In june 2009 we created an official Second Life® Community Gateway for residents of the BeNeLux Countries.

It's a Community Gateway in Dutch and French for new Second Life® Residents from Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.

Visit our BeNeLux Community Gateway! 

What is a Community Gateway ?
(From the Second Life® blog by Katrin Linden)

The Community Gateway program at Linden Lab is designed to provide a customized first Second Life experience for new Residents. Communities from all over the world offer a friendly environment for new users. Orientation areas and greeters employed by the Gateway owners make sure that new Residents are able to find their way in Second Life. New Residents also have the possibility to learn from tutorials, currently in 10 different languages.

The communities are fully managed and run by their owners. The creativity and effort that program members have put into their welcome areas and surroundings are amazing.

Please visit the regions of our Gateway members. Also existing Residents are always welcome to join a community, make friends, visit events and explore Second Life. If you would like to see a complete listing of all current Community Gateway members, please check out the Second Life Wiki at: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Community_Gateway

The program members are working very closely with Linden Lab to continue to improve the new user experience and offer attractive experiences for all sorts of interests. We have established working groups, that share best practices in regard to creating a successful business, spread the good word about Gateways in regards to Marketing and PR and last but not least exchange experiences in regard to orientation spaces and the wonderful work the greeters and mentors are doing

It is so exciting to see how much passion and experience each Community Gateway member brings into this program and I would like to thank all members for the continued support and hard work each one of them is doing in regard to improving the Second Life experience and bringing people together from all over the globe.

Teamwork is a word that Gateway members live daily by supporting each other, exchanging ideas, always trying to improve the quality and service they are offering as well as creating wonderful locations in-world where not only new Residents get excited about.