Inworld Locations for Volunteers

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Volunteer Locations

• Welcome Island Public
• SL Discovery Island Public

• Volunteer HQ^🖈
• Help Island Public^🖈
• Help Island Public2^🖈
• Orientation Island Public^🖈

Welcome Areas

• Korea Welcome Area
  1. Korea1^🖈
  2. Korea2^🖈
  3. Korea3^🖈
  4. Korea4^🖈
• Ahern Welcome Area ( In Memory of Waterfalzz Extraordinaire)
  1. Ahern^🖈
  2. Bonifacio^🖈
  3. Dore^🖈
  4. Morris^🖈
• Hanja Welcome Area:
  1. Gukyeol^🖈
  2. Hangeul^🖈
  3. Hanja^🖈
  4. Idu^🖈
• Violet Welcome Area^🖈
• Waterhead Welcome Area^🖈

What's an Infohub?

An Infohub, also known as a Welcome Area, is a place where Residents congregate and socialize, and there are usually kiosks providing Second Life information. Infohubs can be fun places to hang out and learn about the world if you're new, although silly stuff happens on occasion.

Note that there are special rules that apply to these locations.

Official Infohubs are owned by Linden Lab and many were built by Residents, but some Residents run their own, unofficial social spaces which they also call Infohubs.

Infohubs are represented on the World Map with blue i's, like this:

To show them, make sure that Infohub on the right-hand legend is checked.

Tip: Sometimes you may see Infohub dots in other places, usually off the Mainland. These are really telehubs, special landing points for regions or estates. You cannot normally set your home location at these points. (In ancient times, there were telehubs on the mainland too.)

What are all the official Infohubs?

General

• Ahern Welcome Area: Ahern^🖈, Bonifacio^🖈, Dore^🖈, Morris^🖈
• Hanja Welcome Area: Gukyeol^🖈, Hangeul^🖈, Hanja^🖈, Idu^🖈
• Teen Welcome Area: Card^🖈, Lewis^🖈, Nix^🖈, Pullman^🖈
• Clementina^🖈 Governor Linden's Mansion by Steller Sunshine
• Mahulu^🖈 volcano hub by Karsten Rutledge, operated by NCI
• Mauve^🖈 emOt(i)Con by Chip Poutine
• Miramare Infohub^🖈 by Nova Albion City Slickers
• Wengen^🖈 Chalet Linden snow lodge

Moderate

• Ambat Infohub^🖈 by Osprey Therian
• Barbarossa Infohub^🖈 Blake Sea Ferry Terminal by LDPW
• Bear^🖈 Dream Lodge by Stella Costello and Ravenelle Zugzwang
• Boardroom^🖈 by LDPW
• Braunworth Infohub^🖈 by Cottonteil Muromachi
• Castle Valeria Infohub^🖈 by LDPW
• Degrand Infohub^🖈 by LDPW
• Hau Koda^🖈 Bay City Municipal Aeroport by LDPW
• Helfell Infohub^🖈 and Fuerte de San Phillipe, by LDPW
• Hyannisport Infohub^🖈 by LDPW
• Hyles^🖈 Swamp Infohub by Kim Anubis & Friends
• Iris Infohub^🖈 Heterocera Moth Temple
• Isabel Infohub^🖈 by the Shelter
• Moose Beach Infohub^🖈 by LDPW
• Pooley Infohub^🖈 preserved Pooley Stage area for early Linden-resident meetings
• Waterhead Infohub^🖈 preserved Hidden Lakes Telehub
• Zebrasil^🖈 volcano Infohhub by LDPW

Adult

• Arapaima Safe Hub^🖈
• Nelsonia Safe Hub^🖈
• Oritz dam^🖈
• Ungren Safe Hub^🖈
• Vilania Safe Hub^🖈

Former or inactive hubs

While you can no longer set these locations as your home, some older accounts may still have home set there, and they are sometimes are used as hangouts.

General

• Anzere Infohub^🖈 by the Confederation of Democratic Simulators
• Calleta^🖈 Hobo Railroad Infohub by Orhalla Zander
• Hanson^🖈 converted to parkland
• Murray^🖈 rebuilt in 2010
• Plum^🖈 preserved early welcome area
• Ross Infohub^🖈 Memory Bazaar by Jessica Ornitz and Prokofy Neva
• Violet Infohub^🖈 experimental welcome area developed ca. 2008
• Warmouth Infohub^🖈 The Nerditorium by Lewis Nerd

Moderate

• Korea Welcome Area: Korea1^🖈, Korea2^🖈, Korea3^🖈, Korea4^🖈
• Olive^🖈 GSLR railroad station
• Periwinkle^🖈 GSLR railroad station

Linden Homes hubs

These were never activated as home points (Governor Linden keeps them in the Linden Homes estate, separate from the mainland). They contain information kiosks, sample textures to match the Linden Homes housing, and sometimes model homes.

Moderate

• Elderglen^🖈 and clones Elderdale^🖈, Eldervale^🖈
• Meadowbrook^🖈 and clones Meadowcreek^🖈, Ravenbrook^🖈, Bucksnort^🖈
• Shareta Osumai^🖈 and clones Kita^🖈, Shareta Heights^🖈
• Tahoe Springs^🖈 and clones Tahoe Fields^🖈, Valle Grande^🖈, Miss Muffet^🖈

Can I find Infohubs through Search?

You can try!

1. Choose World>Search and pick "Places" from the menu beside the "Search" button.
2. Try search terms like "infohub", "hub", "welcome" or "governor".
3. On the left column, change All Categories to Linden Location.

