Challenges for Second Life content creators and consumers beyond the edges of Linden Lab's walled Garden.

1. The Challenge of Content in the Greater Grid SLCC 2010 Zha Ewry (IRL: David Levine) [email_address]

4. In a nutshell There is life beyond the edge of the Second Life walled garden. I will be discussing today’s Second Life, and some of the challenges in growing the community of users and content creators out beyond the garden walls. This is not about answers as much as it is about questions and challenges The charge is to create worlds and solutions which benefit all of us, while letting people explore a broad range of possibilities. The challenge is ours to answer

6. Missing it… Default avatar on an empty openSim instance © Zha Ewry free to reuse with attribution

9. Inside the Walled Garden Image © Copyright User:Nancy Wikimedia Creative Commons Share Alike License

20. The Challenge Can we preserve the best features of the existing content creating community outside of the walled garden? Building a world in which content can flow easily between various grids and world, without destroying the ability of creators to benefit from their work This is a “societal” challenge as much as it is “technical”

21. Who is this “We?”

31. The road ahead beckons image © copyright Eric_i_e and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons