LOOKING FORWARD
This is not meant as a criticism of any individual or process.
It’s just my analysis of an imbalance in CDS that I see.
Please try to look at it as a whole.
kyoko
PART I
1. CDS has a problem
2. The problem is that our desire for more and more active citizens is approached primarily as a building and sim updating issue.
3. The real problem is that we don’t have ongoing interesting things happening on the sims that make people want to stay and contribute.
4. Re #2 that is a function of the people who have made the long-term commitment to CDS, builders, scripters, landscapers.
5. Thus the most active component is LUC.
6. LUC is important, but it does not solve the engagement problem and takes up much of the available energy among the active citizens.
7. Law revision and clarification is also important, and I certainly appreciate those that take it on. But big changes in our structure are not the solution to the named problem. If anything, we should simplify our structure. In doing so it is important to look forward rather than backward.
PART II
1. As a result of the foci mentioned in Part I, there is little energy or time left for drawing people in or engaging them once they are here.
2. The Welcome Committee is under the Chancellor but has never been regularly active. In my view welcome and engagement contribute to the vitality of a community.
3. As chancellor I will focus on using the existing Welcome Committee to develop value in terms of events and other forms of citizen engagement. Of course I will attend LUC and RA regularly and contribute as appropriate, but the focus of Term 34 will be on engaging the citizenry on a broader basis.
PART III
Institutions: I was lucky to learn some wisdom from a professor dance professor: Her advice was not to look for the institution to meet your need for validation. Because it won’t unless it suits their purpose. This is damaging to people and, in the end, to the institution itself.
CDS needs to be more aware of this dynamic.