Don't forget the Kitely Calendar

[Selby Evans]

The Kitely Calendar is being display around the grid. So It is already time to think about posting your events. You can post your own events. Just follow the instructions here:
http://virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com/ ... vents.html

I noticed one or two places displaying the video when I followed the egg hunt, and one made it into my video. Furthermore, we have a number of posts of scheduled events on it. Those are the two things we need to build an audience for it.

Here are some of the posts I found.
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Landowners

Guided Tour of Donnybrook Beach in Kitely
When
Thu, April 24, 09:00 – 09:30
Where
Kitely (map)
Description
Guided tour of Donnybrook Beach world in Kitely. Tour will include locations of the eggs for the April 2014 Spring Hunt. Tour starts at main arrival point for the world and will last about 30 minutes.
http://www.kitely.com/virtual-world/Deu ... rook-Beach

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Writing and poetry Community
Seanchai Library Opening Story Session
When
Fri, May 2, 18:30 – 20:00
Where
Seanchai Library Estate (Seanchai region) (map)
Description
~ 6:30pm Tour of the Seanchai Estate in Kitely.
~ 7pm Ghost stories around the fire at Seanchai Library in Kitely with Shandon Loring

Eerie atmospherics, a sense of foreboding, then the unease, a chill, a shudder, ghosts, terror! Conjured artfully by masters of the macabre - among them Stephen King, Guy de Maupassant, Ramsey Campbell, and Tony Richards, and by literary greats like Ambrose Bierce, Washington Irving, Sir Water Scott, and J Sheridan Le Fanu.

More to come . . . join us for this auspicious event!

http://www.irelandslstory.blogspot.com/ ... itely.html

Freda In Progress, Poesy
When
Sun, May 4, 15:00 – 16:00
Where
Babel Tower Auditorium, Poesy (map)
Description
Life is a journey, and we are each of us an ever-evolving creation: a work in progress. Join us in the Babel Tower Auditorium on Poesy as author Freda Frostbite (aka Stephanie Mesler) shares her poetry and prose in progress, and those things inspiring her in her literary quest. Presented live in voice.

Babel On! Poetry Readings
When
Tue, May 6, 17:30 – 18:30
Where
Babel Tower, Poesy (map)
Description
Each week, featuring a spoken word performer of the metaverse. http://www.kitely.com/virtual-world/Fre ... bite/Poesy
This week, Freda Frostbite, Poesy's administrator will read from her books, Love Lines, Soul Hill Lullabies, and Ermengarde The Expansive. She may also share some recent unpublished works. For more information, see http://www.amazon.com/Stephanie-Mesler/ ... r_dp_pel_1

Live Lit at Poesy-- Lynn Blackmar, Action Adventure and Sci-Fi
When
Sun, June 15, 16:00 – 17:00
Where
Babel Tower Auditorium, Poesy

Live Literature at Poesy Presents Caledonia Skytower
When
Sun, June 29, 16:00 – 17:00
Where
Poesy Presents Caledonia Skytower

Grand Opening-- Poesy Tower and Galleries
When
Sun, June 29, 17:00 – 18:30
Where
Galleries One and Two, Ballroom, Babel Tower, Poesy (map)
Description
Sometimes art inspires literature. Sometimes, it's the other way around. Either way, it's enlightening to see them side by side. Join us for this official grand opening of the Babel Tower on Poesy

[Constance Peregrine]

I do like this and integrated it into my old personal google calendar [without which I would be even more clueless than I am!!].

If google changes that I will be a bit annoyed too ...lol

[Freda Frostbite]

This is for the google calendar only? How is that being displayed inworld and where? Is that the land owners you are listing?

There is also the calendar Dundridge runs. Is that completely separate or are the two somehow merged? Where can that be found inworld and elsewhere? I am, as always, somewhat confused. But, in this case, I think it really IS confusing that we have more than one calendar. It is also somewhat labor intensive for event planners.

[Dot Matrix]

This is a case where two different systems were being worked on simultaneously by two different groups without knowledge of each other.

Both calendars are planned to be displayed on the Kitely Welcome Center, but both are developed and maintained by users. They are currently included in KWC stage 1 if you want to see how they are treated.

