Subdividing Parcels of Land

I talked to Larry Pixel (Larry Johnson in RL) on Monday, April 21 regarding possible solutions to setting up permissions for different groups making use of the U of S property on teaching 6.






Larry Pixel, CEO of New Media Consortium (photo retrieved April 24/08 from: http://sl.nmc.org/author/larry/).

Larry suggested we subdivide the land into parcels to provide groups with increased access and permissions. Currently the U of S property on teaching 6 is deeded to a group called SLUG (Second Life User's Group). The officers of the SLUG group are the ones who control the overall management and permissions of the U of S property.

Subdividing parcels of land means that the large piece of land (e.g. U of S property on Teaching 6) is divided up into smaller parcels. The smaller parcel is then deeded to the group making use of the space (e.g. Snellgrove Gallery, ECMM, others).

The benefit of subdividing the land is that groups have control of their space. One of the main reasons groups require control of their space is to provide members with permissions to utilize tools and equipment owned by the group. Another reason (probably most important) is that each subdivided parcel receives its own media stream. Currently the U of S property is allowed one media stream but by subdividing into more parcels...each parcel can receive a media stream.

The negative aspect to subdividing into smaller parcels is that the prims of the larger parcel are divided amongst the smaller parcels. Therefore each smaller parcel will have a less prims allowed on the parcel. Larry recommended that we do not subdivide the U of S property into more than four parcels. Four parcels will still allow for a decent prim count on each parcel.