ACHUB
Writing by admin on Thursday, 10 of May , 2007 at 10:48 am
ACHUB
The ACHUB is a community, a not-for-profit community founded within SecondLife in 06. The original idea was to have an “in-world” group which was an extension of Audiocourses.com distance learning school, a group where our students and staff could share and plan and organise sophisticated pool parties, and of course conduct serious things too, if we had too.
The ACHUB quickly became more than just an extension of the school, it became a community in its own right, a vibrant collective of people with very similar interests and attitudes, with a strong flavour of openness and sharing, which I am 100% in support of.
To date, the ACHUB has conducted a variety of events in SecondLife which have included a vast amount of people registered on the SLED list, and it has been wonderful meeting so many new people and getting to know some of them personally.
I now see the ACHUB growing to the next stage, and that is “open-sourcing” the concept, putting it out to you, so you can use the ACHUB, the spaces “in-world” (for free), you can organise events under the banner of the ACHUB on our SIM.
But it gets better, the ACHUB is also “reaching-out” beyond the virtual walls of SecondLife and extending into Real Life (oh no, so scary). Yes the ACHUB, as a not-for-profit community, is now actively engaging in establishing events in SL and RL, no matter how large or small, no matter who comes or doesn’t.
The concept for any ACHUB event is drawn very heavily from the Barcamp and unconference concept, in that YOU, WE, US, the community, organise, run, attend, participate in the events. We share, and we reach out to new people building new relationships and share practise.
We have some SL events coming up soon, but we have a cracker planned for Oct 07 in the UK, called MediaCamp BUCKS, you can see the links to this on the ACHUB wiki, it’s shaping up to be a very rich event and a real shindig!
I hope you do get involved, I hope you do consider running an event yourself, I hope you do take the motion we already have going and touch people in your community.
You want to run an event right? Do tell me your thoughts.
Category: Chris Hambly, ACHUB
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