Becoming an Officer in the future

Being an Officer (or anyone on admin for that matter) within Oddysee can sometimes be a thankless Job. A lot of it is based upon voluntarily giving up personal time and resources for the benefit of the community. To that end becoming an Officer within the group is both seen as a huge responsibility and a show of status within the group.

A lot of the people who you see on the Admin team within the group have become a part of it through dedication towards providing a better experience for the group as an overall. This was done through personal contribution of their time towards the group prior to them becoming officers. Up until now Officers were chosen based upon the administrations observations of the individuals as well as recommendations coming from within the team itself.

To them I have endless gratitude because without them, we would not have made it this far. Go Team.

From the meeting itself, there were the following points brought up:

• Currently it is uncertain for members to identify which officers are in charge of what, an updated website with information in regards to the team should exist such as a team page showing all officers in Oddysee and what they do.
• Officers potentially being split into two subcategories:
  • Officers who are game guru’s
  • Officers who know certain area’s
• Officers when being chosen should be chosen based on the following criteria:
  • Easily approachable
  • How they’ve behaved in the past (actions they’ve taken in the past)
  • Able to prioritize
• Officers should continue to be chosen the way they have been up til this point (merit based), with the potential for other members to nominate an officer

Where we are now… where we could be.

When going over this topic the main thoughts were that being of a bad flow of information. A lot of members who were present at the meeting simply had no idea what the channels of communication were for Oddysee. Though all of the information on everything that goes on within Oddysee past, present and future is all accessible to the members, it seems a key point that was being made was that it was convoluted to find that information.

With that said, in summary the main points of the meeting were as follows;

• Website needs an overhaul, namely;
  • Discord information on main page so that members and potential new members drop by they are able to see a list of people active within the group.
  • News and information on the main page, rather than having to navigate through to the news and content page, have information included on the main page to be easily accessed and viewed.
• MOAR *ahem* More integrated website tools (polls, group finder)

Member involvement and happiness

For this particular topic aside from what had already been mentioned throughout the meeting (better channels for information delivery to the group, website feature requests), the biggest push as stated by a large majority was for more organised social events. This is not necessarily in the form of Game nights, but for organised group events like the Community Forum that transpired.

To this end, get together’s like those for a more casual environment will attempt to be pushed every two to four weeks (though the forum itself will only occur bi-monthly, unless a huge push from you guys to do it more frequently). We have also culled quite a few of the text channels in alignment with ‘Core’ games that Oddysee partakes in whilst adding in a channel specifically for Event announcements. This would allow (general) announcements to be separated from  event announcements, allowing for easier tracking of events coming up!

What is Oddysee missing to make it your main go to group?

I think everyone myself including myself were ready to call it a end by the time we got to this section, but we persevered! By the time we had achieved this point of the meeting, we had pretty much covered all that we could in regards to this within the meeting.

The key takeaway point:

• Coming back to the state of information flow, the main point that people mentioned was people wanted to know more information in regards to other members. Mainly
  • What kind of games do they play
  • How do I get in contact with them
  • What time do they play (Timezone)

Which, in itself comes back to the excellent package that is being developed by our resident Dev team. *hats off to you Skoma, Ryu, Demonseed and Darktofu.* We hope that once everything within the website gets finalised and the tools get finished, that it will make the experience much better, for all of you!