January
2014
2014... what should we do?
With the new year underway, we are launching a period of dialogue
and consultation about LongeCity's aims and objectives in 2014. We have
to wrestle with leadership changes, and the general lack of personnel
and volunteers at LongeCity. Limited funds mean we have to be very
thrifty and focused about how best to pursue our mission with financial
means while changing paradigms challenge us as a community to come up
with new ideas and projects.
All Members and affiliates are asked to chime in on these questions. The
ideas developed during this consultation will shape the course for LongeCity
during 2014 and beyond: members
survey.
Leadership changes
After many years of great service, our treasurer, Shepard has announced
that he will have to step down from that role due to changing work
commitments. He will remain on the Board as a Director without officer
portfolio. In a managed transition, the key officer position of
treasurer position will be taken up by Mind who has ample experience in
that role as LongeCity's first ever treasurer. However, Mind will have
to scale down his activities under his concurrent appointment as
LongeCity Secretary.
On this occasion, a reminder about the open invitation to join
the LongeCity leadership. Serving
as an officer for a time is also a good way to join the LongeCity Board
as a Director or the exalted ranks of our Guardians. But if you just
want to dip your toe in we now have a new
option:
Guest Editors
We are considering an initiative for monthly editors
throughout 2014. Editors have free reign over LongeCity's outlet
channels for a month. A lead guest editor can freely choose topics and priorities,
shape forum discussions, commission articles, write themselves and
launch initiatives. They would be invited to contribute to on-going
discussions in the leadership area during their tenure. Editors would be paid a small stipend and be given a
budget to invest freely - the amounts might vary and still depend on
what kind of budget we implement. At this point, we are seeking
expressions of interest from Members and affiliates to become
editors.
Expressions
of interest can be registered here
Monthly forum feature
Since the web learned to do more than text there has been a great
interest in sharing images and facebook, instagramm, picasa etc. are
manifestations of that. LongeCity's own little picture-sharing is the 'GALLERY'
where users have uploaded graphics from personal pics, to scientific
graphs and 'promotional' and 'inspirational' pictures for life
extension. Check it
out and contribute! Caliban
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