ThanksThe development of New World content is within everyone's reach. A drop zone is at your disposal on the Sandbox 1 region.

Thanks to these freebie donators.

Netpat Admicile Johnny Barnes coucou bonetto ludovic delpierre filou follet Gillygirl Hoffman KittyKat Jules Batoo Koba Ella Larsen kaline mode Dordygail Riggles LeoMaxx Sautereau Grant Silvercloud phiIlippe Smalls Wolf Windshadow

New World gets bigger from day to day. New residents are welcomed, guided, assisted and helped in the virtual world thanks to the help of members who participate in the Volunteer program.

Thanks to them for their generosity and for the time spent on the Welcome region.

Jo BERNARD Eden Cat kijn Eizua Caroline Fairport Steve Franklin Kire Laasonen Marline Laasonen LeoMaxx Sautereau Claudius Utopy

Donation campaignThe donation campain launched on New World Grid continues !The objective of this campain is to gather funds to maintain the central servers of New World Grid, but also the free New World Studio regions.

Thanks to the generosity of Claudius Utopy, Greenwich Merlin and other residents who have preferred to stay anonymous, we have gathered the amount of 546 Euro of the 620 Euro which are necessary.

The barometer installed inworld (on Welcome) allows you to follow the evolution of donations.

The upkeep of New World Grid concerns us all! If you also wish to help New World Grid, you can either do a donation, or rent a parcel or a region on New World Grid.

You will find all this information on the site http://www.newworldgrid.com

New parcel offers

In order to always answer your requests and your needs better, a new land rental offer has been created. As from now you can become owner of a parcel of 3136 m² (which is about 1/16 region).

This lands allows you to use up to 1000 prims, VoIP (Vocal Conferencing), maintenance included. You can rent these parcels for only 5 Euro a month (payments being 10 Euro every two month).

You will find this offer on our website under the "Land rentals" section or inworld on the "NWG Serenity" region.

A new region of four 13 456 m² parcels which is 1/4 region has been made available. Go and visit "NWG Naturia" to discover this new landscape.

Cours d'Entraide et PartageSince 10 February, training sessions are organized on the "Entraide & Partage" region : Clothing design courses are proposed by Kaline Mode, Clauduis Utopy teaches scripting, Patof Blou gestures and LeoMaxx Sautereau sculpties.

You will find the course agenda in the Welcome building on the "Entraide & Partage" region.

In order for everyone to profit from the courses, a recruitment campain is open by the organizers who are looking for residents capable of organizing courses in English or in other languages in the following areas:

Build Scripts Gestures Création de Vêtements Sculpty Animations Texturisation

Whatever are your domain or your language you are welcome to propose courses on the "Entraide & Partage" region.

Feast CommitteeA Feast Committee has been created to organize community events on New World Grid. It consists entirely of residents, volunteering and motivated. The group is in charge of conceiving and carrying out inworld events. The aim is to forge a social bond between residents while having fun and sharing.

The group members meet occasionally in order to propose ideas for various events such as: games, musical animations, exhibitions ... There is nobody in charge. Decisions are taken unanimously if the project is considered as feasible. The group have, among others, taken part in the organization of the New World Grid anniversary celebration which took place on last February 13.

The Committee is also open for you, and you are welcome to attend if you have any ideas and enthusiasm to share.

The Feast Committee.The members:

Aime Socrates Kire Laasonen Marline Laasonen Kaline Mode Claudius Utopy LeoMaxx Sautereau

New inworld featuresNew quality avatars will be available for new user accounts this month, thanks to a resident who has chosen to remain anonymous.

A mail server has been installed, offering offline residents to receive mails when an instant message is sent to them, and group notifications as well (if the option is checked in the group profile).

We have developed new functionalities to facilitate the management of the land and the simulators that we host.

It is now possible to do back-ups, restorations, rebooting in the absence of the administrators.

