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We had a great Nonprofit Meeting on January 27, featuring Philippe of the Spoton3D virtual world platform. And the Mentors continued their survey of third party Second Life clients.

The full transcript follows…

Nonprofit Commons Meeting
January 27, 2012, 8:30am PST
Plush Nonprofit Commons Amphitheater

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Plush%20Nonprofit%20Commons/88/126/26

AGENDA

8:30am Introductions

8:40am TechSoup Announcements

8:45am Mentors Corner

8:55am Spoton3D

9:30am OpenMic/ Announcements

INTRODUCTIONS

[08:32] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): I gues s we should get started
[08:33] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): Thanks for joining us at the Nonprofit Commons weekly meetup
[08:33] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): I’m Rik Panganiban, community manager here
[08:33] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): We’re so happy you could join us.
[08:33] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): Every week we gather folks from the nonprofit community, as well as educators, activists, and concerned residents of SL
[08:34] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): Where we talk about news, developments and opportunities that effect nonprofits both here and in the real world
[08:34] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): We had a great speaker today from Spoton3D.
[08:34] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): But first up we have intrductions and some family business
[08:34] Second Life: Coughran Mayo is online.
[08:34] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): Please feel free to introduce yourself in the text chat
[08:34] Buffy Beale: Buffy Bye, Bridges for Women, Victoria, BC Canada http://www.bridgesforwomen.ca @buffyb
[08:35] Zinnia Zauber: Renne Emiko Brock-Richmond, Sequim Humanities and Arts Alliance, Sequim, Washington. http://www.sequimartsalliance.org http://www.facebook.com/sequimartsalliance @renneemiko
[08:35] Chayenn: monique richert , protect yourself 1, inc; Baltimore MD, protectyourself1.org, @PY1US
[08:35] Dancers Yao: Kara Bennett, Elder Voices, Los Angeles, Health Care and Human Rights
[08:35] Adalace Jewell: Coine Van Hellemont, RoSa Library Brussels, Belgium http://www.rosadoc.be @adalace
[08:35] DJ Earnshaw: Don Singleton, Tulsa, OK (DJ Earnshaw, Professor Viper) HelpingTulsa and APCUG, http://snipurl.com/tk41d @donsingleton
[08:35] Gentle Heron: Virtual Ability www.virtualability.org
[08:35] Chad Mikado: Chad Gobert; National Service InclusioChad Gobert; National Service Inclusion Project UMass Boston; www.serviceandinclusion.org;Chad Gobert; National Service Inclusion Project UMass Boston; www.serviceandinclusion.org
[08:35] Second Life: Fatty (eros.foehammer) is offline.
[08:35] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): Philippe Pascal, Marketing & Jack-of-all-trades at SpotON3D, Belgian – phil@spoton3d.com – www.spoton3d.com
[08:35] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): Typically we say our real world name, organization, locaiton in the real world, website and twitter handles. Please share whatever you feel comfortable sharing.
[08:35] Pathfinder Lester: John Lester, Chief Learning Officer, ReactionGrid Inc. Montreal, Quebec. http://about.me/pathfinder
[08:35] Lyssa AskJAN.org (janlyssa.serenity): Lyssa Rowan, Job Accommodation Network http://AskJAN.org @JANatJAN
[08:35] Jen (jenelle.levenque): Bruce Hestley, Transgender American Veterans Association, Akron, OH, http://www.tavausa.org
[08:35] Ozma Malibu: Sandra Andrews, Floaters Org, Arizona, Mexico and On the Road, @ozma
[08:35] Pathfinder Lester: twitter: @pathfinder
[08:35] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): Welcome Philippe!
[08:35] Andy Evans: Andy Mallon, Social Research Foundation http://www.socialresearchfoundation.org
[08:35] alebez: Ale Bezdikian, Online Community Coordinator, TechSoup, @alebez, @techsoup.
[08:35] Ethelred Weatherwax: Dave Dexter, Neenah Historical Society, Wisconsin USA
[08:35] Panny Bakerly: Freeport Historical Society & Museum, Freeport, NY freeporthistorymuseum.org @ffpthissoc
[08:36] bulaklak: Michael DeLong, Online Community Manager, TechSoup, San Francisco, @MichaelDeLongSF, www.techsoup.org
[08:36] Namaara MacMoragh: Gloria Kraegel, nonprofit consultant, on behalf of the Brain Energy Support Team, Tacoma WA USA http://brainenergysupportteam.org (and http://greatkreations.com)
[08:36] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): Ty, pleasure to be here
[08:36] Red (talkwithmarie): Marie C.-talkwithmarie, aka Red., Greater Boston, Girls project/Girl TV/Talk!withmarie, http://youtube.com/girltvlive, http://youtube.com/talkwithmarie, @talkwithmarie
[08:36] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): Rik Panganiban, community manger, Nonprofit Commons / TechSoup, Oakland CA, http://nonprofitcommons.org @npsl @betterverse
[08:36] Zotarah Shepherd: BEACH College, California
[08:37] Second Life: Aki Shichiroji is online.
[08:37] Coughran Mayo: Dick Dillon, Innovaision, LLC St. Louis MO @Coughran, @Innovaision
[08:37] Angelle Marquette: Angèle Lubin, AARISS Innovators RL Space projects with kids
[08:38] Buffy Beale: waves to Ange 🙂
[08:38] Hour Destiny: Morris Cox, Mesquite NV, @morriscox, mentioned Spoton3D at the VWER meeting yesterday.
[08:39] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): thanks Hour
[08:39] Sarvana Haalan: Sally S. Cherry, MT(ASCP) Baltimore, MD – http://Twitter.com/SarVana
[08:39] Hour Destiny: You’re welcome.
[08:39] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): anyone else?

TECHSOUP UPDATES

[08:40] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): If not we should move on to updates from TechSoup the founder of the Nonprofit Commons.
[08:40] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): Bulaklaklaklaklak?
[08:40] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): go ahead sir
[08:40] Buffy Beale: yayy Bulaklak!
[08:40] bulaklak: Hi, I am TechSoup! The founder of the commons.
[08:40] Iona Geordi (nancy.hilltop): just looking for a new charity to donate to sounds like i got a lot to pick from
[08:40] bulaklak: heh sorry
[08:40] bulaklak: Hi, all!
[08:40] Red (talkwithmarie): hi
[08:41] Anan Glasswing (ananglasswing): Nana Simopoulos from Topia Arts Center www.topiaarts.org
[08:41] Coughran Mayo: Ah, the Talking Tech Soup, awesome
[08:41] bulaklak: So I wanted to tell you about a new initiative we have on our Twitter account.
[08:41] Anan Glasswing (ananglasswing): hi everyone.
[08:41] Second Life: only in sl (viale.linden) is online.
[08:41] bulaklak: We were recently inspired by @Sweden, which is the official Twitter feed of the country
[08:41] bulaklak: They have a different citizen tweet for each week
[08:41] bulaklak: So…we now have community members taking over our Twitter once a week on Thursdays
[08:42] bulaklak: Yesterday was our inagurul day
[08:42] Hour Destiny: That could be interesting…
[08:42] bulaklak: With our longtime volunteer Jayne Cravens
[08:42] Jen (jenelle.levenque): I saw that on Facebook
[08:42] bulaklak: It was really a lot of fun and was great to have that fresh energy
[08:42] Sarvana Haalan: awesome
[08:42] Buffy Beale: interesting bulaklak, so you have a volunteer once a week?
[08:42] bulaklak: She did a fantastic job of switching up the voice, highlighting certain issues (volunteerism and accessibility to be exact), and making new connections for us
[08:43] bulaklak: We look forward to many more of such instances in the months ahead
[08:43] bulaklak: REad more about it here
[08:43] bulaklak: http://bit.ly/ts-cmnty-tweets
[08:43] bulaklak: And look for a write-up soon of lessons learned and highlights
[08:44] bulaklak: I also wanted to say we are super excited to officially launch the third annual Digital Storytelling Challenge next week
[08:44] bulaklak: We’ve been talking about it here for a while
[08:44] Coughran Mayo: /me wonders what we ever do with those “lessons learned”?
[08:44] bulaklak: Our first webinar is next week
[08:44] bulaklak: Heh, good point Coghran
[08:44] bulaklak: they sit on a wiki somewhere
[08:44] bulaklak: anyway
[08:44] bulaklak: Our first webinar covers Pre Production
[08:44] bulaklak: Everything you need to know before you press record
[08:45] bulaklak: You can register for all three webinars here
[08:45] bulaklak: http://bit.ly/yWwhJF
[08:45] bulaklak: They’re all free, of course
[08:45] bulaklak: And they are all on Thursdays at 11am
[08:45] bulaklak: Pacifc
[08:45] Flight Band: All Go
[08:45] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): awesome!
[08:45] Hour Destiny: Coughran, look for a Nuggets section on the Wiki in the future. 😀
[08:45] bulaklak: Lastly I want to call out the culmination of a big project for TechSoup
[08:46] bulaklak: We’ve been working closely with Microsoft on this really neat impact map
[08:46] bulaklak: It shows amazing stories globally of how technology helps NGOs achieve their missions
[08:46] bulaklak: We’ve been entering stories and tweaking things these last few months
[08:46] bulaklak: And now it’s up on TechSoup
[08:46] bulaklak: It’s really pretty cool so please do go look at it
[08:47] bulaklak: http://bit.ly/wdgi71
[08:47] bulaklak: Thanks, all! It’s great to see you as always.
[08:47] Flight Band: All Go
[08:47] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): thanks to you at the NPC who submitted our stories
[08:47] bulaklak: Oh that’s right!
[08:47] Iona Geordi (nancy.hilltop): if your charity has a website with an event calendar with events in world even if i don’t pick your charity i might come to some of the events
[08:47] bulaklak: Some of thsoe storires came from here.
[08:48] bulaklak: Everyone have a great weekend!
[08:48] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): thanks bulaklak

MENTORS CORNER

[08:48] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): And now to our ever popular Mentors Corner
[08:48] Second Life: James at Lloud (lloud.laffer) is offline.
[08:48] Second Life: Trill Zapatero is online.
[08:48] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): Mentors come on down if youa re presenting
[08:48] Zinnia Zauber: We have Sarvana today sharing the Imprudence Viewer!
[08:48] Second Life: James at Lloud (lloud.laffer) is online.
[08:49] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): the Mentors are our crack team of volunteer helpers at the NPC
[08:49] Zinnia Zauber: Rah Sarvana!
[08:49] Red (talkwithmarie): Yay Sar!!!
[08:49] Flight Band: All Go
[08:49] Gentle Heron: YAY Sarvana!
[08:49] Buffy Beale: that’s great Nancy
[08:49] Buffy Beale: cheering for Sar!!!
[08:49] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): cool
[08:49] Second Life: Aki Shichiroji is offline.
[08:50] Sarvana Haalan: Hello
[08:50] Namaara MacMoragh: 🙂
[08:51] Buffy Beale: Hi ther Namaara 🙂
[08:51] Buffy Beale: oops Sar are you crashing I wonder?
[08:51] Namaara MacMoragh: hi Buffy
[08:51] Zinnia Zauber: She looks like it.
[08:51] Zinnia Zauber: oh!
[08:51] Buffy Beale: whew, made it lol nice going Sar
[08:52] Sarvana Haalan: I am stil adusting to Windows 7
[08:52] Second Life: Aki Shichiroji is online.
[08:52] Sarvana Haalan: ok
[08:52] Sarvana Haalan: Hello everyone
[08:53] Sarvana Haalan: As a regular user of Imprudence Viewer I di want to share i with ou
[08:53] Anan Glasswing (ananglasswing): I was not able to open up the SL browser so I am on my pocket MV. how do I look?
[08:53] Second Life: Rhiannon Chatnoir is online.
[08:54] Second Life: Mariagra Lamplight is online.
[08:54] Zotarah Shepherd: Mostly invisible to me ana
[08:54] Buffy Beale: look ing gooood
[08:54] Sarvana Haalan: First a bird’s view… Imprudence 1.4:
URL: http://www.imprudenceviewer.org/
Last release?: 2011-09
Code Lineage: LL Snowglobe 1.5
Language: License: “C++, GPL”
Supported Platforms: “Windows, Mac, Linux”
Stability in SL: High
Stability in OSgrid: High
Graphics support: Standard + Shadows
Avatar support: standard SL avatar
Plugins:
Max Cache /Bandwidth: 1 GB / 5000 Kbps
CLIENT NAME / index: Imprudence 1.2.1
Audio supported: Yes
Video support: Yes
Voice support: Yes
Text-to-Speech: No
Player Song Info: Yes
Import/Export: Yes
Chat translator: No
Multi-grid support: Good
Client-Side Scripting: No
[08:54] Sarvana Haalan: as comared to SL Viewer
[08:55] Sarvana Haalan: SL Viewer 2.1.1
URL: http://bit.ly/secondlife-vwr
Last release?: 2010-08
Code Lineage: LL
Language: License: “C++, LGPL”
Supported Platforms: “Linux, Mac (intel only), Windows”
Stability in SL: Medium
Stability in OSgrid:
Graphics support: Standard + Shadows
Avatar support: standard SL avatar
Plugins: LL media plugins
Max Cache /Bandwidth: 1 GB / 5000 Kbps
CLIENT NAME / index: SL Viewer 2.1.1
Audio supported: Yes
Video support: Yes
Voice support: Yes
Text-to-Speech: No
Player Song Info: No
Import/Export: No
Chat translator: Yes
Multi-grid support: Yes
Client-Side Scripting: No
[08:55] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): no mesh support?
[08:55] Second Life: Aki Shichiroji is offline.
[08:55] Zotarah Shepherd: I use Imprudence for OS ok.
[08:56] Second Life: Aki Shichiroji is online.
[08:56] Rhiannon Chatnoir: I do as well
[08:56] Second Life: Fatty (eros.foehammer) is online.
[08:56] Sarvana Haalan: I ufrom what I .. no… may be others kn ow therewise
[08:57] Sarvana Haalan: I use it for OS… Kitely, JokaydiaGRID, ReactionGRID etc
[08:57] Sarvana Haalan: The only problem
[08:57] Second Life: Error: Invalid String (signpostmarv.martin) is online.
[08:57] Second Life: Veri Oddfellow is online.
[08:57] Second Life: Fatty (eros.foehammer) is offline.
[08:57] Sarvana Haalan: I just upgraded to a newer computer… it has Windows 7 and It has been a difficult switch
[08:57] Hour Destiny: http://blog.kokuaviewer.org/2011/09/27/why-doesnt-imprudence-have-multil…
[08:58] Second Life: RJ Muni is online.
[08:58] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): I’mwearing mesh now for example
[08:58] Rhiannon Chatnoir: there are quite a few of the library avatars that are mesh
[08:58] Rhiannon Chatnoir: here in SL
[08:58] Second Life: Aki Shichiroji is offline.
[08:58] Sarvana Haalan: I did preparea noteard… with more info
[08:59] Sarvana Haalan: About Imprudence
http://wiki.kokuaviewer.org/wiki/Imprudence:Downloads

