A.R.U.N - Please welcome the new team

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Damion_Parker, Damion_Butler, DRoc_Cems, Stanley_Taylor, Stanley_Hobo

KingD, Paperinik :O

[Frank_Hawk]

I'm impressed with standard of applications.

I encourage all to apply as this will be an forward-thinking initiative to enhance Argonath. 

[SavioR88]

I'm impressed with standard of applications.

I encourage all to apply as this will be an forward-thinking initiative to enhance Argonath. 

Me too, but good luck to everyone , i wont apply for ARUN because i got more problems than to worry about argonath i am just for fun on argonath noting more

[Sisko]

To ARUN, it's members and stakeholders.

I am concerned about the management of ARUN, it's self-sustainability and it's method of "staying alive" within the fierce-community as it's a very important factor of Argonath RPG. Therefore, I step forward to show you some ideas of possible management strategies to keep ARUN running in a self-sustainable way.

Agile Developement:
Typically used in software developement, although I do tend to believe that its' principals can be inplemented into the management stragety of ARUN.

• Introduction: Agile methods generally promote a disciplined project management process that encourages frequent inspection and adaptation, a leadership philosophy that encourages teamwork, self-organization and accountability.There are many specific agile development methods. Most promote development, teamwork, collaboration, and process adaptability throughout the life-cycle of the project. Agile methods break tasks into small increments with minimal planning, and do not directly involve long-term planning. Iterations are short time frames ("timeboxes") that typically last from one to four weeks. Each iteration involves a team working to acomplish a set goal. This helps minimize overall risk, and lets the project adapt to changes quickly. Team composition in an agile project is usually cross-functional and self-organizing without consideration for any existing corporate hierarchy or the corporate roles of team members. Team members normally take responsibility for tasks that deliver the functionality an iteration requires. They decide individually how to meet an iteration's requirements.
  
  Edited from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_development into the required context of this proposal.
  
  
  
• How would it work for ARUN? Each member of ARUN would set short-term tasks (personal goals/projects) for the developement of Arun which would be viewed by all giving a discription of their task , a time-frame for completion (iterations), a percentage-of-completion updated frequently and user-stories of how they're task is developing, influences and downsides...
  
  
  
• How would it be beneficial? All team-members of Arun will have their own personaly set tasks to develope. Each member of the community can see what each member of ARUN is working on - being updated frequently - so if someone isn't pulling their weight, they should simply be booted out. Any dead-weight should be rid of to keep the cycle of this project alive.
  
  
• Tasks: The tasks that members of Arun would be personally set by themselves. An example of a task would be that of an Arun Manager who is assisting Unofficial Groups to achieve "Official Status". In their task - posted on their own unique message board intergrated on forums - showing time frames, percentage of completion (as mentioned above) - they would show what criteria the Unofficial Group has/hasn't met, areas where they can work on, notes for inprovement along with other things. The tasks iteration (between 3-4 weeks) would be a set date of completion whether the group has failed or met the requirements for Official Status.
  
  
  
• ARUN Leader: The ARUN Leader should keep track of their members tasks, give insight, hold discussions and make sure members are participating 100%. It is their duty to boot anyone who does not pull their weight with regards to their personally set-tasks.
  
  
  
  

Arun Advisors: One position for a member enrolled in 'that' specific group and one position for a third party.

From personal experience, this is an interesting method of managing people. I'm just throwing this out there as I believe the sustainability of Arun is a very important factor. Agree / dissagree? Post your thoughts.

[iMunna]

- What is your in-game name and previous names?: [i9]Earl_Montgomery, iMunna, [LB]Earl_Montgomery, [ALS]iMunna, [LL]Johnny_Baker, [AP]iMunna, [i9]Dwayne_Munna

- What role are you applying for? (Leader, manager, adviser): ARUN Leader

- Do you meet the criteria of the role?: No, I have only played here for three months but was invited by Frank to apply. In my past, I have learned many leadership skills in Inferno 9, had my own clan called the Advanced Placement clan, and I managed my own project called the Evaluation of regulars and veterans in order to make a sophisticated community.

