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+ | ====== About Us ====== | ||
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+ | ===== Our Mission ===== | ||
+ | **Main Focus:**\\ | ||
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+ | NCI is a voluntary association, | ||
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+ | ===== Our Fundamental Principles ===== | ||
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+ | **Humanity**\\ | ||
+ | NCI recognizes that //Second Life// users are individual human beings, worthy of care, civility, respect and courtesy, with their own lives, their own circumstances and their own problems and situations, which may not be fully apparent. | ||
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+ | **Impartiality**\\ | ||
+ | NCI neither makes nor encourages discrimination as to age, gender, nationality, | ||
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+ | **Neutrality**\\ | ||
+ | NCI does not take part or take sides in protests or in controversies of a political, racial, religious or ideological nature. NCI provides aid and education, not protest, mockery, censure or condemnation. | ||
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+ | **Voluntary**\\ | ||
+ | NCI is a voluntary association, | ||
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+ | **Safety and Security**\\ | ||
+ | NCI works to educate and inform and to protect new //Second Life// users from exploitation, | ||
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+ | ===== Who we are ===== | ||
+ | NCI is a user-support group in the //Second Life®// virtual environment, | ||
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+ | 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. | ||
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+ | NCI offers a schedule of [[classes: | ||
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+ | NCI classes, events, and resources are free and open to all. | ||
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+ | 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, | ||
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+ | =====Some Important NCI Groups ===== | ||
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+ | * NCI Staff - NCI staff; by invitation only.\\ | ||
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+ | ===== Prominent Figures in NCI ===== | ||
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+ | **Wellington Beam** \\ | ||
+ | current Owner/ | ||
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+ | **Brace Coral** \\ | ||
+ | is the Founder of NCI. | ||
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+ | **Carl Metropolitan** \\ | ||
+ | was Executive director for a period of 4 years after Brace' | ||
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+ | **Gramma Fiddlesticks** \\ | ||
+ | succeeded Carl Metropolitan as the Interim Chairman of the Board of Directors for New Citizens Incorporated. | ||
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+ | **Tateru Nino** \\ | ||
+ | formerly served as Owner/ |