I just emailed Peter Suber, inviting him to our events and asking for any commentary he might have. I will forward any response I receive.
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Aaron Goldfein <aarongoldf...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 6:31 AM, Charles Walker < > charles.w.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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 >> > > I could, I suppose. I won't have a ton of time coming up, so I don't want > to commit myself to too much. I encourage anyone to try to enact any > festivities on the above list, or of eir own creation, as the Vigintennial > quickly approaches. I also see no reason why some of these elements can't > continue on past the 30th as well, continuing with their purpose of > celebrating the Vigintennial. I'll start work on some of these items, and > I'll send a message to the list as I accomplish things. I encourage others > to do the same. > >
