The Second Pride Festival 2016

Some people have already asked me, if there will be a Second Pride Festival this year. I have been very happy to reassure them that there will indeed be one this year also.

Invitations to Sponsors and Vendors have already been sent out through the Second Pride Festival group, so to keep yourself informed it is an excellent idea to rejoin that group now (I know some of you have the extremely bad habit of leaving the group after the elections to rejoin again just before the festival. What, with 42 groups you don't have one to spare, huh?)

This is the information of the upcoming event that I have assembled from note cards in the group and information on the SP website.

As many of you perhaps remember the SP board has been struggling throughout the year by being understaffed already from the beginning. The fact that board members have jumped ship after being elected has severely aggravated the problem. So let's all do what we can to help the board out.

Here we go!

Sponsor and Vendor Packages can be purchased here: Second Pride sim - Sponsor & Vendor Packages (SLurl).

Sponsor packages can be purchased from the Sponsor Board across from the landing point. Below is a brief description of the sponsor packages.

Patron Sponsor 100,000L

• Community Directory listing on Second Pride sim and website     
• Column ad with your logo on the website for the 2016-17 year
• Main page banner on website for the 2016-17 year
• ALL In world advertising on Main Sim Signage around Festival area, signage on shopping sim
• Main Stage Event with DJ of your choice or provided if needed
• Main stage sponsorship

Diamond Sponsor 20,000L 

• Community Directory listing on Second Pride sim and website     
• In World advertising Main Sim Signage around Festival area
• Column ad with your logo on the website for the 2016-17 year
• Main page banner on website for the 2016-17 year
• Main Stage Event with DJ of your choice or provided if needed

Ruby Sponsor 10,000 L

• Community Directory listing on Second Pride sim and website         
• Secondary advertising on website during festival
• Secondary Prime Time Stage Event with DJ of your choice or provided if needed

Emerald Sponsor 2,500L

• Community Directory listing on Second Pride sim and website 
• Secondary Non-Prime Time Stage Event with DJ of your choice or provided if needed
• In world directory listing

To Purchase a Vendor Shop package, follow the signage at the landing point to the South Sim model. Pick a shop you would like and simply pay the Vendor Shop Seller to reserve your shop. (full size shops can be viewed to the east of the landing point). Your Vendor Shop will be available for set up starting June 11th. Below is a brief description of the Vendor Packages

Platinum Vendor 25,000L

• Prims 300, 400 Sq M .(Interior Dimensions 20 X 20 X 8)
• Community Directory listing on Second Pride sim and website         
• In world directory listing on YOUR shopping sim    
• In world advertising on YOUR shopping Sim
• In World advertising on Main Sim.    
• Column advertising on website throughout the 2014-2015 year
• Banner ad on the Second Pride Website throughout the 2014-15 year
• Main Stage Event with DJ of your choice or provided if needed
• Secondary Stage Event with DJ of your choice or provided if needed

Gold Vendor 15,000L

• Prims 200, 256 Sq M (Interior Dimensions 16 X 16 X 8)
• Community Directory listing on Second Pride sim and website        
• In world directory listing on YOUR shopping sim    
• In world advertising on YOUR shopping sim    
• Column advertising on website during festival    
• Secondary Stage Event with DJ of your choice or provided if needed

Silver Vendor  5,000L

• Prims 100, 144 Sq M (Interior Dimensions 12 X 12 X 8) 
• Community Directory listing on Second Pride sim and website     
• In world directory listing on YOUR shopping sim

Promo Vendor 2,500L

• Prims 30, 64 Sq M (Interior dimensions 8 X 8 X 8)
• Community Directory listing on Second Pride sim and website     

Requirements for stores

• While not required,  we ask that you consider offering at least one free item at your store  that is of good quality. "Pride special giveaways" helps attract customers, increase traffic in your store, and helps assure that everyone has fun!
• Please do not rez objects outside your allocated store space. This keeps the walkways free.
• Do not use heavy scripted objects or rezzers. This is a requirement as many people will be on the sim and less lag is better than lots of lag. Do not use scripts that shout or emote in local chat. We reserve the right to ask you to remove scripts if they interfere with other vendors.
• This is a moderate Sim. Second Pride is open and welcoming to the entire community. Please use common sense in your store design. Do not use obscene language or offensive images such as  images of sex with minors . Second Pride reserves the right to remove materials that may be in violation of SL Terms of Service.
• You must stay within your allocated prim count.

