[13:01] Chloe Mick: Hello everyone coming in

[13:01] aminata Potez: pff

[13:01] IM: Kayaker Magic: Meeting starting soon!

[13:01] aminata Potez: like  da blue  man

[13:01] OldeSoul Eldemar: I like section

[13:01] OldeSoul Eldemar: yasyas

[13:01] IM: Ernie Farstrider: tp

[13:01] Desmond Lanes grins

[13:01] MoonMaiden Horner: Hi ya Olde :)

[13:02] OldeSoul Eldemar: hihi Moon

[13:02] OldeSoul Eldemar: Haii everybuddy!!

[13:02] IM: Fitheach Eun: Where is the meeting?

[13:02] Jillian2000 Quintessa: Hey Nyx

[13:02] Yichard Muni: eh but it is raining there!!

[13:02] Jay Copperfield: Hello Olde!

[13:02] Desmond Lanes: hey oldesoul

[13:02] IM: Yichard Muni: region welcome

[13:02] aminata Potez: hewo Nyx

[13:02] Nyx Breen: hello all

[13:03] IM: Tenbears Running: Community Meeting will begin any moment now, location is on the region, Welcome   Tp to Discovery City where a teleport board is located

[13:03] Harmony Beningborough: Hi Nyx

[13:03] IM: OldeSoul Eldemar: hop://discoverygrid.net:8002/Welcome/543/693/21

[13:03] IM: Tenbears Running: Thx Olde

[13:03] Chloe Mick: KC!!!!!

[13:03] IM: OldeSoul Eldemar: now dunn hurt me !!!

[13:03] IM: OldeSoul Eldemar: when you land !!

[13:03] KC.Snaggletoof @login.digiworldz.com:8002: wabes paw

[13:03] Desmond Lanes: hi Nyx

[13:03] Nyx Breen: lol I come here so seldom I need to wait to load textures :P

[13:03] IM: Tenbears Running: I'm thinkin' on it !!!

[13:03] IM: OldeSoul Eldemar: heheheh TB

[13:04] IM: OldeSoul Eldemar: we know where you libes !!

[13:04] Kith Whitehawk: ok...who made it rain....  /P    Ten......

[13:04] IM: Harmony Beningborough: anyone need an Uber?

[13:04] Rusty Larimore: don't blame us Pacific Northwesters Kith....we didn't bring the rain this time

[13:05] Kith Whitehawk: lol  i know  its finally sunny here!

[13:05] MoonMaiden Horner: lol Rusty

[13:05] IM: Balpien Hammerer: region Welcome.

[13:05] Tuscan Lectar is offline.

[13:05] IM: Melanie Auxifur: tp do not work for me

[13:05] OldeSoul Eldemar: laffs

[13:05] Jeff Edwards: Sunny in the Ohio Valley was well.

[13:05] Aliah Dufaux is offline.

[13:05] Harmony Beningborough: It's a lovely 80 degrees here in So California!

[13:05] lunastra silverweb: hello all

[13:05] Kith Whitehawk: ppffftt~

[13:05] IM: Jillian2000 Quintessa: relog

[13:05] IM: OldeSoul Eldemar: let's try that

[13:05] Rusty Larimore: oh hush Harmony....lol

[13:05] Chloe Mick: Smacks Harm

[13:05] Harmony Beningborough: Hi Lunastra

[13:05] IM: Melanie Auxifur: ty

[13:05] Nyx Breen: ooow some one left a cooler of cold brews here in the back row 8)

[13:05] aminata Potez: pff pokes Harmony  send  me a  bag of sun

[13:05] IM: OldeSoul Eldemar: you welkies

[13:05] Hazumi Kaze: not a mouse stired

[13:06] Tuscan Lectar is online.

[13:06] MoonMaiden Horner: Harm rubbing it in :/ Sunny here (finally) but pretty cold

[13:06] IM: Balpien Hammerer: teleport :)

[13:06] Jay Copperfield: Hi lunastra I'm glad you could make it :)

[13:06] Melanie Auxifur: greetings all

[13:06] IM: Balpien Hammerer: go to your world map, enter welcome in the find section...

[13:06] IM: Balpien Hammerer: sit with us :)

[13:06] Aliah Dufaux is online.

[13:06] Desmond Lanes: hello Melanie, hugs

[13:06] Kith Whitehawk: Hi :)

[13:06] Hazumi Kaze: :-)

[13:06] Nyx Breen: Q: is Discovery a state that allows Weed legally?

[13:06] IM: Lily Lightcloud: I'm over here with Lindee

[13:06] Jay Copperfield: Hazumi!!!

[13:06] Jeff Edwards: Second

[13:06] Neytiri Omatikaya *waves to everyone*

[13:06] Jay Copperfield: Neytiri!

[13:06] Beau SilverMyst: 55 users online

[13:06] OldeSoul Eldemar shouts: hihi NeyNey

[13:06] Beau SilverMyst: 40 of them here

[13:06] Nyx Breen: who is this talking????

[13:06] lunastra silverweb: *waves back*

[13:06] KC.Snaggletoof @login.digiworldz.com:8002: waves paw

[13:06] lunastra silverweb: nice to see everyone

[13:06] Kith Whitehawk: Bal

[13:06] Yichard Muni: Luna!!

