Real Life Government

The page is under construction. Please contact sue @ lindenlab dot com with comments/questions.

Introduction

The intention of this wiki is to share information on what international government agencies are publicly doing in Second Life, interesting links, and guidance from others on government related policies, such as firewall security and 508 compliance information. Please add your own content, questions, and experiences. If you add a new wiki page, please sure to add a link to that page here as well as add ""

Mailing Lists

Linden Lab maintains a Real Life Government in Second Life mailing list to keep interested individuals alerted to government agency related opportunities and events on the Second Life Grid. This list is also an opportunity for organizations to communicate with each other as well as find new colleagues. If you want to quickly get up to speed and learn from the shared experiences of others on the Second Life Grid, or if you have questions about how to best use the Second Life Grid with your organization's projects, this is the best place to start! MAILING LIST TO BE CREATED

We also maintain other related mailing lists to help you find colleagues and share ideas on more specific topics. In addition to joining the comprehensive mailing list mentioned above, you might like to join these more focused discussions. They are: Educators, Non-Profits, and Corporate Use

Second Life Group

There's a Second Life Group called Real Life Government in Second Life which is comprised of people who are interested in the possibilities of Second Life as it relates to government agency mission statements. If you'd like to keep in touch with others inworld, please feel free to join this Group (click the Find button and search under Groups for 'Government'). This group is by invitation only. Figure out process to join group

What Other Agencies are Doing

This page link to new page has information about what other agencies are publicly doing in Second Life. Please add what your agency is doing here.

Working Group Wiki

The United States National Defense University has set up a working group wiki to support the Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds - a group of federal government employees and contractors interested in exploring the use of virtual worlds in government, sharing best practices and policies, creating shared repositories, and networking. Request membership to the consortium wiki by emailing federalconsortiumvw@ndu.edu with the subject "Request for Consortium Wiki".

Questions about the firewall?

More information in the Second Life Knowledge Base - after you log in, search for "firewall."

Second Life needs to connect to ports 443/TCP, 12043/TCP, 12035/UDP, 12036/UDP, and 13000-13050/UDP.

For voice, the following ports need to be reachable through any firewall infrastructure:

• Port 21002 - TCP - for voice control signals
• Ports 12000-13000 - UDP - for voice media
• Port 80/443 - TCP - for Web server
• Ports 5060 or 5062 - UDP - for voice control signals

Note: Your firewall software may request permission to let “SLVoice.exe” and “SLVoiceAgent.exe” access the internet on their first execution; you should allow this access.

Other Resources

Getting Started

• Frequently Asked Questions (from What Is Second Life? on secondlife.com)
• New Media Consortium's Getting Started
• Getting Started in Second Life by Random Unsung and Prokofy Neva
• How to learn about Second Life before learning Second Life (Eric Rice)
• Getting Started in LSL scripting in Second Life
• Using the Linden Scripting Language: Tutorial on basic LSL capabilities
• Noob Be Gone Video Tutorials
• It's not an economy, it's a product - understanding Linden Lab's view of Second Life
• See also Recent Business Articles - Articles about business in Second Life
• Glenn's Tips for Businesses

Solution Providers

• Solution Providers
• Solution Provider Support
• Linden Office Hours

Note: We are working on getting a list of Solution Providers that have government clearance or are registered. If you are such a solution provider, please add your details to this page. to be created

Issue Tracker (Bugs & Feature Requests)

• Learn about the Issue Tracker and how to use it
• Recently resolved issues (general resolutions in last two weeks)
• All fixed bugs, sorted by votes
  • Login with your Second Life name and see the growing lists. Also to emphasize community spirit, some of these bugs were patched by Residents!
• More handy filters are on the main page of Issue Tracker

Community Development

• Community Development Guide - This section is designed to aggregate knowledge about Second Life community development in one place and create a "living document" any Resident can edit and contribute to. It is our hope this guide will be useful to interested individuals, businesses, and organizations using the Second Life Main and Teen Grids.