RT0204- P0402-1
From StarFleet Bureau of Information
Assembled Delegates, This is the proposal received by the Chair and Secretary, as written by the delegate from DS13. Very Respectfully, Chris Mayberry RT Secretary ************************** Unit-by-unit Fleet Reports -------------------------- Years ago, in the times when ASR units had a gamemaster, there was a resource, called weekly-reports, that gamemasters or XOs had to send in to their respective CINCs. These reports of the happenings of the unit were then sent to the units. This way, everybody could know what was going on in other units of their same Fleet and even in other Fleets. I think this was a valuable resource. It allowed everybody to know what was going on around them without the time-burden of reading all the posts in the newsgroups. It also allowed people to find interesting threads to follow if they found the time and interest. They were also a vehicle for uniting story arcs and creating shared backgrounds from which new plots could be drawn. This proposal calls to bring back the weekly (or quarterly) unit reports for all Fleets, and taht these are made available to the units on the newsgroups and either by direct email from the CINC to the units mailing lists or made available through the group web page. The frequency should take into account the average posting rate of nowadays... Quarterly would probably be OK. With the current structure of our units, it would probably be necessary for each CO to designate a responsible of the quarterly reports within the crew (either the COs themselves, the XOs, or any other volunteers). Not that it would be a great burden, but it would be a responsibility. As an extension of this proposal, I'd suggest that group-wide and departmental and brach-related news are regularly posted to the units (or on the web site), for example with a monthly rate. This would add more work to the CINCSF or the CSFO. Respectfully submitted David S. de Lis CO DS13, GOLD