Imprudence is an open source metaverse viewer project based on the Second Life Viewer source.

The goal of Imprudence is to greatly improve the usability of the Viewer through community involvement, thoughtful design, modern development methods, and a pro-change atmosphere.

The latest source code for the Imprudence Viewer is always available on their Github project.

License
All code is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2.0 (plus a special exception). See LICENSE-source.txt for details.

Features of the Imprudence viewers
Imprudence has many features and improvements over the regular Second Life viewer, including countless user interface improvements and numerous OpenSim-specific features and fixes.

Stable Release Features
In the stable releases of the Imprudence viewer they have included the features below.

Please note that the list is not complete.

Avatar appearance
[08:59] Zotarah Shepherd: Mesh avatars usually look like big doughnuts to me
[08:59] Second Life: Aki Shichiroji is online.
[09:00] Sarvana Haalan: Right now… everyone is still gray…. So Windows 7 and Imprudence for me is lukewarm
[09:00] Veri Oddfellow: Brad Lewis, Great STrides, Maryland, US http://www.GreatStrides.org
[09:01] Sarvana Haalan: I do prefer Imprudence
[09:01] Rhiannon Chatnoir: there is a nice viewer comparison list available as a google doc that has some of these features of one vs another https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlcKaO7Zo-3UdEx3N1NkWFVNd3l…
[09:01] Second Life: Aki Shichiroji is offline.
[09:01] Sarvana Haalan: It great for my hypergrid jumping adventures
[09:01] Buffy Beale: that’s great thanks Rhi
[09:01] Hour Destiny: I’m using Radegast at the moment. Btw, you can move around while in 3D Scene.
[09:02] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): awesome Rhi!
[09:02] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): ok we’re running a bit overtime
[09:02] Sarvana Haalan: Yes… I may have to switch to another viewer if the problems with windows 7 continue
[09:03] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): can you summarize Sarvana?
[09:03] Sarvana Haalan: ok… I will send you th enotecard to distribute
[09:03] Second Life: Widget Whiteberry is online.
[09:03] Zinnia Zauber: Wonderful Sar! Thank you so much!
[09:03] Sarvana Haalan: The use of a viewer should depend on your preference and in-world task
[09:03] Sarvana Haalan: Thank
[09:03] Sarvana Haalan: you
[09:04] Red (talkwithmarie): Great Sar! thx.
[09:04] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): thanks sarvana
[09:04] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): I think impurudence has the best logo btw
[09:04] Sarvana Haalan: indeed
[09:04] Buffy Beale: thanks Sar
[09:04] Buffy Beale: QUESTION: Is there any security risk with Imprudence?
[09:04] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): philippe can you come on down please?
[09:04] Gentle Heron: Thanks for the comparison, Sarvana.
[09:05] Buffy Beale: or we an talk about it following this meeting at the Mentor’s meeting 🙂

