Publicize the List of Those Who Receive Events Grants

"we"? you mean you right?

Publicize the List of Those Who Receive Events Grants

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Just coming back from the events group with Robin Linden, I have to say, I've had a brilliant idea.

Everyone bitches about the lack of diversity of events. Of course, there are reasons for that lack -- food for another thread. I think it's because the Lindens cave to a minority of anti-business clamouring, and lose the opportunity to get significant in-game resident business support and sponsorship for events because they fail to see that businesses need to place ads or products during events to justify their subsidy of especially non-profit events. When the Lindens can get over that allergy to advertising, they'll see a lot more businesss development and sponsorship and a lot more diversity and quality of events.

But since that cultural tic is going to take awhile to change, we have to work with what there is.

One of the problems is that people just don't know how to really access this education support grant from the Social Engineers at Linden Labs. Many people haven't heard of it because they don't read the forums, and they don't even know where to find this info on the forums. (I think it's somewhere in the Linden announcements?)

I was admonished for claiming that this, like other things, is an "insiders' deal".

OK. Let's see the list made public then. Just like the dwellopers. Let's see the list of people who get the educational grants.

I think this would accomplish a number of good things.

1. End the phony mentor events by subjecting them to public scrutiny, as has been done only a few times by a few very brave (or stupid) newbies who took on some privileged types in questioning their use of this system to plump up their own businesses, clubs, malls, etc.

2. Show a good example of those authentic mentors who really do offer something useful, i.e. in knowledge transfer for this game, with its steep learning climb. We'd like to see who those good people are, because their good deeds are often lost in the sea of Tringo.

3. Make a visible list of people that would-be events organizers could consult for tips and ideas about how to do the same thing themselves -- people often don't even know how to list themselves in FIND PLACES (because there's no where to tell you per se), and now that being in FINDPLACES will be one of the possible criteria for friends to be able to list events, we need to be able to have this kind of knowledge network. Of course, if any event hosts don't want to be dinged by newbs and clueless asking them how to do stuff, well, they could just ignore them or be curt with them...but...aren't they supposed to be *mentors*???

4. When we see how short this list is, and I suspect, how insider-y it is, there will be a lot of momentum for others to get out there and get on the ball to get these same grants. You do not have to be a mentor per se to get them. You just have to be a teacher in a class. I'll bet we could double the event grant applications by this simple act of publicizing the list of those who receive them.
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Bullshit.

Bullshit.

It isn't a witch hunt or a suspicion of "evil," it's an ordinary request for accountability. That's different.

When we see how short this list is, and I suspect, how insider-y it is, there will be a lot of momentum for others to get out there and get on the ball to get these same grants.