The Gathering of All - Social Meetings
based on the notes of Daelindri
Meeting of the Draenei Community with a more social twist
Purpose:
To meet up casually, eat and drink, but also to share news of current events which can include but are not limited to:
- News and announcements
Causes for celebrations such as promotions, births, or even not so great news such as a passing of one of people so that we can have a moment of reflection.
This would also be a good time for anyone who has ideas such as the beacon system (or any other community-centered ideas) to announce their intentions or plans.
— creates RP for those who are interested
- Guild campaigns, plots and events
Announcing that for example Guild A are heading off for a campaign against a particularly nasty Lich who is hiding out with a sizeable force of undead. They announce they are dealing with this and for others to remain vigilant for similar threats cropping up.
— creates community spirit
Possible Topics to be Discussed
Calls for assistance
Using the above example, they may want to open up their grand finale to 5 people, this would be a chance to invite those people along.Cross guild initiatives
If perhaps Guild A and Guild B want to do an event together, this would be a good forum to be able to do so.Cross group initiatives
Examples
For example, the mage community/discord that regularly meet up are seeking a competent artificer to assist them on a project, they would approach someone in this community to make the announcement.
Another example, the paladin community/discord are fighting off an undead threat and require the assistance of some of the Draenei community that are not in the paladin discord.
The Hour of Light - Formal Meetings
Purpose:
to voice important political, social or economic matters, and to inform others of military actions, etc.
Pre Meeting
People are required to message their points they wish to raise to the host who makes the announcement on the forums, ingame or the discord.
An agenda is put together, but not necessarily disseminated if you don’t want to.That way we have a list, and a rough idea of how many points we have to cover.
If there are any points that are similar then we encourage people to work together on that point instead of repeating. That means that the two people still get to have their point made instead of the first one speaking and the second one feeling they should not go up for fear of repeating the point and boring people.
Meeting
People speak as succinctly and promptly as possible so that we can get through the list and everyone has their chance.
There is not a strict “cut off” for how long people can talk but we use common sense and politeness that there may be others wanting to have their turn. The host can advise when they have the agenda put together.That way we have a list, and a rough idea of how many points we have to cover.
If there are any points that are similar then we encourage people to work together on that point instead of repeating. That means that the two people still get to have their point made instead of the first one speaking and the second one feeling they should not go up for fear of repeating the point and boring people.
Again, they are reminded to try and get through it as quickly as possible.
No questions or queries are raised at this point. People take the information, digest it, and think on it.
Post-Meeting
This is the forum for discussion and (hopefully) collaboration to happen.
People interested in a topic go to the person who brought it up and they can talk further on it.This encourages live and organic RP as people are actually able to talk instead of stand in silence for 3 – 4 hours (sometimes more) which is incredibly boring no matter the topic. If people are interested in more than a few topics then they’ll just have to wait them out as best as they can as no plan is ever perfect. ExampleHow a meeting could play out
The post-meeting will allow for more people to be able to talk in smaller, more topic-oriented groups!
An Artificer brings up an idea regarding upgrades to Lightforged technology such as barriers.
A Rangari brings up an idea about a small intimate hunting event for a few people.
Some people may not be interested in hearing a discussion about sorting out a hunting event, so would instead be interested in working with the Artificers. Even if they aren’t one, they can assist in some way.
On the flip side someone may think they want to get involved in the hunt event.
They go to that person and have a discussion with them that is live, instead of an audience waiting patiently for the next topic to come up so they can stop standing in silence.