Vendor opportunities

Vendor opportunities can help encourage customers to shop and increase traffic to your store. We encourage all vendors to participate in one or more of the following: 

• Fundraiser Item- Create a fund raiser item that fits the theme of the festival with 100% of the proceeds going to Second Pride. This item will be in a special vendor provided for you and featured in an article in Prism magazine generating more buzz for your store and giving you a way to offer something unique at the event. 
• Freebie Item- Leave a free gift in a special object at your store. This object will be provided for you to put your free gift inside. It will be advertised in PRISM to look for this object in the stores to collect free gifts.

For both Sponsor and Vendor Packages

Advertising Specifications

If your package includes any inworld or website advertising, please create your ads/logos with the specifications below.  Send your ads with FULL PERMISSIONS to the avatar named Second Pride. If you have any questions, contact Lledge Eames or Viktor Sandman in world.

The following are in pixels with a minimum of 100dpi and should be sent as .jpg:

Logo for column ad for website: 512w x 512h and 1024w x 1024h

Banner ad for website: 900w x 400h

Inworld advertising: 512w x 512h and 1024w x 1024h

Events

If your package includes a main stage or secondary stage event, please contact the Second Pride Events Director in world - Viktor Sandman as quickly as possible. Event times and slots are assigned on a first come - first served basis.

Information

For more information about the 2016 Second Pride Festival, please visit http://second-pride.com

Those with Event packages; our Events Director will be contacting you to arrange your event details.

If at any point you have any questions or need assistance, please feel free to contact one of us.

LLedge Eames, Chairman Second Pride

Viktor Sandman, Secretary Second Pride

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Performer Registration Begins: May 28, 2016, 07:00 SLT.

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By the way, concerning performers and DJ's, I hope that we this year can go back to the tradition that all tips during this event are directed towards Second Pride. But that is just my own not so humble opinion.

How To Make A Quilt

I found the instructions that Jace Byrne, the holder of the previous quilts, sent out concerning how to make a quilt in SecondLife. The following are essentially the instructions he gave.

Be creative and don't worry about people judging your work! Focus on your feelings and relations to the person the panel is for.

Set everything to full perms. This is VERY important. quilts have been lost over the years due to being restricted perms.

You should put the name of the person in the object's name (i.e "Ars Northmead Quilt") and write a little something in the description too. A notecard giver script is also acceptable.

There are two main ways to make a panel. 

• Make an image in Photoshop or GIMP or whatever you use for textures. Upload the image and put it on the top face of a flattened cube. That's it, you're done. 
• The other way is to use the build tools to construct a panel in 3D. 

 Specifications

1. PG only, please don't make panels that can only be displayed on a Moderate or Adult sim.
2. Panels can be up to 12 prims. They must be linked together. The root prim should be the base or frame of the panel.
3. Maximum size is X: 2 m, Y: 2m, Z: 1m. (If you go over a little in height that's OK, we just don't want things to tower over other panels.)
4. No scripts (Notecard giver or one rotation are acceptable), particles, animations, spinners  etc. Absolutely NO glow or sound.
5. Set permissions to full perms (copy/mod/trans), to do so make sure you have checked all three boxes under Next Owner Can in the edit window.
6. You can use the notecard to say something about your friend. If you do, say "click for notecard" in the description.

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Now you know how to create your quilt, so you can get  it done in preparation for a hoped for permission from the Second Pride Board of Directors to go ahead with the suggestion I made in the post titled A New "Names Project" for Second Pride. 

Do not, I repeat not, send anything to the Second Pride Avatar until we have been given permission to do so by the SP board.

A New "Names Project" for Second Pride

In response to a question from "someone who wants to be proud of pride" concerning the sad fact that there are no quilts on display this year either, chairman of Second Pride told the bitter truth: "Second Pride does not have control of the AIDS quilts. They are in the inventory of one person/avatar".

That avatar has apparently not come in-world for quite some time, so I am assuming that we can consider the previous memorial quilts as lost and unreachable.

I propose that we start anew. Although I do so without consulting anyone on the Second Pride board, I cannot imagine they will object. The quilts are important for so many of us and surely more than one on the present board.

