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Posted: Sat 30 Apr , 2005 9:08 pm
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This thread is no longer active as the listings are under the auspices of the Mayor and viewable in the thread Ranger Pool
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This post is based on the first post of Alandriel’s thread, Board 77 Admin rotation - VOLUNTEER!! / updated 21Apr.

If you'd like to volunteer for the Ranger pool, please post in this thread after reading through this first post. Thanks! :)

Current Rangers as of 1 May are (list of previous Rangers & rotations in 2nd post):
  • laureanna
    Nin
    Primula Baggins
    truehobbit
    Voronwe_the_Faithful

Updated info on this is also available in Welcome: Current Admins & special permissions for users

Volunteer pool (for now and the future): in order of having volunteered

Rodia: 01/01/05: GMT+2: Polish
Jnyusa: 2/15/05: GMT-4: English
Areanor: 04/09/05: GMT+1: German
Holbytla: 04/09/05: GMT-4: English
vison: 04/09/05: GMT-4: English
Alatar: 04/09/05: GMT: English
tinwe_linto: 04/09/05: GMT-5: English
TED: 04/09/05: GMT-4: English
MariaHobbit: 04/10/05: GMT-5: English
Rowanberry: 04/13/05: GMT+1: Finnish
Mummpizz: 05/06/05: GMT+1: German
Impenitent: 05-06-05: GMT+10: English
Eltirwen: 06/01/05: GMT-6: English
Sassafras: 06-05-05: GMT-7: English
Maiden: 06-05-05: GMT-4: English
LalaithUrwen: 06-05-05: GMT-4: English
Ethel: 06-06-05: GMT-6: English
Lhaewin: 08-06-05: GMT +2: German
AragornElessar: 08-06-05: GMT-6 or - 7: English


Jude: offers skills as a php and mysql programmer if needed



A draft Rangers code of conduct has been hammered out.

Please make sure you also read our Rangers' Handbook!

The relevant parts of our charter, detailing eligibility, as well as the rights and duties of Rangers on b77 can be found here!



This post will soon be updated with complete information about Ranger responsibilities, terms of office, etc.

A basic "how-to" for essential Ranger tasks is given in this thread: How to be a Ranger.

Furthermore, a training program is now in effect for volunteer and trainee Rangers at the B77 Experiment Forum. Please read the stickies and announcements before diving in :)

Your volunteering, time and effort to make B77 a democratic community is most appreciated. :)


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Posted: Sat 30 Apr , 2005 9:11 pm
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Update / List of previous admins newest chage-overs on top (will be kept updated for ref purposes)
1 = timezone 1 Europe
2 = timezone 2 US
3 = timezone 3 Australia/Far East


Leoba 1 (early resign) -> Truehobbit 1 (01May – 30Junl) extended term as agreed :)
Primula Baggins 2 (ex Griffon) 01Apr- 30June
Alassante Estel 2 -> Vornwe 2 (01May – 31 Jul)
Berhael -1 > Laureanna 2 (US) 01May – 31Jul)
Nin 1 will begin her term as a 5th Admin (01May-31July) so as of 01May we'll have 5 Admins! :)

Griffon 1 > Primula Baggins 2 (April 1 to June 30, 2005)

Alandriel 1(ex Oct04)-> Griffon 1 (ex mid December 04)
Dindraug 1 (ex Oct04)-> Berhael 1 (Feb-May 05)
Eruname 2 (ex Oct 04)-> Alassante Estel 2 (15FEB-01May)
Gimli 2 -> (ex Oct 04) ->Leoba 1 (ex 05Mar-01June) but then early resign 01May

[last updated Alandriel 21April 05]


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Posted: Sat 30 Apr , 2005 10:39 pm
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I'm really confused by the second post. Could we have something like this:

Admin 1:
(dates served) Person
(dates served) Person
(dates served) Person

Admin 2:
(dates served) Person
etc.

What does ex mean?

