Org. Structure - Initial Thoughts

[Games Without Borders NC]

Directors:
3 x Voting Directors (Non Specialised)
2 x Voting Directors (Specialised) - Director of Administration (replacing NC), Director of Storytelling (replacing NST)

Administration:

Director of Administration - Executive Head of the Administration (formerly Coordination) Chain.

National Prestige Administrator - Head of Prestige. Reviews, audits, awards Prestige.
National Finance Administrator - Head of Finance. Compiles reports for finance, manages finance, etc.
National Technology Administrator - Head of Technology. Manages our tech including websites, database, etc. and social media presence.

Regional Administrator - Only around if the criteria of having a Region are met.

Domain Administrator -  Same as DC now minus some changes to the Coordinator role.

Storytelling:

Director of Storytelling - Executive Head of the Storytelling Chain. Replaces the NST in part. Responsible for administration, directing a vision of what the Board of Directors want for each Genre. They are a manager and an administrator. Accountable to the members through direct election.

Genre Storyteller - Head of each Genre's Storytelling chain. Replaces the NST in part. Still answers to the Director of Storytelling, but their focus is on developing chronicles, building stories, telling stories, writing settings guides for the Member Club's respective Genre. Not sure if they should be selected or directly elected. If no direct election, then the membership have a right to "recall" the GST if the chronicle is not being enjoyed, or if the overall direction of the story is undesirable (e.g. overly combat ladened if the membership wants politics and intrigue).

Regional Storyteller - Only around if the criteria of having a Region are met.

Domain Storyteller - Same as DST now.

Venue Storyteller - Same as VST now. Not sure if direct elected or selected by DST who is directly elected.

Approvals (How I see them working)

Approval Levels:

 

Low – VST

Mid – DST

High – GST (perhaps delegated to an aGST?)

Top – GST

Master - MST

Cheers,
Liam

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[christopher buser]

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Games Without Borders NC <gir.coo...@gmail.com> wrote:

Directors:
3 x Voting Directors (Non Specialised)

Query: Would the non-specialized Voting Directors need to be UK citizens for legal reasons because we'd be a UK-based legal entity?

 

2 x Voting Directors (Specialised) - Director of Administration (replacing NC), Director of Storytelling (replacing NST)

Administration:

Director of Administration - Executive Head of the Administration (formerly Coordination) Chain.

If the DoST is directly elected, how is the DoA elected?

Genre Storyteller - Head of each Genre's Storytelling chain. Replaces the NST in part. Still answers to the Director of Storytelling, but their focus is on developing chronicles, building stories, telling stories, writing settings guides for the Member Club's respective Genre. Not sure if they should be selected or directly elected. If no direct election, then the membership have a right to "recall" the GST if the chronicle is not being enjoyed, or if the overall direction of the story is undesirable (e.g. overly combat ladened if the membership wants politics and intrigue).

I'd go with "Selected", because the GST will *have* to get along with the NST, or it's a bloody mess. If the GSTs chosen are simply not okay, then the membership will just dump the NST, and whoever wins the new direct election for NST thus has a mandate to choose GSTs as suited.

Approvals (How I see them working)

Approval Levels:

 

Low – VST

Mid – DST

High – GST (perhaps delegated to an aGST?)

High - RST, GST if RST is not applicable, with the ability to delegate to AGST if the GST wishes.

 

Top – GST

Master - MST

I'm sold.

 

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Christopher Buser

GWB199306025

[Games Without Borders NC]

> Query: Would the non-specialized Voting Directors need to be UK citizens for
> legal reasons because we'd be a UK-based legal entity?

I'll have to look into who can be a Director. If it looks that way, I
may abandon the company idea on feasability grounds and go back to
being an unincorporated association (it's far simpler).

> If the DoST is directly elected, how is the DoA elected?

Directly elected.

> High - RST, GST if RST is not applicable, with the ability to delegate to
> AGST if the GST wishes.

This is just me thinking aloud- if we got rid of Mid or High across
the board (Australia and Ireland don't have RSTs) then it'd make
things simpler.

[christopher buser]

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 6:14 PM, Games Without Borders NC <gir.coo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Query: Would the non-specialized Voting Directors need to be UK citizens for
> legal reasons because we'd be a UK-based legal entity?

I'll have to look into who can be a Director. If it looks that way, I
may abandon the company idea on feasability grounds and go back to
being an unincorporated association (it's far simpler).

Fair enough. Figured I'd bring that up now.

 

> If the DoST is directly elected, how is the DoA elected?

Directly elected.

Works for me.

 

> High - RST, GST if RST is not applicable, with the ability to delegate to
> AGST if the GST wishes.

This is just me thinking aloud- if we got rid of Mid or High across
the board (Australia and Ireland don't have RSTs) then it'd make
things simpler.

The Storyteller chain kinda needs that scale, though... otherwise you have two approval levels, Low and Top. If the DoST is handling both High and Top approvals, is there really a difference between the two?

I'd ping the NST and ask her for input.

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Buser

[Games Without Borders NC]

> The Storyteller chain kinda needs that scale, though... otherwise you have
> two approval levels, Low and Top. If the DoST is handling both High and Top
> approvals, is there really a difference between the two?