SPOTON3D VIRTUAL WORLD PLATFORM

[09:05] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): everyone please welcome Philippe Pascal of Spoton3D
[09:05] Buffy Beale: Yayyy Philippe!
[09:05] Gentle Heron: Hello Philippe and welcome.
[09:05] Sarvana Haalan: Thanks to th eMentors for your support!!
[09:05] Hour Destiny: Buffy, all software has security risks, really.
[09:05] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): Goodevening all – thank you very much for this opportunity – It’s good to see you all.
[09:05] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): He’s graciously come to join us today from Belgium to talk about their new VW platform
[09:05] Sarvana Haalan: Hello Philippe
[09:05] Second Life: Pooky Amsterdam is offline.
[09:05] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): Philippe why don’t you introduce yourself while I bring up your slides?
[09:06] Zinnia Zauber: Welcome Philippe!
[09:07] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): Thanks Rik – Hi All, I’m Philippe Pascal from SpotON3D. I’ve been with them for the last couple of years as a business consultant, and those following the happenings at SpotON3D will probably have noticed that over the last few months I’m the marketing troll there „ã°
[09:07] Panny Bakerly: /me giggles…troll
[09:07] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): I’m here today to present you some of our key-values, and those aspects of VW’s where we think we can offer you an advantage as being nonprofit or educator
[09:08] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): Please do feel free to poke me anytime during the presentation with questions or comments – Concerning the poking; using something sharp for best results
[09:08] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): Before we start zooming into the specific features and advantages SpotON3D has to offer to non-profits and educators, let’s do a quick outline of what SpotON3D actually is. Founded in 2008, this Web World provider has based its services on Open Sim.
[09:08] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): It’s important to underline it’s “based” on Open Sim, as all along the way SpotON3D has in-house developed numerous add-ons, features and improvements to the point where the greater part of our engine has been fully developed by ourselves.
[09:09] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): We strongly believe in the three pillars SpotON3D has been based up on since day 1; relevance, reliability and security. Allow me to illustrate these with a few quick examples.
[09:10] Second Life: Widget Whiteberry is offline.
[09:10] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): Relevance; for each new feature we create, relevance to our target group is an absolute priority. We had the option to go full-out for Mesh-implementation, or to create a higher level of accessibility by allowing them to log in through their trusted social networks. We strongly believed that creating an easier way of accessing our Web Worlds was more relevant, and have in meanwhile proudly launched our World on a Webpage.
[09:10] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): Good to note here is that although this World on a Webpage plug-in was a priority for us, Mesh-Implementation is also to follow.
[09:11] Second Life: Doug (maccus.mccullough) is online.
[09:11] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): Reliability not just for 30 people per region – but a steady, scalable and reliable solution for up to 125 avatars per region. Our cloud-serviced products (BoostCloud) are one of our flag ships, and are continuously being improved.
[09:12] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): We do persuade a higher amount of fully functional avatars per region, and are confidant to be able to announce a higher limit soon. Reliability also in the sense of automated back-ups, and making sure that even in worst case scenarios we got a build-in damage control.
[09:12] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): Security, not only for our users, but also for copyrighted materials. SpotON3D does not only has a strong build-in protection for intellectual property, we’re also proud to mention we’ve got an exclusive agreement with virtual courthouse.com. This allows us to mediate and arbiter using “brick&mortar” professionals for a very affordable pricing for all parties.
[09:13] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): nice use case!
[09:13] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): Also child security is high up on our priority list; adults are automatically verified through their paypal accounts and there’s always action required to be able to visit the optional Good4Grownup areas on our grid.
[09:13] Hour Destiny: Maybe have a sort of Hacker Challenge. That might find a lot of issues.
[09:14] Hour Destiny: What if they cannot get PayPal accounts?
[09:14] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): Good question Hour
[09:15] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): We’ve found that often it seems to be the case that parents or guardians keep their paypal passwords safer than their actual credit cards – which is why at this point we work this way. We are however investigating other secure ways of allowing people to verifu themselves and to take part in the in-world economy
[09:15] Second Life: Aki Shichiroji is online.
[09:15] Second Life: Yan Lauria is online.
[09:15] Second Life: Yan Lauria is offline.
[09:16] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): Then to come to the main course of this presentation; SpotON3D’s features, products and services for Non-Profits. Let’s start with digging up those things we developed to make your life easier.
[09:16] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): As said before, the World on a Webpage app allows your visitors to log-in from their trusted social networks without the need of a standalone viewer. This application will in the future also be made available as an embeddable object for your own websites, allowing your users to log in directly from your own website using their favorite browser.
[09:16] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): wow!
[09:17] Second Life: bulaklak is offline.
[09:17] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): The advantage of social networks in this is that there’s a lot of steps one can skip in the registration process as the social network will fill that out for you.
[09:17] Hour Destiny: That’ll help with retention.
[09:17] Hour Destiny: Not to mention tech support.
[09:17] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): However, for SpotON3D making Web Worlds easier to use doesn’t stop there. Our team has also developed a set of ready-to-go tools for presentations and collaboration in-world, which we’ve called the “EzPrezTools”.
[09:18] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): This kit contains presentation boards, display boards and a black board, supporting all of the most popular file formats, from Word files to images to powerpoint presentations; these all can be uploaded with the same ease you’d upload them to facebook through our build-in web window. There’s no need to export them into a graphical format before uploading, and they’re useable within a matter of minutes within our Web Worlds.
[09:19] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): Many of our services that are optional, like the EzPrezTools are managed through a website, which works in the build-in web window. That also allows us to offer better guidance on how to use these features.
[09:19] Second Life: Doug (maccus.mccullough) is offline.
[09:20] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): Another great advantage of our build-in Web Window is that your users will never need to switch screens to view certain content you’d like to see them on the internet. When an internet link in our Web Worlds is clicked, a fully functional browser will open within the viewer software. This also allows easy browsing of our build-in eCommerce platform, which I will talk more about later on.
[09:20] Second Life: Doug (maccus.mccullough) is online.
[09:20] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): For an ever higher level of easy and secure accessibility by your users, you can even have them skip the registration process by creating their avatars for them. Professional users can get a so-called “Power Key Account” for this, and can create usernames and passwords for each individual user’s avatar. Also important to point out here is that you can fully configure their access rights, and define the types of content they can access. We believe this is an important advantage for educators, since you can make sure that in this way your students cannot access any Good4Grownup content.
[09:21] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): We also have a fully functional cloud service available in SpotON3D, which we call “BoostCloud Technology”. This technology allows you to host up to 125 avatars per region, for a low hourly fee. You can request your region to be cloud serviced though ATM’s we have available in world, and you only pay for the amount of time it’s needed. Although the current limit is 125 avatars per region, I’m happy to announce that this limit will soon be raised.
[09:22] Second Life: Chayenn is offline.
[09:22] Hour Destiny: Does the inworld browser block ads?
[09:22] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): Quick remark – those ATM’s do bring up the build-in web window from where you can configure everything
[09:23] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): As far as I know, it doesn’t. But since it’s a viewer build by our team, I’m sure that if that should be something necessary, we should be able to configure such thing for you. I can’t say that for 100% sure though, as I’m not a techy but the marketing troll – kinda the lowest in the food chain 😉
[09:24] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): Then to come to the HotSwap Scenes – There’s also no need to have several sims in SpotON3D if you require to have several region builds up and running. SpotON3D has developed a system we baptized “HotSwap Scenes”, which allows you to swap out full region builds with only a click of a mouse. This is a subscription based service, and you can use this with either your own region builds, or with regions created by sim developers which you can buy through our integrated eCommerce site “Spotonsynergy”.
[09:24] Second Life: Widget Whiteberry is online.
[09:25] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): All trades of in-world content are done through SpotONSynergy, to assure an optimal security of content and to make buying content easier. You do not need to click multiple times on vendors because they work differently compared to the store where you were before; once you know how to use SpotONSynergy, you can buy in any store on the SpotON3D grid using the same purchase process. Also SpotONSynergy has a build-in protection for minors, shielding off Good4Grownups-rated content if your avatar does not have access rights to this type of content.
[09:25] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): Another feature of SpotONSynergy is our multiple-grid delivery system. Content bought on SpotONSynergy cannot only be delivered to any of the SpotON3D Web Worlds, but can also be delivered to Second Life, if the merchant used our “Double Dutch Delivery”-system.
[09:26] Second Life: Widget Whiteberry is offline.
[09:26] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): This universal marketplace system fits in with the SpotON3D philosophy of the “universal avatar”. SpotON3D has indeed got several Web Worlds, each facilitating its own micro-community dedicated or based around a certain subject. However; each avatar created in SpotON3D is able to teleport from one Web World to another, carrying along all of its assets in its inventory.
[09:26] Hour Destiny: Maybe companies like Microsoft will make their products available in-world, including via TechSoup. 🙂
[09:27] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): I’m happy you brought that up – I nearly forgot to say that our team is able to team up with other ecoomerce sites to allow you to ie. buy real software with our inworld currency, and download it through Spotonsynergy.
[09:28] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): nice
[09:28] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): Going back to the universal avatar – This means that you can go to work in our BizGrid Web World which is solely dedicated to businesses, afterwards teleport to EduMerge to take some after-work courses and end your day by visiting one of the live music gigs in one of our recreational Web Worlds. There’s no need to separately login – you teleport from one Web World to the other with the same ease as teleporting from one region to another.
[09:28] Hour Destiny: I can read people’s minds…
[09:28] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): /me desperatly looks for his tinfoil hat
[09:28] Buffy Beale: lol
[09:28] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): Important to note here is that when required, we can shield off this functionality. If you’re for example an educator running its own private Web World, we can make sure that your students cannot visit any other Web Worlds of ours with their avatars. More about private label web worlds to follow later on.
[09:29] Second Life: Pathfinder Lester is offline.
[09:29] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): lets show your final slides so people can ask questions
[09:29] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): ok „ã°
[09:30] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): So – quickly going through these – There’s various other “goodies” for our users – ranging from less limits to a few things we changed in the building process – larger prims, no linking distance, and linksets that can exceed 256 prims.
[09:30] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): We also got an alternative for what in here is Linden Homes – which we’ve called our “PodPads”.
[09:31] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): Then, last but not least – our range of land products
[09:31] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): Parcels and 4 types of regions are available in any Web World of ours – and as said earlier; you can have your own fully functional Web World.
[09:32] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): There’s an action going currently that if you give us a good idea and a basic business plan – we might partner up with you, sponsoring you by giving you a ready to go Web World.
[09:33] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): that’s a lot of great features in your produce, philippe
[09:33] Hour Destiny: Like a 3D Shopping MMO for real and virtual products?
[09:33] Rhiannon Chatnoir: do you have a link to that iniative
[09:33] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): Only thing left for me to say is to thank you all very much for your time – it’s been a pleasure giving you this quick presentation of about Spoton3D. I’m happy to take any questions, and off course also happy to talk to you. You can contact me anytime here in-world, by e-mail at phil@spoton3d.com or on skype by adding me. (skype-alias: ppmediadev).
[09:33] Iona Geordi (nancy.hilltop): if you could get me cheaper land i would think about it
[09:34] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): Rhiannon – would you mind sending me your email address – then I’d be most happy to send you all information about that.
[09:34] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): Yes Hour – that’s one of the things we consider possible even on short term
[09:34] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): Thanks Rik – and thank you all. Hope you’ll all have a wonderful weekend.
[09:34] Buffy Beale: QUESTION: Do you give a price break for Nonprofits or Social Benefit orgs?
[09:34] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): that was a lot of content
[09:35] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): Yes Buffy – those do depend on quantity. But I’m most happy to send you more information.
[09:35] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): Alternative to Buffy’s question: what kind of budget to get started should a nonprofit or educator look at?
[09:36] Buffy Beale: ok, thanks ppmediadev, I’ll follow up with you on that
[09:36] Sarvana Haalan: Thanks for sharing
[09:36] Buffy Beale: great question RIk
[09:36] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): That’s a though one to answer Rik, depends on their needs and whether they want to get started with a few regions or a whole web world. Region pricing starts at 30usd/month, Private Web Worlds we need to price per case
[09:37] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): that sounds very reasonable
[09:37] Second Life: RJ Muni is offline.
[09:37] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): Any other burning questions while we have Philippe here with us?
[09:37] Iona Geordi (nancy.hilltop): i pay 17.95 for premium with a free linden home 512 plot then 1024 plot could you do that cheaper
[09:37] Hour Destiny: Any estimates on ROI?
[09:38] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): If someone wants to arrange a Spoton3D tour, I’m sure others woulld want to join
[09:38] Buffy Beale: QUESTION: can you configure an avatar similar to Second Life or is there just the ones to pick from?
[09:38] Buffy Beale: *are there the default clothing or shape for instance
[09:38] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): You can configure your avatar as you please – though in business oriented worlds for example, we will ask you to be “human”
[09:38] Buffy Beale: what??? lol
[09:38] Red (talkwithmarie): hehe
[09:38] Buffy Beale: c’mon that’s old school thinking 🙂
[09:39] Buffy Beale: suits and tie stuff lol
[09:39] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): There is a series of default avatars to start from, and at each landing point you can go freebie hunting
[09:39] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): well – we’ve found that many rl business people are scared seeing a tiny 😉
[09:39] Buffy Beale: yes, but they’ll soon be out of the workforce
[09:39] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): hehe
[09:39] Zotarah Shepherd: Can you design and import textures?
[09:39] Buffy Beale: 🙂
[09:39] Gentle Heron: Philippe, many RL business types are scared seeing a human in a wheelchair. Let’s educate them!
[09:40] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): Yes – texture imports are free
[09:40] Buffy Beale: that’s great ppmediadev
[09:40] Red (talkwithmarie): awesome idea Gentle:)
[09:40] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): Unfortunatly – I know that too well Gentle
[09:40] Hour Destiny: I can just see hundreds of people in wheelchairs going thru businesses…
[09:41] Buffy Beale: It’s always amazing to me how people try to turn the virtual world into the real world mirror instead of taking advantage of the new media
[09:41] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): If you have further questions or inquirires get in touch with Philippe here or via email
[09:41] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): Let’s thank him for joining us today!
[09:41] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): phil@spoton3d.com
[09:41] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): Thank you all
[09:41] Buffy Beale: clapping, great presentation ppmediadev, thanks!
[09:41] Gentle Heron: Thank you Phil. Tons of info.
[09:41] James at Lloud (lloud.laffer): Thank you Phillipe
[09:41] Zotarah Shepherd: How about scripting objects, animations?
[09:41] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): WOOT!!!!!
[09:41] Second Life: Brena Benoir is online.
[09:41] Hour Destiny: Thanks, Phillppe.
[09:42] Zinnia Zauber: Thank you! This was great!!
[09:42] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): FYI next week we feature Fearless Nation PTSD support, which recently moved most of their operations from SL over to Spoton3D
[09:42] alebez: This was a great look into what SpoOn3D has in the works! Thank you Philippe. If you would like to continue this conversation, please visit our TechSoup forum thread here: http://bit.ly/w5h0y5This was a great look into what SpoOn3D has in the works! Thank you Philippe. If you would like to continue this conversation, please visit our TechSoup forum thread here: http://bit.ly/w5h0y5
[09:42] alebez: yea, excuse the double double
[09:42] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): Also Rockcliffe U has been holding classes in Spoton3D
[09:43] Sarvana Haalan: cool
[09:43] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): Any other nonprofits to mention, philippe?
[09:43] Hour Destiny: Maybe list the organizations on the website?
[09:44] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): That’s a good idea, ty
[09:44] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): yes, there are
[09:44] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): Purdue University, Applied Creative Training
[09:45] James at Lloud (lloud.laffer): bye all – time to work :O
[09:45] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): K12 Edu
[09:45] Second Life: James at Lloud (lloud.laffer) is offline.
[09:46] Hour Destiny: Wonder if NASA might be interested.

OPEN MIC ANNOUNCEMENTS

[09:46] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): Okay we should move on to our final agenda item: open mic accouncements
[09:46] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): Please indicate if you would like to announce something and I will call on you.
[09:47] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): while you do that, let me netion all the ways youcan find the NPC on the interwebs….
[09:47] Gentle Heron: I have three.
[09:47] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): Here are the many ways to can get involved with the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life:

Nonprofit Commons blog: http://nonprofitcommons.org
Twitter: http://twitter.com/npsl
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nonprofitcommons

Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/TechSoup-Second-Life
Google Calendar: http://bit.ly/2tMEYh
Wiki: http://npsl.wikispaces.com

About TechSoup:
http://www.techsoup.org/tools/howtousetechsoup/
http://flavors.me/techsoup
http://flavors.me/nonprofitcommons

Weekly Networking Event: Wharf Ratz, Aloft, Tuesdays, 7-9pm SLT
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Aloft%20Nonprofit%20Commons/168/22…

Monthly Networking Event (3rd Thursday):
Common Ground, Plush, 5PM-7PM SLT
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Plush%20Nonprofit%20Commons/128/22…
[09:47] Gentle Heron: Rik, I have three events on Saturday to announce.
[09:47] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): got it gentle. anyone else?
[09:47] Second Life: Fleep Tuque is offline.
[09:48] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): ok go ahead gentle
[09:48] Gentle Heron: Virtual Ability has three public events on Saturday. WHEW! I’ll do a quick list.
[09:48] Gentle Heron: Human Factors and Universal Design: Light, dark,sound, and noise

Presenter: Julie (Lolli) Bluebird

SATURDAY January 28, 5:30 am SLT
or
SUNDAY January 29, 5:30 pm SLT

The Sojourner Auditorium, Virtual Ability
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Virtual%20Ability/53/172/23

Introduction to the effects of light, dark, sound and noise in our home environments; the pros and cons and what we can do to help ourselves.
[09:48] Sarvana Haalan: wooot, woot… Gentle
[09:48] Gentle Heron: of interest to Europeans:
[09:48] Gentle Heron: The Internal Market for Assistive ICT – Final report by the European Union

PRESENTER: Carla Broek

SATURDAY January 28, noon SLT/PST

The Sojourner Auditorium, Virtual Ability
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Virtual%20Ability/53/172/23
[09:49] Gentle Heron: This study provides an analysis of the internal European market for inclusive and assistive ICT (information and communication technologies), the different roles and stakeholders as well as legislative aspects, with an emphasis on the different approaches of nine EU Member States providing support to people with disabilities to acquire the adequate assistive ICT.
[09:49] Buffy Beale: fanstatic and yay Carla!
[09:49] Gentle Heron: Carla is a brain tumor survivor, by the way!
[09:49] Gentle Heron: Both of these events this Saturday are part of an experiment Virtual Ability is doing with “distributed conferences.” Our conference title is Waiting for the World to Change, and we draw our topics from the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Our presenters for this conference are spread out over two months. So far we are very satisfied with our results.
[09:49] Gentle Heron: Our third public event is an Art Tour. One of our community members, Nutron Ornitz, a double amputee, loves checking out artists in SL, and he takes us on tours to meet and talk with them. This one will be to the studio of Winter Nightfire, whom some of you already know.
[09:50] Gentle Heron: VAI Art Tour- Winter Nightfire

SATURDAY, January 28, 4 pm SLT

Winter’s Gallery, Hotel Chelsea, NYC
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lanestris/110/222/99
(Mature sim)

Winter Nightfire is a self-taught abstract-expressionist painter from San Francisco.
[09:50] Rhiannon Chatnoir: yes
[09:50] Zinnia Zauber: Rah Winter!
[09:50] Gentle Heron: Although our research within our community members shows they don’t typically use social media to communicate about SL, our media contacts do, so we’re setting up a blog to showcase our weekly events. You can get a sneak peek at this blog here: blog.virtualability.org