And the timezone thingy is confusing - I tend to post late at night Alaska time, which is mid-day European time and an ungodly hour eastcoast US time. How about having a timezone coverage listing, based upon when people are around:

To figure this out, pick your "superzone", based upon the GMT +/- that you use when posting, to get to your local time zone. (Use standard time - I don't want to have to figure out who is or isn't on daylight savings time.) They are associated, approximately, with these locations:
Superzone  GMT +/-         Principal locations
I          0 to +3         Europe, Africa, Middle East
II         +4 to +7        India?, Central Asia
III        +8 to +11       Australia, Japan, China
IV         +12, -11 to -9  Alaska, Hawaii, New Zealand
V          -8 to -5        Most of North America, W. South America 
VI         -4 to -1        Nova Scotia, E. South America
Then, looking down the column of your superzone, figure out what time periods (A thru F) that you are most likely to be online and on B77. For example, I'm superzone IV, active 2000-2359 my time, which is time period C (latenight my time, but morning in Europe). On weekends, I'm here, on and off, more than I should be, during FABCD. Or is that totally confusing to everyone else?
Period    I                II              III             IV              V               VI  
A     0000-0400 Mon   0400-0800 Mon   0800-1200 Mon   1200-1600 Sun   1600-2000 Sun   2000-2359 Sun
B     0400-0800 Mon   0800-1200 Mon   1200-1600 Sun   1600-2000 Sun   2000-2359 Sun   0000-0400 Mon
C     0800-1200 Mon   1200-1600 Sun   1600-2000 Sun   2000-2359 Sun   0000-0400 Mon   0400-0800 Mon
D     1200-1600 Sun   1600-2000 Sun   2000-2359 Sun   0000-0400 Mon   0400-0800 Mon   0800-1200 Mon
E     1600-2000 Sun   2000-2359 Sun   0000-0400 Mon   0400-0800 Mon   0800-1200 Mon   1200-1600 Mon
F     2000-2359 Sun   0000-0400 Mon   0400-0800 Mon   0800-1200 Mon   1200-1600 Mon   1600-2000 Mon
And yes, this did take a while to code. :P

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The second post is cribbed from Alandriel's post in her thread, so maybe she can explain her system.

I am not sure what need there really is to go into detail about when admins might or might not be online. Some of us are on and off throughout the day and evening. Admins who are online are obvious (names in orange) and, I believe anyway, should not be hidden, especially if they're the only admin on at the time. So for PMing, I would look at "Who is Online," not at a schedule.

I also really dislike the idea of dividing up the "duty" in a formal way. I think it would drain a lot of the pleasure from being online, and it is also complicated to coordinate with unpredictable RL schedules.

I think the time zone and availability information is relevant when voting for admins (or when the mayor schedules them under the proposed system). Perhaps a system such as yours would be valuable to the mayor—admin volunteers could provide the information to help in scheduling rotations for maximum coverage.

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I agree - my suggestion was only to give people an idea of when we might be here, not when we promise to be here.

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Great. :D There's nothing wrong with providing the information, if everyone understands it's not a schedule or a commitment.

I still would look first at "Who is Online," although actually a list of when people were usually on might be good if no admins were on and you wanted to PM the one likely to be available soonest.

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I might as well take this opportunty to inflict my table for consideration as well.

Alandriel's set-up is the simplest, but I noticed that even when we had American admins (three elections ago, I think) there was a huge (8 hr) block when no one was online because of people's posting habits. Laureanna, I like your set-up, too - dividing the world into zones was how I approached this as well, but it is more complicated. Mine are 4-hour zones and not any easier to figure out than yours are. But I'll post my system here anyway since I cooked it up a long time ago.

I agree that we should be discussing the zone coverage as something that will go into the admin handbook for reference, and something the mayor can look to decide whether the order of terms served needs to be tweaked. We just have to figure out an easy-to-understand way to present this.

The idea here was to categorize potential admins not by the time zone they are in but the posting zone, and they could be in more than one.

Zone 1
Noon to 4:00 pm GMT
7:00 am to 11:00 am EST
4:00 am to 8:00 am PST
10:00 pm to 2:00 am Oz
5:00 pm to 9:00 pm India

Zone 2
4:00 pm to 8:00 pm GMT
11:00 am to 3:00 pm EST
8:00 am to Noon PST
2:00 am to 6:00 am Oz
9:00 pm to 1:00 am India

Zone 3
8:00 pm to Midnight GMT
3:00 pm to 7:00 pm EST
Noon to 4:00 pm PST
6:00 am to 10:00 am Oz
1:00 am to 5:00 am India

Zone 4
Midnight to 4:00 am GMT
7:00 pm to 11:00 pm EST
4:00 pm to 8:00 pm PST
10:00 am to 2:00 pm Oz
5:00 am to 9:00 am India

Zone 5
4:00 am to 8:00 am GMT
11:00 pm to 3:00 am EST
8:00 pm to Midnight PST
2:00 pm to 6:00 pm Oz
9:00 am to 1:00 pm India

Zone 6
8:00 am to Noon GMT
3:00 am to 7:00 am EST
Midnight to 4:00 am PST
6:00 pm to 10:00 pm Oz
1:00 pm to 5:00 pm India

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Whichever system we end up using, it might be good to also ask people to specify whether there are days they can't be on much or at all. Some people can't be online on weekends; others have to do most of their posting then.

