Call for New Leadership

I think it's time for a change in leadership. Our president, who also serves as moderator for this group, has long been absent ... and, quite frankly, considering the name of and the services that this group is supposed to provide, I think we need to try and fix this as soon as possible.

Heck, I was appointed Spokesperson last July and my membership for this group still hasn't been approved yet.

Let's all work on coming in here and giving input ... not only on nominations for a new leader, but ideas and constructive criticism.

I will be sending out messages to group members and those who have stopped by in recent months to get everyone in here and their opinions ... thank you!

Thanks for bringing this to attention Revan!! Let's see who shows up.

(As a reminder, as Admin I can change the mod at any time, we just need to decide who it will be.)

Hello!

James here and listening...

Here, listening, watching...ready to participate!

A bit hesitant Zm raises his hand.

- I'm still here.

im here but drunk

Im here and alive
I would suggest Revan for the C.A.S leader

So am I...but sober...!

In answering to Babe's question:

Revandenizen wrote:

Our president, who also serves as moderator for this group, has long been absent ... and, quite frankly, considering the name of and the services that this group is supposed to provide, I think we need to try and fix this as soon as possible.

Now that that's cleared, I second Revan's nomination!

I thank you for the nod, Luja and Trisalene, but I must decline at this time. I have already devoted myself to several obligations that I want to see through. I feel as though I already can make enough of an impact on this group by being Spokesperson.

Besides ... I believe that there are enough active and interested people out there who can help with events... or, at the very least, I hope we do. I know that a lot of people already have things on their plate ... so I don't think having a little bit of a membership drive would hurt at this point, to get some new blood in here.

Maybe it takes time for us to get our members together, maybe we don't end up planing anything for a month, but ... the main thing that I would like to see at this point ... is that this committee is actually active ...

We could do a ball to Promote the C.A.S like we did when Lethion was duke(if i remember right lol ) ,that way we could maybe get some fresh blood?

The ball you are referring to was actually a ball to celebrate the council elections in ... mid-July, I think? (Sorry, I don't mean to be a nitpicker ... but yes, balls do get more new blood in ... heck, that was when I brought in here ... lol)

Anyways ... some of us don't mind balls, but we have to keep in mind that not everyone enjoys them. Balls are good to have, but it shouldn't be the only activity that we can plan ...

For example, you can look at Celdonea's idea of a party around Somerset ... to encourage people to travel and possibly RPs in each individual town, culminating in a larger RP in Somerset Inn (Sorry Cel, for picking on you ... but ... in all honesty, it's an awesome idea ... but like how you requested, it needs some more suggestions on what to do for activities ... and I was really disappointed when the idea was just left behind)

I share Revan's opinion, ball is not solution for everything . The party changing place is good idea, like Mother Eraine's Roadshow. It takes a place in different towns, it does encourage to travel, but it's not required etc. I like the idea. But we gathered here to elect new leader so I am not going off topic anymore.

I am here, as a non member I suppose. I was never invited to join this group, just barged my way in, LOL.

Thank you , Revan , for bringing up my idea. I myself, happen to think it was brilliant too and was disappointed when nobody seemed interested. Zm too, had a good idea that went by the wayside. I am ready to move forward with my plan, if I have backing. Like Ayahav says, we are going off topic with that, but we can certainly move over to that thread to finish it up. All I was needing was some more theme ideas.

As for president of the comittee, I would ask for a show of hands who wants to be nominated???

As the matter of fact, I was never invited too, so I hesitate a bit to post here. I just assumed that Comittee has no clear rules who is in and who is not. Okay, so don't be shy, I am sure that somebody wants to be leader?

Um ... haven't been any formal invites, just ... "oh hey, you have an idea? Come on over!"

Please DON'T hesitate to post! We need active people!

I'm quite sure we have the handful of active players...but these people already have their hands tied-down by many other responsibilities.

My suggestion would be, to create a project-based leadership. In the corporate world, big organizations create teams, picking and selecting members from their big pool of talent, and place them into one project and everyone else just assists them.

Pros and Cons of Project-Based Committee (teams)

Pros: No fear of inactivity (Cause its not the same people doing the thing over and over again), fresh new taste, less stressing

Cons: Confusing, clashes might happen, have to seek volunteers for every new project

Probably it's good idea, especially since we are not electing absolute monarch but leader which would have to respect other's opinion anyway and we could really organise in teams realising different goals even in the same event. It's always less work and more interesting because ideas are coming from different members. It sounds reasonable for me.

Peace

You have hit the nail right on the head James.

Good suggestion!

Well , ,

I'm up for some activity , so i voulanteer to what ever project that u guys come up with . consider me in !!

I agree with James' idea also.

Great idea!

There is only one thing ... we still have a moderator who is inactive ... meaning that unless you are part of the group, you do not have access to the private chambers of this subforum.

Considering how many of us there are floating around here, I DON'T see this as a major issue at this time... however, I want to make it clear that if anyone feels the need/urge to use private rooms, we just need the assistance of the lovely Trisalene to get some access there.

So ... if you are still reading this (which I hope you are ), please check out the rest of this subforum. In the past few weeks/months, we've had two citizens stand up and come up with really good ideas of new and different activities. Celdonea's was mentioned earlier in this thread, but we also have Zmramos's idea that also did not receive as much TLC as it could have.

Can we look at these then, post a comment or suggestion, and see if maybe we can aim for the beginning of April to get something off the ground (that way we have time to not only think, but POST ... and do not detract from the SAS competition going on)? Thank you!

Might also be worth remembering not to clash with the World Wide Olympics - Festival of the Crown that's being organised by Urbs de Valorl (posted in London Commons by Silvermane) - if we're participating. Registration for that starts on Monday and the games take place over the two weeks beginning 13 April.

That looks fun, too - are we planning to join in the festival? Sorry if it's already been posted in Somerset Inn, but I'm currently travelling and can't see there.