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Assembled Delegates,
This is the proposal received by the Chair and Secretary, as written by 
the delegate from DS13.
Very Respectfully,
Chris Mayberry
RT Secretary
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Unit-by-unit Fleet Reports
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Years ago, in the times when ASR units had a gamemaster, there was a
resource, called weekly-reports, that gamemasters or XOs had to send
in to their respective CINCs. These reports of the happenings of the
unit were then sent to the units.

This way, everybody could know what was going on in other units of
their same Fleet and even in other Fleets.

I think this was a valuable resource. It allowed everybody to know
what was going on around them without the time-burden of reading all
the posts in the newsgroups. It also allowed people to find
interesting threads to follow if they found the time and interest.
They were also a vehicle for uniting story arcs and creating shared
backgrounds from which new plots could be drawn.

This proposal calls to bring back the weekly (or quarterly) unit
reports for all Fleets, and taht these are made available to the units
on the newsgroups and either by direct email from the CINC to the
units mailing lists or made available through the group web page. The
frequency should take into account the average posting rate of
nowadays... Quarterly would probably be OK.

With the current structure of our units, it would probably be
necessary for each CO to designate a responsible of the quarterly
reports within the crew (either the COs themselves, the XOs, or any
other volunteers). Not that it would be a great burden, but it would
be a responsibility.

As an extension of this proposal, I'd suggest that group-wide and
departmental and brach-related news are regularly posted to the units
(or on the web site), for example with a monthly rate. This would add
more work to the CINCSF or the CSFO.

Respectfully submitted

David S. de Lis
CO DS13, GOLD