What I am thinking is that those of us that wish to honor the memory of someone we have lost in the war against the plague creates a memorial quilt, either a new one or by just using a copy of one previously made and send it to the Second Pride Avatar.

The Second Pride avatar is an avatar created, by special dispensation from Linden Lab, for Second Pride mainly for financial purposes, but also to hold all possessions of Second Pride, buildings, landscaping, textures etc, for reuse at future Pride Celebrations.

The special thing about the Second Pride Avatar is that it, with Linden Lab's blessings, can be used by several people that each board decides and is passed from one  board to the next board that follows it.

The important thing here is that we will in the future not be dependent on one individual and whether or not that individual can or will log in.

I am sure it will be too late for this years festival, but we mean to stay on for a while, don't we? What do you guys and girls think? What does the present board think?

I have an old notecard concerning the size, prims and other specifications that I will post here a.s.a.p.

Please wait until we have an all clear for this new "Names Project" before you start sending in your quilts, I am sure none of us will wish to create havoc for the board at this time. They have enough on their hands already.

Temper Tantrums, Thrills & Tribulations

I crawled out of my warm and cosy bed at 4.30AM local time to attend the SP2014 emergency board meeting called yesterday at 8PM SLT. Let me assure anyone that doesn't know me well that this was a great sacrifice on my part for my  readers and for the membership of Second Pride.

When I logged in-world I grumbled a little at my sweet brother in-law Dejeritty, checked if what I was wearing was decent enough and then teleported to the Second Pride sim.

The sim which once was beautiful nowadays looks sadly empty and depleted since the two directors that have resigned after the elections have seen fit to remove all the landscaping and buildings that were in their names, with the exception of the magnificent main HQ-building but including the delicately charming Chapel.

The agenda for the meeting was the following,
1. Call to Order
2. Chairman Comments
3. Resignations
4. Call for Candidates
5. Transfer of Second Pride Avatar Account
6. Discussion of Previous Private Meeting Logs
7. Open Discussion/New Business
8. Adjourn Meeting

As should be obvious to most "the dynamite" was contained in #6, as the disgruntled faction of the board have often in statements and comments, on Facebook and various blogs, referred to what had or had not happened at the board's private meeting before the public board meeting on September 8, 2013.

The IT-Director is baffled by the actions of the irate Security Director (my interpretation)

My general observation from this meeting was that it was more than usually messy due to a certain board member and some members of the audience not being able to follow the basic rule of public meetings, i.e. to ask to speak and wait to speak until you are given the right to do so. Instead we - despite the chairs best efforts - got a lot of out-of-order disruptions with blurting out of opinions and copy/pastes filling the screen. This is of course totally unacceptable and I would earnestly suggest that the board considers future measures to warn once and then kick-out offenders who cannot obey the rules, whether they be members of the board or the audience. We need a mutually respectful tone of discussion at the meetings in spite of different opinions on the issues.

When we reached #6 on the agenda the discussion was extremely heated. Among others Mrs. Story Long made an exceptionally moving plea to the board to publish the logs. I support her sentiments and arguments wholeheartedly. Mrs. Long said, "This election and everything that's followed has created drama, not saved the community from it. There is so much distrust right now, so much drama, there needs to be transparency everywhere there can be or the community will shrink away to nothing. The community is very, very, very, unhappy. Pay attention to that. People are calling for facts. so give it to them!"

The board's final vote on the matter ended 3-2, with one abstention, against the publication of the log, which made me extremely disappointed as I can see that the vacuum arising from the non-transparency of what really occurred at that meeting will give further occasion for the disgruntled board member and the two resigned ones to create havoc for Second Pride while they go on working with their new alternative organisation "The Boystown Pride", which has miraculously produced a group and a website in a very short time. Unplanned? Coincidence? I wouldn't be so naive to believe so.

Moving on, the board further decided to send a request to the directors that had resigned requesting that they transfer the buildings that had been removed to the Second Pride avatar. There is of course no way the board can force the two resigned directors to do this, but several voices were heard that believed the two would in fact "do the right and honorable thing". We will simply have to wait and see what happens.

