[sl/teen] Chatting with Lindens (or How To Get the Whole TG into GK Island)
Hiii! Mariel –Voyunicef- here again.
Honestly, I think the title of this post speaks for itself. For non-SLers: Have you ever been at a place so crowded that it feels as if the building were going to collapse? Well – that is precisely what I felt today at the event with Blue and Philip Linden at GK Island.
As I can’t decide on what to name the highlight of the event (the fact itself of having ,a href="http://www.holymeatballs.org/2007/03/sl_blue_and_philip_linden_pres.html">Blue and Philip Linden speak about the present, past and future of the Teen Grid, the audience at the event, or the questions from the audience), I will simply speak a bit about each in this post.
In the year Global Kids has spent on the Teen Grid alone, Second Life has evolved into a system that today portrays things that were unimaginable before, and that’s something that Blue and Philip Linden were there to talk about. They spoke about the technical parts of Second Life and about the projects that take place in it. Also, they told us about their plans for the future of Second Life. In summary, they provided us with the other perspective of the story – Lindens’.
The audience… literally overwhelming. Residents kept on arriving since there was one hour left for the event to begin, and most of them stayed. I wouldn’t know the exact number of participants, but it was wild.
I had the honour of helping with the event a tiny bit by receiving the letters from the audience so that they could be asked in order. Not only did I learn the real meaning of multitasking on Second Life, but also I got to see all the questions from the audience. Many of them were concerning the aspects of the Teen Grid we all care about.
To finish, I think it was a good experience for both the Linden Labs and Global Kids to host an event in which the main adults from Second Life inform teens about the status of the program. Teens have proved to actually worry about this space, so I hope there will be a stronger commitment from the behalf of adults to promote a good growth in the Teen Grid.
