109     AW Community Meetings (2021)
	The AW Community Meetings with Bach Zhaa (#360197) have resumed in february 2021 , and from now on , you will find in this article a summary of all the community meetings of 2021. If you would like to attend the Community Meetings, this is when they take place : Each first and third sunday of each month at 18::00 VRT ( 6 PM VRT Time) Each Community Meeting lasts for 2 hours. If there is a 5th sunday in a month, then there is no community meeting on that sunday. Note : a complete chatlog can be found on both AW Facebook groups	The Community Meeting have been resumed in february, with Bach Zhaa's return , and lasted 4 months , then Bach Zhaa has been banned again.
	Community Meeting on 16th may   This meeting was located in the world Venice3d (owned by Panne (#365962) )   * First topic : Activeworlds Anniversary * In this meeting Bach Zhaa (#360197) spoke mainly about the Activeworlds anniversary event (on 28th of june, Activeworlds will exist 26 years). On Saturday 26th june, there will be a Community Picture at 3 PM VRT in the (former) Alphaworld Landing Zone (7700S 1400E), in font of the "Activeworlds"-sign in Hollywood-style. This area will be a temporary landing zone, until a new landing zone has been built. For those who can't be there, Bach Zhaa will continue taking pictures of the citizens during 2 weeks after the picture event, and he will add those citizens with Photoshop. Last anniversary community picture that has been taken was in 2017. * There will also be an Anniversary Ball . For this event, there has been chosen Darkmatter's Ballroom in Alphaworld on position 14020N 14090E.
	* Second topic : additional events * Bach Zhaa (#360197) also asked for additional events to add to the AWExpo calendar. There has been thought about explorations in group, quizes and quests or building contests. For racing events, there should be added obstacles, otherwise the citizens with the fastest computers are also in favour to win. Droog is still busy with developing a bot for hunt games , perhaps this will be ready by then. * Then we have the party events hosted by Dovestar Dovestar (#278411) on friday nights and saturday nights and by Heu (#348543) on wednesday nights ,and the DJ's that support those events: Veger, Class3 , LadyFireheart , Bukka, Uncle Wolfie , Tila Boccaccio, etc... * There has also been spoken about a "fast" game of ToTheTop, but for this, you will have to talk with FirstR (the owner and creator of the game), in order to know if this is possible. There has also been thought about hosting a Bingo Game, but first there will have to be checked if the bingobot is still working with the current aw version 7.0.
	Picture made by Heu
	Community Meeting on 2nd may   This meeting was located in the world Delight (owned by MeL (#341444) )   * First topic : Alphaworld Landing Zone has been moved to ON 0W * In the last meeting meeting, it was decided to give the AW Expo Zone (7700S 1400E) back to Bach Zhaa (#360197) , At the same time, the landing zone of Alphaworld has become 0N 0W. This area has a lot of historical value, this means that nothing can be changed here , not even a few signs for a calendar. Other drawback is that there are a lot of dead url-links for objects with the picture command. This area will be a temporary landing zone, until a new landing zone has been built.	Community picture made by Heu (#348543)
	* Second topic : Building a new Landing Zone for Alphaworld * In the last meeting meeting, Rock Noll proposed to alternate the landing zone of Alphaworld. Enzo (#59991) (=Rick Noll, CEO of Activeworlds) and proposed to orgnanize a building contest or start up a community project, for building a new landing zone. If it is a contest, then there will be voted for the most popular area. The new LZ should be a balance between creativity, ingeniosity, practicality ,and at the same time with few latency (which is obtained by low poly objects and by avoiding commands that slow down the AW browser) . In addition, the LZ should be easy to maintain et be informative. One thought was to make again an automatic calendar, as was made in the past by the citizens Smaug and Strike Rapier. * The size of the LZ should have a size of 500 meters to each side from the center. The size must be that big in order to avoid that neighbouring building areas would cause latency for the LZ ,when you approach those areas. * As to the new (future) landing zone, once it has been chosen, this zone will become property of Activeworlds, and at the same time, some chosen citizens will be allowed to modify or add objects by using a privilege password.
