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Community Events / Re: Event Organisation - Could it be Better?
« on: January 16, 2016, 12:07:03 pm »
TL:DR: We are more than willing to help where the community sees fit.
BoCA was created to assist the community with competitive events and organization. We have stated many times before and will again here state that we are not here to take over competitive. Policing is not our objective and was the concern of many when we first started out. Due to the contention that was presented at that time we felt it was best to back off and allow community members with ideas or that wanted assistance to come to us. Many have.
In saying this, we are here for the needs and wants of the community. If the community would like us to take a more active role we can. Rules, guidelines and standards were something BoCA had discussed and created but never posted due to the contention that was felt. While we think these guidelines posted above are not a bad start they would definitely need feedback from the community and altering before putting out as a “community set standard” and BoCA would be more than willing to oversee and do the leg work for this process if it is something the community truly wants.
With a cautionary note though, BoCA can help create, suggest and oversee guidelines, standards and common rules as the community sees fit, however, we do not hold nor seek, authority to enforce these. Organizers will have to have their own personal responsibility to hold themselves to a higher standard. If an organizer does not want help or assistance from BoCA, that is an organizer's choice. If an organizer does ask for assistance from BoCA but does not follow the guidelines, at best (or worst depending on perspective) we could do is pull assistance.
Organizers take on a very daunting role in the community. They put out a lot of work and effort, spend a lot of their personal time to create something they think others in the community will enjoy. Many, if not most, take a lot of flak and some stop organizing or leave the game due to the negativity that is thrown their way. Remember, different players enjoy different styles and level of game play. The only true way competitive in Gun of Icarus will succeed and flourish is by the community detoxifying itself and to work together. We are all after the same end goal here (a strong competitive community). Organizers are human and will make mistakes even with their best intentions to have things perfect before they go live. Allow them some forgiveness and make constructive suggestions. There are plenty of roles any player can do to help competitive from organizing, being a referee, casting, making graphics for events, providing trailers for publicity for an event, getting friends together to play in an event or even just watching the event and sharing it with friends or on social media. Let’s see this as a chance to come together and work together for a better constructive competitive community.
BoCA was created to assist the community with competitive events and organization. We have stated many times before and will again here state that we are not here to take over competitive. Policing is not our objective and was the concern of many when we first started out. Due to the contention that was presented at that time we felt it was best to back off and allow community members with ideas or that wanted assistance to come to us. Many have.
In saying this, we are here for the needs and wants of the community. If the community would like us to take a more active role we can. Rules, guidelines and standards were something BoCA had discussed and created but never posted due to the contention that was felt. While we think these guidelines posted above are not a bad start they would definitely need feedback from the community and altering before putting out as a “community set standard” and BoCA would be more than willing to oversee and do the leg work for this process if it is something the community truly wants.
With a cautionary note though, BoCA can help create, suggest and oversee guidelines, standards and common rules as the community sees fit, however, we do not hold nor seek, authority to enforce these. Organizers will have to have their own personal responsibility to hold themselves to a higher standard. If an organizer does not want help or assistance from BoCA, that is an organizer's choice. If an organizer does ask for assistance from BoCA but does not follow the guidelines, at best (or worst depending on perspective) we could do is pull assistance.
Organizers take on a very daunting role in the community. They put out a lot of work and effort, spend a lot of their personal time to create something they think others in the community will enjoy. Many, if not most, take a lot of flak and some stop organizing or leave the game due to the negativity that is thrown their way. Remember, different players enjoy different styles and level of game play. The only true way competitive in Gun of Icarus will succeed and flourish is by the community detoxifying itself and to work together. We are all after the same end goal here (a strong competitive community). Organizers are human and will make mistakes even with their best intentions to have things perfect before they go live. Allow them some forgiveness and make constructive suggestions. There are plenty of roles any player can do to help competitive from organizing, being a referee, casting, making graphics for events, providing trailers for publicity for an event, getting friends together to play in an event or even just watching the event and sharing it with friends or on social media. Let’s see this as a chance to come together and work together for a better constructive competitive community.