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    Tyria Pride!

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    It's that time of the year again! Everyone's dressed in colorful outfits, bringing out their most brilliant dyes, and the bridges of Tyria are quaking in anticipation. It's pride month! Read this announcement on: GW2 Forums | Reddit Join the Tyria Pride discord Tyria Pride 2020 is coming! Tyria Pride is an in-game march through Tyria, aimed at showing support for our LGBTQ+ friends & guildies, and raising funds for Rainbow Railroad, a non-profit organisation that helps LGBTQ individuals escape persecution and violence! The march will be taking place on two days: Saturday, June 27 | 16:00 CEST [EU] - 4 PM CDT [NA] Sunday, June 29 | 16:00 CEST [EU] - 4 PM CDT [NA] The events will last about 3 hours each day, and during the event we'll be playing some mini-games in map chat and have a ton of fun making our way from Ebonhawke all the way to Rata Sum! Why We March We march primarily to show our support for gender and sexual minority players, some of which have found Guild Wars 2 to be one of a few safe places to simply be themselves and get away from the hardships they face in the outside world. In other words, we march to spread the message of positivity, acceptance and love! Allies and proponents of equality for all are especially welcome to attend, as are those who are members of LGBTQIA+ communities! In addition to having fun in-game, we also want to make a positive impact in the world by supporting a fundraiser! For the second year in a row, we are teaming up with Gamers Giving Back, who is leading the organisation on the NA side, and together we are raising funds for Rainbow Railroad, a charity focused on providing support to LGBTQ individuals seeking a safe haven from countries where their lives are at risk for simply being who they are. Click the button bellow to go to the fundraiser: Donate Alternatively, if you wish to donate in-game prizes to support the event, please contact Lelling.6795 via in-game mail! General Event Information When do we meet? The event begins at 16:00 CEST [EU] / 4 PM CDT [NA] both days, but we do ask people to come a little bit early. You should also already be able to reach the coordinators Lelling.6795 and AngelWriter.3652 at least one hour in advance. Where do we meet? Day 1: Ebonhawke, near the portal from Divinity's Reach! If you don't have it explored yet, do not worry! You can reach Ebonhawke through a portal in Divinity's Reach, so we will also have a commander showing people the way through DR if needed. Click here for an image of the Day 1 path. Day 2: Lion's Arch, at the Field of the Fallen! Lion's Arch is also connected to all major cities via Asuran portals, so you'll be able to reach easily with even a starting character! Click here for an image of the Day 2 path. How do we get on the same instance of the map? We can, and will, do this through squads and LFG! The commanders will be coordinating via TS and squad chat to make sure we get everybody into the same map (or maps, if there's more people than can fit into one map). Make sure to keep an eye on LFG, and join the legitimate LFGs. What do I bring? You don't have to bring anything! But, party boxes, kites, transformations, fireworks, and other fun things of all kinds are of course welcome! If you wish to dye your armor in the traditional pride flag colours, that's also a fun way to express support! Who can I contact about the event? EU: @Lelling - Lelling.6795 NA: Angel - AngelWriter.3652 If you would like to help organize this event, please let us know by contacting us in-game, on the forums, or by replying to this thread! Prize Information coming soon
  10. Lelling started following Hi I am back in gw2, but oc in in retirement?
  11. Lelling
    What Tossino said ^^ We'll still be playing together and doing stuff in OC, we're just no longer organising regular events like we used to ^^ Oh and you can always check out our Discord!
  12. Tossino
    Hello! PvE is still around! They've become a sort of independent guild who do their own thing. For example, they have a scheduled Verdant Brink on Friday June 5, 7:30 to 8:30 CEST. If you want to get in touch with any of their commanders I'd suggest connecting to their Teamspeak: Gamers-Hell OC is also still kind of around! Lelling is often chilling out on the OC Teamspeak that you can just connect to through typing opencommunity, we'll still organise Tyria Pride and hang out now and then. I hope that helps!
