ACHUB Presents

Charity Web Forum Conference - SecondLife

When?

Friday June 1 07

Starting 13:00 pm BST (uk time)

Where?

Starting at Audio SIM in Secondlife

Organisers / Event Planners

• Pauline Woolley - Oxford University
• Chris Hambly - SL: audio Zenith

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Registrants

• Chris Hambly chambly AT gmail
• Pauline Woolley pauline.woolley AT oxmust.co.uk

Planned activites: times are UK (BST)

• 13:00 An orientation session
• 13:30 Second Life: The FAQs

  Demonstration through questions and answers of some of the basics of Second Life

• 14:00 Chris Hambly - audio presentation on how Second Life can raise charity awarness

• 14:30 Fundraising in Second Life:

  Looking at raising funds within Second Life for real life projects

  Speakers include Alvargi Daniels and Polly Widdershins

• 15:00 Raising Awareness in Second Life:

  A sightseeing trip to Camp Darfur, a multimedia presentation within Second Life, and Ubuntu, a sim designed to raise awareness and support micro-projects

  Hosted by Riversong Garden and Sue Stonebinder

• 16:00 Developing communities and projects in Second Life:

  A brainstorming session 

• 16:30 Using Tools to Develop Second Life

  A demonstration of practical web tools that can be used in Second Life - Desderia Stockton

• 17:00 Final discussion

Speakers' Notes

Alvargi Daniels 

Alvargi owns an island estate in Second Life and hosts a quarterly event that displays and auctions the work of artists in Second Life to benefit charity. The last event, for St. Luke Children's Hospital Research, raised over one million in SL currency (~$4,500 US).  In rl he is a software engineering executive at a Fortune 50 company and specializes in developing new technologies and products for nascent markets.

Polly Widdershins (Pauline Woolley in rl)

Polly is one of the moderators of the CharityWebForum (the online Yahoo Group for UK Web Managers and IT developers working in the charity sector).  She is currently part of the team working to develop the University of Oxford's presence within Second Life.  In addition, she is the editor of Second Life's first magazine for Homes and Gardens.  Polly has spoken on Second Life to staff and students at Oxford Univerity and will be speaking at the nfpSynergy Internet Seminar for Charities on May 31st.

Charity Representatives