Burniversity

Burniversity is back! We are hoping to provide you with interesting and rewarding classes that will enhance your BURN2 experience. 

• Have you never attended a BURN2 event but would like to learn more what it is about? 
• Are you interested in knowing how we do it or would like to volunteer but feel you don't have the skills?
• Would you like to do it better this year?How do those artists and builders create their wonderful plots?
• What are the tips and trick to making your plot the best it can be? 

This is your chance to start getting immersed, learn new things, make new friends and join in on one of the most creative events in all of SL. Watch this page and the calendar for upcoming events.

What Burniversity is about:

Mission Statement

To stimulate, educate, and train participants of Burning Man in a virtual environment.

Provide year round classes, lectures and participatory educational events centered around the Burning Man culture, philosophy and the 10 principles.

Promotion and integration of “Virtual Realism” into BURN2 and RL Burning Man and increase awareness of BURN2 to a wider audience within Second Life as well as within the RL Burner Community and beyond.

Tenets

1. Goals

A) We will provide the gift of knowledge and experience to everyone while practicing the ideology of  the Ten Principles of Burning Man.

2. Gifting & Decomodificaton

A) Providing knowledge and experience in the form of education, classes and lectures to the BURN2 community is an unconditional act of gift giving and part of the Burning Man philosophy that gifting does not contemplate a return or an exchange for something of equal value. 

B) In the spirit of Decomodification, we will work to create social environments that are unmediated by commercial sponsorships, transactions, recruiting or advertising.

3. Volunteer Rights and Responsibilities

A) We will support the Volunteer Rights and Responsibilities

4. Second Life, Linden Labs and Burning Man

A) We support the Linden Labs Terms of Service. We have read it and understand it and agree to abide by it.

B) We support the 10 Principles of Burning Man.

C) We will strive to find a balance between any competing terms within A & B.