User:Scotts Winkler

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Technical Experience

  • Languages: Java, C, C++, PHP/Mysql and many others
  • Platforms: Windows XP, Windows 2000, Linux.

Speaking Languages

  • Italian
  • English

Second Life Experience

  • RSS scripting for SL companies
  • Contributor to XyText and Xyzzy "projects" with UTF-8 expansions
  • Various scripting classes in Italian & English from March 2008 for Second Life Italian Mentors in SLVEC. (Basic and Advanced)
  • Applied for teaching scripts in ASL
  • Second Life Italian Speaking Mentor





My useful notepad for wikipages to check for mentors:

  • The Volunteer Portal:

-- http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Volunteer_Portal This the gateway to much of our information. There is a lot of stuff here, if you dig for it.

  • The Tao of Volunteers:

-- http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Tao_of_Volunteers

  • VTEAM Blog:

-- http://vteamblog.com/ The VTEAM Blog has information about upcominng meeting & events, transcripts of meetings, and upcoming classes taught by mentors (week to week)

  • Monthly Meeting Schedule:

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Monthly_Mentor_Meetings_and_Events_Schedule

  • Mentors Teaching Mentors

-- http://vteamblog.com/ The class announcements and schedules are maintained at the vteam blog.

-- http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Volunteer-sponsored_Classes Another place

-- http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Mentors_Teaching_Mentors Outlines the requirements for teaching other mentors

Mentor Goodies and Freebies

-- secondlife://app/teleport/SLVEC/120/128/22 -- secondlife:///app/teleport/SLVEC/120/128/22 <-- Windlight friendly link -- secondlife://SLVEC/120/128/22 -- http://slurl.com/secondlife/SLVEC/120/128/22

Go to the kiosks all around the landing zone - explore the language-specific shops, pickup the latest Orientation Island HUDS and work them yourself (keep an unused one to give to a newbie who might not have their tutorial on their screen). There are notecards with useful info, New Mentor Starter kits

  • Wiki User Page creation

-- http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Quickie_Wiki_Intro Shows you how to go about creating your User Profile Page (like the link at the bottom of my messages). Translated into several languages for your convenience.

  • Places to volunteer

-- http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Inworld_Locations_for_Volunteers Suggestions on where to show up to help people. Translated into a couple languages.

  • Helping Residents & Troubleshooting tips

-- https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User:Lum_Pfohl/Troubleshooting

Other sources of information

  • SL Forum (Restricted- requiring registered payment info)

-- http://forums.secondlife.com/ Discussions on scripting, access to a scripting library, the knowledgebase, Animation Tips, Building Tips, Texturing Tips, Scripting Tips, Movies and Machinima, etc., etc.! Includes multi-language forums in German, Korean, Japanese, Italian and Spanish.

  • SL Support Portal

-- https://support.secondlife.com Access to FAQ's and Knowledgebase and Solution Finder. Requires login (and available to basic membership residents). For premium account residents, it also allows you to navigate to a Live Chat page with Linden Support.

  • Resident Blogs & Tutorials

-- http://www.mermaiddiaries.com/2006/11/build.html This girl is incredible! She will show you how to make everything from shoes to hair to clothing and more!

-- http://torley.com/ Torley Linden's blog where he features lots and lots of YouTube video tutorials on how to do stuff and what stuff mean.

-- http://www.vintfalken.com/ Like Natalia above, Vint Falken is another super-explorer with useful tutorials on just about any topic (including building and photoshop)

  • Use Your Search Feature

-- Press the SEARCH button and select the ALL tab. Enter "Mentor" and search. Wiki pages, Mentor Buddy Lists can be viewed directly from inside SL without having to open up a new browser!

  • When all else fails

-- http://www.google.com Search for " second life +site:youtube.com " Search for " second life tier fees " Search for " seocnd life mac right click " Search for " second life estate tools " so on and so forth.

  • What's been going on with SL

-- http://secondlife.com/whatis/economy_stats.php

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