Stargateland - post-phase-8 brainstorm post

[theeverdream]

Please read this first:
http://stargateland.livejournal.com/164842.html?thread=10266090#t10266090

I would definitely like to see something new start up. Thought we might want to brainstorm about how things might work, if other people are interested too.

Some of my thoughts -

Based on this:
http://clubstargate.livejournal.com/247631.html
The club activities I think will keep taking place. And that me to thinking about having something new be somewhat trimmed down, both for ease of running and because we could have people take part in clubstargate stuff as well.

I was thinking about something without teams. It would be a bit different but I think it might work. There would be less people needed for running things, I think. Group challenges could be where you ask for partners/groups in whatever challenge thread. The way points might work? Let's say it's like a new Stargate series, where maybe we're in a completly different galaxy. Some people are scientists and some are military and some are aliens and some are multiple things. Doesn't matter, you can choose whatever you would want to be. I might be military and an alien, for example, so any points I get would go towards both. And each group would have a point total divided by the number of people in the group, so groups don't have to be even. (I think though it would have to be each person was in the same number of groups, whatever number that was.)

And basically it would just be like.. low pressure. No team would necessarily win, just would be a neat way of looking at the numbers or whatever, something to keep participants motivated. But nobody would have to do every challenge. And you're not letting down anybody if you don't do something, because there aren't winners really. So it's mostly you just looking at your own particpation and having that be your motivation. Might not be explaining this well because I'm sleepy but did just want to get all of this out there asap so people can start thinking. Obviously there are a lot of different ways to do it, but I think this general type of way would help for not only decreasing the number of people needed to run different group comms or whatever (because the groups would just be names, not real teams) but also helping solve some of the team problems I think stargateland has run across in the past. (Problems like balance of teams, people feeling isolated from teammates who might not like Stargate in the same way, etc.)

It might seem like there's not as much potential for team unity or friendships and I do think that's true but I also think there are other things we could do to boost social interaction, and especially I think it would be so much better than having nothing available. Plus as mentioned above the activities of clubstargate it seems like will still be open, and we could have our own club comm as well, just possibly with less intensity of activities as maybe in the past, depending on people being available for running things.


If you're involved now in running something (even a team comm) and would like to keep being involved that is awesome, and if other people would be interested in being involved that's awesome too. Please say something here? Not any sort of commitment at all, just something where we can gague if having something in the future will be possible.

And it wouldn't have to be a big thing either, for you to help. For example having someone put in numbers on a spreadsheet on a weekly basis would be fantastic. Or anything, any talents you might have, even if you don't think they're relevant. 'Cause this is brainstorming, where we put ideas out there just to see where they go.

Any and all ideas you might have about a future comm, even if you can't be involved in running it - please share! I know we can make something work out and I'm really excited to see what form that might take. All ideas are welcome here so we can use them to build on and make something awesome from. :)