AS,

As explained at the meeting this weekend, there will be taskforces that basically replace the Division Council. Because the Division Council doesn't work very well.
I will abstain from writing down the complete story of why this is needed, because it takes a lot of words and thus time to read.
The short version is that DS needs a more vertical command system in order to overcome certain problems: like creating more unity among divisions.

I will however write down what the taskforces are like, and following up on the explanation you are asked to sign up as candidate for the taskforce that you want to become part of by responding to this thread.


Taskforces: structure, duties, and time investment
There are 5 taskforces.

1. Taskforce Recruitment
Structure: 1 leader + 1 team with max. 1 member from each division.
Task: to ensure that new members feel home both in the division it concerns and also in the community (this will require a major update of the recruitment system and careful maintenance from then on).
Guideline on time investment per member: around 3 hours per week.

2. Taskforce Training
Structure: 1 leader + 1 team with max. 1 member from each division.
Task: to ensure that leaders and members of DS (including taskforces and Sidhe) are ready for their next position (= increased involvement) in DS, logically based on personal preferences.
Guideline on time investment per member: around 3 hours per week.

3. Taskforce Innovation
Structure: 1 leader + 1 team with max. 1 member from each division.
Task: to ensure that DS doesn't get stuck in maintaining itself (living for the sake of living), but is constantly busy moving on to new, better stages of its being as a community in which as many members as possible are involved.
Guideline on time investment per member: around 3 hours per week.

4. Taskforce Communication
Structure: 1 leader + 1 team with max. 1 member from each division.
Task: to ensure that all members have access to sufficient information about how the clan and its divisions are doing (through at least making a frequent newsletter).
Guideline on time investment per member: around 3 hours per week.

5. Taskforce Intervention
Structure: 1 leader + 1 team with max. 1 member from each division.
Task: to ensure that interpersonal conflicts are resolved fast and effectively, without causing delay for the progress of the community or personal 'harm' (including much stress, anger, and other emo reactions).
Guideline on time investment per member: around 3 hours per week.


So... What to do with this info?

1) You check yourself and determine how much time you are willing and able to invest in working on one or more of the issues above.
In general, are you (1) dedicated and commited to improving DS or (2) just here to walk along the crowd and play some games?
If 1: proceed.

2) You check yourself again and determine which ideas, plans, suggestions you have for DS on or more of the fields described above.
Can you (1) fit these thoughts into the work of 1 or more taskforces or (2) are they still vague?
If 1, sign up through using this thread.
If 2, PM me so we can have a talk.


Does this mean I have to work HARD?
An indication of time is included in the description, of which the point is merely to ensure that people understand it is serious work to a certain degree. Fun is nice, but to have fun with 200 people of all nationalities, ages, and so forth: that needs some planning.
We need people that last in those 5 teams, the type of people that doesn't forget they have exams, need to walk the dog, have granny's birthday, and other stuff when a deadline needs to be met.

It is not the time you spend on this that makes the difference, but your mentality as a member of DS.

I look forward to hearing from you. Founder of Daoine Sidhe,
Founder of Moíra,
Founder of the Travian division,
Founder of the Travians division,
Founder of the Perfect World division.

Rayendir Sidhe [ ] geschikt
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thats all One day the assholes of the world will come together, and they will build a statue of You!

>>>>>OMG<<<<<

Hendig Sjiek Topic dunno if this requires a task force, but I've started with the review thingies. --
survived Bunnik 2006,2007,2008, 2009, 2010
Winner of DS Quiz 2010 All activity counts. The goal is to structure all activity in order to lift it past the stage of preparing something to afterwards find out that nobody really wants to prioritize working on it.

DS has been too long like that and it raised a generation of people like RR: always the first to let you know that he's not suitable, rules are stupid, divisions fail, plans will not work, etcetera.
Needless to state how destructive this can be for a community (and has been in DS).

To answer the question specifically.
All broadcasted informational writing for the entire clan or the majority of it (planning RL events, newsletters, reviews, and so on) are for the communication taskforce. Founder of Daoine Sidhe,
Founder of Moíra,
Founder of the Travian division,
Founder of the Travians division,
Founder of the Perfect World division.

Rayendir Sidhe By the way, a delegation of the Moira development team should be in the Innovation taskforce obviously.

We're with 4 (Chelsea, Inas, Emania and myself), we need to have a talk about who prefers being in the Innovation team. Founder of Daoine Sidhe,
Founder of Moíra,
Founder of the Travian division,
Founder of the Travians division,
Founder of the Perfect World division.

