BBB4B | Readers' Survey | Events & Announcements | New Locations

COMING SOON! BBB4B

The Bellisserian Bureau of Bureaucracy (BBB) proudly marks its fourth anniversary this month. Founded by the visionary Boo Rojyo, this group of dedicated virtual bureaucrats issues passports, passport stamps,  car licences and number plates. We also  support Bellisseria's embassies to the rest of SL, license our tech to the Confederation of Democratic Simulators (CDS) – SL's oldest democracy – to issue its own passports and publish The Gazette every week.

We will be celebrating this milestone with an event at BBB HQ starting on 24th January and continuing for a week. As part of the festivities, unique event stamps will be issued at HQ as well as at Bellisseria's embassies on Mainland and Zindra. Keep your eye on The Gazette's Events & Announcements section for news of individual BBB4B events.

As the BBB enters its fifth year, with Bel Bailey as our CEO, we hope for continued administrative excellence, innovative community initiatives, and the timeless camaraderie that binds us SL residents together. Here's to another year of  bureaucratic achievement and community spirit!

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READERS' SURVEY

First of all, happy new year to all our readers. We thank you for your support of The Gazette since our first edition in 2021 and wish you all the best for the year ahead.

The best evidence of success in online publishing is reader engagement. Readers are kind enough to tell us in-world that they enjoy The Gazette, but we receive few comments online and we'd like to understand why that is. It's easy enough to make a comment by clicking on the link at the end of every issue.

It may be that commenting online is just not a natural way to engage in Second Life®. Residents may be more used to communicating through SL's excellent built-in tools like group chats and notices. Even our BBB colleagues sometimes prefer to send out information via the BBBug or CPCB groups. In the end, rather than making assumptions, the best way to find out how you prefer to engage, is to ask you! 

So we'd like to begin 2024 by requesting some feedback. We would be really grateful if you'd take a few minutes to complete this survey. Thank you in advance for taking the trouble to help us. Please feel free to share the survey link with your friends. We'd like to hear from as many residents as possible. 

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EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

If you have one of our stamp terminals and you're having an event or would like to make an 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 and/or photos.

...SadieRose Beaumont's La Salida Del Sol
est. 11/2023
Belli Mediterranean Home - Provence Of Note

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A THANK YOU NOTE FROM AMANDA / FAREWELL PLANET TAMBALYA!

I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to all of you who have supported me throughout my artistic journey in SL, especially since being honoured with a full SLEA (SL Endowment for the Arts) region last year. Transforming a flat landscape into the vibrant and lively Planet Tambalya was a joyous and challenging endeavour. Your support and enthusiasm made the venture a remarkable experience for me

I hope you enjoyed collecting the unique stamps and enjoyed the various events. Kudos to those who secured the limited Edition Tambalyan passport, a special item that is no longer available now the planet is closed. You can continue to use this exclusive passport for as long as you like, so it's not just a memento!

Here is a Trailer filmed on Planet Tambalya by filmmaker and scriptwriter Jordan Rizzo. You will get to see and hear me debuting as a voice actor!

There is a long list of people I feel very grateful to and wish I could name them all here. You know who you are and I thank you all!

AmandaT Tamatzui

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 BUSY CHRISTMAS / NEW YEAR FOR OUR STAMP COLLECTORS

 

The latest database sync on January 3rd showed 1,093 new stamps were collected in the last week and 23 new passports were issued. The special Christmas Stamps by each of our designers were collected 296 times. We're glad you had so much fun over the festive period. 

 

Stats provided by Robert Rhodan of the Stamps team

 

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IMPROVED INPUT SANITATION ON ALL PASSPORT APPLICATION FORMS

 

The name field can now contain extended ASCII characters which will be automatically mapped to standard ASCII. So for example señor will be mapped to senor, rather than the entry (to use our techies' description)  going wacko. This feature has been added to all application form sheets.

 

Upgrade and information courtesy of Robert Rhodan of the Stamps team

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NEW LOCATIONS

2024 gets off to a good start with three new stamp-issuing locations this week! Firstly, 60225 Reel Simple Forest in Bellisseria is Radioactive Rosca's Linden Home. It features interesting information and a teleport hub to various locations you might like to visit. We're happy and proud to see a replica of his passport on prominent display. In real life making an identity document so readily available is not recommended, but identity theft is harder in SL!

Radioactive Rosca is also the owner of our second location; Rosca's Coffee and Brewery Shop is on Kendrastrasse in Neufreistadt, the capital of the Confederation of Democratic Simulators (CDS). 

Shark County is a visitor centre for Northern Heterocera to be found in the region of Muslin. It is an elegant modern building just off Route 3, which has details of local attractions and info boards for Drivers of SL and the Nature Collective. 

60225 Reel Simple Forest BE
Rosca's Coffee and Brewery Shop CDS
Shark County HE

Comments

[Shumani]

Happy New Year to the team & readers of the Gazette ♥
It's fantastic to see how popular the Stamp collecting has become. I love visiting the locations and collecting the special and beautiful stamps every week ... and super pleased to have made it to 3rd. place ♥ Well done to everybody ! Thank you for creating all this for us.
Also loved Planet Tambalya, it was a gorgeous and fun environment ... so many beautiful colours, such a happy place. Well done to Amanda and her team for bringing us this experience !
... I'm off now collecting more stamps and popping in to visit the new home in the parade :)x

[Dave]

Thank you Ally. Happy New Year to you too. The work is not just mine. The stamp team provides all the key data. Teresa, Robert and other team members provide most of the journalism. My humble contribution as editor is just to put it together. I'd like to publish a lot more information about our stamp locations, so would encourage readers to make use of our Events & Announcements section, which is there for just that purpose.

[Dave]

Thanks for picking up the typo, Robert. I have fixed it.

[Dave]

Well done Martina! Your enthusiasm is an inspiration.

[Martina Voxel]

Happy New Year everybody. I was happy to meet Radioactive Rosca, and he told me in advance that he will have 2 stamps more, i already grabbed one a few days ago on his LH, that was just next to the Railway track i was on, and i came grab the 2nt today after publication. The 1st was last week at his station Plusia.

[Robert Rhodan]

Improved input sanitation:
... So for example señor will be mapped to senor ...

[Ally]

This is another fun and informative issue of the Gazette! Thank you for faithfully doing this week after week. There is a lot of work that enters into this, so THANK YOU!

Happy 2024!