20th September 2014

Attendees:

Sherman (sherman.radikal)

Mira (miralee.munro)

Barbie (barbiedoll25)

Lu (luumikai)

Robin (r0bin.helsinki)

Minutes:

Mira

We are getting more and more activities happening here.

This is the list that I posted to our Facebook page:

PROGRAM OF EVENTS @ PARADISE ARTIST COLONY

SUNDAY - 8AM

Pilgrimage To Shambhala with Shambala Kimono

on the floating lake dance circle.

Join us for our ceremonial tantric dance and sacred

pilgrimage to the Pure Land of Shambhala. We approach

the pilgrimage with sincerity and the desire to raise

our energy, recharge ourselves, while returning to

wholeness, and fertilizing seeds of intent, to be

cast upon the sacred gardens of Shambhala.

We open ourselves to clarity of life purpose and communion

with the divine as our spirits soar while dancing in

sacred circle.

Please have your voice and land music settings enabled.

SUNDAY - 2PM

Tibetan Buddhist Meditation with Bertram Jacobus

on the mountain

A silent meditation with Bertram providing several

incantations in Tibetan to focus our energies for

this traditional meditation.

Please have your voice enabled to hear.

MONDAY - 1.30PM

Live Guitar & Singing with Strix @ Various Locations

For your listening pleasure, Strix does a program of

live songs and guitar

TUESDAY - No planned activities

WEDNESDAY – NOON

Tao Te Ching with Strix on the mountain

Strix recites from the ancient Tao Te Ching with a

discussion of the tracts by participants.

Please have voice enabled.

THURSDAY - 2PM

Piano Recital with Sandia Beaumont in the desert

French pianist, Sandia Beaumont provides us with a

range of piano, harpsichord and synthesiser pieces

performed live.

Please have voice enabled.

FRIDAY – NOON

International Music with Sunshine @ Various Locations

FRIDAY - 1PM

 Mixed Music Styles with Zenji @ Various Locations

Sunshine and Zen have been working together for many

years and each provides a unique mix of eclectic and

international music.

SATURDAY – NOON

Weekly Meeting of Paradise Artist Colony @ Beach Campfire

Conducted in text, and just reviews the group's activities

of the week and an opportunity for members to bring up

new projects etc.

But when I came online this morning, there was a message

from Robert Duke Drascoll, wanting to know when there

might be a free spot for him to do ROBERT'S RAMBLINGS.

So it looks like Tuesday is the only available day to

do something around that noon day time.

If that's the time anyone wants to do something ...

They can do it any time they like, but around noon -2pm

seems to be when most people do stuff.

Lu

that causes me a lot of annoyance :P

Mira

Not a good time for you?

Barbie

yes that is the latest for Europeans

Mira

Well, if uyou look at that International Time Chart

that I did for the months around June

there really is only a one hour window of opportunity for

us all to be awake at the same time.

It gets even worse when we come to the December period…

There is no time that we’re all awake at the same time.

Lu

You sent a notice about "The Bleeding" a few weeks

ago. What happened with that?

Mira

I spoke to Max the other day.

Let me paste what she said ...

“MaxEStone: Hi Miralee. My apologies for my lateness.

RL™ has been crazy. I left Mariola a message. I told her

if she can do two avis for the skit then that would be great

Mira: Oh, okay Max. There is a relatively new member

here RDD (RobertDuke Drascoll) who might be interested

in doing some theatre. I haven't asked him myself,

but if you are still looking for a male he MAY be willing.”

It's very slow

Lu

so I see ^^;

Mira

I don't think Max comes in to SL all that often and

I haven't seen Mariola since she said she would do

the part for Max, and I mentioned it to Robert I think,

but because Max hasn't been around, I haven't actually

focused on it all that much.

One thing that I did talk to Robert about is that ideally,

I would prefer it if people did things themselves, rather

than putting it on my shoulders to do.

If anyone comes up with an idea or project, then it

is they who should be managing it, not me.

Lu

yes, I totally agree

Barbie nods

Mira

Have you all read our original Statement of Purpose?

The document the original community worked together

to create about six years ago?

Lu

I read it and updated it but I still haven't done the bloody homepage

Barbie

Lu, can you update the calendar in blog?

I tried but dont know how

Lu

Sure

Mira

I've broken the essence of the original Statement of

Purpose down to this:

WANT TO KNOW A BIT ABOUT US?

More than just a place - PARADISE ARTIST COLONY @

PERFECT PARADISE is a community of creative people,

living on a natural island with the aim of fostering

creative pursuits wherever possible.

It is a meeting place where values of art, music,

literature, performing arts, cultural ideals,

peace, respect, consensus and love are highly valued.

Everyone is welcomed to share in these ideals - to take

off their shoes and bling, and just BE.

Paradise is what we all create together. The form our

society takes is entirely up to us. Anyone who feels at

home here, and shares our values of co-operative

living and resolving our differences through consensus,

is welcome.

PERFECT PARADISE COMMUNITY was established in May 2008

as a social experiment to see whether it was possible

for people from all over the world to come together and

create a new kind of ideal society.

In June 2014, the focus was changed to being a group

dedicated to the encouragement of creativity and

providing a home for artists, musicians, performers,

literary and creative folk so they could concentrate on

their craft, and not on raising money to pay for a

home here in Second Life. Thus, PARADISE ARTIST COLONY

@ PERFECT PARADISE was born.

At this stage, until the group decides otherwise ...

OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLES ARE:

1. To encourage everyone to develop their creativity

in whatever field they are interested in - music, art,

literature, plays, performing, juggling or whatever.

If it expresses your happiness, that's wonderful.

2. To strive for honest, caring relationships with one

another in a natural environment.

