AJJE Games Votes

There's a couple of policy votes going on at the moment:

• Creating an OOC ship in Ride The Edge
• Approving an application handbook for Leaf on the Wind

If you haven't already voted, go vote!

Random Travels in AJJE: Starting Post

The start of a new feature for this blog- I intend to add some more.

Basically, I'm going to do a brief profile of some of the interesting RPEs that we have on this site- as well as an interview with their leaders.

First up, one game from SFHQ

Louis Justman becomes LOTW Assistan Election Coordinator

Announcement

It is my pleasure to announce Louis Justman has joined the administration as Assistant Election Coordinator (AEC).

The position of AEC is something I would like to vote on perhaps in the second half of April, to confirm it as a constitutional positional that any future EC will need to find someone to fill. This allows for a degree of redundancy, and also spreads the workload of the Election Ship department, to allow for more energy to go into raising awareness of votes, analysing participation, and generally ensuring this club maintains its fine democratic tradition.

I am thankful to Louis for agreeing to this commission, and applaud Kelsey in her choosing him.

Ash Plom
Parliament Leader

Matt Brown becomes System Lord of Goa'uld Empire

Appointment #49

Now this appointment has been a long time coming, which I'm positive that Ash will start doing a little dance once he finishes reading this.

At around the beginning of the holidays we began discussing an expansion of our Expansion Sims area (yes, I had to go there). The choice was between several different options, but ultimately it was decided that best to start off with is the exploration of the Goa'uld plot line.

After a lot of dickering, going back and forth and questions upon questions, a proposal was finally created that received the backing of the whole of Military Command.

As such, as soon as Alex Verdusco is able to create our new area, Goa'uld Empire will become our second sim in the Expansion Sims arena. The goal of the Empire is to explore this nemesis of the Stargate Universe as well as we're able. The time frame will be set just after the Tok'ra were founded. The initial beginning of this Empire will be on a planet, a home base much like our Beta Sites are currently.

Leading our bad guys on their adventure in the role of System Lord (SyL) will be Matt Brown. To allow him to this Matt will be immediately promoted to the rank of Captain with all the rights and privileges that come with such a rank.

In light of certain learning curves those of us in the MC have had in regards to establishing new areas, it has been decided that the first six months of operation, the Goa'uld Empire should be staffed by members already in SGU to give it a solid base of internal operation. Mostly folks, it's to work all the kinks out of the sim idea before we introduce new people.

At the end of the six months, the MC and the SyL will gather together to discuss the readiness of the sim to receive applicants. Once we all feel confident that the sim area will stand on its own with the current support and benefit from new people adding, we will send a request to have it become a reality, giving SGU one more area of interest for new people to jump feet first into.

Congratulations to everyone who has put in their hard work in creating this sim. It hasn't been easy, and we've had to develop our system in getting this faster. Hopefully our next expansion sim will come to fruitation faster than this one had.

Kuddos to all, and congratulations to Matt for his promotion. I'm positive that with everyone's support the Goa'uld Empire will be a wonderful sim area for us all to enjoy.

Jess McClary
23 Mar 09

Silent Hunter becomes Argos CO

Appointment #48

This is a sad day for me on a personal note simply because of how much fun Samantha and I have had on the Argos. However, Samantha's life as it stands now doesn't give her the time she needs to come onto SGU to post as she would like. So unfortunately, Samantha has communicated to me and the rest of the MC that she will have to step down from her position as CO of the Argos.

We've known about this for some time, has had several other people within SGU. Almost immediately we began looking for someone to pick up the reigns of the ship. After discussing the situation, the members of Military Command, including Samantha, threw our support behind one individual.

He's been in SGU with us for a significant amount of time, helping out various sim areas and people along the way. Anna, his current TL, sings his praise with a loud song and gave us the thumbs up before we even had a chance to ask her. This is hardly surprising because we have found that Anna does very well with training her XO's in the art of taking the reigns of their own command.

