Burning Life '08 General Discussion

This thread is for general Burning Life discussion. Feel free to comment on the event or share your opinions! Our intention is to maintain an open dialog with and between all of you! Remember to be courteous with your responses: Every member of our community has a valid voice that deserves to be heard!

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Hi Winter!

Please take a look at the Burning Life Wiki - there you can find out all the details, such as who is involved, how to participate and where to sign up to volunteer (As well as lots of other things relevant to Burning Life!)

Hope to see you there!

-Phaylen

I was at BL '07 when I was still wearing noob hair and I loved every minute of it. This year I want to build a camp.

When can we get our spots?
How big are they?
How many prims do we get?

This will be my second BL....I can't wait as my first event was a blast. About how long is it taking to hear back about our volunteer applications?
I'd also like to hear more on the camps....will keep my eyes peeled for the details.

See you all again soon!

Starr

Hi all! Just to wish all the success to this year's BL, may it be even greater than last one. The buzz is already in the air, i can feel it

P.S. Please find a way of fitting more avatars in the burning of the man...

Approximately when will we be able to sign up for camps?

Where there's Buzz there's Honey...! Looking forward to a Beeyoutiful 08 BL.

Remember...if it moves...its art.
If it tries to eat ya...participate!

MC =D

One of the three stickies at the top of this forum's thread list includes the statement "Welcome to the 2008 Burning Life Forums."

There is no "Burning Life Forums", there is a forum called "Linden Sponsored Events" and three stickied threads about Burning Life.

Possibly there should be a sub-forum for each Linden sponsored event. If there are two or more Linden sponsored events running simultaneously it would help make discourse run a coherent path. At any rate, it would good if the people running this set of three stickied threads could keep the distinction between a forum and a three threads clearly in mind.

As I seem to recall, 07 was a complete PR disaster, with nothing but drama, censorship, and petty politics from the people in charge. (rivalled only by the censorship and anti-child drama seen in the roll-up to SL5B).

Who is in charge this year? is it the same people who were in charge in 07?

Burning Man is a celebration of all that is psychedillic. Now I understand why Second Life works the way it does.

"Attention, attention. Please don't take the brown acid!"

Will Nipples be allowed, Kid avatars, Goreans, BDSMers... will you respect your volunteers or will you ride rough shod over them and milk them for everything you can, then boot them at the last second.

Somehow, I suspect discourse wouldn't be the least coherent of domains in such an eventuality. (But point well-taken, nonetheless.)

It's great to see LL using the Forums for things like this--that is, things for which they're really effective.

Speaking of coherency, though, I'm baffled by the array of wikis and blogs and other URLs associated with this event. Possibly an annotated version of the "Related Links" section of http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Burning_Life_2008 could be useful--assuming somebody understands what each of these things is about.

Which brings me to: Please, dear god, NO ADDITIONAL blogs or wikis or Flickr groups or Lively rooms or whatever anybody may dream up as media about this event; the communication channels seem quite diffuse enough!

Maybe a Hipihi community would be good, and an iJot outline, perhaps hold some meetings with Adobe Brio, trade diagrams on Gliffy. Oh, and maybe do some planning in AjaxWrite, that only works in Firefox, that should be good. An MSN group could be added.

Also, four or five distinct inworld groups could be created for group chats.

Sounds like some fun

then U lag out?

I'm wondering about this, as well. I'd love to volunteer, or initiate a camp with some friends, but won't until this is clarified. Because it's kind of important.

I loved 2007 burning life, but got lagged to pieces at the burning.....

hope to build an even better floral display this year... got new trees and flowers, and hope to make a little oasis in the desert.

I would have volunteered to help with the building, but it seems the designs are so strictly briefed that there would be no room for my style. I understand the idea behind it, but that kinda cuts out builders design skills..... they become pure technicians.

im too scared about getting banned to discuss this here in a productive manner.

I'll be sure to attend in my Gor Kid Avatar with my Amethyst collar and bare nipples intact. (^_^)y

Removing the mature content from Burning Life would rather defeat the purpose of such an event. Last year, they had separate sims for PG and Mature.. I'd love to see this sort of thing again.

I hope to hell that ------- Names removed by Katt Linden -------------
has no role in this year's Burning Life; last year's was a total cock-up, and it was largely due to his immaturity and lack of organisational ability. I would have to seriously question LL's commitment to Burning Life if he has any position of responsibility for it.

It clearly is a question, Katt, although not punctuated with a mark.

yeah, that.

Last year was a gas. I'll go again. Keep the details coming.