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Thaumata Strangelove

I came to Second Life in November 20015, when I was doing a bit of research about how permissions combined in a collaborative artistic space. I ended up sticking around. I spent quite a lot of time learning new skills here, and eventually met and married (in both lives) Kisa Naumova. We have often taken on freelance work here, building sims and managing other cool projects for all kinds of people, but mostly for British universities and other brick and mortar entities looking to get involved in virtual worlds.

SL Work

Jeans for Genes (Sept 09)

Jeans for Genes is a UK based charity which helps children and families affected by genetic disorders by funding support services and research into the causes and cures of these conditions. They run an annual event in the UK on October 2 where people wear jeans (to work and school) and donate £2 towards the cause. In 2009, they are also holding a grid-wide fundraising event, which I am participating in as a builder, promoter and all around get-it-done girl.

Ormesby Woods and Priory Schools (Autumn 2009)

Ormesby Woods and Priory Schools are real life elementary schools in the UK which are rebuilding in the next year. We work closely with school administrators, area technology evangelists and architects to convert the blueprints into a working scale model in SL. Ormesby is a school for children with special needs which made for an interesting build. Staff will then use the build to determine furniture orders, wall colors and accessibility, and perhaps as an online community home for students and parents in the future.

Acklam Grange iSchool (Spring 2009)

Acklam Grange School is an elementary school in Middlesbrough, England which is rebuilding this year. As with Ormesby, we worked closely with the staff and architects to ensure the Second Life model is to exact scale. Admins can then use the model to finalize real life building details. Teachers at the school are regularly using Second Life to educate their students, and will use the model to continue those lessons. Ground for the real life school broke in Spring of 2009. As Acklam is the first school using SL to teach younger pupils on a regular basis, it got a bit of press in the UK. You can see coverage of this build on the BBC site as well as on Gazette Live.

Leeds Metropolitan University (2009)

Mentor for LeedsMet's ongoing virtual worlds projects.

MUVENation (2009)

MUVENation is a great project designed to help educators educate in SL. I occasionally assist them with builds and events, including an in person panel in London about optimizing virtual classrooms.

Second Life Mentoring (2008-2009)

Volunteer for Linden Lab as a mentor for new and old residents alike. I particularly enjoyed working on Orientation Island, helping new users get acclimated, and answering challenging oldbie questions in the New Citizens Incorporated chats.

Emerge Island (Autumn 2008)

Emerge Island was mainly run by Kisa Naumova. I collaborated with them to build their freebie market and write educational training content for educators getting started in SL.

Flickr

For several years I was a moderator for the SL Flickr group. During this time, I helped them clarify their submission policies, community engagement, and moderation workflow. When we hit ten thousand members, I resigned from the moderation group to make more time for real life.

Orange Island (2008)

Guest speaker on Orange Island for panel about photography communities in Second Life. I also did a guest panel at Orange Island about Photography in Second Life.

SL4B

I had a small gallery of SL related artwork on the SL4B sim.