Thanks everyone.
[09:50] Buffy Beale: Yayy Winter she’s great!
[09:50] Chad Mikado: Neat events!
[09:50] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): thanks gentle
[09:50] Gentle Heron: (finally done!)
[09:50] Buffy Beale: nice going Gentle
[09:50] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): wow great to see all of these events
[09:50] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): anyone else before we finish up here?
[09:50] Zinnia Zauber: Awesome!
[09:51] Zinnia Zauber: me
[09:51] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): go zinnia
[09:51] Zinnia Zauber: Just a reminder to get your Red on for CommonGround Feb 16!
[09:51] Zinnia Zauber: Start finding something to wear NOW!
[09:51] Zinnia Zauber: Thank you!
[09:51] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): nice
[09:51] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): And Mentors are meeting right after this meeting?
[09:52] Zinnia Zauber: yes!
[09:52] Zinnia Zauber: Mentors meeting at 10 SLT. Go get some more tea!
[09:52] alebez: Just another reminder – if you would like to continue this conversation, please visit our TechSoup forum thread here: http://bit.ly/w5h0y5
[09:52] Buffy Beale: I see lot’s of new folks here today, so a reminder we meet here every week at 8:30 AM Second Life time
[09:52] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): stick around if you need help with anything related to SL
[09:52] Andy Evans: Rik, may I say something about our upcoming non profit event here?
[09:52] Buffy Beale: and for our Mentor meeting all are welcome to say if you have any questions or need any help
[09:53] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): otherwise, we’ll see you next week here at the same time!
[09:53] Buffy Beale: er stay even 🙂
[09:53] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): thanks for coming everyone and have a great friday
[09:53] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): Thank you all again. Wishing you a wonderful weekend, and I will follow up with everyone that poked me with their email addresses. Unfortunatly I’m gonna need to go and get dinner ready before the mrs decide to eat me.
[09:53] Second Life: Panny Bakerly is offline.
[09:53] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): special thanks to Philippe for joining us !
[09:53] Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker): Ciao all – take good care. „ã°
[09:53] Buffy Beale: lol ppmediadev best run
[09:54] Buffy Beale: oh, a question will the slides be available on the web?
[09:54] Hour Destiny: Buffy, I mentioned the SpotOn3D presentation in the VWER group, which apparently brought some of them here.
[09:54] Buffy Beale: nice going Hour
[09:54] Buffy Beale: dang, meant to ask about the slide availability earlier
[09:54] Andy Evans: Rik, may I say something about our upcoming non profit event here?
[09:55] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): andy we’re done but thats fine
[09:55] Andy Evans: The Social Research Foundation in cooperation with Gentle Heron at Virtual Ability islands will hold two Comedy Fundarising events called “Can You Top This?” where participants compete telling jokes. Each first purchases (that’s the donation) a LAUGH BOX we created which produces different laughter sounds after each joke depending on how well they like it. Please contact me Andy Evans for exact times.
[09:55] Second Life: alebez is offline.
[09:55] Buffy Beale: wow that’s great Andy, when is it?
[09:56] Andy Evans: next Friday FEb 3 in the evening and Saturday afernoon
[09:56] Andy Evans: exact tmes tbd shortly
[09:56] Second Life: Philippe Pascal (ppmediadev.blinker) is offline.
[09:56] Buffy Beale: ok well come again next week and announce it again if you’d like 🙂
[09:56] Andy Evans: tyvm
[09:56] Buffy Beale: 🙂
[09:57] Buffy Beale: have a delightful weekend everyone, see you next week if you’re not at the Mentor’s meeting in a few minutes
[09:57] Second Life: Panny Bakerly is online.
[09:57] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): gotta run. I’ll be around passively for teh Mentors meeting hopefully
[09:57] Buffy Beale: ok Rik, thanks
[09:57] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): take care all!

Written by: rikomatic

This Friday January 27, the Nonprofit Commons welcomes the folks from Spoton3D to our weekly meetup. Spoton3D is a new virtual world platform that combines several of the advantages of client-based 3D worlds like Second Life and web-based social networks. Nonprofit groups like Fearless Nation and RockCliffe University have been using Spoton3D for meetings, conferences and classes. So if you are curious about this virtual platform, come on by.

Also this week, the Mentors continue their lessons about third-party Second Life clients, TechSoup updates us on opportunities for nonprofits, and the ever popular open mic! See you at the Plush Nonprofit Commons amphitheater this Friday starting at 8:30am PT.

Nonprofit Commons Meeting

January 27, 2012, 8:30am PST

Plush Nonprofit Commons Amphitheater

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Plush%20Nonprofit%20Commons/131/225/26

AGENDA

8:30am Introductions

8:40am TechSoup Announcements

8:45am Mentors Corner

8:55am Spoton3D

9:30am OpenMic/ Announcements

Written by: rikomatic

Last Friday, January 20, at the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life, we had a great conversation about the proposed SOPA / PIPA legislation that would impose stiff penalties on websites and internet services that posted links to alleged copyrighted content. About 45 avatars crowded into the NPC amphitheater to share their views on bills before the US Congress, and the potential impact on the internet, free expression, and virtual worlds.

Thanks to the 45 avatars who came to participate!

Here’s a summary of the some of the key points and links for further information and commentary.

Links to basic info, news and external commentary about SOPA / PIPA:

• Library of Congress: actual text and summary of SOPA
• CNN
• Wikipedia
• Boing Boing commentary
• Propublica on SOPA and US Congresspeople
• Clay Shirky TED Talk on SOPA
• New World Notes on Second Life and Sopa

General commentary on SOPA / PIPA:

• Glitteractica Cookie: well, we [TechSoup] are not pro PIPA or SOPA that’s for sure… but we technically are a non-politically affiliated org

• In Kenzo: Here in Hollywood as for many media people and producers this is a difficult issue, pitting people against studios

• Hour Destiny: I’m in the IT field, with network admin experience, and knowledgeable about Internet matters, so have some idea of the impact SOPA/PIPA would have on the Internet.

• DJ Earnshaw: actually the main priority is giving government more control by pretending to target offshore piracy

• oO0Oo Resident: torrents (does not equal) copyright infringement.

• Nuala Foxchase: It feels like legislation written by someone with no appreciation of the primary function of HTTP in the first place. 🙁

• Jenelle Levenque: I do object to piracy, but I object to using a sledge hammer to kill flies

Important issues:

• In Kenzo: IntellectualProperty and Piracy are important items for any community that engages in user-community driven content

• In Kenzo: Every kid who has dreamed of making a Harry Potter fan vid to machinima producers may be in the line of fire here

• Rhiannon Chatnoir: then, there is of course the domino effect, the internet is a interconnected system, so whatever laws we make here to punish foreign piracy, influence/effect laws made elsewhere

• Jenelle Levenque: In SL we are on both sides of the fence. We are content producers and consumers

About civic action surrounding SOPA / PIPA:

• Rhiannon Chatnoir: I made a tshirt in anticipation of this talk and you can grab a copy in the box on the ground near Rik, it says “I Fight for the User’ on the front and “stop internet censorship’ on the back

• Jenelle Levenque: I got involved the past week or so. Called 2 Senators and 1 Representative yesterday

• In Kenzo: I love that this issue is activating teens. the 12 year olds here wrote to their senators…. as content producers, they care too

• In Kenzo: It has been amazing to see how the blackout day shifted the way our reps are voting on this one

• Rhiannon Chatnoir: I think InKenzo, the moment Wikipedia voted to go dark, that really impacted a broader base of internet users and caused more media attention…. we all love Reddit and I can Haz Cheeseburger and a lot of the other sites that spearheaded the blackout earlier, but the average internet user probably isnt as effected by that then Wikipedia

• Nuala Foxchase: I think that even just Wiki going down had enough of a global effect in making it a talking point. I freely admit that I felt guilty when looking at long lists of politicians’ contact details and feeling that as a foreign national, there wasn’t anything I really fitted into.

• Peris Ashton: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid just announced that he has delayed a scheduled January 24 vote on the Protect IP Act (PIPA). He had to postpone the vote because millions of activists like you had convinced enough senators to vote against it to guarantee that it would be defeated. Also this morning, House Judiciary Committee chairman Lamar Smith announced he is indefinitely postponing any consideration of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). We just won. While we need to remain vigilant about internet censorship bills cropping up in different forms in the future, for all intents and purposes we have defeated both SOPA and PIPA.

• oO0Oo Resident: The societal, and even global participation, in the form of the site blackouts leading to action, as well as garnering youth into political participation, and the ever growing grass roots connections, is all very promising in my view.

• Rodford Steinbeck: We’re better off supporting open source and creative commons

• Jenelle Levenque: People only seem to react when it’s their ox that’s gored

Written by: rikomatic

This Friday January 20, at 8:30am PT, we are hosting a special Nonprofit Commons meeting. We are inviting the our community and all residents of Second Life to join us to talk about the proposed SOPA / PIPA bills before the US Congress, and their larger implications for the internet, virtual worlds, nonprofits and education. Join us this Friday at the Plush Nonprofit Commons at this teleport link.

For those that don’t know, here SOPA stands for “stop online piracy act” and is designed to go after websites and services that provide links to copyrighted material. Here are a couple of links to detailed descriptions of SOPA:

• CNN http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/17/technology/sopa_explained/index.htm
• NY Times http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/c/copyrights/index.html

Here’s Hamlet Au’s reporting on how SOPA might threaten Second Life and other virtual worlds:

 http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2012/01/eff-says-sopa-threatens-second-life.html

Also this week our Mentors continue their overview of different third-party viewers for Second Life, the pros and cons, and what alternatives are out there. Really useful for both newbies and old timers to Second Life. And we close as always with open mic announcements from the community.

AGENDA

Nonprofit Commons Meeting

January 20, 2012, 8:30am PST

Plush Nonprofit Commons Amphitheater

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Plush%20Nonprofit%20Commons/88/126/26

AGENDA

8:30am Introductions

8:40am TechSoup Announcements

8:45am Mentors Corner

8:55am Discussion about SOPA/ PIPA and broader implications

9:30am OpenMic/ Announcements

Written by: rikomatic

Nonprofit Commons Meeting
January 13, 2012, 8:30am PST
Plush Nonprofit Commons Amphitheater
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Plush%20Nonprofit%20Commons/88/126/26

AGENDA

8:30am Introductions
8:40am TechSoup Announcements
8:45am Mentors Corner
8:55am Brique Topaz, Live and Learn in Kenya
9:30am OpenMic/ Announcements

INTRODUCTIONS

[08:31] Glitteractica Cookie: Good Morning everyone (good evening for some). Please say your RL name, NOnprofit afiliation, location in the physical world, URL/Twitter handle, and anything else u care to add
[08:31] Buffy Beale: Buffy Bye, Bridges for Women, Victoria BC Canada, http://www.bridgesforwomen.ca @buffyb
[08:32] HB Eternal: Harold W Becker, The Love Foundation, Florida, http://www.thelovefoundation.com, @lovefoundation
[08:32] Chad Mikado: Chad Gobert; National Service Inclusion Project; UMass Boston; www.serviceandinclusion.org
[08:32] Zinnia Zauber: Renne Emiko Brock-Richmond, Sequim Humanities and Arts Alliance, Sequim, Washington. http://www.sequimartsalliance.org http://www.facebook.com/sequimartsalliance @renneemiko
[08:32] Gentle Heron: Virtual Ability, Inc. www.virtualability.org
[08:32] Astra Toki: Daria Ng, Global Kids, New York, @wocildocil
[08:32] Adalace Jewell: Corine Van Hellemont, RoSa Library Brussels www.rosadoc.be @adalace
[08:32] bulaklak: Michael DeLong, Online Community Manager, TechSoup Global, San Francisco, www.techsoup.org @MichaelDeLongSF
[08:32] Glitteractica Cookie: Susan Tenby, TechSoup.org San Francisco, CA USA @techsoup @suzboop
[08:32] Chayenn: monique richert, protect yourself 1, inc, baltimore, MD , protectyourself1.org , @PY1US
[08:32] Panny Bakerly: Jeanne Booth, Freeport Historical Society, Freeporthistorymuseum.org Freeport, NY
[08:32] Ozma Malibu: Sandy Andrews, Floaters Org, Arizona, Mexico, and on the road. @ozma, website still down.
[08:32] Hour Destiny: Morris Cox, Mesquite NV, @morriscox, alpha geek
[08:32] Veri Oddfellow: *waves to Chad* Hiya fellow national service type!
[08:32] Glitteractica Cookie: can someone post the links, since Rik isnt here
[08:32] alebez: Ale Bezdikian, Techsoup Global, San Francisco, Ca. @techsoup, @alebez
[08:33] Zotarah Shepherd: Bandana Easy Access College to the Humanities
[08:33] Veri Oddfellow: Brad Lewis, Co-Owner of Great STrides, and equine facilitated mental health and learning agency in Maryland, US. (Also Grants Officer at CNCS – www.nationalservice.gov [08:34] Zinnia Zauber: Good to see you Veri!
[08:34] Glitteractica Cookie: Any Other introductions? If you haven’t already done so, please introduce yourself to the comunity
[08:35] Glitteractica Cookie: anyone not yet introduce themselves?
[08:35] Sarvana Haalan: Sally Cherry, MT(ASCP) Rep for Protect Yourself 1, Baltimore, MD, http://protectyourself1.org
[08:35] Glitteractica Cookie: and can someone please post the links?
[08:35] LovePhillyChick: Hi im new to the commons but worked with techsoup with community groups in philadelphia
[08:35] Eliza Madrigal: Eliza Madrigal, observing/learning, not affiliated and hoping this isn’t a closed meeting 🙂
[08:35] Brique Topaz: Brique Zeiner – Live and Learn in Kenya Int’l – Selb, Germany – www.llk-selb.de
[08:36] Gentle Heron: Welcome Eliza.
[08:36] Em Ellsmere: Tina Walker, The ALS Association, Wash DC, http://www.alsa.org
[08:36] Eliza Madrigal: thank you Gentle 🙂
[08:36] Glitteractica Cookie: Can you post your URL and twitter handle LovePhillyChick and Eliza?
[08:36] Brennan Blaylock: Claudia Richards, AAUW, Washington, DC www.aauw.org @AAUW on Twitter
[08:36] jacmacaire Humby: Hi everyone
[08:36] Eliza Madrigal: @elizamadrigal for twitter
[08:36] Brique Topaz: Hi everyone.
[08:37] Glitteractica Cookie: Last call for introductions
[08:37] oO0Oo: Samúð, my first time here.. observing Hello all 🙂
[08:37] LovePhillyChick: virtualphildelphian@yahoo.com
[08:37] jacmacaire Humby: Jacques Macaire HUMANBE http://www.humanbe.com Action Tank and Council on Sustainable Development France and International @Humanbe
[08:37] LovePhillyChick: My area of focus is sustainable communities
[08:37] Glitteractica Cookie: Anyone else to say their real life name, nonprfoit affiliation, location in the real world, twitter handle and/URL?
[08:38] Buffy Beale: Here are the many ways to can get involved with the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life:

