RTE limits votes to RTE members and senior AJJE leadership

Resolution #4

 

By a vote of 14 to 3, with two abstentions, the Township has resolved the following:

 

Only the votes cast by the Township, the AJJE Games Board of Founders or the AJJE Games Role-Playing Division's President and Vice-Presidents are legal votes. All others shall be ignored, but those whose votes are ignored will be invited to join RTE.

 

Silent Hunter

RTE Administrator

30 April 2010

 

This brings RTE into harmony with the rest of AJJE. The motion was proposed in December, but changes of Election Coordinators have delayed the vote until now.

Male vs. Female: the COs of AJJE

Just something for a bit of amusing discussion: a comparison of the genders of characters leading sims in AJJE.

LOTW: 12 male, 1 female
RTE: 5 male, 4(*) female
SFHQ: 11 male, 3 female
SGU: 7(*) male, 2 female

(*: Covert-81 has two SL equivalent characters, both female. For this discussion, they are counted as one. Also Goa'ulds are sexless, it's just that the SL of Goa'uld Empire has a male host.)

Total: 35 male, 10 female

LOTW extends terms of Admin Directors

Resolution #38

LOTW voted on the motion to permanently extend the term of office for elected Administration Directors to 12 months. This is subsequent to Resolution #17, February 15th, 2009, which extended the following term (our current term) from 8 months to 12.

It was another exceedingly well-run event thanks to EC Robert, AEC Matt, the COs, and the club's members. Some of the sims which have never previously produced a very high turnout are now climbing the ladder - a sign that more and more members are becoming aware of their right to vote and are putting that right to use!

The results are 38 for, 4 against, and 3 abstained from voting. The resolution is therefore passed.

This produces a 61.6% turnout of the LOTW Membership - roughly a 6% decrease since the last vote, but nevertheless an increase in our turnout at the beginning of this calendar year.

We have Elections coming up in June and this will be everyone's opportunity to have our say and to set the standard for the next year's voter turnouts!

So in gearing up for the Election in two months, I would encourage all of you to become involved in the elections in some way! We are currently looking at ways of improving awareness during the build-up to the elections. As ever, the admin team is open to all your thoughts and suggestions.

Ashley Leighton Plom
Parliament Leader
April 25th, 2010

The Academy heads towards a launch

SFHQ is taking the final steps towards creating a new Academy sim in a bid to boost its diminishing membership base.

This sim will allow new players to learn about Trek and AJJE's RPing environment in a controlled manner.

We'll be reviewing it in some depth as it launches.

Daniel Taylor named Public Relations Director

Vice President of Support Chris Wilkinson is pleased to announce the
appointment of Daniel Taylor to the position of PR Director. Dan is replacing
Gemma Holden, who has had to step down due to RL pressures.

Daniel Taylor has been with AJJE Games since 2007. He is very enthusiastic, experienced and I believe he
will be a wonderful addition to the Support team.

Congratulations, Dan!

Chris Wilkinson
Vice President of Support

Matt Forbes becomes Fundraising Director

The Board of Founders has oversight over two autonomous departments in addition to the AJJE Roleplaying division: Server Management and Fundraising. The Fundraising group is defined in the AJJE GP as the group that manages the Marketplace, Google Ads, and Paypal donation pages for AJJE Games. The Board hereby assigns Matt Forbes to the position of Fundraising Director for the Fundraising Division. Matt's task will be to review and evaluate the current programs in use, as well as generate proposals on how to elevate each program. Although Matt is new to AJJE Games, he has shown to the Board an ability to look at current AJJE functions in a new light, and new angle. We are excited to assign him to this position and hope that everyone will give him the support he needs in the coming weeks.

Thanks,

Alex Verdusco
Jud Bennett
Jamie Chamberlain
Edgar Cramer

Design AJJE Games's T-Shirt!

Update your graphic programs, break out your pens and get your creative juices flowing. AJJE Games is looking for designs to put on T- shirts, hats, coffee cups and anything else we can think of to help spread the word about our fabulous site. The designs must be original, with original artwork (if used) inspired by the shows upon which our clubs are based. The designs should also include (but certainly not be limited to) the following:

1) The name AJJE Games
2) The URL ajjegames.com
3) The phrase 'RPGs that Ride the Edge'

After that, it's all up to you. The winning design(s) will be chosen by the AJJE Games senior leadership on June 1, 2010.

