Mar 28 2016
GFC participating in the SL Sci-Fi Con 2016
Since 2008 the Sci-Fi Alliance organised the SL Sci-Fi Convention to support the American Cancer Society in its fundraising program “Relay For Life”. With the years the convention became one of the largest virtual fundraising events for RFL – the donated money will be used for research, education and service to fight cancer.
In 2016 the event took place from 18th to 27th March and GalaxyFleetCommand had a booth in one of the six sims with many booths from groups, shops and roleplay ships as well as events, parties and shows.
The booth of GFC was located in the purple sector – a sim called “New Arcadia”. The theme of the sim was “Cloud City”. This means a floating city in the sky like in Steampunk, Star Wars or in the TOS episode from Star Trek “Cloud Miners”.
Our fleet decided to start with different drafts of the build and decide which draft should be used at the con. After it was decided which will be used the work on it was finished and the interior was setup and the team program and team to staff the booth were planned.
Therefore GFC likes to thank the Sci-Fi Alliance for organising the event and also we like to thank the GFC officers who helped to make this real.
Just to highlight few of them: Jens Johnson (jailan) who made the final draft, and several parts of the furniture, Isra Laval who made the info terminals, Robobby McMillan who helped with the info note cards, TimoL McMillan who made one of the other drafts, Sophie Johnson (Hydregion) who chaired the organisation team, Katrina Bixby who made the participation in the con possible, JD Matova who co-chaired the organisation team, made several information note cards and posters. There are for sure many other members who staffed the booth and answered questions of visitors etc. nut unfortunately we can not mention all.
GFC looks forward to the next con and stands together in the fight of cancer.
Apr 26 2016
GalaxyFleetCommand Green Expo 2016
Welcome to the GFC Green Expo 2016
GalaxyFleetCommand once again hosted the GFC Green Expo on the real life earth day of 22nd April, 2016.
The committee led by Admiral JD Matova put together a nice agenda including parties, exhibitions, tree planting ceremony, a movie show and a water polo game. The festivities started at 1pm (SL time) with an opening speech followed by a party at Galaxy Market. Our host and DJ for the party was Ste Mefusula.
Galaxy Market was also the location for the divisional exhibition where the divisions of the fleet could present themselves and show what they do for the fleet. One of the vendors at the market had a cinema set up. There the movie HOME was shown. This movie shows how nice our planet is and what we can do to protect it.
The protection of the earth is also the theme of an exhibition in the lobby of the Headquarters building, setup by RoBobby McMillan. The images at the wall show simple things each of us can do to help to protect the earth. Things like using less water, use public transport or the bike to go to work, recycle to use less natural resources etc.
The second day of the 3-day long Green Expo (Saturday 23rd) was the day of the main ceremony. As the RL earth day 2016 as the theme “trees for the earth” we planted a tree in our second life sim. The chosen location was the hill in front of the galaxy auditorium. A growing tree was rezzed there and the growth duration was set to one month – that means in one month the tree growth up to its full size before it shrinks again and starts over to grow again. This tree is a virtual reminder to help the RL earth day team to reach their goal to plant 7,8 billion trees by 2020. As the trees are part of the organism that filter CO2 and keep the oxygen for us and all the animals. Without oxygen and without a healthy earth we won’t be able to see the future and see how we go where no one has gone before.
Sunday 24th was the final day of the event. FADM Katrina Bixby organised a water polo game. This was a great fun!
So the green challenges will continue as there is only one earth – however there are more planets categorized as M-class and no matter what species you are planet earth is worth to be protected.
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