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Sophrosyne's Saturday Salon: SL Banking - Is It Safe?
Banking in SL: Is It Safe?

The Second Life banking industry has been rocked with scandals - is it safe? How do banks and stock exchanges work in synthetic worlds? Can we have an honest banking system without outside regulation?

Join us Saturday, November 10 from 1 to 3:30 PM SLT at the Diversionarium along with Spotlight Guest Nobody Fugazi (Taran Rampersad) of Your2ndPlace.com, journalist and commentator on the SL financial industry for a primer on virtual finance and an investigation of the state of SL banking and investment!


About Nobody Fugazi (Taran Rampersad)

Taran Rampersad is a 36 year old man with a fairly varied background. He has been in contact with almost every level of society. At age 11, he started working in the family printery. At age 16, he graduated secondary school, at age 17 he landed his first job as a contract computer programmer. After some wandering and holding a variety of different jobs which ranged from pumping gas to programming, he ended up in the United States Navy. He enlisted as a Sonar Technician, became a Nuclear Field Electronics Technician, and then became a Hospital Corpsman where he worked in an emergency room and with the United States Marines.

He has been active in ICT circles within the Caribbean and Latin America and has worked on projects such as CARDICIS and MISTICA. He's a firm believer in self-sustaining ICT as a tool and mechanism for bridging the digital divide. Generally speaking, he believes technology should be used sensibly to improve the quality of life of all human beings. He's a firm advocate of Free Software and Open Source, but leans more toward the GPL. He's a firm advocate of Open Content.

Somewhere between all of this he managed to become a published poet, an amateur photographer who has had some of his work published in book and magazine formats, and a person who gets asked to do more pro bono work than he can afford to do. He balances all of this by legal use of caffeine and feeding birds as well as exploring things by traveling, reading, and experimenting.

Taran is also a Second Life Consultant, and runs Your2ndPlace.com, a site dedicated to Second Life.

The Diversionarium is a non-commercial spot for social games, creative play, and miscellaneous horsing around. It's located in beautiful Pandora's Peace Park, with a mer-friendly lagoon, and includes some well-known games, like chess and Othello, as well as exclusive games you won't find anywhere else: word games, building games, and more.

SLURL: The Diversionarium in Pandori