In Attendance: Fleep Tuque, Kristine Kristan, Corcosman Voom, Untolerable Bohemian, Lizzette Zenovka, Zedd Zeplin, Kelp Parkin, Chibi Lexenstar, Malburns Writer, Tara Yeats, MS Hawker, Maggie Larimore, Dno Vale, toster Oh, Polenth Yue, Gann McGann, Tomkin Euler, Rachel Corleone  (Gem Blue and Emru Rau stopped by the decorating party afterwards..) 

First-time Attendees (please friend!): Chibi Lexenstar, Untolerable Bohemian, Polenth Yue.  Kelp Parkin and toster Oh are relatively new, too, so be sure to add them if you haven’t already..

Committee Chairs:  Current Term Ending, Next Term January-June 20

Directors & Committee Chairs are listed at the bottom
of the Online Status Boards in the Chilbo Town Hall

The current term from June to December 2009 is about to end and we discussed Committee Chairs for the upcoming term.  Current Chairs are:

Residential: Kristine Kristan
Commercial: Kristine Kristan (interim)
Arts & Entertainment: Corcosman Voom
Non-Profits: Lizzette Zenovka
Education: Josain Zsun
Activities & Events: MS Hawker & Eliza Quinzet (co-chairs)

In addition, the current Directors have also agreed to continue in their capacity of assisting with the overall administration of the Chilbo Community:

Director of Public Safety & Prim Management: Rachel Corleone
Director of Communication: Malburns Writer
Director of Technology: Tara Yeats

For the next term, Zedd Zeplin volunteered to serve as the Commercial Chair (thanks Zedd!) and all current Chairs present agreed to serve another term.  If any of the absent Chairs wishes to step down, please let Fleep Tuque know, otherwise we’re assuming you want to stay on board for another go round!

Members of the community who wish to serve on a committee can complete the Chilbo Community Administration – Volunteer Sign-Up sheet.  Generally, Chairs for future terms are nominated from folks on the existing committees, so if you have an interest in taking on a Chairperson role, join that committee to get more involved!

Thanks to all who volunteered at the meeting, and to our Chairs for doing a fabulous job!

Linden Lab Community Partnership Program – VOTE NOW!

Board in the Chilbo Town Hall links to
discussions about the Linden Lab Community Partnership Program

After several meetings and discussions, lots of brainstorming and ideas, and many, many edits and revisions, the final version of the Chilbo Community’s Proposal to Join the Linden Lab Community Partnership Program is finally completed!   Many thanks to all of our residents who contributed ideas and feedback, and special thanks to Corcosman Voom and Kristine Kristan who worked extensively on the edits and revisions!

We now must decide with a final up or down vote whether or not to submit the proposal, with a majority vote determining the outcome.

Be sure to read the complete Proposal to Join the Linden Lab Community Partnership Program before casting your vote!

VOTE FOR OR AGAINST SUBMITTING THE PROPOSAL

CLICK HERE

Voting will end at 11:59PM SLT on December 31, 2009.  A majority vote will determine whether or not we submit the proposal, with the results to be announced at the January Town Hall Meeting.

Community Liaisons & Outreach Stations for NIC Sims (Not-In-Chilbo)

Chilbo Department of Public Works – Mindulle Station

As the community and the areas loosely called “Greater Chilbo” have grown, so have the opportunities to meet new neighbors and friends – but community leaders sometimes get a bit “stretched thin” trying to do outreach in new sims, and folks in outlying areas may have heard of the Chilbo Community, but might not know why they’d want to join our group.

To address these issues, we discussed appointing a single person per sim to serve as the Community Liaison for that region, as well as constructing an outreach station in each sim that would be something of a “satellite” Town Hall – a kiosk or other structure would provide info about our goals and purpose, with a teleport to the Chilbo Town Hall, and contact information for the Community Liaison for that sim.

We brainstormed several ideas and decided to use the Sandbox in Madupak as a place to try out different kiosk/building designs, with a more full discussion on the topic to be held at the January Town Hall.

A Cautionary Note About the Growth of CCBP Group Owned Land

Greater Chilbo Community Map 2009
Shows both privately owned (green) and group owned (blue) land.

