Agenda/report 10/29/08

10/29/08

A Government
- have recieved a few notecards but not enough to "run" the sims. Will continue to accept those another week
-some initial chatter with CDS. People you don't know may ask you about AA and how it is run, participation etc. Feel free to talk with them. Also, if you want to know more about that specific community, i can invite you into that group, direct you to the forums (grimace) and introduce you to people. If this seems to be something that continues to be of high interest to the population, i'll arrange a joint meeting, mixer etc. If we are going to join with another group, i'll emphasize that the critical dates as far as i'm concerned are the due dates for tier, Jan 7 is the next payment date. If there are OTHER communities you are interested in exploring as collaboratives, let me know. Even if we dont' want to "join"... we CAN learn.

And NO decision has been made, so if you hear that rumor, please squelch it

B Operations

-hired positions. Much feedback from both in our sims and outside suggest that we might be able to benefit from paid positions. Ali Zerbino has offered to up job descriptions, and they will definitly ONLY be open to group members. We'll have those available in the next two weeks.

-event allowances. We also love events. I am willing to invest 5k per week to pay for music or other events. If you are interested in setting up an event, let me know. I'd love to see more world music here, flamenco, african, arab,etc. We have a unique theme and i'd like to see us explore it more deeply.
Cash is available too if you want to run a chess or fishing tournament or such.

C. Land

i'd planned to come with the announcement that all our open space simes have new plans and people in charge.. and i am thrilled that that is true....

but .. Linden announcements have a awy of making things,,, challenging.
we'll continue to monitor and report back when more definitive infromation is available.
D. Other?