The short

It’s on OSGrid.org, in the SineWave Region – 5PM GMT / 12PM EST / 9AM PST, Friday the 10th of October (this friday!). Total runtime is expected to be fourty minutes or so. You should register your avatar in advance on this page.

The rest

You should try test logging into SineWave sometime before the event, as we’ll be trying to start promptly. There’ll be other prizes including some hosting from DeepThink and maybe a little more. Performance will be a little slower than usual since the region will be operating under a performance profiler, but should still be acceptable.

As usual, we’ll publish the profiler results to help other developers – if you want to bring friends, feel free as the more avatars logged in, the better the quality of the results we get.

FAQ

Why are you running this, $500 is a lot to give away randomly? We’re doing this as a load test on OpenSim – we’re looking to get about 100 avatars or so and see where OpenSim stresses so we can optimise and fix those areas.

I need to get onto OSGrid – how do I connect? We recommend you grab the Hippo Viewer, it’s free and will connect by default to OSGrid (although it has support for any modern opensim grid)