Rayendir Sidhe [q]4. Taskforce Communication
Structure: 1 leader + 1 team with max. 1 member from each division.
Task: to ensure that all members have access to sufficient information about how the clan and its divisions are doing (through at least making a frequent newsletter).
Guideline on time investment per member: around 3 hours per week.[/q]

this will be sylph, caithlin, garuda, and me. atm

structure for the newsletter as it is now:

main writer: tyrael
webdesigner/ editor: sylph
comics: caithlin
writer: garuda

specialised division writers:
wow: none
travian: none
aoc: none
moira: none

in general we need fresh new writers that are intrested in making fun articles to read for youre own division as well for the rest of the ds. if youre intrested, don't wait with it, just send us a pm Erowyne zegt:
jij bent best wel een lief vriendsgeval I can write review and previews of games and stuff that I'm following but I don't know if I can commit myself in a team 3 hours a week. This doesn't sound much but I have alot of other priorities outside DS. Currently I'm posting these things on the Tavern forum for all to read. use em if you like, or post feedback either way suits me fine, but right now I doubt I can really commit myself to it. --
survived Bunnik 2006,2007,2008, 2009, 2010
Winner of DS Quiz 2010

On 24 Jun 2008 @ 00:01 Rayendir Sidhe wrote:
4. Taskforce Communication
Structure: 1 leader + 1 team with max. 1 member from each division.
Task: to ensure that all members have access to sufficient information about how the clan and its divisions are doing (through at least making a frequent newsletter).
Guideline on time investment per member: around 3 hours per week.

As mentioned on the party altready, I'm in for this one. For Real Life events and for newsletter stuffSurvived:
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On 24 Jun 2008 @ 20:27 Inas(DS) wrote:
I can write review and previews of games and stuff that I'm following but I don't know if I can commit myself in a team 3 hours a week. This doesn't sound much but I have alot of other priorities outside DS. Currently I'm posting these things on the Tavern forum for all to read. use em if you like, or post feedback either way suits me fine, but right now I doubt I can really commit myself to it.

the 3 hours mentioned is not in my eyes 3 hours of hardcore action writing inas. it is also the making of the ideas in the newsletter forum. all the research for youre article. then making it and the way how you want to set it up with pictures and stuff.

for example an intervieuw costs me around 4 to 5 hours. first selecting a candidate, mailing him/her. set up an appointment. thinking of the main subject the intervieuw is about and making some questions for it. then doing the intervieuw , writing it out and sending it. a lot of these things i do when cycling to my job in my head or doing the laundry. making an article is not just the writing it are all the little bits and pieces before it that make the article.

as you say you already post them in the tavern. but maybe spend just a little bit more time on it, finding cool screenshots or a bit more details. you're already examening the stuff you want to write about so why not do this in a format like the newsletter.

destroyer same counts for you. and no i don't have you on msn yet as you thought Erowyne zegt:
jij bent best wel een lief vriendsgeval Inas, I don't think it will be much of a problem if you can't work three hours a week. The entire idea for the future of the newsletter is to have a lot of people writing one or two articles, rather than two people writing 5 or 6 articles. This means that the bigger part of the newsletter writers will never make 3 hours a week. This isn't a problem. I guess it means that we may have to reserve your spot in the taskforce for somebody else, but there's always room for you (and for everyone in DS, for that matter) in the newsletter. - Sylph-DS
Formerly known as Xvon-DS

Also, Failbread. it is for every member always possible to write down an article for the newsletter without being member of the newsletter team to start with. it is more that we want to have a solid amount of writers/ articles per month to show in the newsletter. Erowyne zegt:
jij bent best wel een lief vriendsgeval

On 24 Jun 2008 @ 21:40 tyrael-DS wrote:
[...]

destroyer same counts for you. and no i don't have you on msn yet as you thought

You can find my msn adress at my profile hereSurvived:
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Bunnik 2009 On the 3 hours part: everyone has a real life next to DS. The dog needs a walk, school includes homework, exams, unexpected visitors, funerals, birthday parties, and so forth, and so forth.
When there is no clear deadline on work for DS, people start doing the obvious: they postpone DS work because other stuff seemingly has a higher priority.
And that makes it extremely hard to really achieve something in DS: because working in a team is impossible when half of the team is constantly not there because of other priorities in life.

So we set the 3 hours guideline to make it concrete for everyone in DS what level of activity they should aim for. It is a way of boosting self regulation in people.
But of course that doesn't mean you get clocked every month. The 3 hours guideline merely is a tool to avoid that people are in a team but in practice don't do anything for that team (which leads to demotivation teamwide, lack of general activity, and so on).

Apart from the self regulation part, when things really go wrong in a taskforce the 3 hours guideline is a tool for teamleaders as well: they can use this guideline for kicking people out when necessary.
(Which is a lot harder if you never used any concrete deadlines for something to be finished for example.... After all: without clear deadlines you cannot really tell someone they didn't do enough.) Founder of Daoine Sidhe,
Founder of Moíra,
Founder of the Travian division,
Founder of the Travians division,
Founder of the Perfect World division.

