SLSC Transparency and Ideal Nonprofits (Naive Version)

Written by ina on Sunday, 24 of May , 2009 at 1:08 am
Tags: naivety, transparency

I’ve just created a really super-open Transparency subsite for SL Shakespeare Company public funds. Here is perhaps the core of my naivety: as explained on the site, all funds raised go towards paying tier to Linden Lab — and there is a significant debt just in that arena, not even getting towards actual non-venue production costs–basically, people who do the most work don’t get paid at all in funds, and end up putting in both time and money themselves, so it’s just for artistic license. It’s truly art for art, the cause qua cause, which, imhno, is the way an ideal nonprofit should be run.
This is the policy that I’ve always worked with since I first entered SL. Back then, I was much more naive about money, believing in donated land and ideal collaborations. When owners of donated land became destructive, I realized that such a model doesn’t work. That was why I ended up purchasing four islands on SL for my artistic endeavors. As you might have noticed with my less-and-less frequent endeavors on SL, that idealism doesn’t work in RL. When I started, I had a significant personal fund saved up to do something like this, but that’s been pretty much depleted. It seems the largest source of disputes centered on my creativity–few people could believe that I worked without pay in my long-term maniac-loads of time put in to create on SL. That might also stem from envy, to an extent–whether of people who would wish for such a chance, or for inferiority-superiority reasons. But, for what it’s worth, I am making public the meager funds we’ve raised and explaining their usage in SLSC Transparency.

Category: Reflections, theatre

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