This shows most of the Infohubs, although some are listed using other keywords.

Is there anything else special I need to know?

You can set your home location at any mainland Infohub. If you don't have a home location set, World>Teleport Home will send you to a random infohub matching your maturity rating.

Linden Lab Office Hours

Office Hours

International Areas

French

Resident owned

• Area 51^🖈: The oldest French sim. Usually full and laggy, but with useful resources, classes and sandbox. (it's just next to the French School)
• France Pittoresque - French island^🖈: French Island home, chat, support and relaxation on Second Life since March 2007 with its beach, sand and palms. Area for your first steps (tutorials, sandbox, free clothing, etc.). A group of several thousand members www.France-Pittoresque.net (Aragorn Bingyi)
• France3D Sentu Novio^🖈:proposes to follow an orientation path for newbies and intermediate avatars. It explains clearly the different functions and possibilities in Second Life, through friendly games (camera control, funny objects, giant zip line...). At any time, the visitors can meet French-speaking helpers (easy to identify with their tag over the head). They are always available to answer any question. www.france3d.org
• Gaia France - French school^🖈: a full sim with dedicated French mentor, classes, and translated notecards. (kerunix Flan)
• ©Liberta - French Home^🖈: Realistic virtual state with more 30 sims www.LibertaSL.com. (cities, forest, village, sea, airports, train, boat, sandbox... (Saddam Triskaidekaphobia)

French speaking groups

• Cooperation francaise
• FRANCE3D
• France Liberta

See Also

These sims are not dedicated to SL Education, but you'll usually find French mentor.

• Europe^🖈
• Ile de France^🖈
• Loisir Area^🖈
• La Playa Del Noob^🖈
• Wild Vertigo^🖈

German

Resident owned

• Deutsches Tutorium^🖈
• German Tutorial^🖈
• German Newbie Center^🖈

Korean

Linden Lab owned

• Korea1 Infohub^🖈
• Korea2 Infohub^🖈
• Korea3 Infohub^🖈
• Korea4 Infohub^🖈

Spanish

Resident owned

• Centro de Ayuda en Castellano (Quantum Fields)^🖈: Center of welcome and orientation for all who speak Spanish. A place where newbies can find help, notecards, gifts, friends, and clear doubts.
• SecondLifeSpain.com (Quest II)^🖈: Headquarters of the community of Spanish-speaking residents secondlifespain.com. Newbies can find help, classes, and translated notecards.
• Spanish Orientation^🖈: The first Spanish Orientation Island with regapi and listed in secondlife.com spanishorientation.com. SL News, forum, community...

Spanish speaking groups

There are many groups where Spanish speaking residents can find help and make friends. Some of the more significant groups are (in no special order):

• Segunda Vida (founded by long term Resident, Greeter and Mentor Blueman Steele).
• Spanish From Spain=SpaniardS in SL
• Secondlifespain.com
• Aventura y Viajes (founded by Mentor Irene Muni)

See Also

• La Isla^🖈: Great place to take Spanish speakers. Active community and Spanish speaking DJ's.
• Mirando al Mar (Cycnia)^🖈: A place to make new friends, speak in Spanish and have fun. Free help, Spanish notecards, etc.
• Ibiza The Island (Spain)^🖈

Portuguese

Resident owned

• Brazilian support Island (Portal Brasil)^🖈: Center of welcome and orientation for all who speak portuguese. A place where newbies can find help, notecards, gifts, friends, and clear doubts.

For more contacts or help you can access groups support Brazilian or Portuguese: Suporte Portal Brasil or Brasileiros no SL (for Brazil) and Tugas no SL (for Portugal). People there will usually point new users to the most recently built areas with Portuguese content.

Sandboxes

These locations are for the technically advanced - those who are familiar with building and scripting. There are very experienced people in the sandboxes as well, but are often too preoccupied to help the Newbies who arrive interested in finding out what they can do.

Unmanaged sandboxes have no one in particular overseeing the operations of the area. They often rely on auto-returns and may have scripts disabled to prevent griefer attacks.

Managed Sandboxes have administrators or sandbox guardians who oversee the activities on the sandboxes. They are often reachable by a paging system or group chat, if they are not physically present.

Unmanaged Sandboxes

• Help Island Public^🖈
• Help Island Public2^🖈
• Pi Park & Sandbox^🖈
• Plum^🖈
• Sandbox Cordova^🖈
• Sandbox Goguen^🖈
• Sandbox Island^🖈
• Sandbox Island Extension^🖈
• Sandbox Newcomb^🖈
• Sandbox Wanderton^🖈
• Linden Weapons Testing Sandbox^🖈
• Theta Sandbox & Park^🖈
• Newbie Convenience Center and Rest Station^🖈
• Mauve Public Sandbox (PG) near Infohub Mauve^🖈
• Columbia Public Sandbox (Mature) with Weapon Testing Sandbox, Dressing Room, Mature Content Skybox^🖈
• Hyboria Public Sandbox (Mature)^🖈
• Special Vehicle Sandbox^🖈
• Public Furry Sandbox (Mature)^🖈

Managed Sandboxes

• Cat's Lair^🖈
• Fermi Sandbox^🖈
• Giant Sandbox * Bac a Sable^🖈
• Little Blue^🖈
• Sandbox France^🖈
• SkyBeam Sandbox^🖈
• Terminus - bac a sable / sandbox^🖈: The french sandbox (next to gaia)