[13:07] Kith Whitehawk: and Ten

[13:07] Nyx Breen: kk

[13:07] Balpien Hammerer: last check - did you just hear me?

[13:07] Kith Whitehawk: yes

[13:07] Yichard Muni: Snaggle toof!!

[13:07] Jillian2000 Quintessa: That was Balpien last speaking

[13:07] Harmony Beningborough: yep!

[13:07] OldeSoul Eldemar: yeesh

[13:07] Rich Rassir: yes

[13:07] lunastra silverweb: hello Yichard^.^

[13:07] Beau SilverMyst: i heard Balp say lets wait till...

[13:07] Yichard Muni: Jilian!!

[13:07] Drew Hunter: voice  check,  sight check, smell, no go

[13:07] Jillian2000 Quintessa: Yich!

[13:07] OldeSoul Eldemar: I love da notecard- berry nice !!!

[13:07] OldeSoul Eldemar: everybuddy get one !

[13:07] OldeSoul Eldemar: lafffs

[13:07] lunastra silverweb: hey Jillian oh wow OldeSoul, how are you

[13:08] OldeSoul Eldemar: dat is Balppien

[13:08] Froot Loops tosses random objects over her shoulder at Neytiri

[13:08] Jillian2000 Quintessa: Hey Lunastra, Olde!

[13:08] Tenbears Running: A Transcript of the contents, and as many questions and answers we can gather will be made available after the meeting today

[13:08] OldeSoul Eldemar: hihi Lunastra and Jillian

[13:08] Jillian2000 Quintessa: rain rain go away

[13:08] Jillian2000 Quintessa: come again some other day

[13:08] Eduard.Milev @grid.kitely.com:8002: Greetings all)

[13:08] Hazumi Kaze: ( thats the first rain i have seen in over 2 months )

[13:08] Nyx Breen: on a PDF?

[13:09] Tenbears Running: nx

[13:09] Tenbears Running: nc

[13:09] lunastra silverweb: hm pdf? ah

[13:09] Nyx Breen: lol

[13:09] Nyx Breen: papyrus ?

[13:10] Jay Copperfield: Hello!

[13:10] Lindee Ellsmere: waves

[13:10] OldeSoul Eldemar: YAY!!!

[13:10] Harmony Beningborough: claps wildly!!

[13:10] aminata Potez: yaay

[13:10] Nyx Breen: :)

[13:10] Jewel Hunter: waves

[13:10] Chloe Mick: Waves!

[13:10] Tenbears Running: howdy

[13:10] Hazumi Kaze: :-)

[13:10] Tenbears Running: to all

[13:10] Neytiri Omatikaya *waves*

[13:10] Lily Lightcloud: waves

[13:10] OldeSoul Eldemar: *hugs

[13:10] OldeSoul Eldemar: YAY!!!

[13:10] Kith Whitehawk: Hi all you !!!!  Thank you!

[13:10] Arton Tripsa: waves

[13:10] aminata Potez: ducks for  Neyney

[13:10] OldeSoul Eldemar shouts: YAY!!

[13:10] Neytiri Omatikaya: lol Ami

[13:10] Harmony Beningborough: woohoo!

[13:10] Aliah Dufaux is offline.

[13:11] OldeSoul Eldemar shouts: da pawsumness of it all

[13:11] Neytiri Omatikaya BOOM! :D

[13:11] Neytiri Omatikaya whispers: I think it was 55 . . . some counted 74

[13:11] OldeSoul Eldemar shouts: laffs

[13:11] OldeSoul Eldemar: we dun argue

[13:11] Kith Whitehawk: too much New Year cheer

[13:11] Neytiri Omatikaya it was insane!

[13:11] Jay Copperfield: Some were drinking maybe

[13:11] Harmony Beningborough: we had 46! No issues either :)

[13:11] OldeSoul Eldemar shouts: yeesh Jay

[13:12] Chloe Mick: It was an awesome party!

[13:12] Nyx Breen: best part 8:32 you see me :)

[13:12] Neytiri Omatikaya And a huge ty to the grid team for the support as well!

[13:12] lunastra silverweb: sounds like it was great

[13:12] Neytiri Omatikaya: lol Nyx

[13:12] lunastra silverweb: did you all upload an video to youtube?

[13:12] Jay Copperfield: She is amazing!!!

[13:12] Neytiri Omatikaya awes ty Bal

[13:12] Lindee Ellsmere: yes!!!!

[13:12] Lindee Ellsmere: She is awesome!

[13:12] Tenbears Running: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAca4eePcJY&t=84s

[13:12] Neytiri Omatikaya *blushes*

[13:12] aminata Potez: our Ney s  da  Best

[13:12] lunastra silverweb: oh thanks Tenbears!!!

[13:12] Lindee Ellsmere: :D

[13:13] Nyx Breen: all drows down in front

[13:13] Neytiri Omatikaya Oel ngati kameie ma tsmukan

[13:13] OldeSoul Eldemar: we wubs our neyney

[13:13] Neytiri Omatikaya: ♥♥

[13:13] lunastra silverweb: i was there early but could not stay long