12/22/23 Recap

Recap of the December public meeting.

To view the meeting recording, you can download it here.

“I made it mandatory that we submit a contribution forum every four months.- So if you don’t contribute anything in 4 months, that means you don’t submit a contribution forum, it’s most likely you get a staff warning, or penalty and your next penalty will be a full demotion.”

- papertek

This change is in an attempt to encourage staff who are inactive or not helping/supporting the server while a few people are doing most of the work. It was also mentioned and considered that not everyone can help or is available to do so. This is why one forum is required every four months; we feel four months is plenty of time to submit at least one, and if not, having at least some form of communication with staff about your situation will ensure your placement in the staff team. These changes and updated staff guidelines will take effect on January 1st, 2024.

“I’m thinking of opening a Ko-fi for this server for compensation and event funding; we’ll probably get around $20, so it’s probably mostly going to event funding.”

- papertek

We have opened a Ko-fi page for the Camellia server to help with events, paid bot features, and possible mod compensation. The main focus is on events and bots; compensation will only happen if Ko-fi succeeds. If it is successful, we will have a bounty system where mods can input their price for the work they accomplished. This is still a rough idea and will be expanded upon if we see a rise in the Ko-fi. The donations to Ko-fi will also contribute only to the discord server.

“JP announcements don’t exist anymore in my designs or plans for revamping the server. I’ve been thinking of completely retiring that channel to simplify things and maybe combining the EN and JP into one simpler channel. — I think we should keep things the way they are now and then talk to Camellia about it”.

- papertek

Other Notable Topics

We have removed the roles: Channel Judge, Minecraft Helper, and Event Organizer roles and condensed them to “Community Contributor.”

We have also pruned any users who haven’t interacted with Discord in over 30 days. No users were banned. If you were affected, you can join back at any time.

Announcement pings have been changed, so only Camellia Monthly posts and important events are @everyone. All other announcements will be to each ping role accordingly

04/22/2024 Recap

The project has been restarted. A poll was posted regarding the name of this new organization. We settled on F-MSC (Fire-Music Staff Coalition).

”[The JMSC is] going to be a place where the staff teams of our servers and potentially more servers in the future [collaborate]. [We could] choose to be in this place and basically [share our] knowledge with each other so that we are all more prepared to deal with situations in the future. We could also get everyone up-to-date on major dramas in the overall community.”

While this goal is mostly the same as the old organization, there are a few philosophical changes decided by papertek, Admin of the CamelliaCord.

These changes are:

• There will be no such thing as an “us vs. them” mentality. We are all one. We will make decisions that benefit all of us.
• We will not see partnerships, discussion, and ideas as “business” but as comradeship.
• Partnership wise: This organization will not be solely for growing communities but to integrate and create safe spaces for all music lovers.

Application to join the F-MSC.

02/12/2024 Recap

Following the J-MSC Collapse, the CamelliaCord decides what to do with the organization.

TL;DR

The CamelliaCord now has full control of the organization. CamelliaCord will update everyone when needed and potentially restart the project when the dust has settled in ⁠staff communications. We will look back on this incident with disappointment from all members involved.

I am really sorry it has come to this [Ado Hangout, Ado Hangout Event Staff, Inabakumori Station] but your owners don’t wish to resolve or reconsider this opportunity. Instead, they chose to bad-mouth, talk behind one another backs, and make long shot assumptions about us as individuals. It is seen as bad practice in our eyes.

For now, all Adocord and Inacord users are free to leave as we all mutually agreed to terminate partnerships. However, if you would like to stay, feel free to do so until we decide to purge the non-partners.

-papertek, Admin of CamelliaCord Official.

11/26/23 Recap

Overview of the event chart for people who missed it.

• Each member showed no disagreement on the event chart above.
• We discussed inviting the Adocord Event staff into the server. We will seperate them from the normal staff members due to them not being fully integrated within the Adocord’s main staff team.
• We need to think of server events that unify us, which is why Adocord event staff are invited to join. More discussion on this will come at a later time.
• Game nights, streamer games were mentioned a little.

We have also determined that there will be bias for events in general due to seperate interests. Judges will focus on community and objective thinking by reviewing all the submissions unified in the JMSC.

10/1/23 Recap

The second meeting.

”[The JMSC is] going to be a place where the staff teams of our servers and potentially more servers in the future [collaborate]. [We could] choose to be in this place and basically [share our] knowledge with each other so that we are all more prepared to deal with situations in the future. We could also get everyone up-to-date on major dramas in the overall community.”

-David, Admin of Camellia’s Official Server.

Server owners of the meeting start relaying opinions from their staff teams about the JMSC. Staff members of the Camellia Discord are already happy with the idea. Right now, the server is only open to the Admins/Owners of Ado Hangout, Inabakumori Station, and Camellia’s Official Server.

“I talked a little about it with our team. Generally, the opinion we have is “ehh”. We’re not like too in support nor are we against because we don’t mind being apart of this at all. But, we don’t see much of a point so I guess we would like some clarification of the positives that come from this.”

-Justin, owner of Inbakumori Station.

The positives are discussed and a summary is listed below:

• Getting easier connections with other big communities.
• Sharing a list of names of people to watch out for.
• More communication between our staff teams.
• Sharing resources. Bots, programming.
• Sharing information with each other.
• Possible staff lectures.
• Server event sharing.

Server admins have a general agreement on the connection and advice side of the JMSC. After discussion, more members are on board with the idea and the JMSC starts to take shape. Only staff members will be invited to this server, the server is kept private until it was determined “ready”. The server will have manual verification. The old plans and ideas of the JMSC (formally the Artists’ Network) are scrapped in favor for the new direction.

The meeting goes off-topic the majority of the time as discussion of the main topics have concluded.