- What do you plan to achieve in this role?: Unlike the majority of the applications here, I cannot promise that I will be a success. I cannot promise that this project will be a success. But what I can promise is, I will do the best damn job I can based off of my capabilities and restrictions. If I fail, I will work harder. If this project fails, I will work harder. If a group fails, I will work harder. If one of my managers or advisers fails, I will work harder. Like many times in the past, even if a positive decision ruins my reputation among my peers, I will still work towards it for the benefit of the community. While others claim to offer help to groups and players, I have applied an argument that I will work my ass off. I didn't quit when I saw an easy way out of my player evaluations. I didn't quit Argonath when I was being flamed for my decision to work towards the benefit of the community. I'm not going to quit when I see an easy way out of the ARUN. If I get accepted into ARUN as a leader, Argonath will not be disappointed.

As an ARUN leader, I plan to listen to my stakeholders ideas and comments about other groups and our projects performance. With that information, I will directly contact the SA:MP leadership team and provide the intel. As a leader of ARUN, I will work with other ARUN members in order to come up with rules that are sturdy and strong that cannot be directed towards abuse. I will respectfully consult managers of groups and gangs and provide the SA:MP leadership team with opinions on who should become an official group. I will take responsibility for the ARUN forum board. I will manage ARUN meetings in game and out game. I will dedicate my first priority to ARUN in game and always stay updated with information and details that fellow ARUN members will provide. I will not take days off without consulting the SA:MP leadership team and fellow ARUN members. If I ever have any questions, I will not procrastinate but will ask the questions right away. I will promise to keep a good reputation inside ARUN relations and outside ARUN relations. If I do fail at a task and am asked to resign, I will do so right away.

Last updated: August 14, 2010.

[Daco]

Recommending Panda & Romeo as leaders/managers. They're the most active and experienced players within the server and with the cops & criminals concpet... I think they will perfectly fit.

Along with Que as advisor, a wise and friendly player indeed.

[Plam_Knight]

What is your in-game name and previous names?: [WS]Plam_Knight[SDt],Plam_Knight,[WS]Plam,[WS]Plam_Araatus and basicly that are the most used there are 2-3 more but they are not really from matter.

What role are you applying for? (Leader, manager, advisor): Manager or advisor.
Do you meet the criteria of the role?:
   
   - Applicant must have at least six months experience in Argonath. - Yes I have been here since March 2009.
   
   - Good track record (amount of times warned, kicked, tempbanned and banned) - Yes I have like 2 kicks at most and 1 mistake ban.
   
   - Patience and understanding - Yes I have both of this skills.
   
   - Drive and commitment- Again yes.

What do you plan to achieve in this role?:
 - First I am going to increase releationship between groups.

 - Second I'm going to make more events,which will allow more roleplay between the groups.

 - I'm going to make the groups to work together to achive better roleplay instead of lowering the RP by DMing each other.

But still I can't promise that everything which I listed up there will be done.But I can promise that I will work hard with the other members of A.R.U.N to complete my plans to make our community better and to increase the roleplay in the community.

[Julian]

Recommending Panda & Romeo as leaders/managers. They're the most active and experienced players within the server and with the cops & criminals concpet... I think they will perfectly fit.

Along with Que as advisor, a wise and friendly player indeed.

Same.

[NitrOx]

To apply for the above roles, please complete this application form:
- What is your in-game name and previous names?: NitrOx_Stracci (Previous names: NitrOx, Joe_Stracci)
- What role are you applying for? (Leader, manager, advisor):
Leader
- Do you meet the criteria of the role?:
Criteria:
I have +- 2.5 years experience in the Argonath RPG community
Yes, I have been admin punished, however that was all in the past of a timeline of +- 2.5 - 3 years.
- I think patience is the key to success, I am patient, however if someone is going too far I'm bound to take a small break, but only if that one goes way too far.
I think I can communicate very well with most of the people in the community, I've once created a Petition of
what the community wanted to accomplish at that time, as I made a big voting system about it, it turned out very well as for the subject I tried to accomplish.

-What do you plan to achieve in this role?:
My vision is to bring the groups in the community together peacefully so that they can discuss about things in peace, my vision aswell is to create a set of new rules which will improve the situation of the groups in SA:MP,
I'm also striving to achieve a very successfull validation system and that everyone will act to the rules of it.
I think it's crucial that the groups that are chosen for the "Official Status" should have a good reputation as in roleplay wise AND rules-wise, e.g. groups that are official and get wanred, should lose the offical status, however if another non-official group wants to become official but is warned already, it should not be able to become official till the warnings reaches 0. (Expire). I also think the official status should be very limited to the groups of Argonath RPG, since if EVERYONE will get the official status, it will NOT very very "strvingely" to improve, people should keep improving they're groups if they want to get official status, so this is the structure I'm trying to accomplish: A few official groups slots for starters, e.g. 5 - If Group A, B, C, D, E want to become official they should meet all of the criteria of becoming an official groups, if all these groups become official and a non-official groups attempts to become official, however every official group is following the rules, I think the activity of the official group should count aswell; When a official group turns in-active the "Lose-Official-Status"  should start, so that others will get a chance aswell.

