OpenSimulator Community Conference (OSCC)
OpenSimulator had their annual community conference about a month ago on 6-7 December 2025.
It is a virtual conference happening in OpenSimulator, with a connected Expo area that remains accessible year round. Their hypergrid address is http://cc.opensimulator.org:8002/
The OMI community was well represented.
humbletim joined on a Viewer panel sharing the Firestorm viewer VR mod, along with puffball working on the Benthic viewer. The video is available on youtube.
Keyframe presented the "The Teleportal: An interactive gateway of the Virtual Worlds Museum™". The video is available on youtube.
indiebio presented on "MetaCulture = Metagaming + Integrated knowledge infrastructures". The video recording is available on youtube, and the talk is also written as a blogpost.
OMI also had a panel titled "Nurturing the Health of the Metaverse Ecosystem" which was well attended. The recording is available on youtube.
We spoke about our work, and our experiences over the past few years. The panel was composed of indiebio, Aaron Franke and zodiepupper, who shared their work along with previously collected experiences from the wider community. Aaron and zodie also had a lot of fun and shared their experiences importing their custom avatars.
The energy from the conference has continued to ripple outwards. For OMI, the glTF avatar work and vehicle extensions has received a boost of contributors and conversations that is still continuing. The Virtual Education Journal (VEJ) presented, and invited contributions for their latest issue which is focused on community, for which OMI is submitting a piece. Special thanks to avatarjoy for not only being one of the main organisers of OSCC, but also helping OMI members feeling welcome and facilitating people new to the OS experience.
All the talks from OSCC is now available: https://www.youtube.com/@AvaConOrg