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Tue

Sep 4
2001

04:00Z

Wednesday Volunteer Meetings

	As you may recall, we've been having weekly "town meeting" chats
	in the MOO discussing building the Phoenyx community. Volunteers
	and potential volunteers are encouraged to attend.

	I've elected myself "official reminder" and want to remind
	folks that these meetings are 1) a lot of fun, and 2) very
	important to what happens at the Phoenyx.  If you want to have
	input into the future, this is a good opportunity to make
	your voice heard!

	Last week's meeting (August 29th, 2001) we discussed some
	of the following topics:

	* The next newsletter.
		- What should be in it?
		- What shouldn't be in it?

	* The current "new-game" slump.
		- Who should be recruiting new gamemasters?

	* Discussing job titles and responsibilities with the Phoenyx.

	* Irreverent items (as per always) on cars that gamers
	drive, and is there a marketing niche, my eye colour, and
	if it's funnier when Satchel says it related silliness.


	Next Wednesday's agenda (9/5/01)
	
	* Phoenyx etiquette:
		- The ground rules.
			- Encouraging lurkers to kibitz without
			  encouraging mayhem.
		- Adult content policies.
		- Good "anti-flame" rules for the discussion lists.
		- Turn language and standardizing player post formats.
			- Creating a default
			- Using things like pbemtools.
			http://www.pennmush.org/~alansz/pbemtools/

	The chat starts in the Phoenyx MOO at 8:30p.m. Central time,
	which is 7:30pm Mountain, and 9:30pm Eastern. We leave the 
	Pacific Timezone to figure it out as an exercise for the
	student.  For our European (and farther) staff, we will be
	trying to schedule another Saturday meeting for this weekend
	(September 8th, 2001) if we have enough interest.

	Further information is available at:
	http://www.phoenyx.com/listowners/volunteers.html

	Thank you!


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Game(s): The Glitter and the Glamour
Listowner tools are found at http://www.phoenyx.net/listowners/

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Troy Johnson

Tue

Sep 4
2001

04:26Z

Wednesday Volunteer Meetings

Meera,

will there be a recap of any actual policy decisions or topics that get
made/brought up for a vote/reminded of? The chances of my ever being able to
participate in a chat are super slim to extremely slim, but I want to pull
my weight, so if there is something I (or any other DM that is not able to
participate in that chats) need to voice an opinion on or make sure is being
complied with I would like to be able to do so.

Troy
Great Forest

> From: Meera Barry 
> Reply-To: listowners@phoenyx.net
> Date: Mon,  3 Sep 2001 23:00:20 CDT
> To: listowners@phoenyx.net
> Subject: LO: Wednesday Volunteer Meetings
> 
> As you may recall, we've been having weekly "town meeting" chats
> in the MOO discussing building the Phoenyx community. Volunteers
> and potential volunteers are encouraged to attend.
> 
> I've elected myself "official reminder" and want to remind
> folks that these meetings are 1) a lot of fun, and 2) very
> important to what happens at the Phoenyx.  If you want to have
> input into the future, this is a good opportunity to make
> your voice heard!
> 
> Last week's meeting (August 29th, 2001) we discussed some
> of the following topics:
> 
> * The next newsletter.
> - What should be in it?
> - What shouldn't be in it?
> 
> * The current "new-game" slump.
> - Who should be recruiting new gamemasters?
> 
> * Discussing job titles and responsibilities with the Phoenyx.
> 
> * Irreverent items (as per always) on cars that gamers
> drive, and is there a marketing niche, my eye colour, and
> if it's funnier when Satchel says it related silliness.
> 
> 
> Next Wednesday's agenda (9/5/01)
> 
> * Phoenyx etiquette:
> - The ground rules.
> - Encouraging lurkers to kibitz without
> encouraging mayhem.
> - Adult content policies.
> - Good "anti-flame" rules for the discussion lists.
> - Turn language and standardizing player post formats.
> - Creating a default
> - Using things like pbemtools.
> http://www.pennmush.org/~alansz/pbemtools/
> 
> The chat starts in the Phoenyx MOO at 8:30p.m. Central time,
> which is 7:30pm Mountain, and 9:30pm Eastern. We leave the
> Pacific Timezone to figure it out as an exercise for the
> student.  For our European (and farther) staff, we will be
> trying to schedule another Saturday meeting for this weekend
> (September 8th, 2001) if we have enough interest.
> 
> Further information is available at:
> http://www.phoenyx.com/listowners/volunteers.html
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> 
> -- --------------------------------------------------------------
> Game(s): The Glitter and the Glamour
> Listowner tools are found at http://www.phoenyx.net/listowners/
> 

-- --------------------------------------------------------------
Game(s): 
Listowner tools are found at http://www.phoenyx.net/listowners/

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Meera Barry

Wed

Sep 5
2001

09:28Z

Wednesday Volunteer Meetings

> will there be a recap of any actual policy decisions or topics that get
> made/brought up for a vote/reminded of? The chances of my ever being able to
> participate in a chat are super slim to extremely slim, but I want to pull
> my weight, so if there is something I (or any other DM that is not able to
> participate in that chats) need to voice an opinion on or make sure is being
> complied with I would like to be able to do so.

