Second Life 6th Birthday
June 23 — June 29, 2009
On June 23, 2009, Second Life turns 6 years old. Hey! This is your second half-decade! Now you're *so* much more sophisticated than 5, but still hovering near the oven, anxious to devour the cake, and wondering what 6 has in store for you. Or, for that matter, what about 7? 10? 15? Where do the years go, anyway?
Since you're never content with things as they are, the event this year is a challenge to Residents: show how you intend to make things in 5, 10 or 100 years. The Birthday theme this year is The Future of Virtual Worlds and we're betting you have some pretty awesome visions to share of the future you're building here. How will Virtual Worlds work? How will they look? How will they be part of everyday life? How will we learn, socialize and evolve in them? How will they affect your beliefs, and be affected by your actions?
Once again, Linden Lab has set aside 20 regions for the Birthday celebration, and Residents are building their particular future to share with you. The event infrastructure is nearly complete, and it looks great. It's a little dark, and a little shiny. It's a little inspiring, and a little dystopian. It's decidedly 3- dimensional. Think in light. Think in concept. Look up. Look under. Look in and listen closely.
Applications to build an exhibit are now closed. We will be reviewing all submitted applications next, and hope to have announcements going out to accepted exhibitors by June 1. Exhibitors will have a full 2 or 3 weeks on-site to build. The event will open June 23, and officially run for a week, (though we will keep the gates open for a week beyond that so that plenty of people can come by for a visit).
About The Theme
We are LIVE from Dallier's Hope, 800 Light Years away we are spiraling through outer space on a Meteor disovered by Space Explorer Ghorman Dallier in 2499 while searching for new worlds to inhabit! Although we're too far away from the sun to see it and any flora has to be kept in an AEC (Artificial Environment Chamber.) we still know how to throw a party!
The future is open to all sorts of interpretation, and to encompass the future, we looked to the past. In the beginning of Second Life, pioneering residents looked over this vast, empty landscape that was full of potential and promise. Everything was new to everyone, the concept of virtual worlds, the way we would adapt to custom content, how we would use the tools provided to us and incorporate our own vision was all still yet to be discovered. It all began with an great open space, and the inspiration provided by the seemingly simple idea "Your World, Your Imagination."
Six years later that world is merely a memory as time has moved at warp speed with the advancements of technology and adaptability of the platform. A few hundred users quickly became over a million. It has become a staple in education and commerce on a global scale. Never could have those early residents of that vast open world predict how Second Life would evolve.
With that in mind, we took our Exhibitors far away from the green grasses and sandy beaches of their Second Life Grid and sent them into the stratosphere as the first colony of Dallier's Hope. A vast, open landscape waiting to be developed by the first new residents of the future of Virtual Worlds. What becomes of this great "Rock" remains entirely up to them, how they adapt and harness the power of their imagination to make something from next to nothing as they share their personal visions of what they believe the future holds.
Exhibitor Directory
Events Calendar
Event Policies
Maturity Rating
In order to ensure a comfortable experience for every Resident, the whole of the event will be accessible to general audiences. The Second Life 6th Birthday Celebration takes place on the main Second Life Grid and is for Adults 18 years and older. The following guidelines are in effect, and are the same PG guidelines we followed last year:
"PG Areas are designated to be free from sexually explicit language or behavior, swearing and other forms of aggressive language, violent behavior and/or imagery, including horror. Gambling for Linden Dollars is also prohibited." This is taken from the Knowledgebase Article found here.
Linden Lab and the Resident Organizers reserve the right to determine when an edge case is no longer appropriate.
Exhibitors may provide landmarks to Mature regions, provided they are properly marked as Mature.
Exhibit Policies
- No megaprims are allowed at Linden-Sponsored Events.
- No sales or soliciting of donations- freebies are okay as are landmarks to external areas.
- No hate-oriented material.
- No copyright or trademark infringement (includes real life or virtual name brands, logos, sounds or graphics that aren't owned by exhibitor.)
- Prim limits are according to plot size requested and will be enforced.
- 1 Exhibit per resident/group
- Landmarks, Web content or Links provided must be relevant to the exhibit or exhibitor.
