Shorah B'Shemtee,
The issue of leadership in the Guild of Writers has subject of many talks.
Not in the least among ourselves, but also among the other guilds.
To put it mildly, he general opinion outside has been that the Guild of Writers does not speak with one voice, and that it is not clear to them how to address the GoW, our presentation at the All-Guilds meeting of Saturday December 2nd has been a testimony to this.
This has to change. And this will change.
However, due to our different backgrounds, it has not been easy to define a system that everyone can live with.
Therefor, over the last course of two weeks I have been busy coordinating efforts with a group of my fellow guildmembers to establish a system that on one side will provide the Guild with the structure and leadership that we need to work with the other groups, and not in the last place Cyan itself once. On the other side, it will give all guild members maximum freedom and ensures that all guild members can have influence in the decisions of the Guild.
Many of the suggestions and issues brought up in previous discussions have been considered and taken into account when defining this new structure.
A full document describing the new structure can be found here,
You are strongly encouraged to read it before asking further questions, as it will answer quite a few of them already.
Over the course of the next week or two, Bad, Pryftan, and I will in conjunction with the H'Uru Team, make up a list of candidates for the five core Council positions.
This list will afterwards be submitted to the Guild for final acceptance. After that process is finished, we will have a full council.
The aforementioned document describes this process in more detail.
We will personally contact each candidate beforehand to see if they would be willing to be considered for the position.
Please note that we will not act as a temporary council, except on the issue of selecting people to be proposed for the positions.
Additionally I'd like to point out that we deliberately chose to have "Guild Councilors" rather than Grandmasters and Guildmasters, because these titles convey an air of too much authority, to accurately reflect the actual authority these people will have.
This effort has currently the explicit support of:
Bad
Paradox
Trylon
aloys
OnslaughtQ
Lontahv
ChaosSong
kyashii
Dovahn
Please forgive me if I omitted anyone from this list.
As I expect a number of questions on this issue, I invite you to all to use this thread to ask them and discuss this.
Peace,
--Trylon