Welcome to Second Life.
My only apprehension from reading the initial blog post of your joining the exec team was a strong emphasis on gaming references. As I tell RL people, Second Life is literally what you make it; while some use it for gaming and role play (many email/groups RPGers of ages back have migrated here) and many have fled defunct game sites like TSO to continue here, there's a myriad of other purposes which I'm sure by now you've found we do. With anywhere from 40,000 to 90,000 logged in at any time during the week, there's that much diversity in purpose as with the cultures who comprise active residency.
Many of us also "escaped" from a series of VRML-based 3D communities which began as early as the mid-1990s. Based around a community template with emphasis on member experience points, earnings from fake jobs and often the wrong people assigned to run a heirarchy of residential areas, each one has been a failure, ruined by greed and illusory power trips. Only a couple of these sites hang on for posterity. I say good riddance to them and thank goodness for Second Life! My only regret is that some of the things I created there as wrl format could not be converted for upload here.
SL is big enough that residents into what they're into can be oblivious to what other people are into. Second Life offers an ideal environment for people to explore their psyche, potential, sexuality, innocence, or a new language. And if someone chooses to run their private estate similar to the above VRML template, they can do it to their heart's content. We'd never know or have to be involved with it. It's what makes this place so great!