Just after 12 noon and 4pm Pacific/Second Life time on Wednes­day and Sat­ur­day begin­ning April 27th (for two weeks) tune in for the lat­est edi­tion of “Where Have You Been?” where we take a look at places to vis­it and things to do around the Sec­ond Life Grid.

In Series 2, Episode 9, we vis­it a fab­u­lous loca­tion from the dim past: Svar­ga. It was cre­at­ed in 2006 by Laukosar­gas Svarog, and even in those days it was a must-see des­ti­na­tion — an excel­lent exam­ple of the vir­tu­al builder’s craft.  It’s immer­sive, and uses a rich mix­ture of shape and tex­tur­ing to evoke the world of the Gods from Slav­ic mythology.

It’s one of the regions pre­served by Lin­den Lab as being of spe­cial his­tor­i­cal inter­est — and we also dis­cuss the SLRPS (Sec­ond Life Region Preser­va­tion Soci­ety) and some of the oth­er his­toric regions pre­served under its banner.

And every four hours from 4am Pacif­ic, catch Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Hous­ton — a radio pro­gramme that tells the sto­ry of how our cul­ture is formed by human creativity.
Here are a few Regions you can vis­it under the Lin­den Labs SLRPS pro­gram — Sec­ond Life Region Preser­va­tion Society.

SS Galaxy (Mid­ships) https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Galaxy%20MID/169/215/49
The Lost Gar­dens of Apol­lo http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Lost%20Gardens%20of%20Apollo/77/202/24

Mont Saint Michel https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Mont%20Saint%20Michel/79/35/22
Chou­Chou https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Chouchou/177/163/21

InSil­i­co https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/INSILICO/33/182/522
(newest) Tem­pu­ra Project https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sweety%20Bay/178/129/29

Assort­ed Arti­cles on Sec­ond Life Region Preser­va­tion Soci­ety builds from Liv­ing in a Modem World by Inara Pey

• Svar­ga: of mem­o­ries old and new
• SS Galaxy drops anchor at Bellisseria
• Chou­chou: The Babel re-opens in Sec­ond Life
• Mont Saint Michel returns to Sec­ond Life

Spe­cif­ic Infor­ma­tion from Lin­den Lab:

The Sec­ond Life Region Preser­va­tion Soci­ety was devel­oped to pre­serve his­toric builds in Sec­ond Life.

Our inten­tion with this pro­gram is to pre­serve pop­u­lar, long lived regions with some his­tor­i­cal sig­nif­i­cance (whether that is real world his­toric or SL his­toric) when the region own­er has no oth­er choice but to aban­don them.  As long time res­i­dents our­selves, we too are sad­dened when our favorite regions go offline for what­ev­er rea­son.  We are thrilled to be able to offer this oppor­tu­ni­ty to a small por­tion of the com­mu­ni­ty so that res­i­dents old and new can still enjoy these regions.

At this time, accep­tance into the SLRPS is by exten­sive review by the Land Oper­a­tions Team.  This pro­gram is not meant to pre­serve all regions, but those that meet the fol­low­ing cri­te­ria are eli­gi­ble to apply:

• Region to be pre­served must be a Pri­vate Estate.  Main­land is not eli­gi­ble for preser­va­tion at this time.
• Region to be pre­served must be at least 5 years old
• Region must be sole­ly owned by the res­i­dent applying.
• Region should have gen­er­at­ed exten­sive com­mu­ni­ty interest
• Region own­er must be in finan­cial good stand­ing pri­or to application
• Region own­er should have no dis­ci­pli­nary actions on their account
• Region should have some kind of his­toric sig­nif­i­cance relat­ing either to the real world or SL
• Region can­not have had any com­mer­cial or res­i­den­tial parcels for 2 years pri­or to application.

Appli­ca­tion to the pro­gram is by Sup­port Case only at this time.