Today’s club times at the Go Center enjoyed a lovely turn-out. There were as many as nine people there at a time, and at one point three games in progress at once. All told, nine club games were played today. That’s a record for most games played at the Go Center in a day for 2008!
Hope to see even more of you out next Thursday!
We have four hours with hosts on club day, Thursday, at the Go Center. Of course, the center is always open for games, but having a host makes a particular time more likely to gain a regular attendance. If you’d be interested in hosting another hour, let me know!
I keep the hosted times updated in three places:
Small bonus feature: On the home page, the list of playing times is now shown in your local time zone (if you have Javascript enabled), along with the “SLT” time. You can also use the pop-up menu next to the time zone to change to a different one. Since I can’t test in every browser and OS combination, let me know if it doesn’t work as expected for you.
I just noticed that sometime this week, membership at the Go Center exceeded 250. Way to go!
I crunched some statistics on when games are played at the Go Center. Of the 500 games played since September 2007, the most popular day to play was Thursday. Sunday and Saturday were second and third. While the Go Center is always open, I’m going to make Thursday, and only Thursday, be our official club day.
It seems the most influential factor in getting the group going strong is a getting a core group of people who are reliably there. Therefore, I’m looking for volunteers to sign up for hour slots as “greeters” on Thursdays. I’ll be posting a roster of times and people on our home page and at the Go Center.
Anyone game?
Update: Cool! We have now have four hours of “hosts” for Thursdays. Keep ‘em coming! See the home page for who and when.
In order to comply with Linden Lab’s new branding policies, I’ve changed the name of the Go Center to “Go Center - SL”. In titles and display, I use two go stones as the dash. (Thanks to Unicode, these are just characters!)
Now we just need a better logo…
The very fine community over at GoDiscussions.com have set up a sub-forum just for us: visit the Go Center of Second Life forum.
Right now, there is a continuation of the discussion about holding a tournament in Second Life.
While you’re at their site, check out the rest of the forums. I’ve become quite an addict of the site since we started using it informally awhile ago. Now I check it daily and it has brought me to all sorts of interesting Go information and ideas.
Go forth and discuss!
Attendance at the Go Center has been down all summer, but I think that has mostly been due to people being out on vacation. Now that it is September, and school has started, and it’s back to work, work, work, I hope that we’ll see more of you all back at the Go Center on club events.
Speaking of, over the summer I took a poll and we have new club event times, in case you didn’t notice:
SL Time - Pacific Daylight Time
- Saturdays, 9am - Noon
- Sundays, 9am - Noon
- Thursdays, 6pm - 9pm
GMT - Greenwich Mean Time
- Saturdays, 4pm - 7pm
- Sundays, 4pm - 7pm
- Fridays, 1am - 4am
If these times don’t work for you, drop me a line, and I’ll see if any better times for all emerge.
The Go Center now has its very own blog. This will allow me to update the news about the Go Center much more easily. In addition, we get all sorts of benefits: Comments, RSS feeds, and support for additional authors.
Go ahead and copy the RSS feed link into your favorite news reader and never miss what’s going on at the Go Center.
If you think you’d like to write for our blog, let me know what you’d like to write about and we’ll see what we can do.
We now have a Go Camp at Burning Life. Take a break from exploring the incredible art of the virtual playa and play a little 9×9. Go Camp is located at Burning Life (Skylar) 98,129. For info about the event, check out the unofficial blog.
Check out the great new Go Center HUD by Nikkou Hax. You attach this little object and you get a nifty, small Go Center logo in the lower right corner of your screen that keeps you up to date with the number of people at the Go Center. Available for free at the hexagonal gazebo at the Go Center.
