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NCI works to educate and inform and to protect new //Second Life// users from exploitation, | NCI works to educate and inform and to protect new //Second Life// users from exploitation, | ||
- | ===== Group Charter | + | ===== Who we are ===== |
- | NCI /New Citizens Incorporated | + | 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 | + | 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 | + | NCI offers |
- | 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: |
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, | + | 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, |
- | =====NCI Groups ===== | + | =====Some Important |
- | * New Citizens Inc. - Open enrollment\\ | + | * [[http:// |
* NCI Alumni Association - Open enrollment\\ | * NCI Alumni Association - Open enrollment\\ | ||
- | * NCI Land Holdings - Officer | + | * [[http:// |
- | * NCI Board of Directors | + | * [[http:// |
+ | * NCI Staff - NCI staff; by invitation only.\\ | ||
+ | * NCI Secretariat - Administrative | ||
===== 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 | + | formerly served |
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+ | **Wellington Beam** \\ | ||
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