Nonprofit Commons blog: http://nonprofitcommons.org
Wiki: http://npsl.wikispaces.com

Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/TechSoup-Second-Life
Google Calendar: http://bit.ly/2tMEYh

About TechSoup:
http://www.techsoup.org/tools/howtousetechsoup/
http://flavors.me/techsoup
http://flavors.me/nonprofitcommons

Weekly Networking Event: Wharf Ratz, Aloft, Tuesdays, 7-9pm SLT
Aloft Nonprofit Commons (168,223,23)

Monthly Networking Event (1st Thursday):
Common Ground, Plush, 5PM-7PM SLT
Plush Nonprofit Commons (128,229,26)
[08:38] bulaklak: Thanks, Buffy!
[08:38] Buffy Beale: 🙂
[08:38] Rhiannon Chatnoir – Joyce Bettencourt, creative for The Vesuvius Group (@VesuviusGroup), organizer of yearly SLCC (@SLCC) – @RhiannonSL on twitter
[08:38] Glitteractica Cookie: thanks buffy
[08:38] LovePhillyChick: i was owner of seachange farm. we were first in cerfied organics in urban communites
[08:38] Zinnia Zauber: CommonGround is the 3rd Thursday, please note that.
[08:39] Buffy Beale: ohh sorry this was copied from a chat I had
[08:39] Glitteractica Cookie: OK, well, it’s good to see so many people here from all around the world
[08:39] jacmacaire Humby: 🙂
[08:39] Zinnia Zauber: Not to worry, I got to plug it early now.
[08:39] Buffy Beale: yay
[08:39] Glitteractica Cookie: and Rik’s not here, but we have a god group of people presenting today,s o let’s get started
[08:39] Zinnia Zauber: 🙂
[08:39] Veri Oddfellow: 😉
[08:39] Hour Destiny: God groups are good. 😀
[08:40] Veri Oddfellow: Yeah, I like that typo …

MENTORS CORNER

[08:40] Glitteractica Cookie: Can the mentors please come and give an update about how you help nonprofits?
[08:40] bulaklak: lol Hour
[08:40] Sarvana Haalan: wooot…Mentors rock!!!!
[08:40] Glitteractica Cookie: typos abound here in the world of live chat
[08:40] Zinnia Zauber: Mentor Central today is by Gentle and Chad.
[08:40] Gentle Heron: Glitter, for Mentor Corner today, Chad and I were going to begin the series on SL viewers.
[08:40] Glitteractica Cookie: ok
[08:40] Zinnia Zauber: Rah Chad and Gentle!
[08:41] Gentle Heron: Did you want us down front, or from our seats?
[08:41] Chad Mikado: 🙂
[08:41] Glitteractica Cookie: please come down in front, if you can
[08:41] Glitteractica Cookie: so ppl can see you
[08:41] Sarvana Haalan: yep, we want to see you….smiles
[08:41] Gentle Heron: I’ll start!
[08:41] Chad Mikado: hi all
[08:41] Gentle Heron: Good morning, everyone. The NPC Mentors frequently get questions about SL viewers. That is a topic on which long-time residents often speak passionately, but at the same time, it’s a topic that confuses newer residents.
[08:41] Gentle Heron: Therefore the Mentors will be offering a series of short presentations at our NPC Friday meetings about various available viewers. We’re starting today with the basics: what a viewer is, what it does, and where to find out more information
[08:42] Gentle Heron: Chad and I are not technical experts. So our explanations will be at the beginner level.
[08:42] Gentle Heron: We had technical input from The Virtual World Technologist, my friend JayR Cela, whose opinionated blog on viewers is here:
http://jayrcelasecondlifetechnologist.blogspot.com/
[08:42] Gentle Heron: A viewer is a client software program installed on your computer that allows you to visit various virtual world environments…….. SecondLife / InWorldz / Open Sim. So how a particular viewer works is heavily dependent on YOUR computer, not just on the game.
[08:42] Gentle Heron: Since viewers are software programs, they must be written for particular operating systems. That’s why there are separate PC, Mac, and Linux viewers for Second Life. Although Linden Lab supports all three operating systems, not all available SL viewers do.
[08:43] Gentle Heron: Your individual viewer, residing on your computer, interfaces with the several thousand servers that are operated by Linden Lab and housed around the world.
[08:43] Gentle Heron: Many online games and some virtual worlds are accessible via your web browser, without the need to install a dedicated separate piece of software. These are termed browser-based games.
[08:43] Gentle Heron: Usually access to these games is just a matter of adding a web browser plug-in, such as Flash, Java, Shockwave, Silverlight, or Unity, to your computer.
[08:43] Gentle Heron: {{For those not prone to addiction, a list of popular free browser-based games not requiring a viewer is here:
http://www.freebrowsergamer.com/2008/12/browser-based-games-top-10.html}}
[08:43] Kali Idziak: Jessica Dally, Community Voice Mail, Seattle, WA sneaks in
[08:44] Gentle Heron: **An important note here: Being “browser based” increases ease of use (i.e., no specialized software needs to be installed), but it also limits the game to what a standard browser can do.
[08:44] Hour Destiny: I’m tinkering with Unity3D myself.
[08:44] Gentle Heron: These limitations make it extremely difficult to have a complex and rich user experience, such as we have here in SL (e.g., building, poseballs, AO’s, etc.).
[08:44] Gentle Heron: World of Warcraft and other high-end games also require dedicated software to be installed on your computer, and don’t work in a browser… for the same reason. A browser just can’t handle a complex 3D environment with multiple interactive elements.
[08:44] Gentle Heron: The purpose of the viewer software is to allow you to interact with the virtual world. What is most important is not how the viewer interacts with your computer, but how you interact with the viewer.
[08:45] Gentle Heron: This is done through the User Interface (UI). The UI is what you see on your SL screen, around (and sometimes over) the scenery and avatars. So it includes all the buttons and controls, the menus and messages, that allow your avatar to function in the 3D virtual environment.
[08:45] Gentle Heron: ** The User Interface is what users notice as differences between viewers, although there can be major differences “behind the scenes” in how each type of viewer works.
[08:45] Gentle Heron: NOTE:

We’re not going into the controversy over the various versions of SL viewers. The Mentors will discuss several viewers in upcoming weeks. Suffice it to say that all major SL viewers are undergoing continuous upgrades.
[08:46] Gentle Heron: The upgrade process begins by collecting data. One way many developers do this is through “bug reports.” If you find something that is not working properly in a Linden Lab viewer, you can submit a Public JIRA report on the Second Life Bug Tracker. (Other viewers use a similar process.) You’ll describe what you did, what you expected to happen, and what happened instead. Information on this process is here:
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Bug_Tracker
[08:46] Gentle Heron: A second way viewer developers collect data on their viewer’s functionality is through crash reports. When your viewer crashes, please allow the crash report to be sent, as this data helps the maker of your viewer (whether LL or a third party developer) to improve the next version.
[08:46] Gentle Heron: A third way LL collects information on the viewer is through resident direct contact with Project Snowstorm, the development team led by Oz Linden. You can attend the weekly Project Snowstorm team meetings, and hear what LL is working on for the next iteration of their viewer. You can find out about Project Snowstorm here:
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Project_Snowstorm
[08:47] Gentle Heron: And finally, viewer developers learn from messing around with other viewers! Since the Second Life viewer code is open source, nothing is secret.
[08:47] Gentle Heron: Over to Chad!
[08:47] Chad Mikado: Thanks Gentle
[08:47] Chad Mikado: I wanted to talk about what “open source” means.
[08:47] Chad Mikado: Open Source is software that is not proprietary. In other words, no one owns it. It is free to use, copy, distribute and/or modify.
[08:47] Chad Mikado: Other than the Linden Lab viewer, you likely already use open source software somewhere in your daily/working life
[08:48] Chad Mikado: Audacity, MWSnap
Open Office, Libre Office as alternatives to MS Office Android software for smartphones
[08:48] Chad Mikado: Understanding something about the communities that exist in SL, Linden Lab encourages anyone to create a viewer for SL.
[08:48] Chad Mikado: Having this option to choose or, with skill, create our own viewer presents opportunities to increase access and accessibility for many users in Second Life
[08:48] Chad Mikado: A list of LL developed and under development viewers is here: http://secondlife.com/support/downloads/
[08:48] Chad Mikado: Those who develop viewers and comply with LL policies are listed as “Third Party Viewers”. You may find Third Party Viewers here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Third_Party_Viewer_Directory
[08:48] Chad Mikado: How to choose from all the viewers
[08:49] Chad Mikado: First of all, what are your needs?
-SL’s viewer offers a standard and advanced view based on your comfort level and experience using it
[08:49] Chad Mikado: There are other options available, based on
[08:49] Chad Mikado: -The capabilities of your computer (text only, viewers that use fewer computer resources)
-Your level of knowledge creating/manipulating content in SL
-Accessing via smartphone (Android and Apple)
-The operating system of your computer (Mac, PC, Linux)
[08:49] Chad Mikado: All viewers listed on the wiki page meet LL’s Third Party requirements. It’s your choice whether you want to download and use a viewer from another site, but LL doesn’t recommend it.
[08:50] Chad Mikado: We cannot recommend a Third Party Viewer directly, but certainly encourage you to evaluate what your needs and capabilities are. There’s a variety to choose from!
[08:50] Sarvana Haalan: over here Krayoni,,, grab a seat
[08:50] Gentle Heron: That’s it for today…. just an introduction to viewers in general.
[08:50] Gentle Heron: Stay tuned for info about particular viewers in later installments of Mentor Corner.
[08:50] Zinnia Zauber: Thank you very much Gentle and Chad!
[08:51] Panny Bakerly claps!
[08:51] oO0Oo: 🙂 nice, ty
[08:51] Chad Mikado: you bet.
[08:51] bulaklak: Wow, thanks guys! That was really interesting to me, as still somewhat of a newbie. I had no idea.
[08:51] Dancers Yao: great thanks
[08:51] Eliza Madrigal: Thank you ::claps:::
[08:51] Zinnia Zauber: We have our Mentor’s Meeting after this meeting if you need help or have input for the Mentors.
[08:51] Glitteractica Cookie: Thanks you two
[08:51] Astra Toki: thank you
[08:51] Zotarah Shepherd: Thank you
[08:51] Sarvana Haalan: woot, woot!!!