	* Third topic : Errors in AW and AW program updates * Those program updates are very useful, and if the are problems after the updates, then there are 2 ways that you can report them. * First is by going to the AW Forum ( F9 - tabsheet Notepad) and there you decribe the problem. Chris (#290065) , the programmer of AW , reads all the posts in the Forum. * Second way is by going to the icons bar, and click upon the $-sign and then you choose "Support Inquiry Form", and you describe the problem. In both cases, you should give a detailed and/or clear description of the problem ( e.g. by adding a picture ), so that the problem can be easily solved.   * Fourth topic : GET (Garbage Elimination Team) * The GET is back online after a period of inactivity. The GET consists of a team of citizens that deal with deleting objects (in public worlds) that considered as "garbage". The website to report such objects : https://peacekeeper.net/get/ An example: if a citizen is building an object, he/she might modify the coordinates of the object , instead of modifying the action command. By doing this mistake, the object gets lost somewhere in the building world.	* Fifth topic : new worlds and realizations * Allusion , owned by Heu (#348543) ). Heu hosted several dance events and he also opened a sculptures museum, which is really worthwhile visiting. * Dawes , owned by Cody20 (#439570). He hosted a bowling game event in his world , and also a dance event. * Iththellia , owned by LadyFireHeart (#442506) . She also hosted dance events, and Old Chinese Man (#427489) , helped with making a spectacular light animation show. * Shokan, owned by Dovestar (#278411) has expanded his world to a p50, for his weekly dance events. Keshi (#352322) helped with terrain editing and Heu helped him wih new objects.
	Community Meeting on 18th april   This meeting was located in the world Dreamland (owned by Enkii (#363787) ) There was no meeting on 4th april (Easter holiday)   * Main topic : Discussion about the Activeworlds Landing Zone (7700S 1400W) * This landing zone has been created in 2014 and 2015 with the account Alphashared. This account has been created by Bach Zhaa (#360197) and he used that citizenship to allow other citizens to build with the privilege password and create together a landing zone for the AW Community. This zone evec became in 2015 the landing zone for the Activeworlds universe. The area contains great designs of construction and useful information for the AW Community . The 3d-decor hasn't been changed a lot since it has been started. * In 2018 , Bach Zhaa was taken away his project and he was even banned for 4 months. In january 2021, Bach Zhaa has returned to AW and Chris (#290065), (= programmer and operator of Activeworlds) , has excused for what had happened and he give back his rights to use his citizenship of Alphashared again.. And this matter was important for Bach Zhaa. And in february, Bach Zhaa decided to resume with the Community Meetings, which he hosted twice each month since 2013. But unfortunately , this didn't last for long.
	* In early april, Chris took his Alpashared citizenship away again, by replacing Alphashared with another citizennumber, but building was still possible, because the privilege password remained the same. But not owned by Bach Zhaa anymore. * Bach Zhaa disagreed and in his view the citizenship of Alpashared was stolen from him. And he announced that this would be his last community meeting, unless he was given his Landing Zone area back. But he was powerless. * On 18th april the meeting started and Bach Zhaa told the story about his "Alphashared" account . Chris wasn't at the meeting, but Enzo (#59991) (= Rick Noll, the CEO of Activeworlds) was present at the meeting. Enzo proposed to apply " a rotating Landing Zone", which means to alternate each year the Landing Zone according to the popularity. And for that he thought about organising a building contest for make a new landing zone and then determine by voting for the most popular landing zone. * Finally , it was concluded to give Alphashared back to Bach Zhaa , and the proposal of Rick Noll to create a new landing zone, if necessary by copying parts of the current landing zone, or building a brand new one (or maybe with a contest) and give the time needed to realize the project.	Community picture made by Heu (#348543)
	* Second topic is about new realizations in Activeworlds. Enzo finally announced some improvements that Chris realized for the Activeworlds program. Recently , geometric info has been added in the object properties window, we can view now the number of triangles and vertices for every object. And currently, Chris is modifying the shadow command, which will be superior in quality and in performance (= that barely reduces the fps) (=frames per second) Rick Noll showed a picture of this with the "presentation tool".   * Finally, it was time for a community picture. Chris entered the world Dreamland as well, and told that the Alphashared account would be repaired again, like it was agreed in the Community Meeting. All has ended well :-)