  13. Taibe
    Hallo All. I used to play till the end 2017 or so. I used to be a member of [PvE] and enjoyed the activities here. But I have read understand OC is in "retirement" I hope someone can answer some questions of mine. I did see there are still activities scheduled on the calender. What does that mean? I asume they wont be held? Are there other guilds/communities that you know of that still organise meta events (like dragon stand) in a more relaxed manner? I get easily stressed out and not knowing what (and if something) is going on doesnt help ^^. Anyways I am sad to hear about OC. I have good memories of the activities and ppl ! Cheers Taibe.9571 p.s. Idk if I posted this in the right topic? If not I'm sorry. p.p.s. Other than meta events and progression I am also interested in fractals. And later probably also Strike missions and Raids.
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  16. Lelling
    If you'd like to listen to this announcement instead of reading, you can find an audio/video version of it here. Hey everyone! This May, OpenCommunity turned 5 years old! Yay, what an achievement! And sure, over a year of that has mostly been hibernation, BUT a 5th anniversary is still a good time to get together, have some fun and reminisce! That's why I'd like to invite everyone to the OpenCommunity 5th Birthday / Retirement Party! So What / When Is It? The party will be a celebration of all the fun times we've had throughout the past 5 years, and we will be inviting commanders from throughout OpenCommunity's history! We're not going to complicate the schedule too much, we just want to get together and have a fun time (but there is a likelihood of doing some Triple Trouble with extra silly rules). The party will be taking place on Saturday, May 23rd, at 18:00 CEST! To join, hop on to the OpenCommunity Teamspeak (at our usual address at ts.theopencommunity.org / OpenCommunity / ts.gw2oc.org) So What's All This About Retirement? So, retirement? What is it, what does it mean for OC, and what does it mean for our charity events? WELL, it's pretty straightforward. When we decided to reset everything and just build something new from scratch, we always did it with the caveat that we'll only do what people want to do, so unless there's a strong interest for OC to do XYZ, we didn't want to push the issue. But as you may have noticed, there wasn't really a lot of interest for any major activities. Basically, most of our most prominent members are just not playing GW2 actively anymore, and those that are still active, were able to find other guilds or communities which are playing more actively. So, what do we do with OC? Well, one option was just to pack it up and close it down, but honestly, that'd be kind of a lame epilogue to the great adventure that OC was, and if we can still do it, I'd love to still continue doing Tyria Pride, so, on the last Community Assembly, and a little chat we had a while later with some members, we decided it was best for OC to go into "retirement". Basically, what this means is that we're just officially transitioning into a more chill state. For a while now, it's been like "OC is currently going through some changes!", and this is just a way to make it official that the changes are going to be done! So What Are Those Changes? What's OC going to be? The way I've imagined it is that OC will be kind of like that place with the bunch of people from the olden days. I'll be shaping up our discord a bit, adding a few chat channels (and possibly a voice channel or two? Let me know if you think that's a good idea!) Basically, here's what a retired OC looks like in my mind: Discord, where people chat, hang out, share their hobbies or pictures of baked breads, and potentially connect with each other to play with New static website which just kind of just shares this info Teamspeak, in which OC people can just make their own private channels at will for any purpose they need Once a year, we get together in GW2 for a little birthday / reminiscing party and do silly stuff in May, and then we also do Tyria Pride in June And, don't forget, we also have the new Teamspeak, GW2League! GW2L is what people thought OC was in the first place - it's a teamspeak where guilds get their own channels, in which they have full admin privileges, can designate mods, access a wide array of permissions, etc. Alright, I think that's it for the announcement! Remember, Saturday, May 23rd, at 18:00 CEST! Be there or be square! Oh, and tell your friends!
