The follow transcript was taken at the recent Meet and Greet the Candidates Gathering this past Friday, December 14th. The gathering seemed a friendly and informative event. Thanks to our two candidates for participating, Em Warden (Mothercard Warden) and Bagheera Kristan. Also, special thanks to Pip Torok for acting as our host.
[13:08] Bagheera Kristan: here comes Pip, I think
[13:08] Bagheera Kristan: Hi Pip 
[13:08] Lilith Ivory: HI Pip
[13:08] Tanoujin Milestone: Hi Pip
[13:09] Mothercard Warden: Evening Pip
[13:09] Patroklus Murakami: hi pip, lilith
[13:09] Bagheera Kristan: I should explain - I am in a text viewer, which is why I will stay standing, please pardon me
[13:09] Lilith Ivory: Hi Delia
[13:09] Bagheera Kristan: Hi Delia
[13:09] Tanoujin Milestone: Delia
[13:09] Mothercard Warden: Hello Delia
[13:10] Patroklus Murakami: hi delia
[13:10] Pip Torok: hi everyone .. i have problems sitting so ill stand ....
[13:11] Bagheera Kristan: Tor had said he would maybe try to come on his iPhone, but he couldn't promise
[13:11] Delia Lake: hi everyone
[13:11] Pip Torok: are we "all" here?
[13:11] Mothercard Warden: Same here
[13:11] Pip Torok: mmmm dratted viewer
[13:12] Pip Torok: well .. let me declare this open
[13:12] Bagheera Kristan: I don't have cds group powers, does someone want to send out a reminder call?
[13:12] Pip Torok: can you do that Lilith?
[13:12] Pip Torok: or Tan?
[13:12] Lilith Ivory: yes, just need to figure out some text
[13:13] Tanoujin Milestone:
[13:13] Pip Torok: ok!! 
[13:13] Bagheera Kristan: great
[13:14] Pip Torok: i propose we give both ladies ... bags and em .. 2 minutes to put down why they wish to become candidates ...
[13:14] Pip Torok: .. followed by some questions .. then we all relax .. ok all?
[13:15] Mothercard Warden: Do you want to start, Bagheera?
[13:15] Pip Torok: ok then .. bags .. can you kick off .. (btw my minutes are very generous)
[13:15] Patroklus Murakami: sounds good to me!
[13:15] Bagheera Kristan: My pleasure
[13:15] Bagheera Kristan: okay, Thank you !
[13:16] Bagheera Kristan: I'll type fast. I wrote something on the forum and in notecards in signs around the CDS...
[13:16] Bagheera Kristan: that was more to introduce how I came to CDS. From the first, I had been invited here by friends already involved, who wanted my help in what CDS was creating
[13:16] Bagheera Kristan: so I was invested - so to speak - from the get go.
[13:17] Bagheera Kristan: There have been ups and downs but I've had a couple years to see how things work and what people care about.
[13:17] Bagheera Kristan: I think I could help CDS as great deal as an RA because I believe I listen well and I love to build community
[13:18] Bagheera Kristan: I've come to know many people here, I try to be fair and always remembering it is the people that come first. I love the creativity in SL and I'd like to see more of that promoted through CDS, I think that may be one thing that will help the community grow
[13:19] Pip Torok: (30 secs to go)
[13:19] Bagheera Kristan: I understand a great deal about how to leverage search and how to promote events, I know that isn't an RA task but it would allow me to have a more direct hand in it
[13:20] Bagheera Kristan: I think that covers it in a broad brush Thank you
[13:20] Pip Torok: thank you bags .....
[13:20] Pip Torok: Em ... o you feel like saying something?
[13:21] Mothercard Warden: Well.... my story is different and my approach is different. Pity we can't both be RA-members
[13:21] Bagheera Kristan: laughing! maybe next time
[13:22] Mothercard Warden: I came here on horseback about 18 months ago, as part of my fascination for exploring
[13:22] Mothercard Warden: When I arrived in Alpine Valley, I met Tor. ANd when I came to MOnastery, I met Pip
[13:23] Mothercard Warden: I came here several times, because I had fallen inlove with the CDS sims at first sight
[13:23] Mothercard Warden: Then I discovered an available plot in MOnastery, and I decided to settle down here
[13:24] Mothercard Warden: I am all for informalities... I tried to avoid getting involved in the governmental business as long as I possibly could, to be honest
[13:25] Pip Torok: (30 secs to go)
[13:25] Mothercard Warden: But I have become more and more involved, and inerested in the future of the sims
[13:25] Mothercard Warden: I want to be part of plans and changes
[13:26] Mothercard Warden: I have ideas
[13:26] Mothercard Warden: ANd I want to know what ideas others have
[13:26] Mothercard Warden: That is about all I have to say for now
[13:26] Pip Torok: Thank you Em
[13:27] Pip Torok: lets have some questions and answers .. heres one from me for em first then bags ....