A few things a group should do, as from my vision:
-Groups (Criminals) should NOT create events such as, as stated in Rocks' reply: DDs, Nascar Racing, Racing Events, Stunting - IF a (criminal group) is official, it should focus on roleplay and increasing several subjects of the criminals such as;
-The drugs market, creating criminal cartels among them.
-Opening they're businesses instead of doing events, however people can see it as events, e.g. people opening they're casino, club, bar, restaurant etc etc.
-Ensuring that groups do NOT fight OOCly over WARS, when group A and group B have a war, they should remain friendly to each other through PMs e.g., however they can be unfriendly over in-game roleplaying, but they should not take it personally, if that happens (Example: group A flaming at group B's forum) validations should be dropped and they're relations should be re-checked, as for the people flaming, the group should focus on getting proper mature people in it's faction.
-Creating a weaponary market through RP, ensuring groups become more secretive instead of pewpew bam bam shootouts in public, I want to ensure that if the Police Department is on you, you are screwed, the Police should improve in re-organizing aswell (Not under me).

Conclusion:
I want to accomplish that criminal groups become the new good view of players on the server, I want the groups to increase in professionalism, roleplay and communication.


NitrOx.

[[NP]Monte Montague]

- What is your in-game name and previous names?: iMunna, [AP]iMunna, [i9]Dwayne_Munna

- What role are you applying for? (Leader, manager, adviser): ARUN Leader

- Do you meet the criteria of the role?: No, I have only played here for around two and half months but was invited to apply. In my past, I have learned many leadership skills in Inferno 9, had my own clan called the Advanced Placement clan, and I manage my own project called the Evaluation of regulars and veterans in order to make a sophisticated community.

- What do you plan to achieve in this role?: Unlike the majority of the applications here, I cannot promise that I will be a success. I cannot promise that this project will be a success. But what I can promise is, I will do the best damn job I can based off of my capabilities and restrictions. If I fail, I will work harder. If this project fails, I will work harder. If a group fails, I will work harder. If one of my managers or advisers fails, I will work harder. Like many times in the past, even if a positive decision ruins my reputation among my peers, I will still work towards it for the benefit of the community. While others claim to offer help to groups and players, I have applied an argument that I will work my ass off. I didn't quit when I saw an easy way out of my player evaluations. I didn't quit Argonath when I was being flamed for my decision to work towards the benefit of the community. I'm not going to quit when I see an easy way out of the ARUN. If I get accepted into ARUN as a leader, Argonath will not be disappointed.

As an ARUN leader, I plan to listen to my stakeholders ideas and comments about other groups and our projects performance. With that information, I will directly contact the SA:MP leadership team and provide the intel. As a leader of ARUN, I will work with other ARUN members in order to come up with rules that are sturdy and strong that cannot be directed towards abuse. I will respectfully consult managers of groups and gangs and provide the SA:MP leadership team with opinions on who should become an official group. I will take responsibility for the ARUN forum board. I will manage ARUN meetings in game and out game. I will dedicate my first priority to ARUN in game and always stay updated with information and details that fellow ARUN members will provide. I will not take days off without consulting the SA:MP leadership team and fellow ARUN members. If I ever have any questions, I will not procrastinate and ask the questions right away. I will promise to keep a good reputation inside ARUN relations and outside ARUN relations. If I do fail at a task and am asked to resign, I will do so right away.

Although  I've applied for the same position, If I hadn't, I would support this person!

iMunna has very much to offer, he's shown he can be committed. 

