Chilbo Town Hall Meeting – October 2009
Sunday, October 11th, 2009
In Attendance: Fleep Tuque, Kristine Kristan, Josain Zsun, Lila Roecastle, Corcosman Voom, MS Hawker, Lizzette Zenovka, Alleara Snoodle, Tomkin Euler, Salty Saenz, Maggie Larimore, Gem Blue, MS Hawker, Rodolfo Mirabella
New Committee Chairs Nominated & Needed
We have a number of folks who volunteered to chair some important community functions, but through one thing or another they have less time to spend on Chilbo projects. Particularly the Activities & Events, Commercial, and Education chairs are open. Kristine Kristan nominated MS Hawker and Eliza Quintet to serve on the Activities & Events committee, to wide agreement. Congratulations to MS and Eliza!
Kristine will temporarily take over the duties of Commercial chair for now, but we’d like to find someone to fill this spot since Kristine already has quite a lot on her plate with the Residential chair responsibilities. Duties of the Commercial chair include:
- Serve as a liaison between Chilbo and the broader commercial sector in Second Life
- Promote and encourage new business development in Chilbo
- Assist new entrepreneurs with setting up a business in Second Life
- Recruit new shopkeepers for the commercial properties in Second Life
Gann McGann has served as Education chair for quite some time and has done a terrific job, but we’re looking for someone to fill this spot. Duties of the Education chair include:
- Serve as a liaison between Chilbo and the broader educational community in Second Life
- Keeping up with the SLED mailing list to keep aprised of new educational opportunities
- Helping educators find suitable property and move into Chilbo
- Coordinating classes held in Chilbo
- Contributing to the education resources in the community, including the Chilbo Public Library and the repository of tools for teachers
Interested in serving as the Commercial or Education chair of Chilbo? Send Fleep Tuque a note!
Land Updates
Community member Wainbrave Bernal has a number of exciting projects going on with his work and unfortunately has less time to spend on Chilbo projects. He’s reduced his tier and the Salamander HQ and Grill will be closing, though Wainbrave’s heart will always be in Chilbo.
Likewise, Sine Rennehan‘s Nature Preserve area in the Mujigae sim has mostly fallen into disuse and will be sold to reduce her tier. The Nature Preserve is a large, beautiful area and can be parceled according to our needs. Our first preference is to sell to someone in the community, so if you are interested, please contact Fleep Tuque.
Finally, Cosimo Urbanowicz has picked up a huge parcel in Kuwol and is looking for projects and tier contributions to support the new addition to Chilbo. Stop by the new property and have a look, and if you know someone looking for land or project space, contact Cosimo to get more information.
Linden Lab’s Community Partnership Program
We had a discussion about the Community Partnership program that Linden Lab announced on their blog recently. Many were unclear about what the purpose of the program is, how it would work, how it would benefit Chilbo, or even if we would qualify for the program since we own land in 6 sims but don’t own ANY full sim outright.
We decided to table this discussion until everyone has had a chance to read Linden Lab’s guidelines, and a follow up meeting to discuss is scheduled for next Saturday, October 17th at 11AM SLT in the Town Hall. Please join us if you’d like to participate in this discussion.
Mad Wax Records & Musician Mentoring Program
Kristine Kristan reports that Mad Wax Records is now listed on Indiespectrum.com as a supporter of live music in Second Life. She will be working on a machinima piece with Alleara Snoodle and others, and hopes Mad Wax can be a destination resource for musicians in Second Life. They’re just in the planning stages for the video and she’ll need some extras and actors, so if you’d like to be included, let her know.
MS Hawker also has been discussing with Cosimo about instituting a Musician Mentorship program to pair novice performers with more experienced performers to help new musicians on the live music scene in SL. As most of you know, MS’ Germelhausen coffeeshop and bakery (affectionately known as The Haus) is one of the hottest social spots in Chilbo, with live performances nearly every day. If anyone would like to assist with developing the Musician Mentorship program, please let MS know.
Deeding Objects to Group
Cosimo Urbanowicz sent around a notecard suggesting that we deed community objects to the Chilbo group and asked for feedback. Fleep Tuque advises that if this is to be done, it must be done very carefully since the permissions system in Second Life can get extremely complicated. Objects should only be deeded to the group if a) you are willing to give up being the owner of the object, once it is deeded you can’t take it back b) EVERY prim, EVERY script, EVERY SINGLE COMPONENT of the object is full permissions – if even one script or one component is NOT full permissions, then that object essentially cannot be modified, transfered, or copied, depending on the settings, which may mean it becomes an “orphan” object that no one can really use. Fleep agrees there are some use cases where group deeding may be appropriate, such as for sidewalks or other community infrastructure objects that can be replaced if needed, but advises extreme caution for objects that are unique, purchased, or where there are no back up copies.
Following the Town Hall, we took field trips to the Nature Preserve in Mujigae and visited Cosimo’s new land acquisition in Kuwol.
A full chat transcript of the meeting is available in the Chilbo Town Hall. Next Town Hall meeting is scheduled for November 15, 2009 at 11AM SLT.