As such, it is a pleasure and an honor to take away yet another one of her XOs to give him the reigns of the Argos. Effective immediately, Silent Hunter will be promoted to the rank of Major and will assume command of the Argos. With his promotion he will receive all the rights and privileges that comes with the rank.

Good luck Silent and congratulations!

Jess McClary
23 Mar 09

Two Deputy Administrators appointed for RTE

Appointments #2 and #3

I am appointing Dan Blakelock as Deputy Administrator (Admin). He will run AJJE Games in my absence and helping maintain the Township page with Webmaster Lex Pendragon.

I am also pleased to appoint Bernard McJeebus as Deputy Administrator (Sim Development).

He will help in the running of the sim creation process for Ride The Edge, helping us expand our range of sims further.


Congratulations to both of you!

Silent Hunter
RTE Administrator
19 March 2009

New RTE Leadership

Resolution #1

It is a great honor to be a named a leader by your peers and it is an even greater honor to be able to name who they are and hand the controls over to them. So without further ado I present to you all your newly elected leaders of Ride The Edge!

Your Administrator - Silent Hunter

Your Member Support Director - William Smith

Your Technical Support Director - Euan Reid

Gentlemen, I have provided you administrative access to your respective MOTD's.

Congratulations to all of you and I look forward to seeing the club continue to prosper under your guidance.

Eddie

Bernard McJeebus replaces Adrian Aakre as "A Light In the Darkness" Sim Leader

Appointment #27

With Adrian Aakre having gone AWOL it has been decided by the Council of Elders to replace Adrian as the Sim Leader of A Light in the Darkness. The person we are naming to replace Adrian has done a lot for ajjegames.com and we feel that he has proven to be an asset to RTE with all he has done.

Bernard McJeebus is hereby named Sim Leader of A Light in the Darkness.

Make us proud.

Eddie

Shawn Allen becomes SFHQ Election Co-ordinator

Resolution 21

As of March 11th 2009, I hereby appoint Shawn Allen to the position of Election Coordinator.

CCP Catt

Jessica McClary promoted to General in SGU

Appointment #47

Today we are going to honour one of this club's finest members. She has
been with the club since its inception, worked as the Operations Director
for all that time as well as serving the administration team. She made more
than a few of the graphics and MOTDs that we see within the club and she is
always willing to lend a hand to anyone, whether they are a new member or an
old one. In her time here she has also been the Commanding Officer of one of
the biggest RPE's in the club and is currently the Team Leader of SGU-1. She
offers to fill in for people when they have to go away for a while, and she
rarely complains about her workload in real life or in the club.

So no matter how much she thinks she doesn't need it we are pleased, no,
honoured to give Lt.General Jessica McClary her fourth, and final star,
elevating her to the rank of General.

Congratulations General McClary

Lt.Colonel Ash Plom
Lt.Colonel Chris Wilkinson
5 Mar 09

New Public Relations Director appointment

ANNOUNCEMENT

It is my sad duty to accept Jon Stapely's withdrawal from the office of Ajjegames Public Relations Director.

However, I am very pleased to announce the appointment of Deborah Crawford Leighton to the position of PRD. Deborah first registered with AJJE in January 2007 and has become a well-liked player and well-respected CO in two clubs, leading Akers Bluff in LOTW and O66 in RTE to ever greater heights. She has held the position of Member Support Director in LOTW for a term, and is currently serving as Technical Support Director, as well as contributing to that club's administration in several other capacities.

Her experience of PR in real life and her many contributions to the site make her an ideal choice for AJJE's Public Relations Director.

Her first projects will be generating a forward plan and updating the club homepages (http://sfhq.ajjegames.com/, http://sgu.ajjegames.com/, http://leafonthewind.ajjegames.com/, and http://ridetheedge.ajjegames.com/). Once the Community Pages go live, the Support team will be drawing our initiatives together to actualise a central AJJE facility for blogging, networking, news, photos, publicity and recruitment.

The best is yet to come.

