Winterfaire! December 19 - January 5 Planning an event or build??

Thanks a bunch, Jesse...but what was I doing wrong? Am I just overlooking something obvious?

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

Okay, do I need to take it back into Second Life and save it from there from Flickr? I don't get any option when I right click on the picture, and now I am feeling like the stupidest person currently posting in the forums.

I am also having problems with the submission url, keeps saying the page is not available is there an alternate place to go to?

The announcement was made over a week ago and said the application would be available in a week. It is now over a week and I have spent the last twenty minutes trying to search for the application. Help!

It seems like there is some confusion over the links not opening, please be aware that this *infernal* forum software insists on putting urls between tags that look like this . This is NOT part of the url. I keep editing them out and it keeps putting them back in.