Several persons have encouraged me to go further in the project of the Monastery. Many seems also interested in this project.
The main idea of the project is to build a Monastery and to place it in the new sim. This Monastery will not be a religious place. You can imagine an old monastery of the Middle Age (mostly from the roman period) which is well restored and used for other purposes. What are in fact the possible uses of this building. Since the beginning it was considered as a welcome area, were people can walk, rest, meet other people, talk with them. This place can welcome new CDS citizen as well as new SL residents. We can offer there some basic informations. In this building, we can also organize meetings, debates, exhibitions, concerts, events. You can tell me that we have many places in CDS to do all these things, but every place is unique. The atmosphere of the Monastery will be, I hope, different, unique.
The Monastery will have four different parts:
1. The cloister: it is the central place, open to the sky with a garden and a foutain. The people can sit there and talk.
2. The left aisle is called the Library. At the beginning, there will be presentations of medieval manuscrit. It is very symbolic: the new sim will be the link between a medieval town and a roman city. The monasteries has played a very important role in the transmission of the knowledge of the Antiquity, particularly in keeping and copying ancient texts.
A desk with different informations about CDS and SL can also take place in this room.
3. The right aisle: it is the church. As I have said, this Monastery will not be used by a religious community. So the church will be an empty space that we can use for different uses and arrange in different ways.
4. The last room is behind the cloister. It will be a place with wall painting. We can use it for different use, even it is not very big. My dream would be to reserve it to the entrance of the crypt (in the second phase of the building), if we can have a hole above the Monastery.
I can so easely describe the Monastery, because the building has started, as you can see above:
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I would like to thank Beathan, because he give me the possibility to work on his sim, where he has a lot of space. It is a quiet place. Some people come sometimes and ask questions about the project. I can give the landmark to everyone who is interested and even make guided tours.
This Monastery is seen by me and others as a public place. As public place, we can understand a place which can be used by the community. As CDS public place, the Monastery cannot also be removed or changed without an official decision. That means that it will be a stable place in the sim.
This fact doesn't mean that the CDS has to pay entirely for the Monastery. To finance and manage this project, I post here two propositions, one to finance the Monastery and the other to manage it.
[b:2kxnnwxk]Fundraising[/b:2kxnnwxk]
I will make fundraising to finance the project. Everyone can participate to this project by giving some L$. Every amount will be appreciated. This money will be used:
1. to buy the land. It seems that it will cost around 100$.
2. if we get more money, the rest of the money will be used to pay the first fees.
The building itself is totally free.
Parallel to the donation, I will create a dress (and maybe other stuffs if I have time) for the Oktoberfest. If you buy one of these things, all the money will be for the Monastery.
Finally I will also make a list of things that we will need for the Monastery. People can also buy them and give to the Monastery (beware of objects which are not transmitable) or make them. I will probably ask for special things like scripts.
[b:2kxnnwxk]NGO[/b:2kxnnwxk]
To manage the Monastery during its building and after, we need an organization. I announce also the creation of this NGO. It is too early to describe now the goals of this NGO. Their activities will be centered around the Monastery, but maybe around other places in CDS like temples (in CN), church (in NFS). In any case, it is a a-politic, a a-religious and a-ideological organization, open to anyone. I have received a draft describing the activities of such an NGO. Interested people can contact me and we can try to discuss this topic together. I will publish regularly information in this forum, so other people can join.
More practically, this NGO will have to manage the Monastery, to find money to pay the fees, to organize activities in the Monastery and also in other places corresponding to its goals. In an administrative point of view, the NGO will also have to accept the counts of the building and the activities of the Monastery. If there is another way of doing, please indicate it to me. I will that the legal aspect of the process is totally respected.
This NGO doesn't have a name and I think that its member will have to choice. I have one proposition to start the reflection: something with SOPHIA, the greek name of wisdom.
What can I add? Well. I have started to build the Monastery, because I am very enthousiast with this project. I was encouraged to work on it and I thank all the persons who have encourage me. I will continue, i will participate to the financing, I will be member of the NGO, I will organize animations with others. It is a very passionate adventure. I don't intend to do it alone. So anyone who would like to work on it can contact me. People can build, try to improve all the detail, look for textures, write scripts, ...
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. I will create a new group for the NGO soon, for Octoberfest.