Ash Plom
VP Support

Change of LOTW Election Coordinator

Resolution #19

It was with some significant reluctance that I accepted Lyndsay Jarvis' resignation from the position of Election Coordinator, as I have so thoroughly enjoyed working with her both in this term of office and during the previous Plom administration. She is a saint, and her great contribution to the club cannot be expressed in few words.

However, I am overjoyed to appoint Kelsey Peterson to the position of Election Coordinator, effective immediately. Kelsey has been training under Lyndsay for about a month, and we intend to go forward with this good practice by adding an Assistant Election Coordinator position to the club, who she will train, but first I'd like to publicly welcome Kelsey to the team.

Ash Plom
Parliament Leader
March 1st, 2009

miniGeek

As several of you should very well know, we have sites like MySpace and LiveJournal where we have groups that are associated with AJJE Games. But one down side is that you have to join the website to be involved.

Well, as a member of the internet community, I am offering you another option.

I recently finished making a few edits on a forum I created to make it a multi-group site, making room for anyone from SGU to go and hang out if they would like. An entire section just purely devoted to Stargate, though it is encouraged to also post in the other section and meet new people from the other group.

You do not need to create an account on the site to be able to read and create posts.

I really want to make that detail clear, as that is one thing you have to do on sites like MySpace. Obviously you need to if you want things like post signatures, but it isn't required for the basics.

The website is named miniGeek, and is at http://minigeek.geekaddict.net. (If you have any troubles getting to the website by copying and pasting the URL, please email me.)


I really hope some of you are interested and come check it out, as I hope this site expands to hold a lot more members than it currently does.

-Megan Schultz

Ed Reeve becomes LOTW Member Support Director

Resolution #18

It is my pleasure to confirm Ed Reeve to the position of Member Support Director for the remainder of this term of office. He has been acting in the capacity of Member Support Director in the unfortunate absence of the elected Member Support Director, Kristen Weese, who has now been AWOL in excess of 30 days.

Kristen's bouyant and effervescent presence is missed among the administration staff, and we will of course continue to try to reach her, but I am supremely confident in Ed's capacity for assuming the MSD mantle in her absence.

Should Kristen return, Ed will nevertheless retain his position as Member Support Director, as per the Guiding Principles.

Ash Plom
February 22nd, 2009

Bill Greene becomes CO of the Freedom of Wealth

It is with great pleasure that I announce, on behalf of the Leaders of the Wave, the promotion of Bill Greene to the rank of Captain (CO). Bill has been serving as XO of the Whisper, and will now command the Core Worlds vessel, Freedom of Wealth.

Please join me in extending Bill congratulations on a well-deserved promotion.

Mike Palmer
Chief Area Leader

LOTW temporarily increases term lengths for Administration

Resolution #17

LOTW voted on a motion to extend the term of office for the next Administration from the traditional eight months to one year. According to the 'General Election Schedule - Ajje Games', the next Administration will be elected in June 2009, and elections would follow in February 2010. As ratified by this Resolution, however, the candidates elected in June 2009 will remain in office until the end of June 2010.

Candidates can, of course, be nominated to run for re-election in the June 2010 elections.

The change arising from this Resolution will be effective for only one Administration (June 2009-June 2010). If future Administrations wish to increase their length of term from eight months to one year, they will need to run a Resolution to that effect. This Resolution is to serve as a test for how suited a year-long administrative term is for Leaf on the Wind.

The motion passed by 42 votes in favour, 3 against, and 3 abstentions. 48 voters (42 'aye', 3 'nay', 3 'abstain') as a percentage of our total members (87 registered) is 55.17%.

This is a hugely satisfying increase on the 22.22% (20 of 90) turn out for the last voted Resolution, Resolution 16 of January 2009.

Clearly, the topic caught the attention of the LOTW membership, but the administration's targetted contact with COs has also most likely had an impact in encouraging players to participate, and I'm pleased to know so many people got involved.

Participation in voting is a great way for players to indicate their satisfaction with the club leadership.

Ash Plom, Parliament Leader
February 15th, 2009

New Team Leader of SGU-3

Appointment #46

All right, this has been a very hard decision for the MC to make, but frankly we're having a bit of a tug of war over this. Apparently, and we're not sure why, something has prevented Eddie from posting on SGU-3 for well over four months. We were aware of an illness that landed him in the hospital just before the holidays were over, but no one has seen or heard from him since.