Please submit your designs to either your club's administrative leader, AJJE Games President, VP Support, VP Anchor Clubs or VP Development.

Editorial: Changes and Challenges

By Silent Hunter

 

I’ve been feeling this blog is a bit too much press releases and could do with some more diverse content, namely original reporting and editorials.

 

So here it is. All opinions are my own and do not necessary reflect the official view of AJJE Games or anyone else involved.

 

The first year of a new decade has seen some changes in AJJE, with several new and exciting ideas about to come to fruition and some new challenges.

 

Let’s go through this club by club.

 

LOTW

 

The strongest club in AJJE currently runs at 13 sims. I say 13 as the Alliance Camp has now closed due to inactivity. I don’t know whether it was the reason for it, but this and the Independent Camp had a shared RP thread using a system called X-LINK, now being used for a cross-over sim between IPS Dakota and Raug’Moss. I  was XO of the latter until lately, so I didn’t get to use it to the full potential, but it’s something we could use elsewhere in AJJE.

 

Replacing Alliance Camp in the “Other Times, Other Places” area, when Server Management get the sim set up, will be something called An Baile Ur, giving LOTW back a sim with a Gaelic name after the renaming of Tain Bo Cualinge. Set in the year 2300, i.e. the early years of the ‘Verse as envisioned by Mr. Whedon, it’s set on An Baile Ur (The New Home), an Irish colony where people go to escape from the hectic pace of modern life. Or if you’re Caitlin Regan (yes, I’ve signed up for it) to hide out after a con has gone wrong.

 

RTE

 

When I handed out the Player of the Year Award for RTE at the Award Ceremony earlier this year (yes, all the Admin Leaders did speeches), I described what you could do in “my” club in four sentences, each covering two sims. I guess I’ll have to do a different speech as we’ve now got 9 and may well get two or three more.

 

We now have a second Harry Potter sim, Diagon Alley, set in the magical London area that has a lot of wizarding shops and taverns, a resting place before boarding the train at platform 9 ¾ to go to Hogwarts.

 

However, we’ve got some other sims in the pipeline. Teddie Dollins is unleashing romance and vampires on us with a Twilight sim, while Eddie Cramer is working on a pirates-based sim that I will be joining. While I’ve shelved my planned naval sim due to lack of interest, rest assured that this particular “sim-creating monster” (thank you Jeannette) have another idea brewing. Let’s just say that it will be arresting. OK, that’s an awful pun...

 

SFHQ

 

SFHQ is facing a major challenge. Half of the sims are unhealthy and the club’s membership numbers are declining. Last year, a number of sims were shutdown because of inactivity and I think we may get others going.

 

In an attempt to arrest this alarming trend, SFHQ is opening a new Academy sim, which may well replace an existing ship in the club, to improve recruit retention. I wish this sim every success. It’s a fairly steep learning curve to get into Trek despite the fact that the key characters and concepts have filtered into popular culture in a huge way. Anything that can help people with this is a great idea.

 

SGU

 

SGU is going to do the Timewarp. A motion was passed to jump the sims outside the expansion fleet forward a year to between Season 9 and 10 of the original SG-1. That means that the Ori (religious fanatics) have arrived in the Milky Way. The sim I run, Argos, is in the expansion fleet, but will also do the jump.

 

Overall

 

We’re doing well, but we need to keep there. In particular we need to broaden our leadership base- we have people doing several jobs.

 

There are ideas for this. Stay tuned...

Chris Wilkinson named VP Support

AJJE Games President Jeannette Giesbrecht is pleased to announce the appointment of Chris Wilkinson to VP Support. Chris is replacing Richard Thompson, who has had to step down due to RL pressures.

Chris Wilkinson has been with AJJE Games since 2007 and is active in all four clubs. He is very enthusiastic, experienced and I believe he will be a wonderful addition to the AJJE senior government.

Congratulations, Chris!

Jeannette Giesbrecht
President