New Citizens Incorporated
Group Name
NCI/New Citizens Incorporated Groups
- New Citizens Inc.
- NCI Alumni Association
- NCI Land Holdings
- NCI Board of Directors
This Document Is Current As Of
11/12/2008
Founder's Second Life Name
Brace Coral
(Brace Coral is no longer involved in management of NCI. Carl Metropolitan is Executive Director of NCI/New Citizens Incorporated, and has been since September 2005. Please contact him about any issues concerning the NCI groups.)
Total Group Members
- New Citizens Inc. - 5735
- NCI Alumni Association - 835
- NCI Land Holdings - 127
- NCI Board of Directors - 15
To minimize problems with Group Chat and Group Notices caused by large groups, NCI regularly ejects people from the New Citizens Inc. group who have not logged in for over one year.
Group Charter
NCI /New Citizens Incorporated is a portal to the Second Life® virtual world.
Designed primarily for new residents, but open to all, NCI offers in-person advice from our team of NCI Helpers and NCI Land Officers classes, contests and social events, interactive tutorials, freebies, help notecards and landmarks, sandboxes for building, a new residents mall, Ginny Gremlin park, games, and newsstands with free in-world publications.
NCI’s offers an extensive schedule of classes and events (over 60 a week), held at our campuses, and at venues of partner companies. NCI classes include basic and advanced building and texturing, clothing and accessory creation, scripting, and land ownership. We also hold other basic SL classes, such as Intro to SL, Using the Search Menu and Maps, Avatar Makeover, and SL Consumer Skills. NCI events include Show & Tells, Parties, Blitz Building contests, New Player Q&A, and our longest running event—our weekly Newbie Salsa.
NCI runs four Second Life campuses: NCI Kuula (the original and largest NCI location), NCI South (at Hamnida, directly adjacent to the South Welcome Area), NCI Beach (by the sea in the Class 5 Fishermans Cove sim) and our newest location, NCI Caledon at the Duchy of Nova Civis Caledon (our first entire sim). NCI also manages fifteen NCI InfoNodes, located near or adjacent to Linden InfoHubs (or other areas popular with new residents). InfoNodes serve as "mini-NCIs" with information, freebies, landmarks, maps, and schedules, providing information to new residents where they first rez, when they first rez.
NCI--in collaboration with the Independent State of Caledon--operates Caledon Oxbridge, a private Orientation Island. Adjacent to Nova Civis Caledon, Caledon Oxbridge provides a complete Second Life tutorial for new residents. Based on the theme of a old English university, the Orientation is spread over six "Colleges", each covering a different area of the Second Life interface and world: Avatar Motion, Camera Controls, Communications, Search & Inventory, Avatar Customization, and Money & Commmerce. The tutorial experience includes not only traditional orientation posters, but also interactive exercises, free full avatars, and prizes. Caledon Oxbridge also incorporates three "Residence Halls", offering a short term apartment and prim allotment to new players, and a branch of the Caledon Library.
NCI classes, events, and resources are free and open to all.
NCI is entirely resident-run and financed and is unaffiliated with Linden Lab. Land and tier for NCI’s four campuses has been purchased by NCI or donated by NCI members and supporters. NCI continues to pay its instructors, even after Linden Lab abandoned class funding in December 2006. NCI is not-for-profit and is funded via through individual donations, sponsored advertising, and by RL and in-world businesses that we conduct NCI-branded classes and events for.
The Tao of NCI
- Help people.
- Don't be an "A"hole.
Mission Focus & Statement
- Main Focus: Help, Education, and Support for New Residents
Best Practices:
- Campus Locations
- NCI Kuula
- Kuula Sim - NCI Main Campus
- NCI South
- Hamnida Sim - Adjacent to South Welcome Area
- NCI Beach
- Fishermans Cove Sim
- NCI Caledon
- Nova Civis Caledon Sim - Full Openspace Sim
- NCI Caledon Annex
- Caledon Highlands Sim - InfoNode and Classroom
- InfoNode Locations
- Ambat, Baileya/Hyles, Bay City Centre, Braunworth, Chief/Bear, Clementina, Hanson, Istar/Iris, Ominor/Helfell, Mahulu, Maryport/Pooley, Muse Village, Pala, Ross, and Warmouth.
- Orientation Island Location
- Caledon Oxbridge
- Caledon Oxbridge is a collaboration between NCI and the Independent State of Caledon
- Resources
- Helpers, Classes, Events, Tutorials, InfoNodes, NCI Blog, NCI Website, SL Info Networked Help Card Vendors, FreebieNode Networked Freebie Vendors, Sandboxes (1000 prims at Kuula, Caledon, and Hamnida), "Live Help" via New Citizens Inc. Group Channel, SL Maps, Games, Newsstands, NCI Mall (free vendor space for new residents), Home Spots (places where new residents can set "Home" to at each NCI campus), Associated Special Interest Groups (such as NCI Scripters and NCI Business Forum).
- Management Team
- Executive Director - Carl Metropolitan
- Deputy Director - Tateru Nino
- Deputy Director & IT Coordinator - Garn Conover
- Education Director - Afon Shepherd
- Events Director - Gramma Fiddlesticks
- AdNode Director - Eric Boyer & Fr43k Paine
- Freebies Director - Nardok Corimal
- Web Hosting Director - Yukiko Omegamu
- InfoNode Project Director - Yumi Murakami
- Director & Senior Land Officer - Linda Coffee
- Director & Senior Land Officer - Beverly Montgomery
- Director-at-Large - Shawk Pertwee
- Director-at-Large - Zi Ree
- Director Emeritus - Brace Coral
- Senior Land Officers
- Kuula - Garn Conover & Beverly Montgomery
- Beach - Linda Coffee
- South - Wellington Beam
- Caledon - TBD (Carl Metropolitan for now)
- Oxbridge - TBD (Carl Metropolitan for now)
Coordinators
- Carl Metropolitan
- Tateru Nino
- Garn Conover
Group Documentarians
- Garn Conover
- Carl Metropolitan
- Blu Laszlo
Requirements to Join
- New Citizens Inc. - Open enrollment
- NCI Alumni Association - Open enrollment
- NCI Land Holdings - Officer group; by invitation only.
- NCI Board of Directors - Executive group; by invitation only.