[13:27] Pip Torok: What do you feel about democracy?
[13:27] Pip Torok: Em?
[13:28] Mothercard Warden: I could'nt live without it
[13:28] Mothercard Warden: I dispise the arrogans of power that you see too much of
[13:28] Pip Torok cheers
[13:29] Mothercard Warden:
[13:29] Pip Torok: ok .. bags?
[13:29] Bagheera Kristan:
[13:29] Bagheera Kristan: Lovely answer, Em
[13:29] Mothercard Warden: ty :9
[13:30] Bagheera Kristan: Democracy is a brave experiment, it manifests in many ways
[13:30] Pip Torok: your turn bags... what do you feel about democracy?
[13:30] Bagheera Kristan: the ideal bumps up against reality and it takes courage to stay true and focused, listening to the people even when personally one may not agree
[13:31] Bagheera Kristan: but a leader needs to also not be a puppet in democracy, so the learning and evolution is in finding the balance
[13:31] Bagheera Kristan: in a nutshell - LOL! I could go on but I'll stop there for now Thank you.
[13:32] Mothercard Warden: I think you are talking of personal integrety, Bags. I could not agree more
[13:32] Pip Torok: thank you .. the floor is open and ill end 9all willing0 with another question of my own .. then we relex
[13:32] Pip Torok: questions anyone?
[13:33] Pip Torok: Pat?
[13:33] Pip Torok: delia?
[13:33] Pip Torok: lilith? Tan?
[13:33] Tanoujin Milestone: What shall we do with LA?
[13:33] Patroklus Murakami raises hand
[13:34] Pip Torok: bags first (I propose)
[13:34] Bagheera Kristan: Well, Tan, what do the people want? I know it has been discussed on the forums but I don't know or haven't seen a consensus yet
[13:34] Bagheera Kristan: for me, personally, I'd like to see trying to revive it as is, something I had started with Trebor but don't feel I got to finish
[13:34] Pip Torok: Em?
[13:35] Pip Torok: (sorry bags)
[13:35] Mothercard Warden: It is a beautiful sim. I often walk around there. But it is not inviting for people to live there
[13:35] Bagheera Kristan: that's okay
[13:35] Mothercard Warden: Too many wide open houses with no privacy
[13:35] Pip Torok: patroklus?
[13:35] Patroklus Murakami: ty
[13:36] Tanoujin Milestone: (thanks:)
[13:36] Patroklus Murakami: what do you think is the most important legislative priority for this term? i.e. bills or constitutional amendments
[13:37] Bagheera Kristan: shall I start?
[13:37] Pip Torok: please
[13:37] Bagheera Kristan: Well, Pat, for me, I see Constitutional amendments as an action of last resort - at least that is how it should be in real life. CDS is a bit different since we are experimental, but I would pay more attention to bills and go to amendments only if something is truly broken
[13:38] Pip Torok: tku ..... em?
[13:39] Mothercard Warden: I think the first priority is to make the sims inviting for people, so that we can have enough inhabitants. If not, we can forget about the rst
[13:39] Mothercard Warden: *rest*
[13:39] Bagheera Kristan: hear hear
[13:39] Bagheera Kristan: LOL
[13:39] Mothercard Warden:
[13:39] Pip Torok: imo excellent answer ... any more questions?
[13:40] Lilith Ivory: what do you think about the plans of renewing the Schloss?
[13:40] Mothercard Warden: I think it is a brilliant idea
[13:40] Mothercard Warden: I never liked the strange building
[13:40] Bagheera Kristan: I don't have a personal feeling one way or the other, I would support the community's decision
[13:41] Pip Torok: ok .. our last question .. we're all forward 6 months after this coming term and everything is miraculously as you are aiming it to be ...