Following the completion of the 2009 Annual Land Census for the Chilbo Community Building Project group owned land (results will be forthcoming once we’ve had a chance to crunch the numbers), Fleep Tuque discussed the rapid and explosive growth of CCBP group owned land over the last year, and expressed a note of caution as we move forward in 2010.

First, we want to make sure that we’re fully utilizing the group owned land we already hold before acquiring new land purchases.  Land with no one to care for it, build on it, or make it interesting isn’t much use to anyone, and we don’t want to waste the land/prims we already have available to us.

In addition, the explosive growth rate in 2009 crossed something of a “cost threshold” in terms of our total tier responsibilities to Linden Lab each month.  While the financial backing for group owned land is in good shape right now, it’s worth noting that we don’t want to become “too big to fail” -ahem- and to be prudent about our land purchasing decisions.  None of us has endlessly deep pockets, after all. 

Though the point of the discussion was NOT to ask for tier or $L donations, the conversation veered in that track for a while, and several people had questions about how tier works, how to donate, etc.  If you still have questions about this, feel free to contact Fleep, and of course donations of tier or $L for group owned land is always greatly appreciated.  But the intent behind the agenda item was mostly to caution folks to not get too overzealous in buying land (especially new users!  this is a common newbie thing and we’ve seen many folks get in over their head!), and to understand that while donations of land to the CCBP group is very very generous, it also carries a monthly fee (tier) and we may not always be able to take on new donations/land.

So, not sure that all came across as intended, but hopefully this helps clarify things a bit!

New Pages Added to Wiki:  “Resource List” & “Tickets to LL”

To better facilitate communication within the group, we’ve added two new pages to the Chilbo Community Wiki.

The Resources List page is now available for members of the community to offer general skills, talents, abilities, or other resources that might come in handy.  For example, Chibi Lexenstar has volunteered her graphic design skills, and Rodolfo Mirabella is able to translate from Spanish to English or vice versa.  Have a special skill or talent you’d like to offer?  List it on the Resources List page!

The second new page is the Tickets to LL page, which stands for Tickets to Linden Lab.  From time to time, members of the community need to submit tickets to Linden Lab for dealing with a variety of issues, from petitioning for abandoned land parcels to reporting griefers or abuse.  If you’ve submitted a ticket to Linden Lab about something that affects the Chilbo Community, please post your tickets on this page so others know when issues have already been reported.  It would also be helpful to update your post if/when the issue is addressed or resolved by the Lab.  Hopefully this addition to the wiki will help the left hand know what the right hand is doing – and ensure that we don’t unintentionally petition the Lab for the same issue multiple times.

Don’t have an account to edit the wiki? It’s pretty simple, just create an account at http://wikispaces.com and then navigate to the Chilbo Community Wiki at http://chilbo.wikispaces.com – then click the “Join” button in the upper right corner to request access.   As soon as an administrator approves your request, you will be able to contribute to the wiki!

Announcements & Other

• Malburns Writer started a Chilbo Community thread using Google Wave.  If you already have a wave account, let Malburns know and he can invite you to the thread.  If you don’t have a Wave account and want one, let Malburns or Tara Yeats know and they’ll get you an invite!
• Kristine Kristan mentioned that we have new chairs in the Town Hall donated by Yasuki Beck of ++LP2 Furniture.   Thanks to Kristine and Yasuki!
• The Chilbo sim on Reaction Grid is taking shape!  Malburns Writer will post instructions here soon for how to log on to the Reaction Grid and how to find the Chilbo sim when you get there.  Feel free to pick a spot and start building, it’s a big giant sandbox for us all to play with!
• Untolerable Bohemian has a group and a Sub-o-Matic for notices about his music shows, please send him an IM to join so you know when his shows are!
• Writers for the Chilbo Road Press wanted!  Have article ideas?  Want to learn how to blog?  Contact Fleep Tuque to get an account or Tara Yeats for help with how to blog.  Your article goes here!

