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

06/12/2008

Founder's Second Life Name

Brace Coral

(Brace Coral is longer involved in management of NCI. Carl Metropolitan is Executive Director of NCI/New Citizens Incorporated. Please contact him about any issues concerning the NCI groups.)

Total Group Members

• New Citizens Inc. - 3497
• NCI Alumni Association - 731
• NCI Land Holdings - 100
• NCI Board of Directors - 14

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 operates 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 Duchy of Nova Civis (our first entire sim). NCI also manages ten NCI InfoNodes, located near or adjacent to Linden InfoHubs. 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 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.

Mission Focus & Statement

• Main Focus: New Resident Basics

• Other: General Help, Social Events, Games, General Education

Best Practices:

• Locations:

NCI Kuula

• Resources: Blog, Website

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.

Group Related Links

• NCI Website
• NCI Blog