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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.
If you have recently been to the U of S property on Teaching 6 you will notice the Snelgrove Gallery 2 is now located on the spot where the previous ECMM building was located.
Snelgrove Gallery shown in new location. (photo taken April 19/08).
The soon to be reconstructed ECMM building will be located on the Northern tip of the U of S property on Teaching 6 (see image below).
New location of the ECMM building. (photo taken April 19/08).
SLUG (Second Life User's Group) will be meeting on Thursday, April 24 to discuss policies and permissions (among other things) for the U of S property on Teaching 6. Once some of these issues are dealt with we will begin reconstructing the ECMM building in its new location.
On Tuesday, April 1, 2008 Felix Stringer (Frank Bulk-RL) played an April fools joke on us in SL...or so we wished.
Currently the U of S property in SL allows anyone to build on the land. This means the entire property acts like one huge sandbox. This is very inviting for builders in SL to come to the U of S property and practice their building skills (not necessarily a bad thing). However, one of the problems we do run into is inventory items being left lying around the property.
Inventory items can be returned to their owners through a couple of methods. The first is for people with appropriate land permissions to send the items back to the owner. This may be a little tedious for certain individuals having to do this on a regular basis. The other method is for the land to be set to return items to owners after a specific amount of time. This is more than likely the best way to keep the land clean, however before this is done be sure items that are supposed to be on the land are set so they are not returned.
The problem we ran into on the U of S property is that various groups were building structures and organizing spaces. For example Educational Communications and Technology's ECMM building, Kev Juno's College building and Dependent Binder's Art Gallery. All these structures were deeded to their own groups and the property is ran under the SLUG (Second Life User's Group). When Felix Stringer decided to set the land to return all items to their owners after a specific amount of time...all items on the entire property were returned. This included all the structures and objects that were supposed to be on the property. This lead to pretty much the entire property being cleared.
U of S property cleared after inventory items returned back to owners. (photo taken April 3/08).
On April 1, when Felix told us that the land was cleared...we were hoping it was an April fool's joke. He assured us it wasn't and when we went onto the land we saw the inventory returned results. We may have learned how groups and deeds work in SL the hard way but as Slugger Sosa (Rick Schwier-RL) said to me, "But I guess this is a terrific example of life on the bleeding edge."
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