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And not when you're not. We knowwwww. :)

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Ohh.... a 'war' of tables :LMAO: ;)

Yes, mine is definitely VERY simple, only you have to read it from down to up for it to make sense - =:) .

I think Jny's approach, though very thorough is probably very difficult to approach precisely because it's often difficult for people to tie themselves down re specific timeblocks. 1)

Laureanna's way I like better, because it shows 'blocks' of Admin generations (ex btw means ex date so and so ;) ) only she makes it look much more organized than my upside down system (in which the most current info is always on top - hence my doing it that way).

Whatever system or way you prefer, it's fine with me, so long as we also show a history of who's served from when to when.

1) On this I just wanted to bring up again, that quite a while ago it had been my suggestion for admins to type up a bit of personal stuff of how they tick as well as their approximate online habits. I think that thread is still somewhere in the confidential section of management. This kind of information I believe is invaluable to the Admins to be able to work together as a group and if at all possible should be maintained. Wether or not you leave it in the confidential forum I really don't care (as long as it's there). From that, you can then transfer the approximate timezone/online info into this thread.
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Prim & Alandriel,

I was too freaked out last night to look at my list of admin volunteers last night (thought D1 was in labor) but I checked it out this morning.

Here's some more folks who volunteered for admin status - or ran in elections before the board was opened and expressed continued willingness:

Rodia - as of 1-1-05
Guru - as of 2-1-05
Vison - as of 4-9-05
Alatar - as of 4-9-05
TheElipticalDisillusion as of 4-9-05
Rowenberry as of 4-13-05

Farawen already served as admin, and she's on a break right now so her name should rotate to the bottom. And I won'te be available until after the convention is done.

Alandriel -

re time tables, I like laureanna's table too. If that could be put into one table instead of two, so that whoever is doing it doesn't need to cross-reference, it would be perfect.

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I did say I wanted to help didn't I... :Q still went gaah to see my name there. :P

But I should mention that I'll have very little time online these next couple of...months. Yep...months, I'm not kidding, I have a lot to work on, call it the end of school year panic if you will. Sometimes I'm on on weekends, but I can't guarantee it- and even so, I wouldn't have time to devote myself to any of the more serious tasks the admins have been taking up recently. So although I'm always here if you need me, I'm not the best choice right now.


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Ro, assuming the charter is ratified, that's the kind of thing the mayor will take into account in scheduling admin rotations. So no worries—you won't be asked to serve at a time when you can't do it. :)

Jn, thanks. I'll update the list now.

Alandriel, thanks for the reminder—I'd forgotten about that. I'll find the link and let the new admins know about it (or if they read this before I get to it, they can find it themselves—they'll be poking about anyway!).

As for the admin history/time table, I'm not sure I understand the various formats for either the lists or the table, but whatever seems best, I'll edit it into the second post. I'm pre-coffee right now and therefore rather dim. :P

Edit: Jn, I removed Farawen from the list. I assume all former admins are considered to be still in the pool, but at the bottom of the list. Adding them all to this list would clutter it and might make it look as if the same people were lining up to serve repeatedly, which isn't at all the idea. They can stay on the mayor's list, of course, but I'm hoping we get enough new volunteers, especially after we open, that there are no repeat admins for a long, long time.

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I took the liberty to update the first post with Guru's timezone....

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Thanks, Nin.

I edited to remove Holby at his request—he is willing to serve but can't in the near future, so he will ask to be added back onto the list when his schedule clears out.

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When did Farawen serve as admin?

I thought the only admins that we've had has been Alandriel, Dindraug, Gimli, myself, Berhael, Estel, Griff, and Primula.

I'd sure like to know the dates that Farawen served as an admin since I certainly do not remember her doing anything.

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I wanted to say that earlier too, Eruname, I was just not sure of my memories, but I think too that Farawen never was admin - she ahs however volounteered to be so, but I think we must face that Farawen has no visited the board in many days now.

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Thanks Prim, I just wanted to let you guys know. Maybe, like holby, I should ask to be taken off the list, not to give a false picture of who really is available. :)


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My mistake then regarding Farawen. I thought she was one of the very first admins ... back in October of last year. I must have misunderstood something that was posted by her or about her.

In any event, she is not here now and has not said when she might be returning.

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