Cores and Watches and Committees, Oh My!
by Alphaville Herald on 05/09/05 at 8:52 am
story and photo by Seldon Metropolitan
If a Feted Inner Core and a Metaverse Justice Watch weren’t enough for you, there’s now the Resident Action Committee, a new cabal formed in response to the MJW’s contentious recent meeting with Philip Linden, which looks to test the new era of Linden-lobbying that seems to be dawning on the world of Second Life.
Sunday night saw the first meeting of the RAC, which aims to be an open forum for the discussion of issues important to the residents of Second Life, and free to as great a degree as possible from favoritism, politics and moderation. Founded by original FOP* Lordfly Digeridoo, the inaugurual session of the RAC got off to an initially rocky start due to its unstructured format, but once some ground rules were in place the discussion that ensued was vigorous and full of the deep thought, colorful banter and well-placed personal attacks that are the trademark of SL society.
The meeting lasted three hours and was attended by about 45 avatars, including SL notables Aimee Weber, Hiro Pendrago, Pendari Lorentz, Schwanson Schlegel and Prok himself. Anyone with a pair of those green rubber rain boots can wade through a full transcript is of the meeting here, though Blueman Steele was kind enough to post a summary in the same thread.
According to the forum thread, discussion revolved around three main issues: the voting system recently implemented by Linden Lab for feedback on new features; various aspects of the texture and object permissions systems; and how to get a clearer and consistently enforced code of conduct out of the Lindens.
The group plans on meeting with Linden Lab staff this week to discuss the issues brought up at the assembly, and has every intent of making this two-meeting cycle a weekly event.
Additional reporting and editorializing by Walker Spaight
*Friend of Prokofy
jauani
Sep 12th, 2005
prok, your secret meetings are not so secret, it seems. many people have heard of them. i guess i will have to ask my sources to save some chat logs from your meetings and i’ll post them here.
Prokofy Neva
Sep 12th, 2005
Um, which secret meetings are these, Jauani? I have regular 6:00 p.m. meetings on Friday nights to chat about the economy. They’re announced on the events board as anyone can see and open to all. I don’t think more than 10 or 12 people ever come, but it’s interesting. I also have meetings on Tuesdays in Derwant with my “Doers” group which was founded ages ago, long before this current spate of watchers and committees and groups, as an antidote to Thinkers. None of it is secret, it’s all on the events calendar, and the transcripts are sometimes posted if someone thinks of it but reading hugely long transcripts is a huge time-suck. Well, post away, I don’t say anything anywhere that I’d be ashamed of — I doubt you could say the same thing. Give it up, Jauani.
Mr Fairplay
Sep 12th, 2005
I just figured out who all the F.I.C. are . . . . mwauhahahahahahahahahahahhaahahhahahaaaaahhahahahahahhahahahahahahhah…yes and more laughs…..if anyone wants to know and wanna got something to exchange for something I would find equally as useful contact me!!! email me at: onesong@gmail.com
Joe Public
Sep 13th, 2005
” but reading hugely long transcripts is a huge time-suck.”
Hah! Another priceless prokofyism!!!