	Community Meeting on 21st march   This meeting was located again in AWReunion on position 262S 236W 1a.   * First topic :the Community Build in AWReunion * You can type : <help to view the basic bots commands (e.g. color chat) * For those builders using external url-links for pictures: try to avoid pictures that are not your own pictures. For the pictures that you want to use , try to upload them to some kind of service , where you register them under your own name (e.g. imgur.com). * If your build is finished , then send a telegram to Nursemom, then she will remove you from the building rights in the world settings. It there is a future building event, then Nursemom (#304857) will give you building rights again .   * Second topic is about the current games and events in Activeworlds. * There is the online game in the world ToTheTop, where everyone can participate at any moment. A new game starts each month on the first day of the month. It's a dice game, in which also strategy playing is involved. There is a game tutorial : venice3d.net/2020events106.html When playing for the first time, you can ask for help. World owner is : FirstR (#437240)   * The game in the world FutureRPG is also a success. Owner: Jackson.(#351335) The game is a RPG-game (Role Playing Game) , and this is how it is played : In the landing zone you will find a fishing pole, a pickaxe and 5000gp (=virtual money).You can also choose your avatar here Then you can start fishing , to gather food and cook it, or you can sell that food And you start mining (coal, copper, ,iron , gold) and your earn gp by selling them. With the money you can buy weapons, food (e.g.cakes), farming plots, etc. Then you can start farming and grow crops (and the food you can sell again), and with the weapons you can train the fighting skills. You can also do "gem polishing". And there are quests that make you stronger for combat, if you solve them. Finally you can go into combat mode to fight monsters and demons. Some of the bot commands : /i (inventory) /gz (return to ground zero) /u fishing (use fishing pole) / fish (start fishing) /cook (cook food) /use (use object) /s or /stats (statistics) /drop (drop the article) /eat (eat food) /burn /camp /stop There is a website with all the game info : http://home.future-evolution.xyz/   * The TGIF and Saturday Parties , hosted by Dovestar (#278411). There has been asked for more clothes in the AWMall , and for more .X-avatar models. You have modeling program like Wings3d and Blender. Blender is the best program for creating .X-models. The main problem is to have a good exporter for Blender.	During the meeting               Community Picture
	* Third topic is about Games we want to see in Activeworlds * The Zookeeper game and Candyland game are made by Maxpoly (#299422). But Maxpoly has left AW in 2018, together with his gamebot. The game could still be played but a game moderator should lead the game to say whose turn it is to play * The Bingo Game has been created by Andras (#106479), who left AW almost a decade ago. Garnet (#302030) uses this bingobot,and for the 25th anniversary of AW in june 2020, she saw that the bot didn't run smoothly and was too slow. That bot issue should be solved first. * The Huntbot game was also a multi-world bot made by Andras, and was played until he left AW in ±2010. In 2016, Strike Rapier (#334303) used his single-world hunt game, but he also left AW in 2019, when his awportals-bot got disabled.. Also Locodarwin (#318855) made a huntbot, which you can download from Github, but it has never been used . // https://github.com/locodarwin?tab=repositories Github.com/locodarwin/AlphaHunter Now Droog (#339566) has returned to Activeworlds and started up a world for bot development, and he has the ambition to make a multi-world huntbot and will work like this: If the world or the gamebot goes offline during the huntgame, then the scores and clicked objects will be preserved. Then the gamebot will pick up the scores again when the bot restarts . * The worlds EternalPRG and VerityTheGame also have PRG games in development. With AWMyths and FutureRPG, there will be 4 PRG-worlds in Activeworlds.   Fourth topic: Bach Zhaa is look for locations for the future community meetings . * For private world owners , the world size should be a p20 or larger, so that 50 citizens can enter in that world. For a p10-sized world, only a small amout of citizens can enter. * Panne (#365962) made a webpage of all the private worlds : http://www.venice3d.net/2021people.html * Finally, it was time of a community picture	Community picture made by Heu (#348543)
	Community Meeting on 07th march   This meeting was located again in AWReunion on position 262S 236W 1a.   * First there has been talking again about the Community Build in AWReunion The building event has grown to more than 25 participatin builders   * Then there was spoken again about the new collaborative tool YouMe3d During the meeting, several citizens used the YouMe3D application and had a second "youme3d"-avatar online in the world AWReunion. Several citizens used the screen capture sharing, even showing videos.   * There was spoken about starting a committee for events, in view of coaching events. Some citizens don't need help , but with extra help, new games and events can be organized more easily.   * There has been asked for more dedication for the birthday builds. News folk are willing to assist in building for birthday events. Former birthday zones : Barnabee's Birthday wall : 8675S 2168E Tunablues Birthday area : 8291S 964E Nursemom's Birthday area : 9119N 18866E   * There has been started a discord for the French Community as well : For the download : https://discord.gg/4yVGTVaz6n	Screen capture sharing during the Community Meeting . Citizens with an asterisk before their name were using Youme3d.
