Wardrox’s Vlog 11th Jan: The Nukezilla Council
Nukezilla, as a company, collective, website and verb will soon be run by an elected group of people with good intentions. This group will be the council. There will be positions in the council like Reviews Project Manager, Industry Liaison Project Manager, and even a Community Project Manager (which will be one of you! Update: Flanks has started the thread, which can be found here). Decisions will be made using cunning and fair processes, and it’s all still work in progress.
Yay! Wardrox’s video blog is back! RAH! Go Team, etc. Amazingly the wall behind you has no changed much in the months since your last vblog.
I did wonder what Nukezilla’s guidelines were. Without going into too much detail I thought the Leo video went up even though it was against what NZ stood for. But many people enjoyed it and called it harmless fun, so I didn’t know if it was just me being super-sensitive.
It would be nice if there was a set of guidelines that helped staff and visitors understand what NZ was, or maybe revise the Code of conduct.
The video series (which will be continuing for a few episodes) pushes the envelope in a certain direction as far as is comfortable for us, and maybe a bit further. One issue we realise we didn’t think of is that there’s no video content pushing the other way, making it more out of place than it might seem otherwise. I’ve over simplified a complex situation, but that’s one point.
Leo’s vid isn’t against what NZ stands for, as NZ stands for making games better and being against corporate BS. However, it doesn’t fit NZ’s general tone.
There’s no plans to write a “this is what NZ is” type document, as ideally our content speaks (or will speak) for itself. We’ll get there :)
Made a thread for this.
I’ve made my thoughts known about the Leo vid, here and there, some in private some public, but yeah, my opinions are known.
I think the council is a cool idea, but concerns from my perspective is for making too much red tape. in too long a time-frame. Two weeks is a long time on the internet, and having long periods of deliberation may just hinder, but one thing I like about NZ is it’s adherance to common sense, so issues like that can probably be easily solved.
A council, is just the kind of high-class Fnarring that I would expect from this operation. I approve.
@Faye Lanks: Can you write me a document detailing your concerns with “red tape”? We’ll push that through a sub-comity to hammer out the details before having a consultation month. After that we’ll have the final draft approved for proposal by said sub-comity. Once that’s all sorted we can have a final vote that the final draft is good, and see where we go from there. Likely a council meeting or two for amendments (passed via sub-comity, obviously) then use consensus for each paragraph, making sure we’re all happy with the wording. After that we can agree the document is complete, and read it. Following consultation we may need a re-write or two, but that shouldn’t take more than 6 to 8 months, tops.
So, in about a year we’ll know what your concerns are. Seems sensible to me.
@John Kershaw: I thought you were being very genuine for a second but I realised that you were joking when you started talking about paragraph consensus. Everyone knows that you need the Council (via sub-comity) to agree on a sentence by sentence basis!
My God, Jim! We’ve become Vogons!
@Brett Parsons: Vogon Poetry Circle
I’m leaving for class (web access and system design. It’s got ASP.net and SQL in it). I approve of this message.