Linden Launches Department of Public Works

While one of the themes of Second Life has long been that it exists as an open platform built by Linden Lab for others to develop content on, the company is taking additional steps to repair existing content on the world's mainland and seed the space with new content. Towards that end, Linden Lab announced the Department of Public works, made up of resident builders, artists, and scripters. The first team of ten will tackle existing projects, like roads and coastlines that Linden had begun, while the company looks to open the application process. "We haven’t done much content creation over the last year, which makes us sad," blogged Jack Linden. "It takes a lot of time and resource, and has been difficult to commit to with so many other areas to work on - so by using the skills and experience in the community, we think we can make a real difference." [via Linden Lab]