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    Hello everyone, it has been looong time since I was around GW2 and OC and I didn't expect to be back here for this reason. First sorry for little clickbaity title. I am in little bit unusual situation thx to global pandemic I have been sent to work from home and considering my usual work is impossible to do that way I was given something else to do. Also time is kinda limited and I need as much information as possible. I know a lot of ppl from completely different areas might be here so I am hoping for every small bit. Especially younger ppl still at or close to university might now this especially considering I have been out of university for some time and I remember using card catalogues... What I need is current list of on-line databases containing scientific journals or articles about about economy, administration and medicine but actually everything else also would be nice, personally I'd like to see some physics, astronomy, chemistry and biology. (actually any form of online or digital download scientific content) I am interested in both free access and subscription based. All thou English would be best if you know other languages might be useful too. Second thing I could use are names of any scientific journals you ever encountered in physical version that subscription for is available world wide. I know this might be little a broad question and some name might be obvious but in case I will miss something just give me names :) I won't bore you with rest of what I need to do, but I will be grateful for any help.
  20. Lelling
    Hello everyone! After over a year of working, blowing up Teamspeak server after Teamspeak server, and waiting on Teamspeak Systems GmbH to get off their butts, we've finally set up the GW2League teamspeak! Community Assembly - Saturday, February 29th, 16:00 CET! Before we get started with this announcement, - reminder that this announcement, and some other stuff will be discussed on the Community Assembly, happening on Saturday, February 29th, at 16:00 CET! We'll be discussing and opening up to questions regarding GW2League, as well as talking about OC's future, and taking a look at OC's 2019 budget report! Background When we decided we no longer wanted to directly lead teams of commanders from the top of OC, and instead just let people do what they wanted to do, when they wanted to do it, we also started talking about creating a new Teamspeak server, that would operate as something that we believed is what people wanted from OpenCommunity in the first place. Not a top-down organised community with a structured approach to events, but a free-for-all teamspeak where anyone can hang out, request a channel, and just do what they want to do. At this time, Teamspeak had already announced Teamspeak 5, which was set to release in Q4 of 2018 (yikes). We decided to wait on the release of TS5, so that when we built the new Teamspeak, we'd build it knowing what this new generation of Teamspeak was all about. But 2019 came along, and TS5 still wasn't released, and nobody at Teamspeak was giving any information about when the brand new, much hyped TS, would be releasing. But we did find a claim that TS5 would run on TS3 servers, so, as 2019 trucked on, we decided we'd just make the separate Teamspeak without waiting for TS5. The goal was to make an exact replica of our current server, so that when we made the move, people wouldn't have to learn all new channels, get new groups, etc. All the supporter groups from OC would carry over, so people would be recognized for their contributions on both servers. However, that was easier said than done. What followed were a couple months where @Leaky and I would be poring over a single-line file with almost 1 MB of data in it, to try and decode what exactly we needed to clone to make a successful copy. If there was any kind of conflict, the new server would crash and we'd have to start from scratch. After about 10 iterations, we finally managed to build the new TS! So What Is GW2League? So, the idea behind GW2League is to have a TS platform where any guild or group can request a channel, in which they have full admin permissions. They can moderate the channels, rename them, set passwords & permissions, and even prevent other people from seeing inside. They can assign groups such as Moderator, Commander, Muted, Keyboard Disabled, they can ban people from accessing their channels, basically anything that somebody can do if they have a Teamspeak server of their own. The advantage is that they're not alone - if they ever want to make bigger events with other guilds, form alliances, or just hang out with strangers, they're surrounded by others that might be interested in doing so. But, there are no requirements to do so, you can also just completely stick to yourself. The main advantage of GW2League over other communities is that it's completely federated - each guild has its own channels where they have admin powers, meaning that you do what you want in your channel, without interference from outside, and because it doesn't hinge on a single individual or group of individuals to run it as a staff (like OC did), there's no top-down structure, and no orders coming from a staff of people. If you want to work with other guilds, you can do that, if you want to ban all other guilds from being able to enter your channels, you can do that. If you want your channels to be invite-only, you can do that, and if you want