The board also decided to ask the membership for donations for the additional landscaping and building that needed to be done urgently fore upcoming events. I for one am going to support this cause, as I want a Second Pride sim that I can be proud of and that is a safe haven for the  various non-profit organisations we wish to offer offices on the sim.

The board finally decided to appoint Jak Calcutt as an interim building director without voting rights until such a time that a new building director could be found.

I think that is all, well as I remember it, for the complete, unbiased, fair or whatever your wish recount of the meeting please go to the Second Pride website.

If you have any objections concerning my fairness, objectivity or anything else in my reporting please send a letter, in triplicate, to President Bashar al-Assad, The Peoples Palace, Mount Kassioun, Damascus, Syria, and see if he cares because I most certainly do not.

You may now be asking yourselves, "What was the thrilling part of this meeting?" Well, that happened as Ohiomike Lockjaw, who was sitting next to me at the meeting, crashed repeatedly due to a faulty graphic card. It took him a few moments to rez every time he came back so I was thrilled to see this transformation in all its splendor.

Oh, let me just let one final bomb explode. Yesterday I received a copy of the full chat log of the private group meeting the board had on August 28, 2013. I am as yet thinking about how to use it, but stay tuned for further news on this. The group chat log was received from a source outside the board whom I consider highly trustworthy.

An Interesting Second Pride Board Meeting

Last Sunday morning, at 8AM SLT, was the first meeting of the SP2014 board after their installation.

Damian Tar

The agenda for the meeting contained items that can be classified as "potential dynamite" for those of us who are versed in reading such dreary documents. Among other things there was a proposal for changes in the roles of the chairperson and the treasurer. 

The meeting room was packed with mostly interested members and one member who mainly focused his attention on my allegedly puny, insignificant and uninteresting derriere, the sight of which caused him to blackout with boredom according to a post on said members blog.

Although there was a risk of this meeting getting out of hand I am proud to report that it was throughout conducted in a respectful and orderly fashion, much thanks to the competent leadership of the Chair Damian Tar, who was obviously well prepared and conducted the meeting in a calm, kind and responsive manner.

The directors (from left to right) Petr Hastings-Vanbeeck, Karl Kalchek,
Paul Gracemount (Mr. G), Gaius Tripsa, Damian Tar and Hotboy Skytower.

The complete minutes from the meeting are posted on the Second Pride website, SP Board Meeting September 8, 2013. I will however give you my subjective summary here.

The meeting was shocked and astonished to be informed of certain aspects of what had been going on within the board since the election.

It became clear to the assembled members (from the proposed bylaw amendments and the additional information received during the meeting) that the Treasurer had certain trust-issues which had lead him to refuse to, in direct contravention of the bylaws, share the password to the Second Pride Avatar (the treasure chest of the organisation) with the Chair and Co-Chair and to refuse to submit monthly financial reports to the board. The Treasurer had thereby also refused access to the Second Pride Avatar by the Auditing Committee. 

It was also apparent that the Treasurer - for unclear reasons - was at odds with the practice that had been established by the previous boards and had refused to share ownership of the Second Pride Festival Group with the Chair.

After these alarming issues had been discussed extensively the board (or a majority of it) directed the Treasurer to comply with the bylaws and established practices and share passwords and ownership with other members of the board.

I was filled with a great relief and much pride when I left the meeting. Relief  for the competent way the Chair and the board as a whole had handled the situation and pride that the serious topics had been discussed in such a respectful and thoughtful way despite the potentially inflammatory issues.

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After the board meeting I have learned that the Treasurer, has complied with or made arrangements for complying with all the boards decisions.

Following the board meeting Paul Gracemount (Mr. G), the Build Director, posted the following message on Facebook.

"To: Second Pride Membership and Board

This letter is to Inform the Second Pride membership and board that effective immediately, I resign the position of Second Pride Build Chair. I wish you good luck in the coming year but I do not have the time to put my best effort into Second Pride. If the Board would inform whomever they elect / select to fill the vacant position to contact me when they assume their duties to discuss the current Second Pride headquarters build.

Thank you all for your support in the past year,Mr Paul Gracemount"

I was extremely sad to read this notice as Mr. G is a levelheaded and charming man and an extremely talented builder who did a great job on the builds for this years festival and the beautiful new headquarters for Second Pride. He and his talents will be sorely missed.