Dundridge's calendar is more visual, includes more bells and whistles (e.g. a countdown timer) and is still actively under development. I'll leave him to explain it in more detail since I'm not sure of the procedure to add events to it.

Selby and Handy's calendar is based on media on a prim and a standard Google calendar, making it relatively straightforward to incorporate into a build but potentially not as pretty.

Hopefully, choice is good.

[Deuce Halsey]

I've been adding my events to the Kitely Calendar through the Google Calendar interface. I think I've been doing it correctly and the times (which I enter in Kitely World Time - or PDT) display correctly when I look at the calendar directly through the Google website. But when I looked at the entries through the in-world version of the calendar in the new KWC Stage 1 world yesterday, the times were displayed three hours earlier than they were supposed to be.

For example, the event I had scheduled last night (Guided Tour of Donnybrook Beach) was scheduled from 9 PM - 9:30 PM (PDT - Kitely world time) on Friday, April 25th. When I looked at it on the in-world version of of the calendar in KWC Stage 1, the times were given as 6 PM - 6:30 PM. Why would the times be displayed three hours off on the in-world version of the calendar compared to the website version of the calendar? I went into the Google calendar website and checked - nobody had changed the times for the event, but it was displaying different times in-world.

This situation appears to be consistent - the tour I have scheduled for 12 PM (Noon) PDT on Sunday, April 27, 2014 is listed for 9 AM on the in-world version of the calendar. Does anyone have any idea of what is going on here?

If this is confusing me, it is likely to be confusing people who might want to attend my events.

[Constance Peregrine]

google calendar would display in the timezone set by the owner

[Dot Matrix]

Perhaps one solution to avoid confusion is to use the original Kitely-sanctioned method to publicise events: the Events and Activities section of this forum -- http://www.kitely.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=17

[Deuce Halsey]

google calendar would display in the timezone set by the owner

That could explain it, I guess. I assumed that when I was in the Kitely Calendar it would show times at the time set for that calendar, which presumably would be Kitely in-world time (PDT).
I actually live in the Eastern time zone, and EDT is 3 hours ahead of PDT. So if I enter an event at 12 Noon EDT it would show up on the calendar at 9 AM PDT.

Now I have to figure out how to set my Google calendar default time zone to Pacific Time.

Edited to Add: My Google Calendar does list "GMT-05" at the top, so it's Eastern Time. I decided that I would just leave it that way and enter my events for 3 hours earlier to compensate for the difference. I moved the final April tour tomorrow to 3 PM Eastern, which is 12 Noon Pacific (and Kitely) time. So it should be fine now.

Thanks,

[Constance Peregrine]

welcome, because, afaik, it would display your own timezone setting on your google page but the inworld prim it makes sense it would show his...

[Selby Evans]

This is for the google calendar only? How is that being displayed inworld and where? Is that the land owners you are listing?

There is also the calendar Dundridge runs. Is that completely separate or are the two somehow merged? Where can that be found inworld and elsewhere? I am, as always, somewhat confused. But, in this case, I think it really IS confusing that we have more than one calendar. It is also somewhat labor intensive for event planners.

Dundridge is using the same calendar (as I understand it), just reading it and displaying it in a more elegant form. The contents are the same.

The calendar is displayed on the web here:
http://virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com/ ... vents.html

There are also instructions on how to get posting authority on the calendar. Whatever is posted in the calendar will appear on the web and on any instances inworld, where it can be shown as web-on-prim or in the elegant form that Dundridge is developing for the Welcome Center. So we don't have more than one calendar, just two forms of inworld display,

You may have to click on the simple form to see the calendar. If you have your media set (in preferences) to show media automatically, you won't have to click. I Firestorm, you should be able to scroll down the calendar if you want to look farther ahead. You should also be able to click on an entry and get details.

Note that the Google calendar may not handle and inworld location right if you put it in the location field. Best put the location (url or hop) in the description.

See this video for an example of the simple calendar being displayed inworld(at about 3 mins. into the video.):
http://virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com/ ... vents.html
(Thanks, MT)

I also have a similar poster up at the Hobo Sandbox on Cookie II.

The events I listed were just the events given in the calendar for upcoming. For simplicity, go to the web calendar and click on the events you see.

If anyone wants a copy of the simple inworld display, they can send me an IM. The simple calendar is one prim, full perm.

Selby