	Without trying to tread on the Phoenyx administrators' toes
	(I am but a helpful lowly peon) I understand that they will
	be the final arbitrators of any decisions raised by the
	discussions and thus will disseminate the conclusion as necessary.

	In other words, I expect we'll all hear about it via newsletter
	or web page (or both.)

	In the meantime, the link I listed will provide you with
	logs of the various chats for your perusal.  I am fairly
	certain that if you have opinions based on the discussions
	that you can consider yourself welcome to share them, and
	maybe get some list-based discussion as well...(as done
	in the past.)

	Also, as was noted to me, it might be worth passing on to
	members of your game; I copied it to the Glitter and the
	Glamour mailing list and had to promise a couple of my
	folks to remind them personally about the meetings so they
	could attend and get involved.

\\ Mb \\

-- --------------------------------------------------------------
Game(s): The Glitter and the Glamour
Listowner tools are found at http://www.phoenyx.net/listowners/

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Karen Cravens

Thu

Sep 6
2001

00:33Z

Wednesday Volunteer Meetings

On 5 Sep 2001, at 4:28, Meera Barry wrote:

> 	In other words, I expect we'll all hear about it via newsletter
> 	or web page (or both.)

Well, I expect we'll end up discussing it here.  But I'm not really 
planning to make any changes, just codify what we've got.

The only thing we're liable to change is requiring lists with grownup-
only content to have a double opt-in, the second one happening 
after a disclaimer gets sent out (the software does this already 
automatically; UU, for example, had (has?) a "license agreement" 
to join, since it's a game-design list and involved some pre-release 
D20 stuff).  Right now, we don't always clearly mark the games 
with language or content issues, and I'd like to be a little more kid-
friendly in the event we get some games that appeal to a younger 
demographic... we don't really want them wandering into other 
Phoenyx games, having a bunch of foul language show up in the 
mailbox they share with Mom and Dad, and have said parents 
calling us and us not being able to say "Hey, they sent back the 
disclaimer assuring us they were old enough to view that stuff, 
don't believe them when they say they didn't know what they were 
getting into."

Errm.  I'm stealing my own thunder for tonight's chat.

-- --------------------------------------------------------------
Game(s): The Whole Phoenyx
Listowner tools are found at http://www.phoenyx.net/listowners/

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Troy Johnson

Fri

Sep 7
2001

03:29Z

Wednesday Volunteer Meetings

Great, the logs should keep me up to date so that when discussions move here
I know what is going on. I've been wondering why it always seems like I have
missed a bunch of posts! :-)

Thanks,
Troy
Great Forest

> From: Meera Barry 
> Reply-To: listowners@phoenyx.net
> Date: Wed,  5 Sep 2001 04:28:55 CDT
> To: listowners@phoenyx.net
> Subject: Re: LO: Wednesday Volunteer Meetings
> 
>> will there be a recap of any actual policy decisions or topics that get
>> made/brought up for a vote/reminded of? The chances of my ever being able to
>> participate in a chat are super slim to extremely slim, but I want to pull
>> my weight, so if there is something I (or any other DM that is not able to
>> participate in that chats) need to voice an opinion on or make sure is being
>> complied with I would like to be able to do so.
> 
> Without trying to tread on the Phoenyx administrators' toes
> (I am but a helpful lowly peon) I understand that they will
> be the final arbitrators of any decisions raised by the
> discussions and thus will disseminate the conclusion as necessary.
> 
> In other words, I expect we'll all hear about it via newsletter
> or web page (or both.)
> 
> In the meantime, the link I listed will provide you with
> logs of the various chats for your perusal.  I am fairly
> certain that if you have opinions based on the discussions
> that you can consider yourself welcome to share them, and
> maybe get some list-based discussion as well...(as done
> in the past.)
> 
> Also, as was noted to me, it might be worth passing on to
> members of your game; I copied it to the Glitter and the
> Glamour mailing list and had to promise a couple of my
> folks to remind them personally about the meetings so they
> could attend and get involved.
> 
> \\ Mb \\
> 
> -- --------------------------------------------------------------
> Game(s): The Glitter and the Glamour
> Listowner tools are found at http://www.phoenyx.net/listowners/
> 

-- --------------------------------------------------------------
Game(s): 
Listowner tools are found at http://www.phoenyx.net/listowners/

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