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General Information

Welcome to the official central resource for information related to Second Life's 5th Birthday! The event is being coordinated by the SL5B Committee, which is made up of Resident Volunteers and Lindens.

This year's birthday celebration is a 2-week event. The first week, June 23 to June 29, will be kicked off by speeches from Philip Linden and M Linden. Themes for that week will feature exhibits from cultures past and present, arts, fashion, machinima, and music. For these exhibits, we’ve extended the deadline to Thursday, June 5 at 6pm PDT. Applications are now closed.

The second week, from June 30 to July 7, will feature exhibits from business, education, health care and nonprofits. We’ll close with a ceremony including a special guest speaker with a very important announcement. The deadline for the business, education, health care and nonprofit exhibits was Tuesday, June 10 at 6pm PDT. Applications are now closed.

New information will be added here as we are able to make it available, to keep our fellow residents of Second Life informed on the progress of our 5th Birthday Event. Information in English is the most updated.

Second Life's 5th Birthday Event begins June 23, 2008 9:00 am (Monday) to July 7, 2008 11:59 pm (Monday)

Notice: all times are in US Pacific time
Latest news (June 22, 2008 7:45 PM PDT - PLEASE DISSEMINATE): Tomorrow we will be closing the entire estate in the interest of preperation for the launch. The Sims will be down from 7am until 9:45am PDT. Space to attend Philip and M Linden's opening speeches will be incredibly limited. We will be providing external links for residents to listen and/or watch the events remotely from private parcels around the grid. Thanks for understanding. -Phaylen Fairchild
Latest news (June 22, 2008): Sims have returned to standard Linden time, with the sun rising and setting as expected. The sims will open to the public Monday, June 23, 2008 at 9 am PDT. Have a great time! - Shoshana Epsilon
Latest news (June 16, 2008): This event has grown from one week to two, and some people are confused about how long they will be allowed to exhibit. If you are part of the arts and culture sections, you should be ready to exhibit and start doing your fine tuning on June 20, 2008. The gates open on June 23, 2008. You are welcome to exhibit for the whole two weeks of the event, and we hope you will! Beginning on week 2 (June 30), we will begin to shift focus a bit and add more events and exhibits in the Education, Business Solutions and Nonprofit categories. These folks have an extra week to prepare (until June 27, 2008), and are located on the regions called Edit, Linked, Rotate and Stretched. However, if they can complete their exhibits on time for the opening on June 23, they should! They will get far more visibility on their exhibits if they too can be open for the full two weeks. But no one will pressure them to be ready by June 23, since they are getting a late start. -Dusty Linden

Useful Forms

Live Music/DJ Availability Form
This form will assist performers/DJ's in showing their available time slots.
Availability Form, Click Here
Signup Form for Linguists, Greeters, and Volunteers
Linguists and Greeters help event attendees and exhibitors find exhibits and assist in translation.
[Signup Form, Click Here]

Guidelines/Policies for SL5B

Additional Guidelines

Exhibit / Building Guidelines

No Mega Prims
No use of temp-on-rezzers to create permanent structures
All Exhibits must be PG, if an Exhibit contains Mature Content this content may be Returned by a Coordinator
No commercial advertising or objects for sale
No Tip Jars

Under the definition of PG some of but not limited to the following will be prohibited: Nudity: Exhibits must not contain Mature content, if you are unsure of the rating of some of your content please contact a Coordinator. Ropes and Chains, graphic images or exhibits showing someone being bound will not be allowed, this also includes other content that may represent someone being bound in a sexual way.

Group Chat Guidelines

Follow the Second Life Community Standards when talking in Group Chat. Please Do Not spam. Please Do Not advertise in Group Chat. Don't be abusive towards other exhibitors or event staff in Group Chat. If you have a private dispute take it to Instant Message with that person, if you have a general Event Dispute please contact a Coordinator.

We all enjoy general chit chat, as it helps boost moral and awareness between exhibitors but please be respectful.

Griefing

If you come across a griefer (Anything or anyone that is in breach of the Second Life ToS and / or Community Standards) please file an Abuse Report by going to 'Help' and 'Report Abuse...' and also contact a Coordinator.

If you come across griefing objects such as particle spammers please file an Abuse Report and contact a Coordinator to return the object. Please do not aggravate the situation in any way.

If you're found to be griefing you will be Reported and banned from the Event and SL5B Sims. Anything that breaches the Second Life ToS and / or Community Standards and makes a Residents Second Life Experience less enjoyable is griefing and will not be accepted or tolerated.

Please don't be abusive towards SL5B Staff, we're here to do a job and make the event enjoyable for all so help us to help you. : D

Here's the Second Life ToS and Community Standards

Staff List / Event Contacts

Long hours, late nights, true dedication and commitment. That sums up the monumental task our staff has in preparing and organizing this birthday. But we do it all for you -- the amazing and creative residents of Second Life. And that makes it all worth it. We hope you enjoy the event as much as we have in our path to get to the finish line.

Main Organisers:

Phaylen Fairchild

Coordinators

Meghan Dench: General Coordinator

Sim Coordinators:

Dusty Linden: SL5B Edit, SL5B Linked, SL5B Rotate, SL5B Stretch

Evie Fairchild: SL5B Rebake, SL5B Ruthed, SL5B Hippos, SL5B Prim

Kit Maitland: SL5B Phantom, SL5B Second Life Birthday, SL5B Physical, SL5B Move, SL5B Copy

Katier Reitveld: SL5B Dwell, SL5B Avatar, SL5B Delegoose, SL5B Rezzed

Shoshana Epsilon: SL5B Flexi, SL5B Sculpty, SL5B Render

Lindens | Linden Event Liason:

Dusty Linden - Main Event Liason

Blondin Linden

Music and Live Performance Team:

Chel Norfolk, Team Lead | Meghan's Official SL5B Nerfinger

Roxi Bingyi, Live Music Coordinator

For Live Music Enquiries please contact Roxi Bingyi, Live Music Coordinator.

For DJ Enquiries please contact Chel Norfolk, Live Performance Coordinator.

CarrieAnn Nurmi

Daisy Beauchamp

Kelley Shortbread

Exhibition Coordinators:

Atashi Yue: first contact for Exhibitors

Terraform Artists:

Architecture:

Scope Cleaver

Prad Prathivi

James Bendedek

Chief Baker:

[to be updated]

Linguists:

How to get involved!

If you'd like to Volunteer to Get Involved and Translate for the SL5B Event please fill in this Form!

Note to Linguists

Please list in your In-World Second Life Profile the languages you speak and are available to translate into, as well as any other useful information about your availability.

Linguists

Sandor Balczo (Italian and Linguists Coordinator until June 22, 2008)

Eva Nowicka (Spanish)

Marianne Levasseur (French, English)

Frederic Prevost (Japanese)

Orlandoo Habercom (German, English)

Fior Oconnell (Dutch, German)

Dhyana Writer (French, Spanish)

Ysel Auer (Spanish)

Azziej Enzo (Dutch)

Poid Mahovlich (Danish, Swedish, Norwegian)

Second Life Birthday Groups

SL Birthday Exhibitors

For staff and Exhibitors and others who may wish to join. This is the main group.

Second Life Birthday Staff

For Event Staff only.

SL Birthday Performers

For exhibitors, staff and Event Performers including DJs : D

Calendar of Events

(Information being developed)
Opening Event/Keynote
Music/Parties
Live Performances
Second Life Cultural Events
Industry Roundtables, Tours, Talks
Closing Presentations

Feedback Survey

(To be added)

SL5B

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