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Visiting Linden Lab and Techsoup

Posted on March 5, 2007 by

Linden_lab_entrance

At Hamlet’s instigation, today I got a chance to visit the San Francisco offices of Linden Lab and Techsoup. Along the way I smet (There, you happy, Hiro?) a couple of prominent residents who I had only known in-world prior to today: Jeska Linden and Glitteractica Cookie. 

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Jeska was kind enough to give me a quickie tour of the Linden Lab HQ.  Linden Lab is rockin the open office architecture, with everyone from Philip on down crammed into one huge cluttered space.  A fairly utilitarian office environment, they do have a small game room with a pool table and a "Street Fighter II" stand up console.

LL had just put out a new museum piece, Sim One, the first in the series of servers where Second Life data is kept.  The display doesn’t even have a plaque yet, just a small handwritten note on the side of the computer.  I was tempted to kneel and kiss the motherboard.

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The entry to the office sports a huge dry erase board, which residents sign when visiting Linden Lab.  I added my own little "Rik Riel" in one of the few empty spots.  Clearly they are going to need a bigger dry erase board, perhaps the size of an airport hangar door.

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On the way out, I spotted Philip Rosendale, the CEO/demigod of SL himself, chatting with some guys outside the office.  Looks just like his avatar, without the chaps.

Later I got to hang out at the offices of Techsoup, a cool non-profit that helps other non-profits use technology more effectively.  Techsoup has been slowly expanding their in-world presence, under the leadership of Glitteractica Cookie. 

Glitteractica interviewed me on camera as part of a short video they want to produce on non-profits in Second Life.  I hope they got something useful out of all my hemming and hawing.

All-in-all a very interesting day of Second Life / real life meetings.

2 thoughts on “Visiting Linden Lab and Techsoup”

  1. Cala says:
    March 6, 2007 at 11:52 am

    reposted your resident board photo on my Flickr (yay CC licensing!) – can you add a note and show us where you put yours? 🙂

    Reply
  2. rikomatic says:
    March 7, 2007 at 8:43 am

    The resolution on the photo is not the greatest, but I will see what I can do.

    Reply

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