[SafetyMoose]

- What is your in-game name and previous names?:
> [SACS]Alex_Walsh
> [CS]SafetyMoose
> [MCRT]SafetyMoose
> [FAA]SafetyMoose
> =AV=SafetyMoose[NPS]
> Current Name: =AV=SafetyMoose

- What role are you applying for? (Leader, manager, advisor): ARUN Advisor

- Do you meet the criteria of the role?:
I believe i have. Although i have been banned a couple times, both times for stupid things. I have learned from those mistakes. I take my work seriously and i'm patient with people. I am part of a lot of leadership roles in the Argonath Community and in Real Life. I have been in this community almost one year now and i enjoy working and playing woth the other community members, both old and new.

- What do you plan to achieve in this role?:
Main goal is to make sure that groups have fun. We are all here to have fun and i want to make sure that groups can easily and efficiently become part of this great community. I know from experience that its hard to start and manage a group, and that it takes time and commitment to create one. I'm an idea person so im always willing to contribute my thoughts and opinions and helping other people work and control their groups is something that i will take seriously, but still keep fun and enjoyable for all community members. In my mind there is no such thing as failure, as long as you pick yourself up and keep on going. This motivation is something that alot of group leaders need because hey, lets face it, running a group is hard work and at times it seems like your gong no where. Lets get this show on the road!

Signed
SafetyMoose
Argonath Moderator, NPS and ACRC Leader, and Argonath Court Judge

[Maxy]

- What is your in-game name and previous names?:
Maxy Araatus
Maxy Solonik
Maxy Corleone
[FM]Ma$t3r


- What role are you applying for? (Leader, manager, advisor):

Leader

- Do you meet the criteria of the role?:

   - I have 3 years of Argonath experience.
   - I have been banned twice.
   - I have patience, and I can relate to any situation.
   - Araatus' communication is excellent, and my control in my previous endeavours has been undisputed.
   - Drive and commitment are two values I live my life by.

I started playing on this server in May of 2007. Since then, I have grown a lot as a person, as well as a leader. I have come to realize the necessities of other players, and how to properly tend to them. I have been a leader to many big criminal groups on the server. In Solonik, I was the underboss for a very long time, and as we expanded, I began to fully understand the responsibilites that come with the job. At the end of the day, my pleasure is in making sure everyone is happy. I gladly take upon me these responsibilities, because I have been striving for the last 3 years to learn and build on the groups side of things. In my 3 years, I have always been in some form of group. Not once was I ever tagless, and not once was I not roleplaying in the criminal underworld. I have looked at some of the other candidates, and simply shivered at the thought of having them as a leader. Why? Because as a leader of the ARUN, you need to actually know the purpose of groups. You also need to know what they need, and you simply cannot do this, if you aren't in one. I think I am the best person for the job, because I know exactly what needs to be done, and how it needs to be done. I can handle many adverse situations and deal with them in a fair and unbiased manner. I was also at one point a level 3 admin, and during my time as an admin I learned how to administrate. Some people may not like me, but the reason for that is, that I hold a mirror up to each and every person, and make them see the current state of affairs for what they really are. I am a realist, and I argue only the truth. I have the ability to command respect, not through force, but because others will agree with the plans we draw up together. I have an inner calling, a fire within me that tells me that this is the exact position that I have been waiting 3 years to finally be in. I will not disappoint.

- What do you plan to achieve in this role?:

I plan to achieve the betterment and equality of all criminal and citizen groups to all non citizen and non criminal groups. As a leader, I would be there to create balance, as well as implement new plans. Also, I already do research and spend most of my time in the gangs and groups section studying new groups, and observing them. If there is potential, I will reach out to them and make sure they secure their seat among the ARUN. I want us to move forward, I don't want us to stand still, let alone move backward. I see this as the biggest opportunity for SAMP Group improvement that has been presented since Argonath's existance, and it is a huge and very important step for us as a community. I stand ready to help in this change, from my seat as a group leader.

Some of the things I want to achieve include:

- Script support for groups.
- Clear and defined group rules.
- Developement of criminal drug markets and weapon markets.
- Furthering creativity among groups.
- Resolving conflicts between police and criminals.
- Setting clearly defined standards for potential official groups.
- Ending the blurred lines between DM and Roleplay.

I have many other tasks and goals I wish to be achieved, but these are the main ones. There are currently many problems with the group systems, of that there is no doubt.

 I want to resolve them.

[Drastic]

I think i'm not ready for A.R.U.N. I think Maxy would be a great leader, Panda as a good manager and sadly because there's only one place for a manager i think Que and Romeo would be good advisors.

[BlackEagle]

Panda for manager

[Daco]

panda = maxy