LIVE AND LEARN IN KENYA

[08:51] Glitteractica Cookie: Next up we have Brique Topaz (in RL, she is Brique Zeiner), Chairwoman of Live and Learn in Kenya Int’l www.llk-selb.de
[08:52] Glitteractica Cookie: She will be talking abou tthe Lavender Field, Feed a smile
[08:52] Glitteractica Cookie: Give it up for Brique!
[08:52] Brique Topaz: I’m very glad to be here again. I joined Nonprofit Commons nearly 2 years ago. I don’t get to many meetings because of the time zone problem – I’m an American living and teaching in Germany – and usually have lessons at this time.
[08:52] Buffy Beale: Cheering!
[08:52] Brique Topaz: °͜°
[08:53] Glitteractica Cookie: @briquezeiner on twotter
[08:53] Buffy Beale: Thanks for the infor Chad and Gentle!
[08:53] Brique Topaz: My avitar name is Brique Topaz and my RL name is Brique Zeiner. I’m an American living in Germany.
I’m the RL Founder and Chairwoman of Live and Learn in Kenya Int’l – which is the daughter organization of the German organization Leben und Lernen in Kenia e.V.
[08:53] Sarvana Haalan: Excellent…
[08:53] Brique Topaz: We are a registered charity organization in both Germany and in Kenya.
[08:54] Brique Topaz: I founded Live and Learn in Kenya Int’l (LLK) over 10 years ago in order to find a way to help extremely poor children out of the vicious circle of poverty.
[08:54] Brique Topaz: Only through education can this circle be broken.
[08:55] Brique Topaz: We have 423 children on the program at the moment. They are all going to school – from kindergarten through to university. We’re very proud that the first young man was able to begin university just a few days ago.
[08:56] Brique Topaz: From the 423 children only 48 do not have sponsors.
[08:56] Brique Topaz: 6 of the sponsored children have sponsors through SL.
[08:56] Adalace Jewell: great
[08:56] Brique Topaz: I only began slowly promoting the sponsorship program a few months ago.
[08:56] Brique Topaz: I have been in SL for nearly 2 years.
[08:57] Buffy Beale: that’s fantastic Brique
[08:57] Brique Topaz: I joined SL because of Nonprofit Commons. I was invited here by Alison Lowndes, who also runs a Kenya project.
[08:57] Brique Topaz: My main initiative in SL is to raise funds to feed the children on the program.
[08:58] Brique Topaz: We have a charity venue called “The Lavender Field – Feed a Smile”.
[08:58] Brique Topaz: We have a charity venue called “The Lavender Field – Feed a Smile”.
[08:58] Brique Topaz: The land and everything on it was donated.
[08:59] Brique Topaz: A huge variety of musicians in all musical genres, artists, dancers, storytellers, etc volunteer their time and talents to raise funds to “feed some smiles” in Kenya.
[08:59] Brique Topaz: There are at least 3 – 5 events take place every week.
[09:00] Brique Topaz: It is a huge and growing success and I am very thankful to say that in the 18 months of The Lavender Field – Feed a Smile we are averaging about 900 US$ monthly.
[09:00] Brique Topaz: With a meal costing about 40 cents (100 Lindens) that means we are feeding at least 2250 meals the month just from SL.
[09:00] Gentle Heron: That is certainly significant!
[09:00] Glitteractica Cookie: That is amazing
[09:01] Brique Topaz: The children receive school meals that LLK pays for through sponsorships and donations – but on weekends and school breaks we feed them from our office compound in Nakuru.
[09:01] Glitteractica Cookie: we should do a spotlight on techsoup about your case
[09:01] Brique Topaz: °͜°
[09:01] Brique Topaz: That means about 850 meals per weekend – which means that Sl pays for more than two weekends of meals every month.
[09:01] Brique Topaz: That’s an amazing success in my opinion.
[09:02] Sarvana Haalan: awesome
[09:02] Veri Oddfellow: Excellent work .. bravo!
[09:02] Eliza Madrigal: 🙂
[09:02] Brique Topaz: Many venue and shop owners set donation boxes out for Feed a Smile.
[09:02] Buffy Beale: amazing, well done!
[09:02] Brique Topaz: Thanks…
[09:02] Brique Topaz: The donations can be watched at: http://gandn.rooss.de/apps/gandnllkdonations/llkdonations.php?command=sh… although some donations are paid through paypal from the website www.llk-selb.de or venue. They also have events at their venues and shops for us.
[09:03] Brique Topaz: My goal in SL is to feed the children every weekend and find sponsors for the remaining children without sponsors.
[09:03] Brique Topaz: 3 huge events will be taking place at the Lavender Field within the next 3 months:
[09:04] Brique Topaz: Today – starting at 12PM slt and going on until 5PM – Friday the 13th event with 4 live musicians and a DJ.
[09:04] Brique Topaz: On Saturday, February 25th – Live music, art and and auction
[09:04] Brique Topaz: and on Sunday, March 25th Pol Arida will be performing his very successful presentation “Monsters”. I have a notecard about it if you’d like more information.
[09:05] Brique Topaz: The Lavender Field for Feed a Smile is open to the public 24/7
[09:05] Brique Topaz: We have a main stage area
[09:05] Brique Topaz: a Kenya area
[09:06] Brique Topaz: and a small stage in a cozy house for quiet concerts and readings
[09:06] Brique Topaz: What this all comes down to is – Second Life is a tool that can be used for many wonderful causes – BUT – we aren’t just here to work – at least I’m not… Like Bono once said “As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.”
[09:07] Brique Topaz: So we all have a good chance to do good and have a good time doing it!
[09:07] Brique Topaz: Thank you for your attention – and if anyone has any questions – I’ll try to answer them.
[09:07] Sarvana Haalan: always in for a good party for a good cause
[09:07] Brique Topaz: Right!
[09:08] Buffy Beale: Applauding you Brique, well done
[09:08] Brique Topaz: Thank you.
[09:08] Zinnia Zauber: Wonderful Brique!
[09:08] Gentle Heron: Congratulations on your fundraising success, Brique. And of course on your care of the children. Can you tell us a bit about how you advertise your events here?
[09:08] Brique Topaz: Well, I post all events.
[09:09] Brique Topaz: I am on Facebook – Brique Zeiner
[09:09] Sarvana Haalan: I received your notices through NPC notecards
[09:09] Brique Topaz: and as a group – Feed a Smile
[09:09] Brique Topaz: Yes – and notices, notices, notices
[09:09] Second Life: You decline ‘Out with the old, in with the ODD, 9:30pm NYE!’ ( Dragonhenge (128,128,652) ) from The Tunaverse.
[09:09] Second Life: You decline ‘Out with the old, in with the ODD, 8:30pm NYE!’ ( Dragonhenge (128,128,652) ) from The Tunaverse.
[09:09] oO0Oo: ty Brique
[09:10] Gentle Heron: Do you get the same audience members most of the time?
[09:10] Brique Topaz: I want to take this chance
[09:10] Brique Topaz: to say thank you to Nonprofit Commons for making this possible.
[09:10] Sarvana Haalan: do you want with any other NGO in Kenya?
[09:10] Sarvana Haalan: *work with
[09:10] Hour Destiny: Kiva allows people to sponsor entrepreneurs in third world countries via their website. Maybe something similar for Feed a Smile?
[09:11] Brique Topaz: That would be interesting…
[09:11] Brique Topaz: We have some support from the Red Cross in Kenya
[09:11] Brique Topaz: and from a German Dentists Org.
[09:12] Hour Destiny: Are you making use of One Laptop Per Child?
[09:12] Brique Topaz: No – I don’t know about that – but I’d like to find out…
[09:12] Brique Topaz whispers: As we aren
[09:13] Brique Topaz: ‘t a registered org. in the US it is difficult to get connections there
[09:13] Sarvana Haalan: are you familiar wh Hope Missions International, as part of the Hope Partnership and Mary Kamau?
[09:13] LovePhillyChick: my friend worked in the peac corp and just came back from kenya
[09:13] Brique Topaz: No Sarvana – I’m not.
[09:13] LovePhillyChick: she was saying resources are not getting to people
[09:13] LovePhillyChick: its nice to know about feed a smile
[09:13] Brique Topaz: Well – that is the reason why we are there…
[09:14] Sarvana Haalan: as so many other countries
[09:14] Hour Destiny: http://one.laptop.org/
[09:14] Brique Topaz: We are a small org doing big things….
[09:14] Sarvana Haalan: indeed
[09:14] Eliza Madrigal: :))
[09:14] Brique Topaz: We had our bad experiences – and learned from them.
[09:14] oO0Oo: 🙂
[09:14] LovePhillyChick: its the smaller groups that make a difference
[09:14] LovePhillyChick: wonderful what u are doing
[09:14] Gentle Heron totally agrees with PhillyChick.
[09:15] Brique Topaz: As a US citizen, I’m hoping to find a way to register LLK in the States as a non-profit org
[09:15] LovePhillyChick: she personally adopted a child
[09:15] Sarvana Haalan: do you get any support from the government?
[09:15] Brique Topaz: Kenyan?
[09:15] Sarvana Haalan: yes
[09:16] Sarvana Haalan: not necessary $$$ but cutting re tape
[09:16] Brique Topaz: Only to the extent that we are allowed to do our work more or less in peace
[09:16] Sarvana Haalan: *red
[09:16] Sarvana Haalan: that’s a victory in its self
[09:17] Brique Topaz: yes.
[09:17] Brique Topaz: It hasn’t been easy.
[09:17] Brique Topaz: There is a lot of corruption in Kenya.
[09:17] oO0Oo: *
[09:17] LovePhillyChick: yes
[09:18] Sarvana Haalan: I was in and out of country Kenya during the early 90s with JHPIEGO
[09:18] Brique Topaz: there is a small souvenir from Feed a Smile.
[09:18] LovePhillyChick: ty
[09:18] Eliza Madrigal: ty Brique
[09:18] Sarvana Haalan: Thanks
[09:19] Brique Topaz: your very welcome
[09:19] Glitteractica Cookie: Thanks Brique
[09:19] Glitteractica Cookie: Any final questions or comments for our speaker?
[09:19] oO0Oo: Brique, Is there a long term view whereby the children who are learning, will be able to feedback/loopback into the efforts with livelihoods continuing to support or develop standard of living?
[09:20] Sarvana Haalan: this was great… Kenya has my heart indeed
[09:20] Brique Topaz: It is our wish that the children “pay back” by supporting the org in Nakuru in their own way.
[09:21] oO0Oo: ty, and I willl read more on the website also
[09:21] Brique Topaz: We have many children – young adults now – who have finished vocational training and can now help the others by cutting their hair
[09:21] Brique Topaz: sewing clothes
[09:21] Brique Topaz: etc….
[09:21] Hour Destiny: One Laptop Per Child at http://one.laptop.org could help with “paying back” by providing the opportunity to increase education and provide employment (such as via programming).
[09:21] oO0Oo: ah.. ty
[09:22] Brique Topaz: That would be great. I’ll looki into it!
[09:22] Brique Topaz: If anyone is interested in the “Monsters” performance, I can send you a notecard about it.
[09:23] Em Ellsmere: I am
[09:23] Brique Topaz: Thanks again to NPC for the possibility to talk to you about it.
[09:23] Buffy Beale: you really set a fine example Brique for using SL for a good cause
[09:23] Glitteractica Cookie: Thanks for talking to us
[09:23] Buffy Beale: I know Relay for Life gets a lot of press and hope your story gets out as well
[09:23] Sarvana Haalan: I would like a notecard
[09:23] Glitteractica Cookie: and please feel free to send more infoarmtion to nonprofitcommons@techsoup.org and we will try to do a spotlight piece on your work
[09:24] Sarvana Haalan: I blogged about it … http://virtual-sarvana.blogspot.com/2012/01/learning-about-live-and-lear…