- We expect every exhibitor and attendee to adhere to the standard Second Life Terms of Service.
- Opt-in (clickable) notecard givers are acceptable. Notecard givers that spam an avatar upon arrival are NOT permitted.
Important Dates
- May 6- Applications open
- May 20- Applications closed
- May 21- Applications review begins
- June 3- Accepted Exhibitors notified (date revised!)
- June 5- Building may begin (date revised!)
- June 12- Applications re-opened
- June 15- Applications re-closed
- June 20- Wave one Exhibitors complete exhibition builds
- June 21- Tech Rehearsal, Infrastructure builds completed
- June 22- Wave 2 Exhibitors complete exhibition builds.
- June 22- 11:59pm SLT, regions close for maintenance in preparation for opening ceremonies.
- June 23- Gates open to the Public for the opening ceremonies at 10am SLT. Scripts and build disabled throughout estates for duration of ceremonies to discourage instances of lag and disruption. They will be turned back on after the opening speech.
- June 29- Official closing ceremony
- June 30- Final day of Entertainment
- July 6- Gates close
Performer Information
If you would like to DJ at SL6b, please use this form to tell us about yourself and your availability! Live performers may IM Glimmer Silverstar for information.
Builder Information
Builder Policy
- Zero Tolerance for Drama. The volunteer staff of Second Life 6th Birthday are here to help you with reasonable requests for assistance with your build. They are not being paid to be abused, called names, or manipulated for your personal ends. Please be courteous to these fellow residents who are giving their time for the community. Any builders habitually harassing staff will be removed from the event.
- You will need to set all items to SECOND LIFE BIRTHDAY EXHIBITORS Group or they will auto return after 1 minute.
- If you do not receive an invitation to the Second Life Birthday Exhibitors group in a timely fashion, please leave a message in the general SECOND LIFE BIRTHDAY group requesting help from an Exhibitor Assistant. The Exhibitor Assistants are here to help get you acclimated, as well as make sure you and your building team have invites.
- Your Exhibitor Assistant will also remind you of the policies and protocols and inform you who your Region Coordinator is in the instance you need help with other, more elaborate issues. The Exhibitor Assistants will be able to answer all of your questions.
- By building at SL6B you are agreeing to keep your displays PG. Of course, that means things like Nudity or violence are not acceptable. Linden Lab reserves the right to determine the limits of nudity or violence, and may ask you to adjust your entries accordingly.
- Selling is prohibited, however, freebies are fine. Additionally, displays should have actual content, not just look like advertisements. This is a non-commercial zone intended to showcase the best ideas, solutions, craftsmanship and community that Second Life residents have to offer.
- Donation Solicitations in any form be it verbally or by Kiosk are prohibited. While we appreciate the efforts residents make to inform, educate and encourage support of charitable causes, this Linden Sponsored Event cannot be used as a vehicle for the procurement of donations for charity. Allowance of such can be misconstrued as a public endorsement and involves a bunch of legalese. While within your exhibit you may provide external links and landmarks to locations that provide an avenue for donations to be made, they may not be made directly from the event fairgrounds in any respect. It is impossible for us to verify the legitimacy of every organization participating.
- Megaprims are prohibited at Linden-Sponsored events.
- SECOND LIFE BIRTHDAY & SECOND LIFE BIRTHDAY EXHIBITORS are groups designed solely for the purpose of streamlining information between staff and the community. In either of those groups, questions can be asked, group invitations may be requested by exhibitors for their team, but idle chat is discouraged. For exhibitors who would like to discuss their exhibits, speak with other exhibitors, share ideas and tips or play games (Yes they even play games - currently the riddle is discerning the meaning of Dallier's Hope!) you can join SL6B Exhibitors if you don't mind general discussion. Remember that is a community channel and discussion should be expected if you join!