	Community Meeting on 21st february   This meeting was located in the world AWReunion on position 262S 236W 1a.   * First topic is Community Build in AWReunion The proposal of starting an EBTS contest has been postponed, because this was planned too soon, there should be more builders first. Nursemom (#304857) and Woody (#321492) also returned to Activeworlds recently and they proposed the idea to start a community build event in the world AWReunion. AWReunion exists since 2010 and it is an event world, bringing citizens together. A former success story was that each citizen could build upon his/her own island , so this has been chosen again. The Pearl Island Resort is located on position 262S 236W 1a. First you choose 1 of the 40 building spots , then send a telegram to Nursemom, who will give you building rights.You will be able to build on the designated area, but with building rules: 3x3 cells , no huge builds, maximum 2 movers , no mirrors, everything must remain within your building area , also sounds (by using the option :radius) The object yard can be found in the world Woodyard. The building event itself will last for a several months !!	YouMe3d can be used on a smartphone, but also on your windows computer !
	* Second topic is YouMe3d This application is a separate program for external chat, telegramming, file sharing, screen sharing , voice chat , and streaming stuff. YouMe3D can be used on smartphones , but also on your windows computer ! When chatting in-world with YouMe3D, you will appear twice : the normal avatar and an avatar with an asterisk (=chatting from YouMe3D ), and that avatar cannot move (maybe that will be possible in a future version of YouMe3D). YouMe3D is useful for teaching , and classes (eg. modeling , building,...) The voice chat is very clear, but the Community Meetings themselves will remain in written chat for 2 reasons : 1. if everyone is talking, the meeting will not be productive ,and 2. the community meetings are also published as written chatlogs   * Third topic is the Alphaworld Landing Zone Bach Zhaa has again building rights, and the area will be partially changed In the info area, there is now a Permanent Calendar for the announced events. Bach Zhaa has got the help of Panne (#365962) for the calendar updates.   * Finally, it was time to make a Community Picture There will be again a community picture for the next AW anniversary in june Bach Zhaa will add missing citizens with Photoshop during the whole week.	Community picture made by Heu (#348543)
	Community Meeting on 7th february   First meeting was in the Alpaworld Landing Zone - AW 7700S 1400E In this meeting , Bach Zhaa talked about his return and thanked for that. This first meeting was a success : up to 102 clients online , 50 of which in Alphaworld.   * First topic is the plan for the Extreme Builders Talent Show (EBTS). This is a building contest and this will be the 10th edition of the contest. What is required is a minimum of 10 builders and 3 judges. The contest is planned for approx. 6 weeks of building lots of probably 6x6 cells. The theme of the EBTS is "general" : the builders can choose what they want.. In which world the contest will take place is not decided yet. Prizes will be exclusively donations (could be modeled objects as well) Judging will be done on 10 different criteria.	View of the Meeting on the landing zone
	* Second topic : some new worlds that have been started up (during Bach's absence) Many worlds are new or have been developed as well. Worlds being mentioned : FutureRPG -> RPG-game world hosted by Jackson (fishing, hunting, etc) ToTheTop -> strategic game thar you play with dice , built by FristR Deepspace9 -> science-fiction world owned by Charlies Ithtellia -> world of LadyFireHeart TheSeasons -> built by Chazwick and Cereza (opened on 26th december) SFGate -> world owned by CableCar Gal Vision2 -> owned by Lady Pippin ThePatch -> owned by DearHeart Pandora -> 11 year-old project with Keshi , McRider and retired citizens	All contacts were in the AW Landing Zone
	* Third topic : promoting parties and events : Which events could be hosted again ? Then we can create again a calendar for those events, and use new social media to advertise them Besides Facebook and the Forum , there is now an AW Discord Group for that. For the download : https://discord.gg/U6M4676P and also https://discord.gg/bNQvVY8Z for the citizen server Discord can be described as a gamers forum -program where members can talk and advertise stuff specific to the game (Activeworlds in this case) .   * There were talks about re-using the features of the website awportals.com or to use video streaming service of "Twitch". But Chris has developed himself a new utility . The program YouMe3D is a brand new "extra" program for Activeworlds users . https/activeworlds.com/youme3d/ With the YouMe3D program, you can chat , talk, send telegrams, make presentations, share videos , share files, and you can also use it on your smartphone.   * Bach Zhaa thanked Dovestar for hosting his weekly parties with his internet radio and his diligence to keep AW going. , and also Panne for the tutorial area in Yellow (position 1900N 1400W).