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Greetings Citizens,
Happy New Year! Applications for Term 2 have now closed, the result being 46 potential councilors on our Ballot and now it's over to you, the community, to decide who you want on the next council.
For those of you who may not be aware of the council and its purpose, the council is a community-elected group of players who represent the ideas and opinions of the community and serve as a helpful bridge between us developers and the community at large. They sift through the suggestions, debate and bring forward to the devs the suggestions they have determined have the most merit, or need, or that show a completely new idea that no one may have thought of before. We bounce off ideas with them that we might not be able to share to the community as a whole just yet, assisting us in refining the ideas. They run polls and discussions, both on SMD and throughout the communities they're involved in. They also help in acknowledging citizens who have displayed exceptional skill and dedication to a particular area, nominating citizens for badges.
The roles of the council is very organic, adapting to what us, the developers, need at that point in the development timeline.
Term 1 did a great job at solidifying what roles the council can take on board. But now it's time for Term 2, a new council, elected by the community.
To assist you with evaluating and choosing your votes you can read all the applications of citizens on the ballot on SMD here.
When you're finally ready to vote then head over to council.star-made.org where you'll need to log into the Citizen Registry before the Ballot will come up for you to be able to vote through.
Again the voting system will be using STV (Single Transferable Vote), however a change from Term 1's voting system is that this time you will not have a restriction on how many preferences you can do. You can vote for just one applicant by placing a 1 next to their name, or you can vote for all 46 numbering them in order of preference with the most preferred applicant being 1, and the 46th most preferred applicant being 46.
To learn more about STV, CGP Grey has two excellent videos explaining how the system works.
Check out the first one here:
Voting for Term 2 will close at 23:59:59 UTC on January 20th 2016, giving two weeks for you to place your votes. After that the new councilors will be announced and we'll be into Term 2 of the council.
Happy Voting!
- Schine Team
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