New Citizens Incorporated

NCI/New Citizens Incorporated logo.

Group Name

NCI/New Citizens Incorporated Groups

This Document Is Current As Of

06/30/2009

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. - 9483
NCI Alumni Association - 935
NCI Land Holdings - 163
NCI Board of Directors - 21

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 NCI Caledon at Caledon Oxbridge Village. NCI also manages seventeen 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, an active Community Gateway (Orientation Island). Adjacent to NCI 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 a jerk

Mission Focus & Statement

Main Focus: Help, Education, and Support for New Residents

Best Practices:

NCI Kuula - Kuula

NCI South - Hamnida

NCI Beach - Fishermans Cove

NCI Caledon - Caledon Oxbridge Village

Caledon Oxbridge University

Mahulu InfoHub

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

Caledon Oxbridge Village

NCI Caledon Annex

Caledon Highlands Sim - InfoNode and Classroom

InfoNode Locations

Ambat, Baileya/Hyles, Bay City Centre, Bay City Docklands, Braunworth, Chartreuse/Mauve, Chief/Bear, Clementina, Hanson, Helfell, Istar/Iris, Ominor/Helfell, Mahulu, Maryport/Pooley, Muse Village, Pala, Ross, Warmouth, and Zindra .

Community Gateway (Orientation Island) Location

Caledon Oxbridge

Caledon Oxbridge is a collaboration between NCI and the Independent State of Caledon. It 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.

InfoHub

Mahulu InfoHub

NCI is the resident organization that operates the Linden Lab-owned Mahulu InfoHub. Based on an original build by Karsten Rutledge, the Mahulu InfoHub is both a spawning point for new residents and a home location for old, at the base of Mount G'al. NCI has outfitted Mahulu with help posters and signs grouped into four categories: "How do I learn the basics?", "What can I see & do here?", "Where can I find free stuff?", and "Where can I learn SL skills?" The Mahulu InfoHub is also supported by the adjacent NCI-owned Mahulu InfoNode.

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 - (Vacant)
Deputy Director - Garn Conover
Education Director - Afon Shepherd
Events Director - Gramma Fiddlesticks
AdNode Director - Fr43k Paine
Freebies Director - Blu Laszlo
InfoNode Director - Kaine Lowenstark
Director & Senior Land Officer - Linda Coffee
Director & Senior Land Officer - Beverly Montgomery
Director & Senior Land Officer - Wellington Beam
Director & Senior Land Officer - Peace Smythe (co-Dean of Caledon Oxbridge)
Director & Senior Land Officer - Fogwoman Gray (co-Dean of Caledon Oxbridge)
Director-at-Large - Shawk Pertwee
Director-at-Large - Zi Ree
Director-at-Large - Desmond Shang
Director-at-Large - Yumi Murakami
Director Emeritus - Brace Coral

Senior Land Officers

Kuula - Garn Conover & Beverly Montgomery
Beach - Linda Coffee
South - Wellington Beam
Caledon - Carl Metropolitan
Oxbridge - Fogwoman Gray & Peace Smythe

Board of Directors

Interim Chairman of the Board - Gramma Fiddlesticks
Vice Chairman - Afon Shepherd
Vice Chairman - Garn Conover
Freebies Director - Blu Laszlo
Ad-node Director - Fr43k Paine
Education Director - Afon Shepherd
Events Director - Gramma Fiddlesticks
Acting Chief Financial Officer - Fr43k Paine
Web Services Officer - Lethe Naumova
NCI Helpers Manager - Beverly Montgomery
Training Specialist - Peace Smythe
Public Relations Specialist - Quite Oh
Sr Land Officer NCI Beach - Linda Coffee
Sr Land Officer NCI South - Wellington Beam
Sr. Land Officer NCI Kuula - Beverly Montgomery
Sr, Land Officer NCI Kuula - Garn Conover

Group Documentarians

Garn Conover
Gramma Fiddlestix
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.

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