Team Leader Speeches

Article by Polson

The following are the various Team Leader speeches! Traditionally these are shared at the Anniversary but due to timing and life and such many were unable to be at the Anniversary in person so we’ve put up a few speeches here in the Blue Report for your viewing pleasure. And for fun I gave them all introductions that could be book titles.

Harry and the Film Guild
Hi everyone! Its been a few months now since I took over as Team Leader of the Film Guild, and I just wanted to say a few words about it this evening (and possibly throw a few plugs in too) :P

The Film Guild has been out of the limelight recently due to internal restructuring and the development of an action plan for the coming months. The set is now all ready to bring us centre stage and we are now looking towards the membership so we can start "filming." :D

If you have an interest in films/TV, or an interest in a specific genre, then I would love to hear from you. If you have any skills in graphics or programming, then I would love to hear from you. Going forwards, I want the Film Guild to be OTF's most talked about guild, and it is going to be a real team effort.

You can email me for more information (harry@outpost10f.com). I will be spamming the updates board in due course too in case you forget :P

Soka and the Avatars
The Avatars Team is one of the newest additions to OTF, so there is not much I can say about our activities of the last year. I will instead use this to outline what we hope to in the future.

We will in short be responsible to maintain and update the selection of Avatars, as well as organizing Avatar-related activities.

At the moment this consists of creating new Avatars for the new wider range that OTF will soon include. Once the bulk of that has been completed, the currently existing ST, SW and LotR avatars will be attended to: bad ones getting deleted or replaced, new ones being made and in general looked over.

I hope for a successful year - and many new good avatars by the 12^th Anniversary!

Ohm and the Hall of Internal Development
Internal Development. It sounds rather formal doesn't it? As if it were the subversive wing of a paranoid government rather than a team for a chat based web site. While this mystic is certainly a captivating part of the culture of the team it's a mere veneer which distracts from the more bland truth.

I took over the reigns of Internal Development when Iain transcended into the role of Quadrant Commander. The membership includes some names which have gone as far back as to the laying of the foundations of the Outpost, so there's a subtle yet tangible pressure on its members to live up to past successes. From safeguarding the server from malicious intent to importing smilies to use on special occasions the aspects that define our roles are diverse and subsequently very much rewarding.

Programmers have a history of never explaining themselves; it's a bad habit which has perpetuated itself with the evolution of Internet culture. Perhaps this is the reason why traditionally the team has no output or forum for communication outside of it's realm of projects. No matter though, here we are in the Blue Report now and perhaps you're interested in what we are currently doing.

Currently the main thrust of our activity is focused on making two changes to the Outpost which will have a profound impact on the future chatting experience. One is the amalgamation of chat rooms and the doing away off department and the office rooms. The other is modifying the key elements that once held the various departments together, things like getting rid of all the old positions from the roster, amending the roster to be team based rather than departmentally driven, etc. After this who knows what we'll be up to, be assured though that a World of projects are waiting in the wings.

Exciting changes that I hope we can share in are what we will experience in this year to come.

Polson and the Blue Report
Yeah I figured, hey, why not make a speech? Originally my plan was to wing a speech in chat but I never ended up being around when/if they happened (I don’t even know, that’s how unorganized I am) but since that never happened I also hoped to wing a pre-planned speech about winging my speech. That didn’t really happen either.

Okay back to the Blue Report. You’re reading it! I’m very proud of the work that goes into this publication every issue. I look forward to every release and I hope the rest of OTF does too.
With that in mind, this may be my last issue as the Editor, though that doesn’t by any means indicate I will not be continuing to contribute to the Blue Report. But, who knows what’s in store for the future?