SLCC Community Standards - Agreement
The Future United, which presents the Second Life Community Convention (SLCC), is dedicated to running a successful event which fosters discussion and camaraderie celebrating the diversity of Second Life and resident’s personal and professional interests. As a non-profit organization, The Future United seeks to protect all SLCC attendees. The SLCC Community Standards are a set of guidelines that we expect attendees to follow for everyone’s benefit. Through your registration you are agreeing to follow the below Community Standards.
1. Harassment of any kind towards another attendee will not be tolerated.
2. If you are a member of the press, please be respectful to those you are interviewing and all attendees.
3. Always try to get permission before taking a photograph or video. Some people go to great lengths to keep their real life off of the World Wide Web. If someone asks you not to take their picture, or if you have taken one and they ask you to delete it, please oblige. This is not meant to restrict photography in any way. Just be mindful that some people do not like having their picture taken.
4. Any property damage caused by an individual (including, but not limited to, hotel rooms, displays, the convention space or other space on the host property grounds) will be that individual’s legal and financial responsibility.
5. Please refrain from streaming out media during the event. We are streaming all of the conference live out to the grid. In addition we are making audio recordings off of the mixing boards this year so that we can post clear audio files online with Creative Commons licenses. Please be mindful of this fact when preparing your presentations, comments, and questions.
6. During question and answer periods, please use the microphone and kindly limit your time to 1-2 minutes for questions and comments. There are a lot of people who want to ask questions so be courteous to them.7. The Future United reserves the right to remove any attendee at any time for non-adherence of the community standards. Such decisions will not be made lightly and will be final. SLCC attendees also agree to release The Future United from all legal responsibilities, indemnifying and holding harmless all members of The Future United and all other attendees.
*Please note that we may tweak the verbiage of the Community Standards to clarify the points more precisely.
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[...] Community Standards Posted on Official SLCC Blog Randy Moss posted a set of Community Standards for the SLCC over on the Official SLCC blog site for the upcoming convention in August. The board members had [...]
Thanks Randy! In the past, this has always fallen into one of those last minute “oh yah we should make sure that people know this”.
We have had situations in the past, especially concerning the issues of photograph where one person expressly does not want their picture taken for the web. This has in both years been a top concern of Linden Lab.
Thank you for making these ground rules and displaying them publicly.
They look good to me. Good work Jennyfur and Flip et al !
[...] With the registration of a couple of controversial Second Life residents, some are in a state of panic. Many feel that these individuals would hamper their convention experience. Another issue that has also cropped up is the entrance of “press” requesting permission to film. Due to these incidents, The Future United Group has decided to clarify their policies in a Community Standards Agreement. [...]
SLCC sets forth community standards
With the registration of a couple of controversial Second Life residents, some are in a state of panic. Many feel that these individuals would hamper their convention experience. Another issue that has also cropped up is the entrance of “press” reque…
Doubledown’s rules:
1) 2 drink minimum….the drinks you drink; maxmium
2) No formincation with the hotel’s potted plants unless it involves myself and Moo Money
3) If you wear a white tshirt and jeans, you will be confined to the children’s coloring book corner and petting zoo
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sounds not very web2.0 to me unfortunately.
I thought about doing some live streaming to ustream, blogtv to also let people who cannot attend personally have a better access to it (as it was a bit limited last year where I also wasn’t able to make it and felt a bit left out). But I guess I can forget it then..
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@taotakashi yah I know, but we are bound by union regs and our contract with Phreak Radio. The biggest issue is that with 4 concurrent tracks would be 4 points of access for video streaming sucking down the bandwidth. Hotels aren’t always forthcoming with the actual strength of their wireless. Granted, we have a dedicated wireless for our event, but we’d rather be safe than sorry given the amount of egg on our face from last years video streaming debacle.
I don’t get the union regs but anyway
Will all video made available at least after the event? And I also hope that there will be some cameraman involved then who zooms to the one speaking as this was a bit missing last year.
So regarding interviews with my friends, are they allowed, will I be directly in jail or shall we better go to the hotel room?
(maybe better anyway, just asking though). Honestly I don’t get all these terms in the previous post, seems all quite complicated esp. for a non native english speaker and non-lawyer.
(and what is this contract about actually?)
(and provide people who do not want to be photographed with red dots or so
@taotakashi To be honest I do not understand how union regs work. I just know that we are paying out the nose for them. I am not sure what the status of video taping the convention is. Some track leaders have expressly stated that they do not want their panels or tracks videotaped. I haven’t really been involved in that process.
Interviews with friends are totally allowed. These can be done in private or public spaces. As we stated “incidental” documentary footage, general convention overview footage and B-Roll is ok.
Basically, the community standards are a set of guidelines for the slcc. Most are common knowledge.
Well… the photo thing is tricky… especially for crowd shots. If you take a picture of someone and they say “hey please delete that I don’t want my picture on the internet” or “i dont mind that you took a picture, but please do not post it to flickr.”
[...] Convention this year, leave your camcorder at home or in the hotel room. The newly released SLCC Community Standards prevents you from taping or streaming any “Performance, panel or track” at the [...]
[...] SLCC Community Standards - Agreement The Future United, which presents the Second Life Community Convention (SLCC), is dedicated to running a successful […] [...]
despite jennyfurperegrine’s vague reassurance, the rules are clear and strict, not at all web 2.0 and not all in SL spirit; and even with some laissez faire on the ground, hopefully, they are truly unacceptable if we have to follow the web 2.0 and SL philosophy — there is even a “no speeches or diatribes” clause…. too too bad, and sad, that even SL is embracing this corporate, repressive standards — defining them “community” (?) standards does not make them better or more open, unfortunately
Berny,
Did you actually come ot the convention? And if you did how do you feel about the event as a whole? Do you feel that the community standard were ever brought up? Were they intrusive? Did they prevent you or anyone else from expressing or having a good time or exploring … or anything? If you did not come to the convention maybe you should ask these questions of people who did decide to come and get an honest on the ground report of how the community standards impacted thier attendee experience.