The Town Hall meeting was adjourned.  Please send corrections to Fleep Tuque, full transcript available in the Chilbo Town Hall.  Next meeting TBD!

Decorate the Town Hall Plaza,  Put an Ornament on the Tree, Give a Gift!

The Chilbo Town Hall Plaza decorated for the holidays!
Add an ornament and a gift under the tree!

Following the Town Hall meeting, we went out to the Town Hall Plaza and decorated for the holidays!

A mennorah rests on the Town Hall Podium, with daily candle lightings (thanks to Crap Mariner for the mennorah, and Emru Rau for taking care of the candle lighting), and a beautiful Christmas tree and other holiday decorations are out on the plaza.  Check out all the fun holiday activities like ice skating, snow angels, mistletoe for kissing, and more!

Traditionally, members of the community make an ornament (copyable!) for the Christmas tree and place a gift under the tree.  If you place an ornament or gift, be sure to check the permissions to ensure folks can get your gift and take a copy of your ornament!

~ Happy Holidays to all and cheers to a bright New Year in Chilbo! ~

In Attendance: Fleep Tuque, Tara Yeats,  Malburns Writer, Kristine Kristan, Rachel Corleone, Corcosman Voom, Alleara Snoodle, Monarchy Republic, Bobo Bolero, Foxnsane Ceawlin

Chilbo Community Committee Chairs

The six month terms of the Community Chair positions have expired.  Some chairs volunteered to continue in their positions, some new volunteers came forward, and Rachel Corleone will be taking on some additional responsibilities for processing Membership Applications.

2009 Chilbo Community Committee Chairs

-  Director of Public Safety Rachel Corleone
-  Communications Director Malburns Writer
-  Technical Director Tara Yeats
-  Arts & Entertainment Chair Corcoman Voom
-  Commercial Chair Tommy Brouwer -> Absent from meeting, pending feedback
-  Education Chair Gann McGann -> Absent from meeting, pending feedback
-  Residential Chair Kristine Kristan
-  NonProfit Chair Lizzette Zenovka
-  Activities & Events Monarchy Republic

Malburns Writer suggested that Committee Chairs should schedule once-a-month office hours so that community members can discuss matters in between Town Hall meetings.  Everyone agreed this was a good idea, so committee chairs should talk to Monarchy Republic about getting your office hours on the Chilbo Google Calendar (or put them there yourself if you have access).

A tremendous thank you to those who have worked so hard to keep our community growing and vibrant in the last six months, and for those who are continuing or taking on new positions!

Chilbo Summer Faire 2009

Chilbo Summer Faire 2008 Fairgrounds

We will again hold the Chilbo Summer Faire this year, Monarchy Republic will be the main coordinator for the event, and a planning page has been created on the Chilbo Wiki  – if you don’t already have an account on the wiki, you will need to create one to make edits/contributions to the planning.  Questions about creating an account on the wiki?  Contact Tara Yeats.

Public Safety & Prims

Director of Public Safety Rachel Corleone reports that there are now over _6000_ scripts running in the Chilbo sim.  Please take a look at your location and see if you can figure out how many scripts you are running (by opening View > Statistics Bar and rezzing and derezzing items to see how much the Active Scripts total changes).  If you have unnecessary or very laggy scripts running, please remove them!  The Chilbo sim has been experiencing high lag spikes due to this overload.

Resident Alleara Snoodle has created a “load balancer” to distribute lag between the Chilbo and Madhupak sims to help alleviate this problem.

Arts & Entertainment

Rachel’s new cinema south of the Crash House

Corcosman Voom, Chair of Arts & Entertaiment, reports that Douglas Story will be coordinating an exhibit to feature Ryan Snook‘s fabulous avatar creations.  The trickiest part may be figuring out how to use bots to display Ryan’s intricate (and high prim) designs.   More info to come, hopefully Douglas can give us an update on the status.  Since the planned time frame is sometime in August, perhaps this would be good in conjunction with the Chilbo Summer Faire?

Rachel Corleone has opened up a new bar/stage/cinema right behind the Crash House, and wants to learn more about streaming video into SL, Malburns Writer volunteered to assist.

