C. Month of October

October 1 was the half year anniversary of Play as Being.

At the beginning of the month, Storm was busy putting the finishing touches to the Kira Cafe. It was to use 3000 prims. The Cafe had two main areas: Bar, Fireside and Lounge (to the north) and Restaurant and Gallery (to the south). The rest of the Kira board were busy with preparations for the events that would take place soon. The Kira Cafe opened on October 7 with a happy hour and also language sessions: Japanese, French, German, Dutch and Finnnish. The Cafe also brought together Kira alumni. It was to be a place open 24 hours at which peiople would meet and socialize and talk about science and ways of knowing.

The first PaB Fest was held at Princeton on the weekend of October 17-19. Much of the attention of the group was focused on the event both before and after. A third of the group, thirteen real life avatars met for a series in discussions, walks and meals. It was the first time many of us had met each other and the general feeling was that there were no real surprises. On Sunday morning some of the group joined the rest of the avatars in a session on Second Life. There was great interest afterwards about what it felt like to meet in real life.

Pia, Solobill, Sylectra and Adams moved the chat logs from the blog to the Wiki so all the logs would be at one site. It is easier to go to individual logs and also to search all the logs on the Wiki.

New Guardians:

Geo Netizen accepted a guardianship in October bringing the number of guardians to 37.