Rayendir Sidhe well, I don't mind giving it a try. I've got some previews waiting for Florensia and Aion online, and perhaps I make some reviews about older games such as Star Wars Galaxies and Ragnarok online.

If these things are actually catching on (e.g high enough view counts) I might start writing these things on requests, probably previews about new stuff based upon public avaialble information. --
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Winner of DS Quiz 2010

On 25 Jun 2008 @ 16:05 Inas(DS) wrote:
well, I don't mind giving it a try. I've got some previews waiting for Florensia and Aion online, and perhaps I make some reviews about older games such as Star Wars Galaxies and Ragnarok online.

If these things are actually catching on (e.g high enough view counts) I might start writing these things on requests, probably previews about new stuff based upon public avaialble information.

Sounds great InasSurvived:
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Bunnik 2009 Are there no more people who want to help us make DS better? Think this topic should not die, because this can realy help DSSurvived:
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Bunnik 2009 ok, I won't take a job on me, only as White Knight, to much doing already for guild/alliance

Greetz Gek Members of the Secret Society of Pointheads:
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In order to not raise too high expectations: I already noticed the tendency in DS to go quiet as a mouse when it concerns concrete calls for change.
Because talking about things on a forum is easy but requires no true commitment, while actually working on something does.
And commitment is a rare state of mind among modern gamers, unfortunately.

But like I said at the meeting: people are like sheep to a pretty high degree. Some must pull the wagon and give a right example, then others will not want to stay behind anymore.

We're going to give this plan a start with the people who are brave enough to step forward now, from then on there will be a step by step change in attitude in DS: but give it time, people sitting behind computers very far away from each other are hard to commit. Founder of Daoine Sidhe,
Founder of Moíra,
Founder of the Travian division,
Founder of the Travians division,
Founder of the Perfect World division.

Rayendir Sidhe AS,

The Communication taskforce is now existing (see forumlist).

Members are:
Caithlin (DS)
Eversor-DS
Inas(DS)
Sylph-DS
tyrael-DS

Which is the former newsletter team + those who mentioned to have interest in the communicational issues of DS. Founder of Daoine Sidhe,
Founder of Moíra,
Founder of the Travian division,
Founder of the Travians division,
Founder of the Perfect World division.

Rayendir Sidhe I am interested in helping in any way I can, and do have the will and time (dont have a dog to walk but 3 kids ) It all seems a litte scary to little ol'me though... So if you want to add me on msn Rayendir, perhaps we could have a talk about in what way I could contribute to Ds.

sten1000@msn.com

My appologies for replying so late (been on holiday, and come back to drama in wow pulled my attention away from other stuff)

Love Sten The taskforce Training has been installed as well.

Because the Sidhe already use a system of which training is a vital part training activities will be organised on the public Sidhe forum: for everybody to see.

For the time being members are Damorian Sidhe and Rayendir Sidhe (CC members, Mentors of the Sidhe) and Melodious Sidhe (CC member, Regent).

If someone wants to join the team, preferably from our divisions, they are welcome to respond to this post. Founder of Daoine Sidhe,
Founder of Moíra,
Founder of the Travian division,
Founder of the Travians division,
Founder of the Perfect World division.

Rayendir Sidhe PM'ed you Ray- Welcome on board Stensi.

This is how fast things can go in DS Founder of Daoine Sidhe,
Founder of Moíra,
Founder of the Travian division,
Founder of the Travians division,
Founder of the Perfect World division.

Rayendir Sidhe AS it concerns the recruitment taskforce, the last one on the to-do list: I decided there was too little expertise in combination with too little interest to make this work.

Thanks to the people who want to work on this nonetheless

Effectively the course of action is as follows: I wrote a proposal for the CC and division leaders, they will have the opportunity to speak their mind now.
After this there will be an update of the proposal, and after that I hope the new system will be implemented.

"New" as in: similar as today's recruitment, but more controlled and more aimed at both the games and the community. Founder of Daoine Sidhe,
Founder of Moíra,
Founder of the Travian division,
Founder of the Travians division,
Founder of the Perfect World division.

Rayendir Sidhe AS,

I decided to give 1 QP to everyone who is part of a taskforce currently, as it is a bold thing to stand up from the crowd and lead DS into the future by dealing with such critical issues.

Congratulations, may it lead to lots of success for our clan. Founder of Daoine Sidhe,
Founder of Moíra,
Founder of the Travian division,
Founder of the Travians division,
Founder of the Perfect World division.

Rayendir Sidhe

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