Dear all,
Later today (at 7 PM SL time), a new resident called Chili Carson will start up a Chamber of Commerce in Second Life. She gave a speech at the SLCC and an interview to C|Net's Daniel Terdiman. Apparently she "moved the masses" at the SLCC, since she brings her professional know-how as an accountant to set these things up, made a big show out of it, and has lots of backing  from the media, from the Lindens, and very likely from the FIC as well. Thus, she might succeed where so many have failed (from the RATE group, to the SL Better Business Bureau, the Metaverse Justice Watch, and so many others... there are lots of tiny ones as well, local business associations, etc).
The interesting thing about Chili Carson is the (mostly RL) support she has for this inciative of hers!
I'd think it would be nice for some of us to be at her discussion meeting 
Sadly, it's way too late for me to attend, but I'm sure we can find a few of us willing to be there. One thing we can provide is our feedback: a Chamber of Commerce is easy to set up if you have a legal system backing it up. But the jurisdiction is very limited. By contrast, a SL-wide Chamber of Commerce, sitting "in a vacuum", is way hard to set up, although, as said, it might be "SL-wide".
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