3. To create a new kind of society where everyone is

accepted for who they are and what they have to offer.

4. To provide a place of sanctuary for those who

need to heal.

5. To be open to new ways of being - to explore.

6. We remain idealistic - to always imagine what might

be possible and we trust one another to have each

other's best interests at heart.

7. To take personal responsibility for moving the colony

/ community forward, for continuing its growth.

HOW WE DO THAT - OUR VALUES:

1. We share our knowledge and our skills - we try and

mentor someone to help them develop their creative craft.

2. Each member makes a commitment to teach one thing a

year - be it a language, a skill, a cultural belief,

an esoteric practice or a way of being.

3. We support one another in our endeavours, by attending

events or activities that are organised by members.

4. We collaborate with one another on a range of

activities and projects, making a commitment as a group

to work on at least one or two group projects a year.

5. We honour our community by respecting its values and

living by them. If these values are violated, we hold

those responsible accountable for their actions and

approach the conflict with love and understanding.

6. We try new things, new ways of being. We explore together

what is possible, and being gentle and kind with one

another always. Accepting that for some, change

may not be comfortable..

7. Where there are a range of options available, we

use the process of consensus, where everyone's point

of view is taken into consideration, to come to

agreement. We resolve disputes patiently and amicably.

Lu

some of them are a little rambly, but I like the

general idea. Is the bit at the beginning new?

Mira

Well, I tried to explain them fully, so that everyone

had a full understanding of them.

Lu

fair enough

Mira

Oh, that's just the bit that I put there to introduce

ourselves to visitors who might want to know more.

I can be a bit wordy, because I like to fully explain things ...

but if you want to have a go at cutting it down a bit ...

please do.

Lu

I did do that but I think I'll try again

Mira

Oh, that's sometning that I wanted to ask too

Barbie, on the slide show we have on the easels

I was thinking that the rotation is just a bit slow

you have to stand there for so long, waiting for the

next slide to appear

Barbie

yes i know but how do you change it?

Lu

can I see the code?

Mira

You can make the rotation faster on the Freeview Script

but I don't think you are using the Freeview script are you?

Barbie

i will give you the script

Mira

I know on the Freeview script you can change the timing of the rotation, but the script in the easels, you can't view

Oh , well, of course you as owner can probably look at it

Lu

okay so if you change PICTURE_ROTATION_TIMER to 5

that will probably increase the speed

Mira

five seconds?

Lu

Yes

Mira

from memory, Freeview is set to maybe 20 seconds?

Lu & Barbie

30

Mira

It's just a matter of going through and seeing if you have enough time to read each advertisement

Robin

can you make it change by touching it? Like reading

a book?

Mira

well most of the signs are just FRED SMITH PRESENTS

MUSIC AT PARADISE ARTIST COLONY EVERY FRIDAY AT 2PM

Ooohhh ... that's another system altogether Robin.

Robin

Ah

Mira

Yeah, just click and move on to the next page.

With Freeview you can browse through. You can set it to

loop or browse but the trouble with that is that if

someone changes it to browse it won't automatically

switch to the next image. it will just stay on the last

image that someone 'browsed' rather than loop.

Robin

its a while since I wrote any scripts

but I have the manual printed somewhere

Lu

well we could set up a time after activating browse

that would change it to loop after say 5 minutes

Mira

Oh, okay ... but would something like that add to the

lag in that area? any 'listening' script will add to lag

Lu

I wouldn't have thought so

is it listening or just timing?

Mira

Not sure

Mira

Anyway, it was just something that I noticed ... that

it seemed to take a long time to switch to the next

image and I would imagine that people would get impatient

 to see what the next image was.

Lu

I really don't know much about LSL

Mira

Well, I know with all the stuff that I have put up

that is on rotation, that I was able to speed up, or slow

 down the rotation with the Freeview script.

The displays about Consensus for example, had a lot of

writing on them, so I had to slow it right down

Lu

I like consensus but I've never seen it actually used

Mira

Oh, I think it's wonderful

We can use it sometime on a dummy 'problem'

just as an exercise.

Lu

sounds fun :P

Mira

Maybe we'll do that next meeting?

Barbie

i figured it out and rewrote the script

Mira

Woo hooo!

Barbie

its changing every 5 seconds

Mira

we might need to do a separate easel for the list of

events, do you think? since that will require more

time to read. What do you think Barbie?

Have a second easel beside it, with either a static

display of all the events here

Barbie

yes we can do two in the info pod

Mira

and one at the candle circle?

I mean the one with the list of events

just a static display of that

Barbie

yeh maybe just a static of events

Mira

Okay ... so just to be clear ... At the Candle Circle

and the Info Pod ... we have two displays ... one

 with the rotational display of individual events

and one static one listing the timing of the events

so that just stays still, and beside it is the rotational advertisements of each event but they are both on an easel

down here and flat displays up in the Info Pod?

Barbie

yes and we will speed it up a bit

Robin

be careful - on a slow connection the image can switch

before it as fully appeared

Mira

Okay ... that sounds good.

and next week ... a practice session of Consensus?

at our weekly meeting?

Lu

yes!

Mira

It has to be [on] something that there is likely

to be a difference of opinion on.

I have one maybe

 How about our PRETEND topic being .....

"Should we charge people to join Paradise Artist Colony."?

It has to be something that has two very opposing

points of view or opinions.

Barbie

 good one

Mira

If anyone else comes up with a different subject, that's fine.

Mira: But the more controversial the better.

Lu

okay :)

Mira

anyway, we have the whole week to come up with a subject.

and the more controversial the better

Lu

maybe we can use it to decide on a topic for our

roleplay of using it

Mira

lol