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Yesterday the 20th of March, 2021 we held the inaugural meeting for the FAF Association to be registered in Denmark.
The statutes as they were agreed can be found here.
I was picked for president of the board and will perform these administrative tasks during the term, and ideally near future:
With this in place the structural framework for FAF as an organisation should be in place in a manner that is future-proof.
/Sheeo
Per the last update on the association as well as by request from community members to make this list public; here is the list of the current board members of the association:
Brutus5000 is the elected treasurer.
As the elected president I represent the board and any questions, issues or other concerns should be directed at me.
If the concerns are regarding myself or otherwise warrants asking another board member; please with priority ask Brutus5000 and avoid directly contacting other board members.
Hey everyone, since the last update here a few things have happened regarding the association.
On the 30th of May we had a board meeting where we started out by making ground rules for how the board itself can function efficiently, while still respecting the time constraints of the voluntary members.
Practically this means the board can always make a decision within at most 2 weeks, without requiring a call.
On request from multiple community members, we also decided to publish the list of board members.
I updated the board internally on the status of our funding and new bank setup. The treasurer and a few volunteer board members are working on a budget proposal for 2021. More to come on this as soon as that's ready.
When the association was formed, it was the intention that the Council of Setons would keep functioning as it has been throughout and changing the structure of it was not a part of the plan.
We did however decide to dissolve the position of the Administrative Councilor, given that the Board now oversees these responsibilities.
A further rethink of the rest of the Council is in progress, and we would like to hear thoughts from the community about it.
As for the recent resignation of the promotional councilor, we're sad to see him go and I'd like to extend a huge thank you to Nine2 for all his contributions and work on FAF.
@furyritchie will undertake the responsibilities in the meantime while a long term solution is worked out.
If you haven't already joined the association and would like to know more about it, here's the post summarizing the general assembly.
Anyone sympathetic to the objectives of FAF can join and we encourage you to do so if you have an interest in the future of FAF. There's a channel on our discord where you can ask for the required approval.
A few people have requested an update of me even though our next board meeting isn't until Thursday, so I thought I'd take some time to give a quick summary:
Since last update the following has happened:
And finally some less positive news:
IceDreamer has resigned as a board member due to time constraints.
Not only was he board member however, he was also assistant auditor. So we are seeking a replacement auditor to be picked as a special agenda item at the next general election, who can assist Ceneraii our normal auditor with review of the accounts.
We do not expect any difference in the capacity of the board to function through the term due to this event.
On a personal note I would like to remind everyone that you do not need to be on the board or even in the association to contribute to FAF. Nor is being a member any kind of reward; it's simply more work. It's important work, however, and someone has to do it. So if you want to help out please do not hesitate to apply for the association
It is a group of people who have the community's best interest at heart and wish to see it thrive and grow, which is why we adopted the new code of conduct. It is important that everyone on FAF strives to follow the ideals it presents, but even more so, it is important that contributors hold it in high regard and try to follow it.
Sheeo, On behalf of the board
To be frank this is just unacceptable way of managing an organization.
I also entirely agree with this point. I've not acted strongly enough in time and instead tried avoiding dealing properly with this for too long, which has left us here.
We've had a few intermittent server issues recently, last one 3 days ago and one today.
Technically one of the RAID drives appears to have become unresponsive, causing a lockup of our system.
We're looking into the issue and we may have to order a replacement drive which could cause some planned downtime in the near future.
Thank you for your understanding
@ftxcommando said in Council of Setons EXPOSED - Part 1:
Sheeo was driven out of the council chat because: A) He says his role is obsolete and so he has no reason to be there, Admin Councillor = President of the Board for all intended purposes. B) There were rules made for a code of conduct in the Council chat. It said Sheeo could remove anyone that breaks the rules. These rules included things like making disparaging remarks and lying. Sheeo did both and I don't mind having the conversation about how he did both. So I said I would accept the code so long as we have a way to also apply it to Sheeo. But since Sheeo said he was leaving the Council chambers it was fine. Then he said I crossed the "intentionally trolling" part of the code as far as he was concerned by he didn't take action and isntead just left.
Sheeo was driven out of the council chat because:
A) He says his role is obsolete and so he has no reason to be there, Admin Councillor = President of the Board for all intended purposes.
B) There were rules made for a code of conduct in the Council chat. It said Sheeo could remove anyone that breaks the rules. These rules included things like making disparaging remarks and lying. Sheeo did both and I don't mind having the conversation about how he did both.
So I said I would accept the code so long as we have a way to also apply it to Sheeo. But since Sheeo said he was leaving the Council chambers it was fine. Then he said I crossed the "intentionally trolling" part of the code as far as he was concerned by he didn't take action and isntead just left.
This is so incredibly misleading. Let's get the facts straight here.
There's no point in the admin councillor position any more indeed; that doesn't mean the board shouldn't have representation or be present in the council chat. But you have, almost single-handedly, made that impossible with your constant toxicity throughout the year.
I introduced those rules more or less only because of your behavior. What you're doing right now is very much the same; misrepresenting facts and lying to make your perspective seem better; and constantly disparaging and attacking others personally.
