On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Charles Walker <charles.w.wal...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On 1 May 2013 19:43, Aaron Goldfein <aarongoldf...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The Registrar's history section has contact information for nearly every > > player in Agora's history (not that it's necessarily all current). For > those > > we don't have current history on, a little googling could probably turn > this > > sort of thing up, especially if we know the player's real name. > > Bump. > > Proto: > > Agora's Twentieth Birthday shall be known as the Vigintennial. > > The Comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain's Office is an office; > its holder is responsible for organising the celebration of the > Vigintennial. > > A player CAN, with two support, make a former player of Agora an > Ancient; the Comptroller SHALL make a reasonable effort to > invite each Ancient to contribute to and partake in the > celebration of the Vigintennial. > > The Comptroller SHALL, as part of eir weekly duties, submit a > proposal regarding the Vigintennial and make a reasonable effort > to ensure that it is distributed. > > The Comptroller SHALL be responsible, as part of eir weekly > duties, for publicising the Vigintennial both to former players > of Agora and to the general public, and for encouraging em to > participate in its celebration. > > The Comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain's Office is a patent > title; in a timely fashion after the Vigintennial, the Herald > SHALL award it to the holder of the office of the same name. > > Also, enact something similar to R2307. > > -- > Walker > If such a proposal were to pass, I would gladly volunteer to serve as the officer. Additionally, I think we ought to start planning specific events for the vigintennial. Otherwise, I imagine I would email old players, telling them about the vigintennial, and asking if they want to be involved. Someone would probably respond with "Sure, what do you want me to do?" And to that question, I would have no answer. Therefore, I think we should try to start planning a series of games, celebrations, and events, some that could be played leading up to the event, and others that could be enacted around the event. Things I just pulled off the top of my head. Please offer additions: 1. An accelerated game of Nomic, starting from Agora's initial ruleset (possibly slightly modified if necessary), but made so that timelimits are extremely short. The game would have an immutable rule ending it within a week if it hadn't already, the winner being the player with the most points. Hopefully we would start this game one week before the vigintennial, with the winner being crowned on July 30th. 2. A creativity competition. Entrants would be tasked with creating, in any medium, a work which utilized as its subject matter Agora's 20 years of existence. 3. Agoran pub trivia. We would all meet on irc or something similar one night and have a pub trivia-esque contest on the history of Agora. 4. Some event which involves Peter Suber if we can get him on board. This could be as simple as asking him to comment on the progression of Agora, and specifically some of the current state of Agora. Even better would be if we could get him involved in some of our competitions or festivities. The winners of all of these events could be given patent titles, etc.