This has us understandably worried. We've attempted to find him, but nothing has worked so far.

Unfortunately though, despite the question about Eddie's health, we must look at the health and well-being of SGU-3.

Since it's inception, SGU-3 has had more than it's share of problems. Already it has been through 6 commanders in a period of three years. From my previous experience, this a very bad because out of those 6, only one of them had actually been active and stuck around for a good while until she was promoted to Base Commander (kuddos to you Anna). Now, I mean no offense to those in the past that have attempted to be the Team Leader, it's just fate, luck, life..name it and we could probably fault it...hasn't been kind to SGU-3.

So, after discussing it for about a month and a half through our e-mails, SGU-3 is now officially on review. We're going to give the team one more chance for a total of 3 months to get running, moving and active. If by the time that review period is over it hasn't improved and managed to get out of the review area of the SSRs for one of those months, it's going to be closed down until such a time when the club as a whole has the numbers and man power to support a third SG team.

To lead the team during this review period will be Daniel Taylor. We're giving him this chance for a multitude of reasons. The first is that he's the current 2IC, the second is because he asked for the opportunity to save the team. That alone tells us that he's dedicated to it. While normally we would promote him to the full status of TL, because of the current circumstances, Daniel will be the aTL with the authority of a TL, able to weigh in on decisions for the MC and the team as a whole.

In addition, the CoA, Chris, will be monitoring and watching the posting on SGU-3 very actively, making his observations.

I want to stress that SGU-3 has 60 days to get going in the right direction. This can only happen if the current players are active and RPing. This isn't just about keeping out of AWOL, this about actually RPing. I know everyone knows how to do that so really get involved into all of it. Also, I'm calling on all members of SGU, if you have the time and the willingness to take on another character, help out Daniel and his team. Join SGU-3 permanently, stick with it. With that said though, don't just say you'll join for the 60 day extension, plan to be there for a long time.

Basically what I'm saying is that after the 60 days and it does get saved, then all of sudden just about everyone leaves, the four of us will be really, really upset, as I'm sure Daniel will be as well.

While we want the team to succeed, we want it to improve, I want to point out that we will not be lenient in our decision. This is the last and only chance the team has. Daniel and SGU-3, use it well.

Jess McClary
6 Feb 09

SGU Renamed

Due to the new Stargate Universe TV series, SGU has had to change its name.

It will now be known as Stargate Chronicles.

LOTW- Election Coordinator Guidelines Ratified

Resolution #16

LOTW voted to ratify the Election Coordinator Guidelines as constitutional for the club. The administrative purpose of this is that any future Parliament Leader would have to run a Resolution to annul the Guidelines before making any changes or scrapping it completely.

The Motion passed by 16 votes in favour versus 2 against, with 2 abstentions. 20 voters as a percentage of our total members (90 registered) is 22.22%.

This is only slightly lower than the 23.17% (19 of 82) turn out for the last voted Resolution, Resolution 13 of December 2008.

I think it's possible that vote attendance will be increased in Resolutions of more immediate interest to the membership at large, and that 22% is not a bad turn-out for a Resolution of this nature.

The administration will continue to study voting patterns across the club to better target announcements and increase awareness of the democratic process at the heart of our progress.


Ash Plom, Parliament Leader
January 13th, 2009

Annual Awards

AJJE AWARDS

2009 has begun and it's time to honour the people who made 2008 such a successful year for AJJE games. The ceremony, hosted by the inestimable Bernard McJeebus, will be held on Tuesday 6th of January, at 7:00 Eastern Standard Time, also known as midnight for the GMT crowd (for those of you in other time zones there are plenty of handy convertors on the internet). It'll be held on the Instant Messaging Service which you can access at the top of the page once you've logged in.

Hope to see you all there and a very happy 2009 to everyone.

Jon Stapley
Public Relations Director, AJJE Games