August 16, 2007 by Nobody Fugazi
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Burning Man is a pretty cool thing that happens in the real world - something maybe one day I'll be able to go take part in - but in Second Life, we have the opportunity to have Burning Life 2007! That sounds cool enough - sign me up.
Well, it isn't quite that easy. Seriously, I wouldn't mind participating - though I expect I'll be in the air sometime during the festival. Here's the problem for me:
Event Specifications
Use of Burning Life land is free of charge and won’t count against your land tier. Small theme camps are first come, first serve. You can register for any one of those 62 plots through the terminals placed on each parcel. Apply for a large theme camp, of which there are only 16, by submitting a detailed proposal to the Burning Life committee no later than September 7, 2007. Art installs are also available! This year, we are pleased to announce that over 250 art installs will be open for registration. Like theme camps, small art installs are first come, first serve and large installs will be assigned after all proposals have been reviewed. As with theme camps, please submit your proposal for a large art install before the September 7th deadline.
What, exactly, should a 'detailed proposal' have? What are they looking for? This is, in fact, a competition for space... and I don't know anyone that is doing anything - and honestly, it would be cool to do things with people I don't know. Meet some new people, that sort of thing - not that the people I know aren't interesting. Quite the contrary.
So, to me, this thing doesn't seem as accessible. It seems like I have to find the cheese in a maze, and I'm not intent on digging into that. Every day is a creative day in Second Life; you just have to look around beyond the stores and press releases (which I seem to have been soaking in lately). Does anyone out there have any clues on how to get involved with this? I've read all the blog entries which were very excited about it - but how does one actually participate?
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Wait one day and get more details. Or, send immediately a short but pretty complete proposal. If it is too short, they will call you back / reject the proposal and you will send a new, more complete one.
Come on. I'd say there are more deep / interesting topics you could blog about :-)
Right. Brilliant.
So, what goes into the proposal? See, it doesn't make sense from the outside. And no, I don't send proposals without having a sense of what the proposal is for.
There most certainly are more deep and interesting topics to talk about, but I'm hoping that someone has better answers than you provided. If not, then Burning Life is sort of pointless as a community effort in my eyes.
But your mileage varies.
Into the proposal
> So, what goes into the proposal?
I'd say you should put a description of the project / building / installation you would like to show off. Yeah, it's not a detailed answer to your question. I think it's up to your creativity / imagination.
I never participate to Burning Man, for geographic reasons (I'm in Europe). But on the net (see for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_man ) you can easily learn what the "spirit" of Burning Man is. Read reviews, watch photos / videos about it and such.
I think I feel pretty close to Burning Man spirit and I think that it makes sense that you're not provided with detailed guidelines about what you're expected to build. Burning Man (and Burning Life) are about "community, artwork, absurdity, decommodification, and revelry"; these are pretty abstract ideas, so it's up to us converting them ... to prims.
/ sorry for bad english /
yes, yes...
but what else should a *detailed* proposal have? You see, when someone asks for a *detailed* proposal, it usually means that they know what *details* they are looking for.
It also could be a sideshow and they already have told the people that they want to be involved what these details are.
Now, if they just said 'proposal', well, that would be fine. I'd probably have sent something in already. but *detailed* proposal means planning, and planning requires a framework within the plan. Too vague for a *detailed proposal*. So sorry.
The devil is in the DETAILS. This is literally a competition to take part in something. As someone commented on the blog, we have no criteria by which they would judge.
But I'm sure the usual suspects will be rounded up and placed on plots...
The more I think about it, the more I can just take a day and build cool stuff without writing a detailed proposal. What is the point?