Islandz is closing down - a great time to do something different!

At least it wasn't up long enough to allow people to get too comfortable there. I'm sad for those affected by it but I am not surprised.

So there has been talk about how easy it is to just start up your own grid,  make your own rules, yada yada… lots of things that are 'easy' to do are also very draining and demanding. However, hats off to those who feel the calling.

I had been visiting some really nice places in Kitely lately and attended their weekly Community Meeting,  in which Ilan had talked about a pretty cool offering for Organizations (a grid within a grid, or a mini grid of sorts) and improved search. Read all about it here https://www.kitely.com/virtual-world-news/2019/01/11/introducing-organizations-virtual-grids/ There are a lot of reasons why this might be a great idea, and I will go over some of it below.

There is a special on til the end of this month... so TWO more days - It's an  Early Bird Special 30% bonus on the starter and 50% bonus on the standard.
It is a great way to have  some control over your virtual space while at the same time still having things taken care of professionally. Whether you are an educational organization or a large group of roleplayers wanting a somewhat separate existence, this might totally work for you.

You get your own log in page,  avatars for selection and even something called Setup Kitely which is "a program whose purpose is to help the Organization’s users, who might never have heard of OpenSim, visit the Organization’s worlds for the first time.

Setup Kitely runs on Windows and Mac computers. It helps the users download the correct version of Firestorm for their computer; add your Organization’s Virtual Grid to Firestorm; choose their avatar; and enter one of the Organization’s worlds."  There are many things in place in order to provide a great learning or collaborative platform.

This could benefit those who now have no choice but to leave Islandz (formerly InWorldz) but still have projects they would like too work on with others. Prices for worlds within these Organizations are the same as regular worlds in regular Kitely.

So, for example, a starter organization is 49.95 and has a 30% bonus right now of allowing 130 users and 13 worlds. Each world can have from a single region to a 4x4 (16 region equivalent) and those prices range from 14.95 for a single region up to 39.95 for a 4x4 with 120,000 prims! So many prims! That 49.95 would get you a management website for your organization hosted within Kitely.  It would give you an avatar selection (you can also make starter avatars by adding your own custom avatars to this list by copying the current appearance of your own avatar) , your own management website page, grid log in uri and more.


Some Upcoming Advanced Features include:

• Customize the viewer login page (what appears in Firestorm before you login)
• A user signup form that you can host on your own website

There is really a lot to see, please check out the links above and take a look at all that's included. The bonus lasts til January 31st! Maybe for some of those displaced by the InWorldz->Islandz shut down! 

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