I would remove one and not both. I'm just not sure which one. And it
largely depends on how the ST chain are going to write their Addenda.
If they think four levels of internal approval are needed for the
three levels of ST chain we have (and functionally have had for a
while now) then we'll have to make do but that's a discussion on the
global level as well as one for us.

A small point though, High and Top would be the province of the venue
specialists, the GST, rather than the DoST. The DoST would effectively
have an oversight position on the direction and quality of the
story/product rather than any direct involvement with making that
product.

If the product/story the GST is making is unsuitable, or perhaps
beyond the limits that have been set at the outset of the project,
then the DoST can step in but I don't know that I would want an
Administrator/Manager without specialist knowledge of a genre directly
making decisions about that genre such as one would have about
approvals/plotkits.

[christopher buser]

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Games Without Borders NC <gir.coo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> The Storyteller chain kinda needs that scale, though... otherwise you have
> two approval levels, Low and Top. If the DoST is handling both High and Top
> approvals, is there really a difference between the two?

I would remove one and not both. I'm just not sure which one. And it
largely depends on how the ST chain are going to write their Addenda.
If they think four levels of internal approval are needed for the
three levels of ST chain we have (and functionally have had for a
while now) then we'll have to make do but that's a discussion on the
global level as well as one for us.

Right now, they're using Low / Mid / High / Top / Master-Global-Whatever.

 

A small point though, High and Top would be the province of the venue
specialists, the GST, rather than the DoST. The DoST would effectively
have an oversight position on the direction and quality of the
story/product rather than any direct involvement with making that
product.

 That's different, but I'm not going to kneejerk - hate it. I'd still want Orsini's two cents, though. 

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Buser

[Games Without Borders NC]

> That's different, but I'm not going to kneejerk - hate it. I'd still want
> Orsini's two cents, though.

If the response here is favourable I'll talk to Jess about the proposal.

[Luke Hill]

Hey Liam,

Pardon the delay. RL ate my face for a bit and then this got lost. Anyway...

Directors:
3 x Voting Directors (Non Specialised)

2 x Voting Directors (Specialised) - Director of Administration (replacing NC), Director of Storytelling (replacing NST)

What do the three additional directors do? If they're there, they should have a portfolio of some kind. Conventions admin, finance admin, ombudsman, etc...

Administration:

National Prestige Administrator - Head of Prestige. Reviews, audits, awards Prestige.

I'm hoping to make prestige simple enough that we don't need this. That it took almost the same overhead to handle prestige as the IRS needed for taxes (substantially less, actually) was ridiculous. We seemed to devote an inordinate amount of time and effort to prestige as it was, given the scope of MC rewards.

National Finance Administrator - Head of Finance. Compiles reports for finance, manages finance, etc.
National Technology Administrator - Head of Technology. Manages our tech including websites, database, etc. and social media presence

I'd say these could be the other Directors, but I'm not so sure that having them be so specialized is your intent, or a good idea.

Regional Administrator - Only around if the criteria of having a Region are met.

Personally, I'd be for having and RA be just an aDoA if the DoA decides he wants one.

Domain Administrator -  Same as DC now minus some changes to the Coordinator role

Cool.

Director of Storytelling - Executive Head of the Storytelling Chain. Replaces the NST in part. Responsible for administration, directing a vision of what the Board of Directors want for each Genre. They are a manager and an administrator. Accountable to the members through direct election.

Gotcha.

Genre Storyteller - Head of each Genre's Storytelling chain. Replaces the NST in part. Still answers to the Director of Storytelling, but their focus is on developing chronicles, building stories, telling stories, writing settings guides for the Member Club's respective Genre. Not sure if they should be selected or directly elected. If no direct election, then the membership have a right to "recall" the GST if the chronicle is not being enjoyed, or if the overall direction of the story is undesirable (e.g. overly combat ladened if the membership wants politics and intrigue).

Hmm. Either the DoST or the GST strikes me as duplicative, but that may just be me on my organizational harp again. Also, what does "answers to" mean exactly, in this context?

For my money, saying they are elected by the nation's VST's in that venue, and are elected to run a plotkit, would work best. That way, the election both approves the man and the plot, and makes sure that said man can actually write plotkits and tell stories. That makes it necessary to constrain the election to the ST chain, though, because the plot could contain proprietary information.

Regional Storyteller - Only around if the criteria of having a Region are met.

I think this should be an aDoST, personally. They are administrative, so they should be directly reportable to the DoST and chosen by him.

Domain Storyteller - Same as DST now.

That works. I think VSTs can do it without him, but my feelings aren't hurt being overruled here.

Venue Storyteller - Same as VST now. Not sure if direct elected or selected by DST who is directly elected.

I dislike selecting rather than electing an ST, personally. But I'm not that emotionally attached to election, either.

Low – VST

Mid – DST

High – GST (perhaps delegated to an aGST?)

Top – GST

Master - MST

I like this. Delegating approval levels sucks, though. I'm not sure how to best work this with your admin/story split in the ST chain, honestly.

Luke

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