Until next year!

Credits: Inara Pey

Meet the Lindens is now a regular part of the Second Life anniversary landscape. Over the course of the week of celebrations, it gives Second Life users the chance to find out more about the people working at Linden Lab, find out about projects and plans, and the work being carried out on Second Life and Sansar, ask questions about matters of interest / concern to them.

For Meet the Lindens 2018, Saffia Widdershins sat down with six members of the Second Life team, and also with Linden Lab CEO, Ebbe Altberg.

The six SL team members attending the sessions were:

• Xiola Linden (Community team)
• Brett Linden (Marketing)
• Keira Linden (Land team) and Patch Linden (Snr Director of Product Operations)
• Grumpity Linden (Director of Product for Second Life) and Oz Linden (Technical Director for Second Life).

Each of the sessions was recorded by SL4Live and made available through YouTube as a part of the SL15B sessions.

For those who prefer to read about what was said, I have produced this set of summary articles of the different sessions.

Please note that these are not intended as full transcripts; some topics came up more than once through the week, so I have tried to focus on subjects that were answered in the greatest detail within each session.

Audio extracts are included with each summary. These have been edited to remove pauses, repetitions, etc., with care taken to maintain the overall context of comments and answers.

The full video for each session is also embedded with each summary for completeness, and timestamps are included for each of the topics in a summary, and will open the relevant video in a separate browser tab, at the point at which the topic is discussed.

Table of Contents

• Keira and Patch

  • About Keira and Patch Linden

  • Mainland price restructuring & progress

  • About the LDPW (incl. use of Animesh)

  • About region sizes

  • Linden Homes re-vamp

  • Summarised in brief

    • [Jump to section to view]

• Grumpity and Oz

  • About Oz and Grumpity

  • Bakes on Mesh

  • Animesh

  • Rendering updates and EEP

  • SL mobile / in a browser

  • Different region sizes and the cloud

  • Transitioning to the cloud

    • Why?

    • Flexibility

    • Progress

  • Other Topics:

    • About project viewers

    • Providing dynamic user interface in the viewer

    • LL and their TPV relationship

    • Mac OpenGL contingency planning

    • Support for VR headsets

• Ebbe Altberg

  • About Ebbe Altberg

    • On the challenges of his role

    • Diversity at Linden Lab

  • On the SL roadmap

  • Private region price restructuring

  • SL mentor programme

  • Resolving Abuse Reports

  • Product demographics

  • Second Life mobile / streaming / web solution

  • On-demand regions

  • Increasing region agent limits (concurrency)

  • Offering different region sizes

  • Community Gateways and attracting new users

  • Advertising Second Life

  • Other Items

    • Adult content in SL

    • Child avatars

    • US Supreme Court / sports betting

    • Will Changes to Net Neutrality Affect Second Life?

• Xiola and Brett

  • Xiola Linden

    • About Xiola.

    • On working at Linden Lab.

    • What she enjoys about SL.

    • What she finds challenging about SL.

    • About her non-Linden Account.

    • Finding out about Linden-organised events.

    • Advertising events and activities.

    • Why were the SL15B region all General?

    • The Second Life Community Conference.

  • Brett Linden

    • About Brett.

    • Working on the Destination Guide.

    • What makes a good destination for him?

    • His role in the SL roadmap.

    • Community Gateways and attracting new users.

      • User retention.

      • Marketing promotion of communities.

    • Growing the user base.

    • Applying to work at Linden Lab.