Other Channels

Twitter (checked rarely)
My SL Flickr stream
Vizor Current project - WebVR

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 ==Thaumata Strangelove==
+I came to Second Life in November 20015, when I was doing a bit of research about how permissions combined in a collaborative artistic space. I ended up sticking around.  I spent quite a lot of time learning new skills here, and eventually met and married (in both lives) [[User:Kisa_Naumova|Kisa Naumova]].  We have often taken on freelance work here, building sims and managing other cool projects for all kinds of people, but mostly for British universities and other brick and mortar entities looking to get involved in virtual worlds.
-Hello, my dearies.
-I found SL in November of 2005 and have had countless wonderful experiences with all of the awesome people I know here, so when I was asked to participate in SL's birthday, I happily agreed.  So uh... welcome to my first gallery in SL.  Having never done one of these before, I'm not sure what the etiquette is, but I'm not really one to stand on ceremony anyway.
+===SL Work===
-I am really interested in SL as a new medium for bringing people together in new ways.    So, when I made my gallery, I didn't want it to be just photos on a wall.  I wanted it to be a fun space that would encourage people to hang out and socialize... to meet new friends and to CONNECT, instead of just wandering through quickly.
+====Jeans for Genes (Sept 09)====
+[http://jeansforgenes.com Jeans for Genes] is a UK based charity which helps children and families affected by genetic disorders by funding support services and research into the causes and cures of these conditions.  They run an annual event in the UK on October 2 where people wear jeans (to work and school) and donate £2 towards the cause.  In 2009, they are also holding a grid-wide fundraising event, which I am participating in as a builder, promoter and all around get-it-done girl.
-So, I have some photos here, but they display slowly, to encourage you to hang out and visit with your neighbor while your eyes nibble.   Sit long, talk much, and enjoy them.  When you're done, if you'd like to visit with me, also, I am generally found making messes on my plot in Wollaston, and you can find the LM in my picks.
+====Ormesby Woods and Priory Schools (Autumn 2009)====
+Ormesby Woods and Priory Schools are real life elementary schools in the UK which are rebuilding in the next year.  We work closely with school administrators, area technology evangelists and architects to convert the blueprints into a working scale model in SL.  Ormesby is a school for children with special needs which made for an interesting build.  Staff will then use the build to determine furniture orders, wall colors and accessibility, and perhaps as an online community home for students and parents in the future.
-With love,
+====Acklam Grange iSchool (Spring 2009)====
-Thaumata Strangelove
+Acklam Grange School is an elementary school in Middlesbrough, England which is rebuilding this year.  As with Ormesby, we worked closely with the staff and architects to ensure the Second Life model is to exact scale.  Admins can then use the model to finalize real life building details.  Teachers at the school are regularly using Second Life to educate their students, and will use the model to continue those lessons.  Ground for the real life school broke in Spring of 2009.  As Acklam is the first school using SL to teach younger pupils on a regular basis, it got a bit of press in the UK.   You can see coverage of this build [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7829070.stm on the BBC site] as well as on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCI_P5UaUNM Gazette Live].
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+====Leeds Metropolitan University (2009)====
+Mentor for LeedsMet's ongoing virtual worlds projects.
+====MUVENation (2009)====
+MUVENation is a great project designed to help educators educate in SL.  I occasionally assist them with builds and events, including an in person panel in London about optimizing virtual classrooms.
-Thaumata came to the grid in November 2005, after a friend suggested she would highly enjoy the collaborative nature of the residents there.   The friend was correct, and Thau immediately dell in love with the grid and all of the amazing people she met there day after day.
+====Second Life Mentoring (2008-2009)====
+Volunteer for Linden Lab as a mentor for new and old residents alike.  I particularly enjoyed working on Orientation Island, helping new users get acclimated, and answering challenging oldbie questions in the New Citizens Incorporated chats.
-Artistic mash-ups are absolutely the normal course of things for Thaumata.  She is frequently seen building crazy homes on her lot in Wollaston, from steampunk airships to elaborate gardens and everything in between.  These homes are always open to the public, and Thau highly enjoys watching people explore them.  She started taking photos in SL to document these builds, and accidentally stumbled upon the Second Life Flickr community, which sealed the deal and dashed any hopes of ever escaping from this virtual life.  Impressed at what she saw there, Thau started dabbling more into artistic photography and modeling.   Modeling was kind to Thaumata, with several gallery shows, the cover of Anastacia SL magazine, and a story about beautiful avatars in a real life german magazine.
+====Emerge Island (Autumn 2008)====
+Emerge Island was mainly run by Kisa Naumova.  I collaborated with them to build their freebie market and write educational training content for educators getting started in SL.
-SL4B is Thaumata's first official gallery of her own, and she was flattered to participate.  Not wanting to create a static space, she instead concentrated on building a simple space that focused more on gathering and less on photos, because that's what has been the most meaningful to her in SL.
+====Flickr====
+For several years I was a moderator for the [http://flickr.com/groups/secondlife/|biggest SL Flickr group].  During this time, I helped them clarify their submission policies, community engagement, and moderation workflow. When we hit ten thousand members, I resigned from the moderation group to make more time for real life.
-== Off the Grid ==
+====Orange Island (2008)====
+Guest speaker on Orange Island for panel about photography communities in Second Life.
+I also did a guest panel at Orange Island about Photography in Second Life.
-Thaumata is a musician, playing piano since age 5, majoring in opera and tackling a plethora of teaching and performing gigs in the years since.   Her current project is [http://www.splicemusic.com Splice], a website that allows musicians from around the world to make music together via the world's most advanced online sequencer and creative commons licenses.  The 10-person Splice team will re-launch the site and present the world's most advanced online sequencer in June of 2007, which is making Thau's life a little hectic at the moment.
+====[[SL4B]]====
+I had a small gallery of SL related artwork on the SL4B sim.
-Another recent project was filming a portion of a pilot for VH1 for a show about airing your confessions on the internet, something Thau got very good at a few years ago, when she was one of the first people to use YouTube to broadcast her video diaries.  The vlog got so much attention at the time that it was normal to get 200 emails a day from viewers.  Thaumata used this power for awesome and launched a fundraising campaign for the 60-mile (90k) breast cancer walk she does each year.   Through $5 and $10 donations from the internet, she raised nearly $10k for the cause in three months.
-In her 'spare time', Thau likes to work on her spanish and meet new people.  She calls Chicago her home, but often resides in Barcelona, Spain, as well as frequent trips to San Francisco for work.
-If you'd like to keep up with Thau, she suggests [http://www.flickr.com/photos/thestrangestloveofall/ her Flickr page] or just googling for Thaumata and picking your poison.
+===Other Channels===
-Thaumata is a greek word;  it means Miracles.
+* [http://twitter.com/thaumata Twitter] (checked rarely)
+* [http://flickr.com/photos/thestrangestloveofall/ My SL Flickr stream]
+* [http://vizor.io Vizor] Current project - WebVR
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