[13:41] Lilith Ivory: thank you
[13:41] Pip Torok: how has CDS changed? ...
[13:41] Pip Torok: em first
[13:42] Mothercard Warden: I think there is more peace to think of important things for the future now, compared with earlier
[13:43] Mothercard Warden: Not so many wars...
[13:43] Mothercard Warden: A more constructive atmosphere
[13:43] Pip Torok: tku .. bags?
[13:45] Bagheera Kristan: I see CDS as being a place where people want to live and create, more avatars moving here. We really have a good thing going here but there are a lot of odd or old perceptions about CDS in the great SL
[13:45] Bagheera Kristan: greater*
[13:45] Bagheera Kristan: and I too, see peace, which would then enable us to
[13:45] Bagheera Kristan: focus on letting the greater SL know what we really have to offer
[13:45] Bagheera Kristan: I also see
[13:46] Bagheera Kristan: more people coming to participate in RA meetings, hang out and find out what is happening at the helm
[13:46] Bagheera Kristan: thank you.
[13:46] Pip Torok: and thank you one and all for this meeting ...
[13:47] Pip Torok: id like to declare the meeting closed and hand out beer and wine to all present ...
[13:47] Delia Lake raises her hand
[13:47] Pip Torok: yes delia?
[13:47] Mothercard Warden: Thank you Pip for your hosting, much appreciated
[13:47] Bagheera Kristan: yes, thank you Pip
[13:48] Delia Lake: I'd like to thank both Bagheera and Em for running and for being citizens interested in our community. Like each said in the beginning, I'm now wishing both could be on this RA
[13:48] Pip Torok starts handing out the drinks ....
[13:48] Mothercard Warden: Thank you all for coming here
[13:48] Bagheera Kristan: me too, Delia it seems ironic now, that the regular election ran with too few and now this
[13:48] Pip Torok: I'll second you in that wish, Delia!!
[13:49] Bagheera Kristan: I'd love to be sitting beside Em in an RA meeting
[13:49] Pip Torok: never mind .. thats show business!
[13:49] Bagheera Kristan: yes
[13:49] Mothercard Warden: Maybe the first thing we should change is the number of RA members?
[13:49] Patroklus Murakami: it makes for a difficult choice
[13:50] Tanoujin Milestone: that is true, Bags. I wish I had the chance to get some legitimation by vote Good luck with the election to you both
[13:50] Mothercard Warden accepted your inventory offer.
[13:50] Patroklus Murakami accepted your inventory offer.
[13:50] Bagheera Kristan: Thank you, Tan
[13:50] Mothercard Warden: Thank you
[13:50] Lilith Ivory: yes good luck to both of you
[13:51] Pip Torok: a toast to the future posperity of CDS ....
[13:51] Tanoujin Milestone: cheers!
[13:51] Delia Lake looks around for the wine...
[13:51] Bagheera Kristan: cheers !
[13:51] Mothercard Warden: yes- long live the C.D.S-!!!
[13:52] Delia Lake: got it!
[13:52] Pip Torok: do you have it now delia .. the very best elderflower wine
[13:52] Mothercard Warden: It's really delicious... I am afraid it could be addictive
[13:52] Bagheera Kristan: I have a request, since I am in a text viewer, would someone take a snapshot and send it to me of all of us?
[13:52] Pip Torok: does anyoneknow what happened to tor?
[13:53] Bagheera Kristan: LOL!
[13:53] Bagheera Kristan: he is working in real life, he wasn't sure he could come
[13:53] Pip Torok: em .. you divined my secret!!
[13:53] Mothercard Warden: He sald he had to be at work
[13:53] Delia Lake: ty. I'll have to but elder bushes in the pasture so that I can make wine there. NFS is a little cold for grapes
[13:53] Tanoujin Milestone: Lilith, are you in the mood for a snapshot? My settings are such poor....
[13:53] Delia Lake: Tor is at work
[13:53] Pip Torok: ah yes .. the curse of the leisured classes....
[13:54] Lilith Ivory: mine are not good either 
[13:54] Delia Lake: this is the tail end of my workday
[13:54] Tanoujin Milestone: ok, low quality then
[13:54] Mothercard Warden: I'll try, but there are so many trees in the way
[13:54] Lilith Ivory smiles
[13:54] Pip Torok: of you can excuse me while i copynpaste ... and please do the same so that we get a record of this ...