OSFest Sponsors

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OSFest is a free virtual community celebration - unaffiliated with any particular virtual world grid's community of users. It only exists for a short time, with all content destroyed then created anew each year.

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About the Festival

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The live events take place over 17 days, and include live performances plus tours of exhibits and stores. The online venues typically encompass over four square kilometers of virtual land full of creative community exhibits and merchant stores, as well as donated and sponsored content.  

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OSFest is an all-volunteer, community effort with a limited number of free virtual land parcels for exhibitors and merchants. Per the terms, exhibits are welcome from community members and merchants of any virtual world grid running OpenSimulator or derivative software agreeing to the Terms of Service. To honor the spirit of the Fest, competing technologies are be allowed within virtual exhibits. However, sponsored ads are not limited to OpenSimulator technologies.

​Paying it forward to the open-source community, the online venue for OSFest 2024 is hosted by Infinite Metaverse Alliance® (IMA) and sponsored by Laxton Consulting, LLC, which is part owner of IMA. IMA is a for-profit company that provides research, development, and philanthropy for virtual world technology communities. Laxton Consulting, LLC is a for-profit company specializing in modeling, simulation, analysis, and education. 

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About the Avatars

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In 2020, OpenSim Fest had 600 attendees from all around the Hypergrid, and was canceled in 2021. At OSFest 2022, records were broken with 800 unique visitors alone from 158 grids. At OSFest 2023, over 500 unique visitors were seen during the first week! At OSFest 2024, attendance again exceeded 500 unique visitors. 

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Renewing the tradition thanks to sponsors, attendance is 100% free, and the grid will be accessible via the Hypergrid. While content should be similar to a moderate PG rating in public venues, all attendees must be 18 years of age or older since the grid is comprised of user-generated content that may at times be unmoderated.

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About the Volunteers

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OSFest involves a team volunteering around 1000 hours in the roles of greeters and leaders as well as hosts/hostesses and performers for live events.

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An additional estimated 1000 hours are donated by volunteer directors and the IMA administrator team. 

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Check-in with the Volunteer Director or Events Director on our Discord Server if you would like to volunteer!  

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Infinite Metaverse Alliance® is a registered U.S. Trademark.