A message from the CEO | SL20B: A look BBBack | Events & Announcements | New Locations
07/15/2023
A MESSAGE FROM THE CEO
I am delighted by the participation in this years SL20B Event. I personally thank the BBB Team – the greatest team in SL –for all their hard work, including the laborious hours they put into its success. Amanda – who threw the parties and made all the stamps. Dave – who reset The Gazette I don't know how many times to include EVERY new stamp to be collected. Robert – who fixed all my errors and mostly with a smile! Laurel – who worked overtime on passports, licences, and licence plates. Teresa – who had her own build at SL20B, but still gave us all she could.
I thank all the ambassadors for being so gracious with their time to be available for the collection of their personal stamps. And our construction team who created the most amazing build.
I am amazed at the participation of the Moles. Each year we are stronger because of their contributions. I also want to thank Patch and Strawberry for that amazing shout out at Lab Gab which skyrocketed things for us.
Mostly I want to thank YOU, our members, who made us feel special and like we accomplished something truly amazing.
Last but not least, I thank our founder, Boo Royjo, for his dream of what could be.
We continue to grow and grow. With this growth you will be able to experience some very new (for the BBB) and wonderful things to come. Much love and many, many thanks to all.
CEO Jezebel Bailey
SL20B: A LOOK BBBACK
We had a great time at SL20B. It was good to meet so many of our users. We give a lot of time to the BBB and such events are our best opportunity to get to know you – the people we work for. Thank you for all your kind comments.
The BBBack to Earth!! closing party was a great success. It turned out to be premature as SL20B was extended until tomorrow, July 16th, but we partied like there was no tomorrow!
The Bio Dome Café aboard our SL20B Space Station was elegantly decorated by SonDee, Bellisseria's ambassador to the Gaetas. Knowing how much work she put into making it beautiful, it's a real shame her RL work kept her from the party. She's a naturally enthusiastic lady and would have loved to see it filled with happy dancers in futuristic costumes. We missed you, ma'am.
We were pleased Kady Linden and a labour of Moles came to join the fun and give our guests another chance to get their stamps. Yes "a labour" is the correct collective noun for moles or, in SL, a slabour!
The hammies once more brought a full 100hm of cuteness, dancing away in hamster-sized space helmets.
There are photos of the party in this album of SL20B images. Thanks to photographers Adele Hegel, AmandaT Tamatzui, Fuyuko Amano and Margo Heartsong for permission to feature their photographs in this issue.
More images can be seen in our Flickr group feed. You should also check out this 360º image of our party by Adele. Consultant to the BBB, Robert Rhodan, also made this amazing movie.
We thank the Lindens and Moles who carried our SSiDs (Single Stamp issuing Devices). They're busy people and it was good of them to volunteer to be stalked! We hope they enjoyed handing out stamps as much as we enjoyed questing for them.
The SSiDs carried by bureaucrats, diplomats and some Lindens and Moles were programmed to stop working at midnight SLT on the scheduled closing date. Bel emulated Foxconn again and rushed out replacements. So, even now, there's still a little time to get those stamps.
There was controversy about just how many stamps we issued and how long we kept making new ones. Hardcore collectors like to "get them all" and some of you put in a massive effort. The first (and so far the only) passport-holder to report collecting all the SL20B event stamps was Martina Voxel. Congratulations, Martina! Your enthusiasm as you bustled around in hot pursuit of Moles and Lindens, was a delight.
At the time of BBBack to Earth!! there were still two stamps not even Martina had managed to collect. So we placed those in the paws of bears at the venue, where they will remain until SL20B closes.
We were strict in limiting it to those two. We didn't want those who had searched so hard "in the wild" to feel cheated if we suddenly made it easy. Only those no-one had collected were made available. We think that was fair.
Stats may change by tomorrow's delayed close, but the twenty most collected stamps at the time of writing were:
The most popular was the SL20B Event Stamp – available throughout from the Shuttle Bay of the BBB space station. In second place was the stamp of the Dalek Alien Ambassador. The personal stamps of your Editor, Robert and Amanda were 3rd, 4th and 5th most collected. However many you got in the end, we hope you had fun.
Congratulations one final time to Second Life® for providing twenty years of opportunities for creativity, socialising and fun. The Lindens provide the landscape and the Moles provide the infrastructure but in the end SL is a gift from its residents to each other.
EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
| If you have one of our stamp terminals at your place and you're having an event there or would like to make any other announcement, just let us know and we'll be happy to feature it here. Please drop a notecard on the Editor Dave (Lord.Junibalya) in-world or use the Email the Editor link in the sidebar to send us your information, posters or photos. |
Most collected Linden/Mole stamp of SL20B
Congratulations to Dion Mole. His was the most collected stamp issued by a Linden or Mole during SL20B. Our chief stamp designer, Amanda, will deliver this award to him in-world.
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Souvenir Poster
There's a little gift enclosed with the notices issuing The Gazette in-world this week; a poster-on-a-prim showing all the passport stamps issued at SL20B, including 3rd party exhibitor stamps, the event stamp and the personal ones for Lindens, Moles, bureaucrats and ambassadors.
If you don't receive your copy of The Gazette via in-world notices, you can pick up a copy of the poster from outside our office or (until SL20B ends) from outside the ticket office at our exhibit.
We hope you enjoy displaying it on the walls of your SL homes. If you'd like to make your own poster in a different format, Robert's web page with the stamp images is here.
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Stamp Errors on V3 Passports: An apology
Users have reported extraneous images showing up on their V3 passports such as the the one at the top right of the image below.
This is entirely our fault and we apologise.
Members of staff made the mistake of using V3 passports to test new SSiDs and stamp terminals; forgetting that when a V3 passport is stamped, the image is added to our database. Our indefatigable tech consultant Robert Rhodan – to whom we are very grateful – spent ten hours on one day alone last week replacing such stray images with the correct ones.
If an erroneous stamp appears in your passport, please report it to any member of the BBB staff. It will be remapped so that the correct stamp appears. Thank you to those users who reported the errors and thanks to all affected users for their patience.
To err is human. Not to give a damn about it is bureaucratic. We're only playing at being bureaucrats and just can't master that indifference thing. So, once again, we're sorry.
NEW LOCATIONS
Fireflies is a family-friendly scout troop. Activities include badges, fishing, games, movies, field trips and story times and everyone is welcome.
| Fireflies Scout Troop PE |
Thank you Martina and Amanda, you are both very kind.
Posted by: Dave | 07/15/2023 at 09:48 AM
Well Done all for helping to celebrate Second Life in such a grand way!
Great issue, Dave and well done, Robert for continually fixing up hiccups!
To Martina and all those dedicated stamp collectors who hung out with us at our SL20B site,
It was wonderful getting to know you!
I hope we find a place to meet up again and hang out at!
Posted by: AmandaT | 07/15/2023 at 09:44 AM
Nice Gazette again today, thank you. And thank you all BBB Bureaucrats, Ambassadors and consultants for all this huge work. Thank you too All the Mole and Linden who "played the game" perfectly with their SSiD tablets (and it was a pleasure to meet you all, with or without tablet in hands.
Posted by: Martina Voxel | 07/15/2023 at 08:50 AM