Jewelry Exposition is a weeklong showcase in the Second Life® world, featuring the work of dozens of designers. And with a free treasure hunt, a photo contest, and a charity auction to benefit Heifer International, there's more to do than just browse and buy. Pick up some freebies, do some good, and come see why last year's Exposition was such a huge success.

If you want to promote the Exposition, feel free! If you'd like official images to use, several have been created. For websites, you can use this picture or this picture, both of which you're welcome to resize. For in world promotion, IM Miriel Enfield for a full permissions kit.

And if you'd like to be a merchant in the fair, read on.

Merchant Information

Setup
You should have six days beforehand in which to set up. Once your booth is ready, let me know. I'll inspect it, and either give it the okay or tell you what you need to change to be in compliance with the rules. In addition, if you change your booth after it's already been inspected, let me know. I'll need to look it over again.

If it turns out that your booth has something against the rules, I will give you some time to fix it before I start returning offending items. How much time depends on how badly the rules have been broken. A booth with a spare 512 x 512 image can sit for a couple days; a booth full of 1024 x 1024 textures and spinning sculpties will get things returned right away.

If there was a problem with your booth and you've fixed it, let me know. I'll need to inspect it again.

I plan to open the expo in the early morning of October 5, Pacific time. (I'm aiming for midnight, but if I'm still inspecting booths at that time, it will wait until I'm done.) If your booth isn't set up by then, I will give your slot away. If you know you're not going to be able to get it set up quite by then, talk to me ahead of time and I'll hold it for you.

How to Join
There are 75 merchant slots available, total. All of these have been assigned by this point, but if you'd like to be put on the waiting list, please contact Miriel Enfield. If a slot is freed up for you, you'll be asked to pay a nonrefundable L$100 entry fee, and then you and your business partners will be invited into the merchant role of the Jewelry Exposition group.

Those of you that do have a slot should be aware that (unless you've made previous arrangements) if your booth isn't set up by the time the expo begins, it will be given to someone on the waiting list.

Treasure Hunt and Auction
Items for the treasure hunt and charity auction should follow an aquatic theme. This isn't strictly enforced, though, so feel free to get creative. Treasure hunt items should go to Miriel Enfield, and need to have both copy and transfer permissions. However, Miriel will make them copy only before she sets them out. Charity pieces, too, should go to Miriel Enfield. These must be transferable, and you need to also supply a full permissions product picture (please, no 1024 x 1024 images).

Rules
Jewelry Exposition has a large number of rules, most of which are designed to control lag. They're quite restrictive and will be strictly enforced, but please understand that these are for everyone's benefit, including yours. Customers don't want to stick around when they can't move, after all!

With that in mind:

1. 30 prims per stall, aside from sponsorship (see the next section for more information on becoming a sponsor).
2. Absent sponsorship, booths are limited to the equivalent of 30 256 x 256 textures. Individual texture sizes don't matter; what's important is the size of all the unique textures in your stall, taken together. If you want all your textures to be larger than 256 x 256, go ahead – you just won't be able to use as many as you would if they were smaller. Please also note that textures are only counted once. A 256 x 256 texture used three times still counts as only one 256 x 256, not three. Additionally, textures on the back of your prims count, as does the default plywood texture (which comes in at 512 x 512).
3. For a chart showing texture size equivalencies, click here.
4. Your rezzed prims can consist only of boxes, cylinders, and prisms. No tori, no spheres, no tubes, no rings, and no sculpted prims.
5. No lights.
6. No flexiprims.
7. No physical objects.
8. No sculpted prims.
9. No particles.
10. No scrolling vendors, temp rezzers, or 3D vendors. If you don't have a scripted vending system that's allowed, Miriel Enfield has one available for free.
11. No moving objects.
12. No animated textures.
13. Please keep hovertext to a minimum, and don't let any hovertext you do use constantly intrude on your neighbors' booths.
14. No bots or live models.

Sponsorship
If you'd like more pixels and prims, you're invited to help sponsor the Exposition. For L$100, regular booths can buy one extra prim and the equivalent of one extra 256 x 256 texture. Up to ten extra prims/textures can be purchased this way. Special sponsor booths (which have all been auctioned off already) can buy up to twenty.