everyone to be able to join, you can do that. The Teamspeak just exists, regardless of what people want to do on it. It's there as a neutral platform, which I think is what a lot of people wanted OpenCommunity to be, but it never could have been that. I also wanted to create a Teamspeak which had no connotation to OpenCommunity, because generally, I think a lot of people have personal beef with that name, and creating a separate TS and not calling it something like "OCPublic" or "OCGuilds" or whatever, was the right thing to do. So What's Going to Happen to the OC TS? All public & guild channels from the OpenCommunity TS will be moved to the GW2League teamspeak. We've been telling everyone from the individual guilds to use the address "GW2League" to connect to the OpenCommunity TS for a while now, and that's because on March 1st, that's going to point to the GW2League teamspeak rather than OpenCommunity's, so if you've been using that address, you wont have any interruption of service. You'll have the same groups, see pretty much the same channels, and have the same permissions. The OpenCommunity Teamspeak will be dedicated more towards a small & friendly community, with the occasional big charity event open to everyone, just like in the old days. Plans For the Future There's several things we want to do in the coming months - build a new OC website, build a new GW2League website, and I'd love to create a bot which automates the creation of a new guild channel, so that people wishing to have a new TS channel on GW2League could just click a button on the website and become admins of their own channel! That'd be really nice And of course, in the first half of 2020, I also wanna go ahead with two big events for OpenCommunity: OpenCommunity's 5th birthday (probably not held on May 1st, OC's actual birthday, but on an adjactent weekend )! I think it'd be great to have a big party celebrating 5 years of OpenCommunity, remembering everything we've done in the last 5 years and all we've achieved! Tyria Pride! In June, I'm hoping to once again organise Tyria Pride! Those are the big events I'm looking forward to, in the meantime, if anyone wants to hang out and play some games, or just shoot the breeze, get in touch
  21. Lelling
    What is the Community Assembly? The Community Assembly is a community-wide meeting open to everyone, where we can share plans for the upcoming future of the community, hear ideas from our members and discuss any questions, quandaries and concerns people might be having related to the community. Anyone can come along and voice their concerns, ask questions, share ideas, as well as ask for clarifications on any matters regarding the community What will be the big topics? Any topics can be brought up by members, but major topics that will be brought up by the OC staff relate the GW2League, and we'll also be sharing OpenCommunity's 2019 budget report! We'll be discussing what's coming up in the next few months, and some crucial things with regards to OpenCommunity's continued existence. And as always, if you'd like to discuss other topics, don't be afraid to bring them up! Whether you have questions yourself, or you'd just like to come and hear what others have to say or what the plans for the future are, we hope to see you at the 7th Community Assembly!
  22. Lelling
    Hey everyone! We've finally done it! Through massive help on @Leaky's side, we managed to successfully create the secondary TS, and it is currently an almost exact replica of our current teamspeak - with everyone's groups and permissions successfully replicated on the second TS (mostly). Let's talk about what's different and what all this means! What we didn't manage to transfer over: Overall, the new Teamspeak looks exactly the same as the OC one. The only things we weren't able to transport over were: some individuals' custom client icons (mostly because I put those up on request for some nice people, and I don't have them all saved as official OC stuff). Since I was not able to find all of them, I decided it was best to just go with none of them. detailed channel permissions. These had to be reassigned manually, and since each guild in GW2League had their own setup, with their own clientlist, this was impossible to do for one person. Channel groups will need to be reassigned. client info of clients that joined in the last few weeks. This is just because the source we were copying from was a copy of the OC TS from a couple weeks ago. No server groups have been assigned since then, but if any of them have assigned channel groups, they'll have to be reassigned. Otherwise, pretty much everything has been transferred over - including everyone's supporter groups! The only work to do now is to change any sentences referencing OC to GW2L, and maybe doing some rearranging. So what does this mean? This means we're ready for the move of public & guild channels to GW2League! I've already put up an announcement for people to use the nickname "GW2League" when connecting to the OC TS - this nickname will be redirected to the GW2League teamspeak in 2 weeks, so for users, not much should change and there should be no interruption of service! I'll be writing a full announcement with more details about the move on the announcements blog on this website about it soon (today or tomorrow at time of writing), and we'll have a Community Assembly on February 29th, but I just wanted to get this info out first!
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