Also a translator has been integrated in the public chat based on your language preference at the time of your registration and that can be modified at any time on Welcome. This system has the advantage to be transparent to the user who only receives a translation in its own language in the chat.

A new account creation system will soon be available that can be embedded in third party sites. Communities, associations, and companies will be able to add a choice of personalized avatars for the people joining the world through their site.

New World's second birthday The second NWG anniversary took place on Saturday 13 February. The region on which the celebration took place "Vox" is still accessible from a teleport on "Welcome".We would like to thank all the residents who have helped us to prepare the events :

Kaline Mode, Jo Bernard, Aime socrates, FrannyDJAnd the Feast Committee.

We thank you all for coming and hope that you have spend a good time.

Residents' speach : LeoMaxx Sautereau, Claudius Utopy

Fireworks by Aime Socrates

Party animated by FrannyDJ DeanClothing by kalinette Mode

Thanks to the Volunteers and Residents that made possiblethis unforgettable moment !

Mount Grace Priory Project MOUNT GRACE PRIORYNorth YorkshireEngland

On 4 adjacent regions in New World, we are building Mount Grace and its immediate environment. This is thanks to the generosity of the French Non Profit Organization 'Virtus', which promotes arts and educational projects.

The priory was established in 1398 as part of a wide and thriving European network of Carthusian monasteries famed for their austere style of spritual life, their commitment to the preservation of literature at a time when few people could read, and their hospitality to travellers: an interesting mixture!

It was disestablished in 1539 by agents of King Henry VIII of England, as part of his greed, his jealousy, and his quarrel with Rome.

Project evolution Over the coming months you'll learn how the community lived; how it contributed to life within the region; how it provided hotel and nursing services to travellers; and how life was lived then.

Please go to the Visitor Centre at Mount Grace NE region, walk around and explore: there will be much to see, some of it interactive !

Begin to find out more by checking out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Grace_Priory

If you would like to contribute to the development of this site, please contact Olish Newman or myself.

Christi Maeterlinck"Mount Grace Priory" Site Curator

Please note. This venture in educational simulation has no formal links with any of the bodies that care for the RL site, although informal links are being developed. (November 2009).

Work on this major project, which is preparing a walk-through, interactive educational experience in a 14th century Carthusian priory, continues. Last month saw two major developments in construction.

First, construction of the first set of buildings (5 monks' residence cells) was finalised by means of a set of detailed site plans and elevations obtained from the National Monuments Record (an archive of all ancient monuments maintained by English Heritage, the government statutory adviser on the historic environment of the UK). While some simplification is necessary if the project is to be completed within a reasonable time-frame, nevetheless, the plans have made accurate simulation to within centimetres possible.

Second, a major issue for accurate representation of real-world objects in all OpenSim environments was identified. Basically, the mesh interval used to represent individual avatars is such, that the default height for avatars when calibrated against the terrain maps used for the environment makes each avatar just under 7 feet, or 2.13 metres, tall!

Moreover, the default camera position is such that there are problems in navigating realistically sized rooms smaller than 10m x 10m in size. (These are problems encountered in Second Life and all the OpenSim grids generally, not simply in New World grid.)

A design decision has been taken to continue to construct all buildings accurately, but to accommodate avatars in two ways.

Offer visitors an Appearance specification that reduces them to an accurate size

Construct one of the buildings, Monk's Cell 8, to a larger scale, placing it on a sky-platform, for the convenience of people who don't wish to reduce avatar size to something smaller than the size they are used to!

Cell 8 is the Real-Life building that has been reconstructed to its original appearance, complete with furnishings, by English Heritage, and so it is very suitable for this purpose.

Christi Maeterlinck

Non profit Association Virtus registered the 18th of july 2009 under the number W653001494

Our partners

Dreamstreams, Canadawww.dreamstreams.ca

Le Parc des Arts, Francewww.parcdesarts.com

Crédit Agricole - Parlons Innovation, Francewww.parlons-innovation.com

OpenVCE.net, United Kingdomwww.openvce.net