Meeting Log - Weekly Main Discussion - 11/08/08

[Aryte]

The following is the logfile of our first (new) weekly discussion meeting, in which we went over a few key points: operation of meetings to come, foreign policy abroad, sim design questions, and other general points of banter. Enjoy.

Courtesy of Dagger Exonar:

[18:03] Aryte Vesperia: All right, let's get started.

[18:03] Sekonda Huet is Online

[18:04] Krin Redgrave is Online

[18:04] Aryte Vesperia: I will be muting my Ventrilo to concentrate.

[18:04] Trinity Heckroth sits up

[18:04] * (COM) Vorlon Bikcin (Age: 1 year 2 months; Group: Unknown) at spawn *

[18:04] Aelus Janus: Apologies for my tardiness sir!

[18:04] Aryte Vesperia: For the first call up, and on short notice-- it's awesome to see you all here!

[18:05] Trinity Heckroth: Nowhere I'd rather be, Sir.

[18:05] Phillip Hultcrantz is Offline

[18:05] Smulet Back is Offline

[18:05] Aryte Vesperia: This meeting will be relatively short in comparison to the average, as we're really going to be discussing and laying out the expectations for meetings to come.

[18:05] Aryte Vesperia: Though I will be bringing up a few new issues for open discussion.

[18:05] Streak Bender: Sorry I'm late D:

[18:05] Aryte Vesperia: Foremost, do I have a volunteer to take minutes and log the chat?

[18:05] Streak Bender salutes.

[18:05] Aryte Vesperia: Welcome, Streak.

[18:05] Trinity Heckroth: I ca

[18:06] Dagger Exonar: Already on it.

[18:06] Trinity Heckroth: k

[18:06] Aryte Vesperia: Thank ya'.

[18:06] Dralkanen Hextall is Online

[18:06] Aryte Vesperia: A few things before we begin.

[18:06] Sekonda Huet is Offline

[18:06] Aryte Vesperia: Foremost, please do not IM me unless you desperately need to.

[18:06] Aryte Vesperia: Secondly, try not to interrupt! You'll be given a chance to speak.

[18:06] Sekonda Huet is Online

[18:06] Aryte Vesperia: And, lastly, may want to turn off avatars so you don't crash out.

[18:06] * (COM) Alysia Atlass (Age: 6 months; Group: Ordo) at spawn *

[18:07] Thunder Rahja looks over at Sekonda.

[18:07] Ordo Defero Unit v1.0: (Alysia Atlass) goto:lestat

[18:07] Smulet Back is Online

[18:07] Sekonda Huet: >.>

[18:07] Aryte Vesperia: First and foremost, as you've all figured out by now . . we're going to start weekly meetings up again. We did this before some months ago, but for officers only.

[18:07] Tiridates Mikadze is Online

[18:07] Zrazor Rozenstrauch is Online

[18:07] Aryte Vesperia: I feel that, honestly, holding routine meetings will be highly beneficial for the group at large.

[18:08] Aryte Vesperia: Although the forums is /very/ useful in keeping in contact, the face to face discussions are extremely valuable.

[18:08] Keystone Gray is Online

[18:08] Aryte Vesperia: The first order today will be presenting the general form that our meetings will follow in the future. You'll be able to find this for reference in the main topic discussion on www.ordoimperialis.com

[18:08] Keystone Gray is Online

[18:08] Aryte Vesperia: Every meeting will be broken down into a few key elements.

[18:09] Aryte Vesperia: First and foremost:

[18:09] Aryte Vesperia: 1. Overview of the week; Imperator