User:Qie Niangao/Zindra and Adult Content

Grounding Assumptions

1. Linden Lab and adult content providers have common cause in the success of adult ventures in Second Life.
2. Direct community support by Linden Lab has proven neither necessary nor sufficient to insure success of adult ventures in SL.
3. In the past and ongoing, specific policy misjudgments and technical faults have hurt in-world adult ventures and, by extension, LL itself. Adult Content User Group meetings have been useful in communicating the consequences of these mistakes / bugs for repair.
4. Zindra is a themed Mainland continent with a uniform Adult maturity rating. It has abundant LDPW infrastructure and (increasingly) diverse use by landowners not limited to adult ventures nor necessarily "adult" content.
5. The Zindra sim spans from the only inland Zindra infohub at Oritz to the infrastructure-intensive "Kama City" sims. Thus, by name and location, the Zindra sim is uniquely positioned to be a showcase and gateway for the whole Zindra continent.
6. The ZEXPO group has a contentious past that's unproductive to consider at this point. The name is confusing because it refers to a group, an event, and a cluster of sims where that event took place (and may again). At this point, we're charged with addressing management of the group only (to the extent that can be separate from the other problems named "ZEXPO" -- which is not a lot).

Stuff to find out for future

1. There is an adult sandbox called "Zindra Vortex" somewhere (possibly related to ZEXPO group?). Unsure when, why, nor how it came to exist, but it doesn't seem to be doing any harm (other than further diluting and confusing the name "Zindra"), and may be useful to somebody. It may also offer mentoring / help-island-like services. (Does it?) There have been "build-off" events there. I _think_ it's Linden-owned, and managed the same as other non-Adult sandboxes, but it seems to have some permanent content, and maybe some on-call resident staff?