Linden Lab Official:Events

Events: What is changing?

The events team is working hard to make event listings more useful to Residents and event hosts. Therefore, we are introducing a number of new features and controls. To ensure that hosts can continue to post great events without interruption, we wanted to ensure you know about upcoming changes.

⚠️	Warning: If you currently host events on group-owned land, please be aware that you may have to make a change in order continue to post events.

The current version of the Viewer 2 Beta (2.3), can now be used to manage the new group-owned land permissions. To post events, you must be an owner of the group OR a group owner must grant you that ability via a role.

How to grant the ability to host an event

To give someone the ability to host an event on group-owned land, first create an "event host" role for the group, and then add the person to that role. NOTE: You can also add this ability to an existing group role. To create an "event host" role, follow these steps: Click to display People tab in the Sidebar. Click the MY GROUPS tab. Mouse over your group name, and then click to display details for the group. Click the ROLES tab. Click New Role to create a new role, as shown at right.
Enter A Role Name A Role Title (for example, "Event host") A Description (optional)
Under Allowed Abilities in the Parcel Powers section, check the Allow Event Hosting on group land checkbox. Click Save

Important: Download Viewer 2.3 Beta and make this change today! We will be enforcing this restriction after Viewer 2.23 becomes the production stable release, on December 1st!

Other events features

Several new features are coming for events, including:

• Extending the length of an event.
• Blocking duplicate event spamming, so that your event isn't lost in a sea of spam postings.
• Introducing the ability to add formatting to your event posts.

We're really excited about the changes and we hope you will be, too. Look for a blog post soon from the Events Team!

More information

For more information on groups, see:

• What are groups?
• Group Roles

For more information on Second Life events, see:

• Events in Second Life
• Posting events
• Finding events