Wow! what an interesting discussion! I've some friends who are part of the dev team for this project, but I hadn't been keeping a close enough eye on it to realize that it's now live.
Looking at the website, I found this blurb rather interesting:/ Pricing/ /Small islands are priced at US$1,250 for 65,536 square meters (about 16 acres), monthly land fees for maintenance are US$195./ /Large islands are priced at US$5,000 for 262,144 square meters (about 64 acres), monthly land fees for maintenance are US$780./ /We offer a 25% discount to verified real world educators and academic institutions (e.g., universities/schools) or 501(c)3 non-profit organizations that will be using the regions to support their organization's official work. Please contact education at lists.lindenlab.com <mailto:education at lists.lindenlab.com> for verification and more details./ *** I wonder how many other nonprofits have been using this medium to support their work. And I wonder what the upkeep and demands on staff time would be if one were to, say, create a Metropolitan Museum of Art or Getty, which would require a lot of maintenance. There wouldn't be the overhead of maintaining artwork or facilities, right? but the staff time would be an extra cost. Perian Sully Collection Database and Records Administrator Judah L. Magnes Museum Berkeley, CA Richard Urban wrote: > Hi all, > > In the spirit of putting heads together I created the "Museums in Second > Life" group this spring. I haven't had a chance to do much with it yet, but > you can find it by searching the SL groups category. I'm eyeing what Beth & > the TechSoup group are doing for examples of how we can do more to interact > with each other. > > I'll also take this opportunity to plug the 2006 MCN conference where I'll > be moderating a panel called "Modding the Museum: Accessing Collections > through Games" that will feature several panelists who are building > game-based museum interactives. Hope to see you in the audience in > Pasadena! > > Richard Urban > Graduate School of Library and Information Science > University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign > rjurban at uiuc.edu > http://www.inherentvice.net > > -----Original Message----- > From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of > Swiader, Larry > Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 3:31 PM > To: Museum Computer Network Listserv > Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Are there any real-life museums on Second Life? > > Hi Beth, > > We've been doing some thinking here at the Holocaust Museum on what a > presence on Second Life might be like (and mean). My colleague, David > Klevan (dklevan at ushmm.org), our Education Manager for Technology and > Distance Learning, is at the forefront of that thinking. > > It'd be nice to put our heads together..... > > Regards, > > Larry > > > Lawrence Swiader > Deputy Chief Information Officer > United States Holocaust Memorial Museum > > -----Original Message----- > From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of > Beth > Kanter > Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 11:48 AM > To: 'Museum Computer Network Listserv' > Subject: [MCN-L] Are there any real-life museums on Second Life? > > Hi Folks, > > I've been researching the possibilities for nonprofits on Second Life > (http://www.secondlife.com), the virtual world. I'm participating in some > "in-world" projects that TechSoup is organizing around nonprofits in SL. > There will be an event later this month and we're starting to compile a > directory of nonprofits using it. You can see the directory here > (http://www.writely.com/View.aspx?docid=aptcrhmkxkv_bcjvrhrc2vgbq) > > So far, I've seen some "museums" in second life - created by residents, but > not any real life museums there - there may be, but haven't run across it. > The San Jose Art Museum is building a virtual Island for display of virtual > art works being sought from SL http://www.ludica.org.uk/NewWest/ The event > will coincide with ZeroOne Festival http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/Grabbed from > comments in blog post here: > > I'm wondering if any of you are investigating the possibilities or doing any > projects. There a huge community of educators (320) from universities, some > teen education projects, a library project, and embryonic nonprofit > presence. I've written up what I learn on my blog here: > http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/npsl/index.html > > Beth > > > >