- If you have needs that an Exhibitor Assistant cannot take care of - such as terraform issues or land options customization, please refer to your Sim Coordinator for further assistance with such tasks. A list of Sim Coordinators are as follows:
TOXIC MENGES Aeon Quantum Virtuocity Cryo
TRINITY SERPENTINE Titan Void Uplink Velocity
POID MAHOVLICH Atomic Dimension Polaris Callisto
KIT MAITLAND Nano Nucleus Hologram Portal
JEWELKICKER SPEARMANN Futurist Android
- Each plot allows you the standard allotment of prims. Please don't exceed your allotment under any circumstances!
- If you requested a booth space, a booth has been provided for you. If it does not meet your needs, you may have it deleted, but please respect the view of your neighbors when designing your own booths.
- Your display may include a notecard and LM to another location. You may not sell your work here.
- You must be a member of the Second Life Birthday Exhibitors group in order to access The Rock. An effort has been made to group all exhibits by content type. Exhibitor Assistants will have a list available to direct you to your assigned spaces. DO NOT CONTACT YOUR SIM COORDINATOR FOR A GROUP INVITE! They are extremely busy working on other things in an effort to ensure you have the most positive experience possible.
- If you cannot use your space, please IM the group and request help from a Exhibitor Assistant. The Exhibitor Assistant will provide this information to your sim Coordinator.
- Exhibitors have 7 days to claim their land by putting a prim on. June 11th is the last day to claim your land. We will give your land to anther exhibitor on June 12th, if you have not claimed it.
- Please do not ask for an invitation to the group if you are not an exhibitor or assisting an exhibitor. The assistants will be screening all request against a database of applicant names. If you have not been referred by a current exhibitor or have not placed an application that has been received an acceptance letter via email or in-world notecard, you will not be granted access.
Event Staff
If you are thinking of volunteering to work at SL6B, read this: The Second Life Birthday Production Team will be a no-drama zone. It's goal-oriented, get-'er-done work, all accomplished behind the scenes. While it's very fun and satisfying, it is no place for a big ego or someone who needs to be the center of attention or in control. It's collaborative. "Team" is a big word around here; be prepared to work with others and be good at reaching a goal, even if it's not the road you might have chosen if working alone!
Administration, Project Management
- Linden Lab Liaison, Dusty Linden
- Phaylen Fairchild
Estate/Build Out/Exhibits
- Event Design, Phaylen Fairchild
- Lead Architect, Prad Prathivi
- Lead Scripter, Brunswick Warburten
- Hunt Scripter, Gypsy Paz
- Estate Comms, Buckaroo Mu
- Sim Coordinators
- Toxic Menges
- Poid Mahovlich
- Kit Maitland
- Trinity Serpentine
- GUS(Galaxies United Security Bot) Builder
- Allatu Augustus
- GUS (Galazies United Securities Bot) Programmer
- Narz Hax
- Exhibitor Orientation
- Kitty Tandino
- Ginger Marseille
- APinkSwan Beauchamp
- Odessa Dagostino
- Diana Renoir
- CallieDel Boa
- Joslyn Bonetto
- Menolly Riederer
- Shi Streeter
- Moira Seelowe
- Official Baker
- Vivianne OFlynn
- Infrastructure Builders
- Phaylen Fairchild
- Allatu Augustus
- Poid Mahovlich
- Infrastructure Contributors
- Kazuhiro Aridian
- GutterBlood Spoonhammer
- Mantis Oh
- Scope Cleaver
- Cube Republic
- Hern Worsley
- Brunswick Warburten
- Moderators
- Poid Mahovlich
- Doctor Gascoigne
- Marianne Levasseur
- Rails Bailey
- Skye Galileo
- Arian Writer
- Drakon Cortes
- Shawn Masters
- Jezzie McCellan
- Chaos Mohr
Entertainment
- Live Performance Stage, Glimmer Silverstar
- DJ Stages, Jewelkicker Spearmann
- Gage Goodliffe
Publicity
- Baz Ceawlin
- Katier Reitveld
- Catherine Linden
- Blondin Linden
Community Services
- Mentor Coordinator
- Doctor Gascoigne
Event Group
If you would like to keep informed, please join the group "Second Life Birthday" in-world. That will be our primary means of internal communication with the community. Externally, please keep watching the blog for news updates, and this wiki as an information repository.
Historical Links
SL Birthday Events
