Information of Interest to Builders at Burning Life '09

1. GROUP. Claiming land will automatically send you an invitation to the group "Burning Life Access". Region access will be restricted to Burning Life Access Group Members only. You will need to wear your Burning Life Access Group tag in order to Teleport into the region.

2. GETTING TO THE LAND. Please use your Map button in the SL Viewer to see the event grounds. Search for "Burning Life" in the map, and all the regions will come up.

3. DEADLINES. After you claim land, you will have 3 days to begin building, before we put the plot back in the pot for someone else to claim Your build must be finished by Thursday, Oct 15.

4. CREW ACCESS. Other members of your team will need to be added to the builders' role by you. You can invite up to 2 other builders to the group clicking the appropriate button on your land terminal.

5. TERRAFORMING. There will be no terraforming and no water exposed from terraform. The Real Life Playa we emulate is big, flat, and hard, so ours is too ;-)

6. SCRIPTS. Low lag scripts are vital! Please bear this in mind. We will be checking script times to ensure that lag is manageable. If you need help refining your scripts, our Script Witch, Zuleika Deere, can probably hook you up with help.

7. MEGAPRIMS. As with ALL events on Linden land, Mega prims are not permitted, and will be returned to you if used.

8. BUILDING Do's and Don'ts. You must wear your "Camp Builder" Role Tag when building or your work will be auto returned. (You may need to select it from the group drop down menu in the "General" tab.) When you wear the "Builder" role tag, the Build button at the bottom of your screen may still be greyed out. This does NOT mean you cannot build. Just rez your items as normal. Please note that the Playa is not your own personal sand box and keep your building within your camp area! You can view your area by going to "View" in the top menu bar then "View Property Lines".

9. PRIMS. You can see how many prims you have used by looking at your land terminal. It shows your total in hovertext. Your neighbors can see this too, so behave yourselves ;-).

10. MOOP. MOOP stands for "Matter Out Of Place". In the real world this refers to anything lying on the playa surface that is not dried mud. It's unnatural stuff that will need to be picked up and removed from the desert— the sooner the better— before it blows away to become someone else's problem. At Burning Life, MOOP is any prim that is outside your building parcel, taking up Region resources. MOOP is not our friend. MOOP will be returned to your inventory when found. We will endeavor to give you a heads-up before returning things, but if we miss that part, please don't take it personally! Since cleaning up MOOP is a big time-sink for the volunteer staff, please do your part to keep things tidy by not leaving things around in the first place! "Leave No Trace" and "Don't let it hit the ground!" as they say int the Real World.

11. PRESS. If members of the Press request event information from you, please direct them to Dusty Linden.

12. IMAGES. Flickr group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/burninglife/ Please do not post images giving away a huge amount of info about the event until it opens. Teasers only! It's more fun that way.

13. DECOMMODIFICATION. Burning Life is completely non-commercial. There is no buying or selling in this city...no sponsorships, no logos, no advertising, only acts of unconditional gift-giving that play a large part in Burning culture. Builds that seem like advertising will not be allowed.

14. AESTHETIC. We are emulating a temporary desert encampment. We are not building houses or anything that looks permanent or prefab. If you disregard this, the community reserves the right to vote you off the island ;-) Please join in the spirit of the project, and help make this event a visual whole. Please design with illumination, fabric, art, wood and other lightweight materials! Be imaginative!

15. BEHAVIOR. TOS will be strictly in effect; we wlll not tolerate people abusing one another. TOS violations will be grounds for removal from the event. We will also be following the Burning Man Network Principles as much as Second Life will allow. http://regionals.burningman.com/network_principles.html

16. EVENTS. We're trying to get away from the "build it and walk away" model. Consider hosting some get togethers or events at your build. We will provide an online calendar for you to list your events. We will alert you when that's ready for use.

17. MATURITY RATING. Please note: By building, performing or holding events at Burning Life you accept responsibility for maintaining a Mature rating and following standard Linden Lab terms of Service and Community Standards.

18. TYPES OF LAND:

* First Come First Serve, camp sites, Large: Large varies from about 2600 sqm to 3080 sqm. 750 Prims.
* First Come First Serve, camp sites, Small: Small varies from about 1200 sqm to 1500 sqm. 350 Prims.
* First come first served Art Plots - All sized 576sqm with 300 prims

19. EVENT RESOURCES. The Event Staff you are most likely to need are:
Dusty Linden, Administration/Communications;
Talia Tokugawa, Department of Public Works (Infrastructure builds);
Script Witch, Zuleika Deere
White Lebed, Art Department,
Doctor Gascoigne, Performance Department;
Dusty Linden, Event Scheduling;
Joao Mastroianni, Linguists
Countess Decosta, Tour Guides & Greeters