Apply for Listing in the Winterfaire Grand Tour

How to apply to be listed in the Winterfaire Grand Tour.

Hi Everybody!

First, Thanks to Equinox Pinion for gently reminding me to write up this info and get it posted

Yes, I KNOW YOU ALL HATE READING DIRECTIONS but there are a few things you MUST do correctly if we are going to be able to find and process your submissions. I'll try to keep it simple.

To organize this tour, we are using the "Showcase" feature that resides in two handy places: in the Second Life Viewer (under the Search button) and on the Second Life website http://secondlife.com/showcase/.


<strong>First, you are going to prepare a picture. It must conform to the following guidelines!</strong>

1.) Go to your location and take a *beautiful* picture.
DO NOT superimpose any logos, text or captions on the picture. It should just be a plain picture.

2.) While you are there, create a SLURL [http://slurl.com/build.php]. Make it at the location where you want visitors to arrive! Save the SLURL for later use.

3.) Once you have your photo, CROP IT or re-size it to 500 pixels wide and 300 pixels high. If you try to submit a different shape, your application will be automatically rejected!!

--------> To repeat, crop or resize to 500 px wide X 300 px high! JPG

4.) Save as .jpeg. It MUST be .jpeg. It must be less than 100 KB.

5.) Post your picture on Flickr.



--------> Now, fill out the form.

5.) Go here: https://secure-web16.secondlife.com/showcase/submissions.php

6.) Under the "Category" dropdown, you MUST select "Other"
Sub-category= "Miscellaneous"

*********Under Language, you MUST select "English" or it will go to the wrong person!!! *********

7.) Preface your Venue Title with "WF-" so we can find it. Like this:
"WF- My Fabulous Winter Wonderland"

8.) Paste in the SLURL you made earlier.

9.) Now fill in the forum with the url of your Flickr-hosted picture. It should look something like this:
[ http://farm4.static.flickr.com/imagepath.jpg ]

10.) Fill out the rest of the form, accept the agreement and Submit.


Now, if you've done all that correctly, your application will wing its way into our eager hands, and you will get a confirmation email.

--------> You only get to make 2 submissions in any 30-day time period, so don't be signing up your friends! It's best if they do their own signups.

Please note that we do not guarantee that we will list your venue. If your entry does not fit into the guidelines discussed here: /352/ad/295075/1.html, or if we just have too many entries, you many not be listed. We will do our best to give everyone a chance, but no guarantees.

Finally, if you are going to host special events at your build, we suggest you have a schedule sign at your landing point that also gives a notecard, so that visitors will know when to return for the fun. (Showcase is not designed for listing timed events, but it's great for getting people to your schedule sign!)

Thanks to all who enter, we look forward to seeing what you're building!

Dusty Linden

I've gone ahead and put Livingtree into the hopper. I hope our humble winter area will be considered.

I submitted and... colour me stupid (yes please do). I read the instructions, twice even, and managed to miss the bit about prefacing the submission with WF.

Should I resubmit, or is there a way I can get someone to rename my submission?

A2NZ - Frozen Park

Duh! Duh! Duh!

Raindrop, I found your listing and changed the name for you .
Dusty

Thanks, Dusty!

I give up. How do I get that format for my Flickr photo? I get a URL that works when I email it, but is rejected by the form. Photobucket is easy in comparison.

Found the correct URL. How fantastically non-intuitive! And now I am trying to get the website to accept my 450 x 250 pixel, 80kb image. This is fun.

I have windows and used Paint. Under the IMAGE menu, is ATTRIBUTES. I put the required height and width in the fields. It took a bit of juggling around to get it just so. Then I saved as .jpg

At Flickr, I clicked on ALL SIZES, the largest was the correct size and there was a URL below i copied and pasted onto the form.

Hi! Any idea when folks will be notified if their sim/build has been accepted and will be listed? Thanks in advance Dusty!

I submitted showcases weeks ago and they haven't been added.

Well since this one STARTS in seven days, I thought maybe we'd hear something.

When i did the WF application (and silly me, i sent it in twice because i forgot the WF preface!) i didn't see a place to include special events. I know to list these in SL events, but when we talk of a "grand tour" seems there might be a schedule?
Maybe an update on how it will work and how we will know if we are included? We'll do more in our sims if we are included, because of the opportunity to see more people, but might cut back if not, as our own residents are wearing thing with holiday events.

Likewise: I suspect there's quite a bottleneck for sites to be put into the showcase.

I do hope we hear something soon about the WF listings, however. By my calendar, Christmas is only nine days away.

I'll check it out, but I know there's a long list of spaces that Lindens are running around to visit before adding them....

My apologies Katt/Dusty. I know you are both busy. But the original image link is not working and I have to reupload. This is the new/correct Flickr image link for the submitted location:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3212/3117006301_2727a0471a_o.jpg

Do I need to re-submit a new form?

Thanks,
Chenin Anabuki

Thanks!

You're invited to join the Winterfaire Flickr group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/winterfaire/

And of course upload your images to Snapzilla too!

Keep checking the Showcase for new listings in the Hotspots!

Thanks for adding Livingtree to the Wenterfaire showcase: all of us are honored to be a part of it, and hope all enjoy what we've done.

(We also have a small outpost in Dasher, too!)

Mari
(Tons of piccies going to snapzilla, and a few hitting flickr, too!)