TECHSOUP UPDATES

[09:24] Glitteractica Cookie: Bulaklak, would you come up here and give a techsoup update to the community?
[09:24] bulaklak: Hi, folks!
[09:24] Glitteractica Cookie: Cool, Sarvana
[09:24] Buffy Beale: hey bulaklak
[09:24] bulaklak: Thanks Brique for that great talk.
[09:24] Sarvana Haalan: Woot, Bulaklak
[09:24] oO0Oo: Thanks Brique.. nice presentation.
[09:24] bulaklak: So last week we had Kristy Graves here to talk all about the TechSoup Digitial Storytelling Challenge
[09:25] Sarvana Haalan: I included NPN mtg info as well
[09:25] bulaklak: I hope everyone is getting excited about it
[09:25] bulaklak: The official pages will launch next week
[09:25] Sarvana Haalan: great
[09:25] bulaklak: But in the meantime, here is a calendar of events so you can save the dates!
[09:25] bulaklak: http://bit.ly/tsdigscal
[09:25] bulaklak: I also want to point to an upcoming webinar at TechSoup
[09:26] bulaklak: All about how libraries and nonprofits are using apps
[09:26] bulaklak: This is coming out of a survey we did over the last few months
[09:26] bulaklak: In this free, one-hour webinar, we will share valuable information regarding creating and using apps in libraries and nonprofits. Thanks to a grant from Microsoft, TechSoup’s App it Up project has enabled us to learn about the kinds of apps nonprofits and libraries are using to engage constituents, tell stories, and accomplish their goals. Discover popular apps you can put to use right now. Listen in when Shawn Michael of NPower explains how her organization effectively uses apps. Find out how to develop and deploy an “app-propriate” strategy when we share tips and lessons learned on the entire process of developing apps.
[09:26] bulaklak: It’s free.
[09:26] bulaklak: And you can register here.
[09:27] Gentle Heron: Bulaklak, be sure this gets to the large library community in SL! They are a natural audience for this.
[09:27] Sarvana Haalan: the magic word… Free .. lol, lol
[09:27] bulaklak: http://bit.ly/wrJIgk
[09:27] bulaklak: And that is on January 19 at 11am Pacific time
[09:27] bulaklak: Lastly, we are talking all about tech planning at TechSoup this month
[09:27] bulaklak: If your org does not have a 3 – 5 year strategic tech plan
[09:28] bulaklak: It might be time to think about that
[09:28] Sarvana Haalan: oh, no… I have a lab training course … will the webinar be archived?
[09:28] bulaklak: Here is a whole mess of resources and links in a blog that you will find useful if you are consideriong that process
[09:28] bulaklak: http://bit.ly/yNeo4v
[09:28] bulaklak: It will be recorded
[09:28] bulaklak: The webinar, that is
[09:28] bulaklak: So you can watch it later if you have a scheduling conflict
[09:29] bulaklak: All of our online events are recorded or recapped
[09:29] bulaklak: So they always have a “second life”
[09:29] bulaklak: hehe
[09:29] bulaklak: And that’s all I have today
[09:29] bulaklak: Thanks, folks
[09:29] Glitteractica Cookie: harhard
[09:29] Glitteractica Cookie: OK, thanks Bulaklak
[09:29] Veri Oddfellow: Tee hee
[09:29] Astra Toki: haha
[09:29] Hour Destiny: http://mobile.civigive.com is a free branded mobile web app for 501c3s.
[09:30] Glitteractica Cookie: I know we had a bit of a brainstorm, the last time Rik was away, but I can’t find the chat log. Do you (any of you) remember what event idea we had?
[09:30] Glitteractica Cookie: i can always look in chat archives, but i just wanted to shout out to you all first
[09:31] Glitteractica Cookie: we had a great idea for an event, but I’m losing the rest
[09:31] Buffy Beale: darn I can’t remember either but seems we had a few good ideas come out
[09:31] Gentle Heron: Glitter, I think that was Wishes Granted.
[09:31] Glitteractica Cookie: Hmm.. no one remembers? OK, I will dig up the chat log. Good thing we are saving those
[09:32] Glitteractica Cookie: No, it wasn’t wishes granted… something else.
[09:32] Glitteractica Cookie: i will ask Rik to look up in the chat log
[09:32] Sarvana Haalan: oh, yes…was it the challenge or hunt?’
[09:32] Glitteractica Cookie: YES
[09:32] Glitteractica Cookie: Challenge/hunt themed…
[09:33] Glitteractica Cookie: hmm.. ok, well we will look into it. and report back when we recover that chat log

OPEN MIC / ANNOUNCEMENTS

[09:33] Sarvana Haalan: is this open mic yet?
[09:33] Glitteractica Cookie: I think we are at open mic time!
[09:33] Glitteractica Cookie: Who is ready to say an announcement for the larger group, say AYE
[09:34] Sarvana Haalan: you read my mind… lol
[09:34] Astra Toki: aye
[09:34] Sarvana Haalan: I have an announcement…
[09:34] Glitteractica Cookie: OK, Daria is first i[
[09:34] Glitteractica Cookie: first up
[09:34] Glitteractica Cookie: (then Sarvana)
[09:34] Astra Toki: Hello everyone, I’m from Global Kids, based in NYC and wanted to announce our last two youth-run talk shows
[09:35] Astra Toki: They’re happening today at 5pm EST. The high school students I work with are presenting on climate change and electronic waste
[09:35] Rhiannon Chatnoir: love the idea ofa NPC scavenger hunt though.. a get to know/interact with the various orgs here
[09:35] Astra Toki: The show will be here: New Media Consortium Convention Center NMC Conference Center (201,29,48)
[09:35] Glitteractica Cookie: is there a tweet we could RT about it from the techsoup and @npsl accounts?
[09:35] Astra Toki: Feel free to join us as audience members!
[09:36] Astra Toki: btw, you can watch our last show’s video here: http://www.olpglobalkids.org/2011/12/lts_food_justice_show_full_vid.html…
[09:36] Glitteractica Cookie: Daria, do you have a tweet for us to amplify
[09:37] Glitteractica Cookie: or we can just tweet about it and mention it, on our own accounts
[09:37] Astra Toki: sure, i’ll grab that and post it here in a sec
[09:37] Glitteractica Cookie: (as in not a RT)
[09:37] Glitteractica Cookie: perfect, we are happy to amplify your messages
[09:37] Glitteractica Cookie: While you are grabbing that, Sarvana is up, then Gentle Heron
[09:37] Sarvana Haalan: I attend the VWER meeting yesterday… discovering several members had no knowledge of NPC. I assumed that they did. I did invite several members to future meetings. And one more thing,
[09:38] Sarvana Haalan: FYI: we are postponing the Capacity Building Workshop…waiting for a new date from the venue
[09:38] Sarvana Haalan: so we should be cross promoting NPSL and events
[09:38] Zinnia Zauber: cool Sar
[09:39] Hour Destiny: Heh. I have mentioned NPC at VWER before. However, people come and go and the passage of time affects memories.
[09:39] Sarvana Haalan: plus I hope to blog more in 2012… NPC will always have a link
[09:40] Gentle Heron agrees with Hour.
[09:40] Sarvana Haalan: okay… I am done… the floor is open for my friend and colleague Gentle Heron… fromm
[09:40] Sarvana Haalan: I been watching to much congressional sessions… lol, lol
[09:40] Gentle Heron: OK I have an interesting event to announce!
[09:40] Sarvana Haalan: *tyoo
[09:40] Gentle Heron: New Year’s Resolution: Live Healthier
Presenter: Vera Zhaoying, Dutch physician, head of Ann Myers Medical Center
SATURDAY January 14, 10 am SLT

The workshop is in two parts.
[09:40] Buffy Beale: lol Sar
[09:40] Glitteractica Cookie: yes, feel free to take the lead on that cross promotion. Speaking of cross-promotion, we are all in favor of having messgaes threaded across multiple platforms, here at NPC. We don’t advocate for messaging just in SL. It’s not as effective as cross-promotion, so we are always advocating for messaging across multiple platforms
[09:40] Gentle Heron: (1) We will begin at the Health and Wellness Pavilion on Healthinfo Island.

Healthinfo Island (211,86,22)
Here we will learn about the importance of exercise and regular medical care in keeping ourselves well throughout the coming year.
[09:40] Glitteractica Cookie: Sarvana does this well via Facebook, for example
[09:41] Glitteractica Cookie: good model to follow
[09:41] Gentle Heron: (2) The second part of the workshop will take place at Ann Myers Medical Center.

Fashion Boulevard II (79,48,21)
Here your avatar will get a health checkup!
We will finish with exercise, so wear appropriate clothing.
[09:41] Gentle Heron: The intent of this entire event is to help you keep your New Year’s Resolution, or to give you a wake up call.
[09:41] Sarvana Haalan: Thank you
[09:41] Gentle Heron: ***and***
[09:41] Gentle Heron: while we are on the topic of New Year Resolutions:
[09:41] Gentle Heron: We also have research opportunities posted in the Research Pavilion on Healthinfo Island. If you want an easy way to give back to the global community, please consider offering to be a research subject.

Many opportunities are surveys, easy to complete. Come on over and see if you quality to participate.
[09:42] Zinnia Zauber: Awesome!
[09:42] Gentle Heron: That’s all this week. Thanks!
[09:42] Sarvana Haalan: any special requirements to participate in surveys?
[09:42] Gentle Heron: Each one is particular to the research
[09:42] Gentle Heron: For some, they want you to have a specific disability.
[09:42] Hour Destiny: Alive, breathing, and literate, I suspect. 🙂
[09:43] Gentle Heron: For others, just a requirement about how long you’ve been in SL.
[09:43] Gentle Heron: It varies!
[09:43] Sarvana Haalan: as long as I do not have to give up my first born and only born. lol, lol
[09:43] Glitteractica Cookie: Thanks Gentle
[09:43] Gentle Heron: oh no no nothing arduous like that
[09:43] Astra Toki: btw, here is something you can amplify/tweet for the talk shows today: Let’s Talk Sustainability – Upcoming (and final) Shows!: http://tinyurl.com/874bygl
[09:43] Glitteractica Cookie: Perfect, will amplify
[09:44] Gentle Heron: I think the most invasive is for family members of people with MS… they want a saliva sample.
[09:45] Glitteractica Cookie: Any more announcements?
[09:45] Glitteractica Cookie: this is the time to share with the larger group
[09:45] Zinnia Zauber: Me please
[09:45] Glitteractica Cookie: go ahead Zin
[09:45] Zinnia Zauber: thank you
[09:45] Glitteractica Cookie: np
[09:46] Zinnia Zauber: CommonGround is on Jan 15 from 5 to 7 PM
[09:46] Zinnia Zauber: our color theme is silver
[09:46] Sarvana Haalan: wooot, woot
[09:46] Zinnia Zauber: and I encourage you to visit the Wishes Granted display
[09:46] Sarvana Haalan: Sunday night?
[09:46] Glitteractica Cookie: Can you give a brief bit of background on common ground and wishes granted, fo rthe new folks?
[09:46] Zinnia Zauber: this weekend before we take it down to decorate.
[09:47] Zinnia Zauber: yes
[09:47] Zinnia Zauber: CommonGround is a networking event that has been going on for over 3 years.
[09:47] Sarvana Haalan: I posted the pictures that I took on Flickr… they are in the NPSL group pool
[09:47] Zinnia Zauber: Enjoy networking and dancing among other nonprofits and supporters! Learn more about what nonprofits, educators, humanitarians, scientists, and artists accomplish in Second Life at the Nonprofit Commons at this fun and informative event.
[09:47] Glitteractica Cookie: can someone send the chat log to nonprofitcommons@techsoup.org I don’t have the full chat
[09:47] Sarvana Haalan: you guys are an great job.
[09:47] Zinnia Zauber: To get to know one another, you are welcome to share what you or your organization is up to and distribute notecards about special events we can support and participate in. Another effective way to connect with a new audience and promote your organization’s mission is to sponsor a CommonGround Party.
[09:48] HB Eternal: Zin the 19th (Thu)?
[09:48] Ozma Malibu: I am so excited to have time to attend! Yay for semi-retirement.
[09:48] Sarvana Haalan: 15th or 19th?
[09:48] Zinnia Zauber: sorry, yes the 19th
[09:48] Gentle Heron: (((Ozma))) don’t ever plan to FULLY retire.
[09:48] Zinnia Zauber: I was stuck in another month
[09:48] Zinnia Zauber: lol
[09:48] Zinnia Zauber: Jan 19 for CommonGround
[09:48] Sarvana Haalan: I want to tretire… it’s a “Bucket list” item. lol, lol
[09:49] Zinnia Zauber: I am still on my first cup of coffee.
[09:49] Sarvana Haalan: *retire
[09:49] HB Eternal: Zinnia is the hostess with the mostess!
[09:49] Zinnia Zauber: Thank you HB!
[09:49] Buffy Beale: yay Z!
[09:49] Zinnia Zauber: We have an amazing team for CommonGround!
[09:49] Sarvana Haalan: that’s why I can’t type… I have Not had my tea today
[09:49] Glitteractica Cookie: OK, and any more announcements from the community? (tahnks Zinnia)
[09:49] Glitteractica Cookie: anyone?
[09:50] Glitteractica Cookie: OK, so I guess that is wrap. Can someone email nonprofitcommons@techsoup.org with today’s chatlog plz?
[09:50] Glitteractica Cookie: seeking a very nice volunteer to do this
[09:50] Buffy Beale: I can Glitter
[09:50] Astra Toki: thank you glitter
[09:50] Glitteractica Cookie: thanks buffy
[09:51] Buffy Beale: k
[09:51] Glitteractica Cookie: 🙂
[09:51] bulaklak: Thanks, Buffy! Thanks, all, for a great meeting!
[09:51] oO0Oo: Buffy 🙂
[09:51] bulaklak: See you all next week!
[09:51] Glitteractica Cookie: ok, then I guess we are endign a few mins early. Thanks for everyone’s participation
[09:51] Veri Oddfellow: Take care all .. nice to see you!
[09:51] Glitteractica Cookie: See you all next week
[09:51] oO0Oo: Thanks so much.. wonderful
[09:51] Veri Oddfellow: *waves adn smiles*
[09:51] CarynTopia Silvercloud: thanks
[09:51] Panny Bakerly: Take care all. Thank you!
[09:51] Buffy Beale: have a great one all, take good care
[09:51] Chad Mikado: Have a good weekend all
[09:51] Zinnia Zauber: Mentor’s Meeting at 9:55 SLT

Written by: rikomatic

This Friday January 13, the Nonprofit Commons welcomes Brique Topaz, founder of Live and Learn in Kenya, Intl, a registered charity in Germany and Kenya. Brique will be talking to us about her work to improve the lives of poor children in Africa. In the past months , she has been using Second Life as a means of raising funds for meals for poor students in Kenya with remarkable success. Learn how she does it and what their plans for the future are.