The very moment you were added back in the council chat you immediately continued your behavior and broke the rules. Instead of enforcing them unilaterally I left it up to the rest of the councillors.
I also do agree with Thomas - I highly doubt FTX’s periodic bouts of toxicity has much if any relevancy when it comes to player retention for newbs. The game’s steep learning curve and the lack of friendliness to newbs getting games and just getting kicked from lobbies are a much bigger issue for newbs, both of which there are initiatives to address.
I'm inclined to agree with this; I don't think players are scared off from playing the game because of toxicity.
The people who go on to contribute, and spend their time discussing with others, making content, writing code etc.; they are driven away. It's a lot to task of people to voluntarily help out with a project; it's an even taller order to expect them to keep on going while they're being treated like shit for helping out.
Some of the best people we've had around in this community left because of toxicity in the past.
@blackheart said in Council of Setons EXPOSED - Part 1:
@Sheeo Nobody is interested in the 2021 patreon data (that one will obviously be "correct"). We are talking about the years roughly 2017-2020, and you know perfectly well that we are, no need to play dumb or divert attention to "ill release 2021 data". Since you have surely separated faf patreon and private money and therefore directed the patreon to not-your-main bank account (...surely?), this shouldnt take you more than a couple minutes in the balance history of that account.
The tax authorities don't care what account i put money into.
Before 2020 the income was negligible and post-tax barely accounted for the server costs. In 2020 that changed and we now have $2800 in the patreon awaiting payout tax-free because we have a legal structure to support it.
The reason this is even demanded is that the patreon has been chilling at a solid 300-500 bucks a month (as of writing, 588) for a long time, while the server + tourneys should not remotely use it all up (if it does, sad, but we would like to see the facts). From what I have heard about server costs & the tourney contributions from official FAF, it appears that there should be thousands saved up.
Responded above.
Full accounts again to be made up by the elected treasurer. You could do well by showing up and engaging yourself as well, you're more than welcome.
@turinturambar said in Council of Setons EXPOSED - Part 1:
Yet in the statutes it sais: "The Board is responsible for managing day to day business."
Yeah wow, this is an good question and I fully understand the confusion.
In the statutes "day to day" means something different from what I've been arguing in this thread.
It means anything not related to the legal structure of the association and how it conducts itself formally. That is; anything that isn't expected by it from authorities.
Not what is expected from it by players or somebody wanting aurora to shoot further.
I hope this is clear.
Since I didnt follow all discussions regarding the board closely I likely missed information regarding this, but currently these two statements are contradicting. If the board is not responsible for managing daily affairs who is (in the association)?
The board is. Just not by the definition of the how things currently "operate" in FAF.
If the board is responsible for managing daily affairs I would like to know what these "daily affirs" entail. neither the faf statutes, nor the fewforum posts regarding the faf assiciation give me any clear idea about it. The only thing I found was this https://forum.faforever.com/topic/1228/faf-association-preliminary-meeting , where it was stated that "Being a Board member gives you no additional privileges regarding moderation, deciding FAF operations, making balance changes, or anything of the sort. The central role of the Board and the association in turn is meant to provide a system of accountability for the financial aspects of FAF."
Yes, the notion here is correct. You do not get to decide the aurora shooting distance by being a member of the association.
You get a part of the overall responsibility of deciding who represents FAF; and if you're a part of the board, a say in some particular high level issues. No aurora shooting distance will ever come up here.
It would help me a lot if you could provide a clear overview of what tasks and responsibilities the association/board is currently supposed to get/have (or allready has) and how they are supposed to interact/cooperate (even if not explicitly stated in the statutes) with the current faf management (especially details regarding deciding what events will happen on faf, how they are organised etc.) to get a proper idea of what the current situation is (which ideally could also get added to the faf association forum topic).
Axel made a response above and he's entirely correct.
Until such time that the IP of FAF has been formally transferred to the association; it carries no further weight or responsibility than that which I'm capable of giving it.
But ultimately think of it as the point where the buck stops. If there's any disagreement or if there are any important things to be discussed in FAF; this is the body that now decides it.
Previous it was a set of private individuals.
@jip yes with most modern machines equipped with NVMe SSDs that should be less of a concern though
@askaholic said in Is it possible to cache faf versions?:
And since the files are packed up in zip archives, if a single line in a single file gets changed you have to redownload the entire zip archive again...
There's actually no need for them to be in .zip files as the game can mount folders.
We just had another restart due to a database lockup.
We are observing continued intermittent slowdowns today and are working on the case.
The most recent ones will have been due to a drive failure we've just had -- the server is back up and running and we are doing diagnostics on the failed drive.
Yes we just had a server restart and some minor forum history may be lost due to the mongo restart.
I assume you are referring to the association forum.
If you want the ability to post there please read this post.
@sheikah that's not german -- that's Dutch
What can I do to do to fix this?
Exactly what you're doing here. Report the issues so we're aware of them.
@azmodeu said in FAF CLIENT ALWAYS AS ADMIN:
I Disabled UAC years ago XD
This is a fairly important security feature of Windows and you should not be using your operating system in this way unless you know very well what you're doing.