RT0810- CSFO Report
From StarFleet Bureau of Information
CSFO REPORT: Assembled Delegates: This is has been a very interesting six months since I became your CSFO. I have tried to do my job as best I could as I was greener than green. *laughs* As I said when I accepted the position, I am a simple woman with a simple education. There has been a lot for me to learn since I took on this position. And boy...did I get a quick thrust into the mix of things from the starting gate. I want to thank Bruce, Scott and Jeff for having patience with me as I learned and am still learning my way around this job. I especially want to thank Scott for taking me under his wing and teaching me the ropes. This is my first time to do a report, so please bear with me and all my humble scratchings. CSFO REPORT: The first thing on my agenda is just briefly discussing the Fleets and what has changed since April. As everyone is aware, GREEN closed and all her units placed into SILVER, GOLD and BLUE. SB SAIKAI went to SILVER, USS DAEDALUS went to GOLD and KLON players decided to shut down and left over players were placed within other BLUE UNITS. Both SB SAIKAI and USS DAEDALUS are active and doing well. Next, I am going to report on are the BIO submissions to ASR. Since I took over in May 1, 2008 we have had a total of *36 combination submissions thru asr-join group and CO recruits. Bio submissions that came thru the ars-join list totaled 28. Of these 28, there were 23 new players, 2 return players and 3 second bios. Players reported were 14 however, only 8 are posting. We had 14 no replys and 2 players resigned. Most of the 14 No Replys were people who needed to complete the bios or make adjustments which leads me to believe many of these people may have just been curious about us and had no real interest in doing what it takes to become a writer on ASR. It has not been the best six months for us recruiting wise but those who have stayed are active and thriving. *Note: 5 of these players came from the new opening of ODYSSEUS. SUBMISSIONS: TOTAL: 28 NEW PLAYERS: 23 RETURN PLAYERS: 2 SECOND BIOS: 3 NO REPLYS: 14 REPORTED: 14 POSTING: 8 RESIGNED: 2 How do we improve our recruitment? Scott had a great one that has us go thru the members list and recontact those who joined a while back. We will be working on as soon as possible. I don't know if anyone has used this idea in the past but what if we had a contest for those members who wish to particpate and have them come up with a flier that advertises ASR. Have the members vote and the winner will have its flier posted on the BUPERS. And then for those who want to help with advertisement, download and or print the flier and post them in Libraries, colleges, supermarkets, laundromats and any where else you noticed a free bulletin board that allows free advertising. We all come from different countries and or states. Imagine all the places we can get free advertising. Next on the agenda is to show you how well the Fleets Units have been doing. I will let the Master Vacancy speak for itself. BILLET NUMBER UNITS --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- CO 0 XO 2 VALHALLA, YAMATO OPS 3 FEARLESS, KIROV, NEBULA --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- TAC/SEC 2 FEARLESS, ORESTES ENG 6 AMBERJACK, ANDROMEDA, EXCALIBUR,FEARLESS,NOVA, ORESTES CSciO 4 ANDROMEDA, ORESTES, VALHALLA, ODYSSEUS MED 1 DAEDALUS COU 4 EXCALIBUR, FEARLESS, ORESTES, ODYSSEUS MCO 1 ODYSSEUS --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 23 TOTAL OPENINGS --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- *Note: Before ODYSSEUS opened we only needed to fill 20 openings, so now we are back up to 23, but the benefit of ODYSSEUS opening - we received 5 new players which were tallied up within the Bio submission section. As you can see, Engineers are the main billet that desperately needs filling on six ships. Science and Counselors officers next in the line. Hopefully, in the future, we will receive these type of submissions, but so far people are having to recruit on their own within or outside of ASR. This is a positive thing as we shouldn't always rely on just the asr-join submissions. OPENINGS AND FILLED BILLETS BY UNIT UNIT (FLEET) OPENINGS/FILLED BILLETS ----------------------------------------------- ORESTES (GOLD) 4/8 7/6 FEARLESS (BLUE) 4/5 6/6 ----------------------------------------------- ODYSSEUS (GOLD) 3/7 9/27 EXCALIBUR (BLUE) 2/8 6/6 ANDROMEDA (SILVER) 2/8 6/6 VALHALLA (BLUE) 2/7 6/6 AMBERJACK (SILVER) 1/7 6/6 NOVA (BLUE) 1/8 6/6 YAMATO (SILVER) 1/8 7/6 NEBULA (SILVER) 1/9 6/6 KIROV (SILVER) 1/9 6/6 DAEDALUS (GOLD) 1/10 7/6 TF SIERRA (GOLD) 0/9 7/1 YORKTOWN (BLUE) 0/11 6/6 CIRCE (GOLD) 0/12 7/6 DS13 (GOLD) 0/13 6/6 SB SAIKAI (SILVER) 0/16 6/6 -------------------------------------------------------------- 23/156 *101 PLAYERS ---------------------------------------------------------------- * This number is the total actual players in ASR. There are 156 billets but we have multiple players filling in more than one billet, even though these people never complain or ask for recognition. They really deserve our applause and appreciation for showing loyalty and dedication to ASR. It is not always easy to play multiple billets. (Says the lady with the many hats.) But they do it because the love it and thrive in the game. OPENINGS BY FLEET FLEET OPENINGS BILLETS FILLED ============================================ BLUE 9 40 (5 UNITS) GOLD 8 59 (6 UNITS) SILVER 6 57 (6 UNITS) ============================================ TOTAL 23 OPENINGS 156 (17 UNITS) ============================================ The Final thing on my report is Posting. POSTING : STARFLEET ARCHIVES 2008 Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep 87 139 162 189 132 163 We can see that April with 87 posts was not the best month for us and July with 189 post was our best month so far this year. Compared to previous years, it has not been our very best posting. However taking in consideration all that we have been thru, it really hasn't been too bad a year. Even with GREEN merging into GOLD, BLUE and SILVER Fleets, we have done a respectable amount of posting. Many of our members have had some tragedies hit home and many have faced real life issues that have demanded our time. And yet we still all manage to some how post and it shows how much we all truely love ASR and her members. But I feel that we really aren't getting a full picture of ASR. There is a great deal of activity done behind the scenes that is rarely or never seen. I decided to take a look into all the units and gathered all the postings and nrpgs. TOTAL GROUP NRPGs : Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep 87 172 126 97 110 102 I feel the NRPG's are important. True, they don't count as a post but it shows we are alive, interacting and invovled with one another as a group. These NRPG are many times where people discuss mission related stuff. That is not counting all the private emails sent back and forth of the give and take of ideas between members. And of course we know that another very important role of NRPG's is allowing people to feel a part of a team. This adds a personal touch to our members and keeps us knitted as a family. The big question is ....How do we fix posting issues? How can we fix posting? I had myself placed on each unit on every Fleet. It kind of helped give me a little insight as to why some Units do better than others. And as we all know, the biggest issue is "Time." So many of our best people just don't have the time due to real life issues. The ones that manage to put a great deal of time into the members and writing are the ones that are the power posters. Do the ones who don't have time step down and let someone else take their place? But who is that someone? How many veterans want to take the time and do the work that members never see that is done by the FC's and especially the CO's. As soon as most people find out what is entailed they want no parts of it. Too much work. Many just want to have fun and write on ASR without the headache of doing all paper work and not so fun stuff that comes along with the job title. I personally don't know the answers. What I do know is that each of you have a special place here on ASR and we need you ALL. You each have different creative and writing styles. You All touch the lives of so many people on a daily basis. You didn't make it to your positions because of good looks (though some of you are rather dishy *winks*) You made it because of who you are. It comes shining thru your writing, creativity and leadership skills. It shows thru the years of commitment you have made while here at ASR. I know for a fact that not one person here on this list is a quitter and when life has thrown us a curve and knocked us on our @SS we got back up on our feet. Many of us have had to leave at one time or another due to real life but we fought our way back. In the end, it is not just the recruiting or the posting that draws us back but it is the people of ASR and the stories in this wonderful world we have created that magically draws us back. It is during the rough times we need to help one another and support each other. If we can make it thru the rough times as well as good times, then there is nothing that can pull us apart. We are all one team. We all need each other. No one person is more or less significant than the other. I want to thank ALL of the FC's, their CO's and XO's who volununteer their free time to ASR and her members. You each are part of the back bone and foundation of ASR. Humbly Submitted, Lena Rose, Chief of Starfleet Operations (CSFO)