As always, we feature news from TechSoup.org, we learn something new from our wonderful Mentors, and close with open mic announcements from anyone in the community. Join us on Friday morning at the Nonprofit Commons amphitheater. See you then!

Nonprofit Commons Meeting

• 8:30am Introductions
• 8:40am TechSoup Announcements
• 8:45am Mentors Corner
• 8:55am Brique Topaz, Live and Learn in Kenya
• 9:30am OpenMic/ Announcements

Written by: rikomatic

On January 6, 2012, Kristy Graves, Susan Tenby, and Michael DeLong of TechSoup spoke to the Nonprofit Commons community about the launch of the 2012 TSDIGS initiative. TSDIGS stands for the “TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge,” a fun, friendly competition to encourage nonprofits to share their story using different digital media tools.  There are great prizes and its a great way to get your nonprofit’s message to a wider audience.

Several members of the Nonprofit Commons community were active participants last year. We’d love to see at least 10-15 submissions this year.  The challenge is in February, so start thinking of what story you want to tell, and what medium you want to use now!

The full transcript of their talk is below. Thanks for speaking at the NPC, Kristy Susan, and Michael!

[08:57]  Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): ok lets move on to our featured speakers…

[08:57]  Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): Kristy and Michael, come on down please

[08:57]  Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): or right click on one of the chairs beside me

[08:58]  InKenzo at Amoration (in.kenzo): Yay Kristy welcome!

[08:58]  Sage Geddins: Hi everyone!

[08:58]  Sarvana Haalan: hello

[08:58]  Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): Sage and Bulaklak are two of my colleagues at TechSoup

[08:58]  Sage Geddins: It’s been a while since I’ve been here, nice to see all you

[08:59]  Sarvana Haalan: wooot, TechSoup!!!!

[08:59]  Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): Bulaklak, are you coming down?

[08:59]  Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): or just suppporting from the audience?

[08:59]  Glitteractica Cookie: I’ll sit here with my team!

[08:59]  Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): there you go

[08:59]  Sage Geddins: he was coming to help me out 🙂

[08:59]  Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): We are here to morally support Sage, who has never presented here before

[09:00]  Sage Geddins: Since it’s been a while since I’ve been here. Thanks for helping me out

[09:00]  Glitteractica Cookie: I think she has, year ago, actually

[09:00]  Jen (jenelle.levenque): Welcome Page

[09:00]  Sage Geddins: Yes, it’s been a year. Was here last year for TSDigs

[09:00]  Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): So they are going to tell us about TSDigs, the TechSoup digital storytelling challenge

[09:00]  Sage Geddins: Cool, yes, we’re excited for this year’s Challenge

[09:00]  Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): Please give them your best attention, since it sa really cool project that can help you

[09:01]  Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): take it away Sage.

[09:01]  Sage Geddins: http://tiny.cc/tsdigs

[09:01]  Glitteractica Cookie: I can give a littel history, if you want, Sage

[09:01]  Sage Geddins: this year we’re partnering with a cool nonprofit in Austin, Lights. Camera. Help.

[09:01]  Sage Geddins: http://lightscamerahelp.org

[09:01]  Glitteractica Cookie: Let’s take a step back and give a little context/background

[09:02]  Glitteractica Cookie: Is that OK, Sage?

[09:02]  Sage Geddins: And the Challenge will be a month long event during February

[09:02]  Glitteractica Cookie: OK, So, For those of you asking, What is the Dis all about…?

[09:02]  Sage Geddins: During that we’ll be hosting a series of webinars, tweetchats, and resources that will help organiztions tell their story digitally, through video or digital pictures

[09:03]  Sage Geddins: Do we have anyone here who participated in last year?

[09:03]  Glitteractica Cookie: Sage– I’m going to do a little background context ok?

[09:03]  Glitteractica Cookie: Ahem…

[09:03]  Sage Geddins: Sure

[09:03]  Glitteractica Cookie: So, to give this a little context…

[09:04]  Glitteractica Cookie: A few years back we launched the TechSoup Digital Storytelling Campaign. It was a challenge to teach nonprofits how to better tell their story. I had been noticing that most orgs were not versed in telling their own stories well

[09:05]  Glitteractica Cookie: The only orgs who really thought about storytelling and the practice of creating stories to tell their org’s mission in a way that is more than just words on a page were Domestic Violence agencies

[09:05]  Glitteractica Cookie: The DV orgs had Digital Storytelling down, but most other orgs were falling behind. So, we launched an educational Campaign that culminated ina challenge for orgs to create digital stories

[09:06]  Glitteractica Cookie: This event will occur over a month and most importantly… it si a CROSS PLATFORM event.

[09:06]  Glitteractica Cookie: WWhat that means is that it is decentralized and the entire campaign is held together across social networks via a single hashtag, #TSDIGS

[09:07]  Glitteractica Cookie: so, with that minor background, i think you all have a little more background to learn about this year’s events

[09:07]  Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): thanks, glitter

[09:07]  Glitteractica Cookie: OK, we can answer questions after

[09:07]  Glitteractica Cookie: Back to Sage

[09:07]  Sage Geddins: Thanks, Glitter

[09:07]  Sarvana Haalan: nice

[09:07]  Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): perhaps update people on what is new this year, Sage?

[09:08]  Sage Geddins: Yes. One big new part is the partnership with Lights Camera Help, LCH – great nonprofit out of Austin that hosts a nonprofit film festival every year…

[09:08]  InKenzo at Amoration (in.kenzo): Amazing educational resources coming together

[09:09]  Sage Geddins: They’ll be leading our three training webinars on production

[09:09]  Sage Geddins: The webinars will be on the first three Thursdays in Feb, at 11am Pacific

[09:10]  Sage Geddins: We’re working on updating the site now, but will be posted at http://tiny.cc/tsdigs or you can sign up to be notified at http://bit.ly/tsdigssubscribe

[09:10]  Sage Geddins: We’ll also be hosting a series of tweet chats for those you on Twitter, Tuesdays at 11am Pacific.

[09:10]  Sage Geddins: As Glitter mentioned, the tag is #TSDigs

[09:11]  Glitteractica Cookie: That tag is also finable on FLickr

[09:11]  Sage Geddins: Organizations have the month of Feb to create a 60 second video or 5 picture slideshow on Flickr

[09:11]  Sage Geddins: The cool thing is, you’re creating a story about your own organization, so you can keep it to use for your own marketing or recruiting

[09:11]  Sarvana Haalan: awesome

[09:12]  Sage Geddins: But we will have prizes!

[09:12]  Glitteractica Cookie: really GOOD prizes, courtesy of our TechSoup Donation partners!

[09:12]  Sage Geddins: We’ll be awarding prizes from our donor partners like Adobe and Flickr

[09:13]  Sage Geddins: Here’s a link to last year’s winners so you can see what the finished stories looked like TechSoup Winners http://bit.ly/xdNw20

[09:13]  Sage Geddins: Room to Read won 1st place from our expert judges, and it was their first video they created

[09:14]  Sage Geddins: We’ll also be having a Community Audience Choice Award again this year

[09:14]  Sage Geddins: So make sure to share stories with your communities!

[09:15]  Sage Geddins: Not sure if I saw BuffyB here? but here’s her video submission from last year http://bit.ly/woOlYw

[09:15]  Glitteractica Cookie: i don’t see buffy

[09:15]  Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): seh’s not here right now

[09:15]  Sage Geddins: Does anyone have any questions? Or any my team have anything to add?

[09:16]  Jen (jenelle.levenque): Will we be watching from the Drive-in again this year?

[09:16]  Sage Geddins: Yes! Definitely

[09:16]  Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): Is the campaign clear to folks? Basically tell your stories, win great prizes

[09:16]  InKenzo at Amoration (in.kenzo): We will stream the screening show as in previous years during our OCTribe meetup in March.

[09:16]  Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): people really liked that drive-in

[09:16]  Sage Geddins: We’ll be hosting an Red Carpet awards screening March 28th in SF and will be streaming into the Drivein

[09:17]  Jen (jenelle.levenque): When is the deadline for submission?

[09:17]  InKenzo at Amoration (in.kenzo): Feb 29th – leap day!

[09:17]  Sage Geddins: February 29th

[09:17]  Sage Geddins: And opens Feb 1

[09:17]  InKenzo at Amoration (in.kenzo): lucky this year we get one extra day to play

[09:17]  Sarvana Haalan: Can all NPCSL residents can submit their stories?

[09:18]  Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): I’m counting on a big showing this year from the NPC community

[09:18]  Sarvana Haalan: *NPSL

[09:18]  InKenzo at Amoration (in.kenzo): all nonprofits can enter a video

[09:18]  Jen (jenelle.levenque): Who/how, do we submit

[09:18]  Sarvana Haalan: sorry my fingers are not working right today

[09:18]  Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): lets show the world how awesome your work is

[09:18]  InKenzo at Amoration (in.kenzo): global orgs are welcome and encouraged to join in!

[09:18]  Sarvana Haalan: indeed

[09:18]  Sage Geddins: You’ll be able to submit your stories directly on the TechSoup website

[09:18]  Glitteractica Cookie: by global, In Kenzo means Non-US

[09:18]  InKenzo at Amoration (in.kenzo): The entry form will be up starting Feb 1

[09:19]  Glitteractica Cookie: via the link Sage sent around before, tiny.cc/tsdigs

[09:19]  Sage Geddins: http://tiny.cc/tsdigs will be able to take you there

[09:19]  Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): so who is thinking about submitting their story already?

[09:19]  Glitteractica Cookie: best best is to sign up for the google group

[09:19]  Sage Geddins: http://bit.ly/tsdigssubscribe

[09:19]  Sage Geddins: is the link to the Google Group

[09:19]  Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): Sounds like Sarvana is considering it

[09:19]  Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): Who else?

[09:19]  Jen (jenelle.levenque): Raises hand

[09:20]  Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): yes!

[09:20]  Sage Geddins: awesome!

[09:20]  InKenzo at Amoration (in.kenzo): Last year we had at least 5 NPSL entries – would love to see more in 2012

[09:20]  Jen (jenelle.levenque): I’m thinking of getting something together

[09:20]  HB Eternal: Our entry last year has had over 6,000 views on our TLF Channel (one of 175 videos we offer) so we will create a new one again

[09:20]  Glitteractica Cookie: the prizes are video cameras, an Ipad, great adobe software and more

[09:20]  InKenzo at Amoration (in.kenzo): sweet HB!

[09:20]  Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): awesome HB

[09:20]  Glitteractica Cookie: That’s great HB!

[09:20]  InKenzo at Amoration (in.kenzo): Now’s a great time to build organizational support to participate in February, gather your team

[09:20]  Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): I’d like at least 10 from the NPC community

[09:20]  Sarvana Haalan: wow!!!

[09:21]  Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): which is totally do-able

[09:21]  Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): we have 140 members

[09:21]  Sarvana Haalan: hoping to add to your numbers soon

[09:21]  Sage Geddins: There’s a great post InKenzo wrote last year on how much time it takes http://bit.ly/tsdigstime

[09:21]  Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): and many more groups taht are involved in our community

[09:22]  Sage Geddins: It can take less than you think!

[09:23]  Sarvana Haalan: Zinnia did an awesome job telling the participating orgs’s stories for the “Wishes Granted” Winter Festival

[09:23]  Zinnia Zauber: Thank you, Sar!

[09:23]  Zinnia Zauber: It was a super team effort!

[09:23]  Sage Geddins: Do you have a link to that video?

[09:24]  Sarvana Haalan: my rl colleagues were quite impressed with the information shared

[09:24]  Zinnia Zauber: Sage, it is an inworld project, not a video.

[09:24]  Sage Geddins: ah, sorry

[09:24]  Zinnia Zauber: You can still view them before we take them down for the next CommonGround.

[09:25]  Sarvana Haalan: couldn’yt it be made into a video adding a narrative voice over

[09:25]  Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): all of those could easily be translated to digital stories

[09:25]  InKenzo at Amoration (in.kenzo): So there’s tons of opportunities coming up

[09:25]  Zinnia Zauber: Yes, you could totally do that!

[09:25]  InKenzo at Amoration (in.kenzo): We’d love to have you join us for #NPlive on 1/25 on collaborative video production for orgs

[09:25]  InKenzo at Amoration (in.kenzo): to get the ball rolling

[09:25]  Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): and lots of people around to help

[09:26]  Sarvana Haalan: I trully hope the the Wishes Granted” presentation is included…

[09:26]  Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): ok I think we’ve cheerleaded enough for TSDigs

[09:26]  Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): thanks Sage and my team for all the great info

[09:26]  Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): We’ll also be posting this to our blog soon

[09:26]  Sage Geddins: Thanks Rik

[09:27]  Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): but seriously I want at least 10-15 stories from our community

Written by: rikomatic

Written by: rikomatic

Written by: rikomatic