On 9 May 2013 01:13, Aaron Goldfein <aarongoldf...@gmail.com> wrote: > If such a proposal were to pass, I would gladly volunteer to serve as the > officer. Additionally, I think we ought to start planning specific events > for the vigintennial. Otherwise, I imagine I would email old players, > telling them about the vigintennial, and asking if they want to be > involved. Someone would probably respond with "Sure, what do you want me to > do?" And to that question, I would have no answer. > > Therefore, I think we should try to start planning a series of games, > celebrations, and events, some that could be played leading up to the > event, and others that could be enacted around the event. > > Things I just pulled off the top of my head. Please offer additions: > > 1. An accelerated game of Nomic, starting from Agora's initial ruleset > (possibly slightly modified if necessary), but made so that timelimits are > extremely short. The game would have an immutable rule ending it within a > week if it hadn't already, the winner being the player with the most > points. Hopefully we would start this game one week before the > vigintennial, with the winner being crowned on July 30th. > > 2. A creativity competition. Entrants would be tasked with creating, in > any medium, a work which utilized as its subject matter Agora's 20 years of > existence. > > 3. Agoran pub trivia. We would all meet on irc or something similar one > night and have a pub trivia-esque contest on the history of Agora. > > 4. Some event which involves Peter Suber if we can get him on board. This > could be as simple as asking him to comment on the progression of Agora, > and specifically some of the current state of Agora. Even better would be > if we could get him involved in some of our competitions or festivities. > > The winners of all of these events could be given patent titles, etc. >
T-minus thirteen days, roughly. Yally, are you still interested in organising some of this? The proposal to make these suggestions official failed quorum, but it can still be done informally with patent titles awarded after the birthday. -- Walker