Kristine Kristan thanked everyone who attended the 4th of July picnic and fireworks celebration, and everyone who came out for her gallery opening and supported the artists on display.   Corcosman Voom made an excellent blog post covering the 4th of July picnic, see the Chilbo Road Press article at http://www.chilbo.org/blog/2009/07/didi-we-party-yes-we-did/

New resident Bobo Bolero is seeking gallery space in a Mature sim.  Most of the land owned by the Chilbo Community group is in PG sims, so perhaps other local landowners (Olando7 DeCosta or Valentino Tendaze) might be able to help with this request?

Graffiti artist Sil0ne Vendetta contacted Fleep after the Town Hall (so adding these notes as an addendum) to say thanks for the community’s support of his work.   He may be interested in doing an exhibit for the Chilbo Summer Faire.  Sil0ne contributes graffiti art around the Chilbo Community, as always, community members have “edit rights” over his work, so if something he puts up around your places drives you nuts, let Fleep or Rachel know and we’ll return it to him, otherwise, much thanks to Sil0ne for giving our community an urban “lived in” feel!

Residential

Kristine Kristan’s new residential buildings

Kristine Kristan will be taking over from Alleara Snoodle as the new Residential Chair for this term.  Kristine has already begun working on residential projects by creating new, lower prim starter homes for the rental properties.   Following the Town Hall meeting, she displayed her new works down in the Sand Box.   Rachel is going to help with replacing some of the older brownstown style rental houses with Kristine’s newer prim efficient models.

Commerce

Commerce Chair Tommy Brouwer was absent from the meeting, no additional updates.

Education

Corcosman Voom asked about this year’s Connectivism Course being taught by George Siemens and Stephen Downs.  Last year the Chilbo Community hosted a Second Life cohort of the course, facilitated by Fleep.  This year Fleep’s RL schedule is too hectic to be a main facilitator, but she did volunteer the Education Village in Madhupak as a potential site if another SL facilitator steps up.   You can read more about this on Fleep’s blog at:   http://fleeep.net/blog/2009/07/07/reconnecting-with-connectivism-cck09/

The Connectivism course is free and open to the public.  Fleep highly recommends it to anyone involved in or even remotely interested in the future of education

Non-Profits

Levittown Historical Society & Museum Office run by Bobkoe Nirvana

Lizzette Zenovka couldn’t attend the meeting today, no reports from the Non Profit sector, but resident Bobkoe Nirvana has opened up an office for the Levittown Historical Society & Museum down in Madhupak, right across from the SL HIV Center.  Bobkoe is rather new to SL, but wants to expand the RL presence of the Levittown Historical Society.

Activities & Events

Monarchy Republic will be coordinating this year’s Summer Faire.  See above.

Miscellaneous/Other

Kristine Kristan has donated an adorable little kitty to the Chilbo Public Library, stop by to check it out!  We discussed an appropriate name and it looks like “Hiro” from Neal Stephenson’s “Snow Crash” might be the winner. 

Speaking of Snow Crash, if you haven’t read it, Fleep highly recommends it!  Many things in Second Life come directly from the novel.   Tara Yeats and Malburns Writer also recommend “Halting State” by Charles Stross.  (Anyone want to add that to the Chilbo Recommends shelf in the library?)

Kristine Kristan has also created a “Route 10 Diary” as a Twitter feed about her travels along Route 10 in Second Life.   Check it out and follow her travels at http://twitter.com/route10diary

Monarchy Republic and MS Hawker are contemplating a “Chilbo Culinary Delights” weblog that may incorporate the Bakery and the Chilbo Nature Preserve and Garden, with recipes and other delectable delights.  Interested collaborators can contact them for more info.  (Tara Yeats‘ suggestion of “Chilbo Chewables” was greeted with some laughter *grin* and Malburns Writer requests that our vegetarian friends be considered!)    [Edit:  Originally said Kristine Kristan on this news item, corrected to Monarchy and MS!]

Meeting was adjourned.  Next meeting is scheduled for Saturday, August 8 @ 11AM SLT.  A full transcript of the meeting is available in the Chilbo Town Hall.