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  Hi all!

Thank you for volunteering to help with the in-world component of the Second Life Community Convention 2010! We are excited about bringing content from the event in Boston to those who will be in Second Life, and we appreciate your offer to help make this happen!

**In-World Track Leader**  We’re looking for ONE person who feels like taking on the overall coordination of the in-world events for SLCC, ideally someone who has extensive experience planning in-world events and hopefully who has worked with mixed reality conferences or gatherings before. This person will help coordinate both the sim design and building in the next few weeks, as well as working with moderators and greeters for the course of the weekend SLCC takes place, from August 13-15th. Think you’re a perfect fit for the job? Reply to this email and let us know you’re interested!

**Moderators & Greeters**  When you filled out the volunteer form, you indicated what things you preferred to do, and we’ll be matching up moderators and greeters with particular sessions in the coming weeks as we nail down the schedule. If you indicated that you would be willing to moderate a session, we’ll need you to be at the in-world venue at least 30 minutes before the session to help coordinate with the folks in Boston to make sure the stream is running etc, and then during the event to help communicate questions from the SL audience to the team in Boston. You should have previous experience moderating in-world events if possible, and we’ll probably discuss more details at one of the upcoming volunteer meetings (see below).

**Builders Needed ASAP!**  What we need RIGHT NOW, though, is builders! Linden Lab has given us four sims to use as the venue for the in-world portion of SLCC, and we have a general layout of the sims ready and ideas for the structures that will house the main portions of the event, but our main organizing team is a bit swamped - so we need experienced builders, terraformers, landscapers, texture makers, scripters.. Folks who can transform the sims into a great venue that evokes Boston for the in-world SLCC!

If you can help, please reply to this email and let us know what specific building talents you can offer, and we’ll get you setup with the right permissions to help with the project. And while we appreciate all offers of help, please note that we’re under a tight timeline to get this build completed, so we’d prefer folks who are very experienced builders for the structures, and perhaps those who are less experienced can help with the landscaping and decoration details when the main build out is complete. We’ll leave it up to you to let us know what you would be best suited to do and thanks for understanding!

**In-World Volunteer Meetings**

If you’d like to help with the in-world portion of SLCC, please plan to attend one of the scheduled meetings to learn more about the plan and what you can do to help!

7/27 - Tuesday - 5PM SLT - Builders & Sim Design meeting

8/5 - Thursday - 5PM SLT - Moderators & Greeters meting

You should receive an invitation to join the group “SL Convention Planning” and assigned to an appropriate role in order to access the sims, which are SLCC 1-4. You can search for “SLCC 1” to teleport to the region after you’ve received the group invitation.

**A Note About Promoting the Convention & Confidentiality**

As part of the planning team, you may see planning materials or other things that we have in-progress and which have not yet been announced to the public. Please consider these materials confidential; if information has not yet been posted to our public website at http://slconvention.org then you shouldn’t discuss it with others. We don’t want to confuse folks by getting incorrect information circulating, and the best way to do that is to just ask everyone to not disclose information that hasn’t yet been shared with the public. When we’re ready to send announcements and things, we’ll be sure to get you notecards and promotional materials that we’d love for you to share with your communities and network, and in the meantime, feel free to pick up a Promo Pack at [|__//http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SLCC%202/240/244/801//__] to help us promote the convention!

Thanks again for volunteering to help with SLCC and we look forward to working with you in the next few weeks!

Sincerely,

- Chris/Fleep

Chris M. Collins (SL: Fleep Tuque) Director of IT & Communications Second Life Community Convention 2010 Boston, MA | August 13-15, 2010 Organized by AvaCon, Inc. (774) 654-0010 info@avacon.org http://slconvention.org