The Official SLCC Website Has Moved!

We have moved the official SLCC Website to a new address www.slconvention.org. Please update your bookmarks!

This blog will currently remain active for archival purposes.

Hey, don’t you think there should be a [insert blank] track?

After last year’s conference there was one point that many people suggested; more topic specific tracks.  There were several times we were approached with the idea of very specific and interesting tracks.  Yes, many of the track ideas that have been suggested are wonderful and great ideas and as Randal mentioned last year, we are giving you, the Second Life community the option to suggest, develop, and run that idea.

One comment that I have heard throughout this process is “Hey, is there [insert blank] track? Why not?”  The answer is, because we haven’t seen a request for that particular idea.  If you have a track idea, and it is not in our current offerings, please review the RFP (located here) and contact me as soon as possible at nexeus.fatale@gmail.com . We have been more than willing to help people understand, organize, and walk through the process of the RFP.

So if you don’t see a track topic listed and would like to see one, please do contact me, submit an RFP, and we will take the process from that point forward.

- Nexeus Fatale

An update, Mini-Tracks, the SLCC, and you!

No, we did not fall asleep at the wheel!  There has been a lot of excitement behind the scenes for the SLCC.  For the past month, we’ve been working hard on sponsorships, reviewing the RFP’s and getting things together for the upcoming SLCC.  Some of the hard work will become very noticeable very, very soon, and some I’m going to announce today. 

SLCC Tracks

I’ve been asked by many people what will be the tracks at the SLCC; we’ve finished reviewing, and discussing the current confirmed SLCC track offerings and here is a list of what they are and their track leaders if you want to contact them:

Main Tracks
Business – Track Leader: Crucial Armitage (crucial.armitage @ gmail . com)
Education – Track Leader: Jonathon Richter (jrichter @ uoregon . edu)

Mini-Tracks
Fashion – Track Leader MadamG Zagato (info @ never30 . com)
Financial Sector – Track Leader:  Lindsay Druart (lindsay.druart @ gmail . com)
Healthcare – Track Leader:  TBA
Non-Profit – Track Leaders:  Susan Tenby (susan @ techsoup . org ) and Rik Panganiban (Rik @ globalkids . org)
Open-Source – Track Leader: Jason Giglio (gigs @ gigstaggart . com)
TV & Film – Track leader: Starr Sonic (starr @ slcn . tv)

There are several tracks that we are reviewing at the moment.  If you have any questions, concerns, or want to know anything concerning the Mini-Tracks, contact me through nexeus.fatale @ gmail . com

 RSS Feed Update

We are currently in the process of moving a huge chunk of this blog/website to a more centralized location.  This also means that the RSS feed will be changing.  In order to make this move (and any potential future moves easier) we are changing the feed to: http://feeds.feedburner.com/slcc

Stay tuned!  There are plenty of updates heading your way!

- Nexeus Fatale

Sponsorship package 2008

The SLCC planning team is excited to announce this year’s sponsorship package. We have come up with a new package this year creating 3 categories of sponsor. This will give a little bit more to each sponsor and be able to reach just about anyone who would like to sponsor the convention.

• Over all convention sponsors- this will include one lead/presenting sponsor, one lead and one second sponsor for each full 2 day track and general sponsors.
• Mini track sponsors- mini tracks are new this year and sponsors for mini tracks will be the responsibility of the mini track leader under the advisement of the SLCC planning team.
• Program sponsors- are advertisements, announcements or just about any thing else someone might want to put in the program.

Read on for more details.

Building Towards SLCC 2008

The proposals and the sponsorship requests are starting to come in and we are so excited at what we are seeing. We hope that if you have been thinking about sending in an idea for a Mini-Track that you will fill out the Request For Proposal form and give us an idea of what you would like to do. We have had some very cool sponsors approach us and we are very excited with how things are beginning to shape up. Moreover I will be traveling down to Tampa on a personal trip and will be posting some pictures of the space to help you all realize how great of a facility we have secured.

We have updated the travel information on the tabs above so you can begin planning your trip. We are going to try and set up a “ride share” and possibly a “room share” space to help folks that are interested in sharing. The hotel room block is not open yet and we are still getting the exact cost of registration set so please be patient. I can tell you that the conference charge is going to be in the $210 - $230 range, and that the hotel is $149.00 for single and double rooms and $169 for triples and $189 for quads.

Please stay tuned as we release more information as we get it.