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 ===== Who we are ===== ===== Who we are =====
-NCI is a user-support group in the //Second Life®// virtual environment. +NCI is a user-support group in the //Second Life®// virtual environment, with more than 100 volunteer staff and over 10,000 active members.
  
-Designed primarily for new residents, but open to all, NCI offers in-person advice from our team of NCI Helpers and NCI Land Officers classes, contests and social events, interactive tutorials, freebies, help notecards and landmarks, sandboxes for building, a new users mall, Ginny Gremlin park, games, and newsstands with free in-world publications and links to Web resources.+Brace Coral founded NCI in 2005, primarily for new residents, but open to all, NCI offers in-person advice from our team of NCI Helpers and NCI Land Officers classes, contests and social events, interactive tutorials, freebies, help notecards and landmarks, sandboxes for building, a new users mall, Ginny Gremlin park, games, and newsstands with free in-world publications and links to Web resources.
  
-NCI offers an extensive schedule of [[classes:classes|classes]] and [[events:events|events]] (over 60 per week), held at our campuses, and at venues of partner companies. NCI classes include basic and advanced  building and texturing, clothing and accessory creation, scripting, and land ownership. We also hold other basic SL classes, such as Intro to SL, Using the Search Menu and Maps, Avatar Makeover, and SL Consumer Skills. NCI events include Show & Tells, Parties, Blitz Building contests, New Player Q&A, and our longest running event—our weekly Newbie Salsa.+NCI offers schedule of [[classes:classes|classes]] and [[events:events|events]] at our campuses. [[http://nci-sl.info/education/Schedule.pdf|Please click here for the NCI schedule of classes and events.]]
  
-[[nci:locations|NCI runs multiple Second Life campuses]]: NCI Kuula (the original and largest NCI location), NCI South (at Hamnida, directly adjacent to the South Welcome Area), NCI Snow Country (in Hughes) and NCI Beach (by the sea in the Class 5 Fishermans Cove sim).  NCI also manages numerous NCI InfoNodes, located near or adjacent to Linden InfoHubs (or other areas popular with new residents). InfoNodes serve as "mini-NCIs" with information, freebies, landmarks, maps, and schedules, providing information to new users where they first rez, when they first rez.+[[nci:locations|NCI runs multiple Second Life campuses]]: NCI Kuula (the original and largest NCI location), NCI South (at Hamnida, directly adjacent to the South Welcome Area) and NCI Beach (by the sea in the Class 5 Fishermans Cove sim).  NCI also manages numerous NCI InfoNodes, located near or adjacent to Linden InfoHubs (or other areas popular with new residents). InfoNodes serve as "mini-NCIs" with information, freebies, landmarks, maps, and schedules, providing information to new users where they first rez, when they first rez.
  
 NCI classes, events, and resources are free and open to all. NCI classes, events, and resources are free and open to all.
  
-NCI is entirely user-run and financed and is unaffiliated with Linden Lab. Land and tier for NCI’s four campuses has been purchased by NCI or donated by NCI members and supporters. NCI continues to pay its instructors, even after Linden Lab abandoned class funding in December 2006. NCI is not-for-profit and is funded via through individual donations, sponsored advertising, and by RL and in-world partners that we conduct NCI-branded classes and events for.+NCI is entirely user-run and financed and is unaffiliated with Linden Lab. Land and tier for NCI’s four campuses has been purchased by NCI or donated by NCI members and supporters. NCI is not-for-profit and is funded via through individual donations, sponsored advertising, and by RL and in-world partners that we conduct NCI-branded classes and events for.
  
-=====NCI Groups ===== +=====Some Important NCI Groups ===== 
-* [[http://world.secondlife.com/group/25e187d1-3e88-b05c-9d2d-2dceeb9d4bc3|New Citizens Inc.]] - Open enrollment\\+* [[http://world.secondlife.com/group/25e187d1-3e88-b05c-9d2d-2dceeb9d4bc3|New Citizens Inc.]] - Open enrollment [See also: [[policies:groupim|Group IM rules]]]\\
 * NCI Alumni Association - Open enrollment\\ * NCI Alumni Association - Open enrollment\\
 * [[http://world.secondlife.com/group/a053573f-e2b3-ccb0-954a-177ad62e4d37|NCI Scripters]] - Scripting questions and assistance; Open enrollment\\ * [[http://world.secondlife.com/group/a053573f-e2b3-ccb0-954a-177ad62e4d37|NCI Scripters]] - Scripting questions and assistance; Open enrollment\\
 * [[http://world.secondlife.com/group/f2b5354d-ad51-81be-614f-e4a6c3a0ed1f|NCI Land Holdings]] - Land management group; by invitation only.\\ * [[http://world.secondlife.com/group/f2b5354d-ad51-81be-614f-e4a6c3a0ed1f|NCI Land Holdings]] - Land management group; by invitation only.\\
 * NCI Staff - NCI staff; by invitation only.\\ * NCI Staff - NCI staff; by invitation only.\\
-* NCI Board of Directors Executive group; by invitation only.\\+* NCI Secretariat Administrative group; by invitation only. (formerly //NCI Board of Directors//)\\
  
 ===== Prominent Figures in NCI ===== ===== Prominent Figures in NCI =====
  
 **Brace Coral** \\ **Brace Coral** \\
-is the Founder of NCI, but is no longer involved in NCI management+is the Founder of NCI.
  
 **Carl Metropolitan** \\ **Carl Metropolitan** \\
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 **Tateru Nino** \\ **Tateru Nino** \\
-currently serves as Owner/Trustee. Please contact her about any issues concerning the NCI groups.+formerly served as Owner/Trustee. 
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 +**Wellington Beam** \\ 
 +current Owner/Trustee. Please contact him about any issues concerning the NCI groups.
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