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Call for volunteers: RA Commission reviewing CDS/LV groups

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Dear citizens,

The RA has formed a new commission today, chaired by yours truly, to review the CDS and LV groups.

Here is the rationale for this commission:

Based on postings in the forum, the idea is for the RA to review the different categories of membership in the two groups, the privileges and obligations that each category represents, and the procedure that is used to maintain the membership lists up to date, and reflective of current positions and roles of the citizens of CDS.

To start the discussion rolling, I would like to call for volunteers to participate on this commission, which will have its first meeting on Friday, September 5th, at 3 PM SLT at the Praetorium (assuming there is no overlap of other meetings there; if yes, we'll just go elsewhere).

Participation is open and free too all citizens, without restrictions. All public chat will be transcripted and publicly posted. We'll use the simplified Robert Rules currently in use by the RA to moderate the discussion, and expect to be around for two hours. Contributions via the forums, notecards, or emails to [email protected] will be allowed. The purpose is to develop a final document, no later than September 30th, to be presented to the RA on the subsequent meeting.

On the first meeting we will attempt to appoint a group of volunteers who will be in charge of collaboratively writing the final document.

And yes, I will host meetings on different times — within my own restrictions! — to allow for a wider participation.

Last edited by Gwyneth Llewelyn on Wed Sep 03, 2014 3:18 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Reason: Corrected date to Friday, Sep 5th and not 6th. Thanks for pointing it out, Delia! :)

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While I will be posting a summary of the issues found so far (as soon as I manage to read all pertinent forum threads! Please bear with me...), here is very rough historical overview of the role of these groups, as far as my memory doesn't fail me.

Current citizenship is established by owning at least a parcel in one's own name in any of the regions of the CDS. But historically this was not always the case: when the CDS was started, land was technically group-owned by the CDS group, and citizenship was defined by the willingness to join the group and contribute tier to it. Each member had a vote, no matter how much tier was contributed. Some citizens, being Basic Accounts, did not contribute tier but were still considered full citizens.

As we moved out of Anzere to the old region of Neualtenburg — later renamed to Neufreistadt — the role of the CDS group changed. It was meant mostly to be a way to keep in touch with all citizens — and, later, with 'Friends of the CDS', a special role created with limited powers, to allow non-citizens to get informed about our events.

Initial building had already been done — the Lindens copied all content over — but we moved from a 1/3 of a region, which was all that had been allocated to us in Anzere, to a full region. That meant landscaping the valley area, and adding more roads and forests. It also meant parcelling the land to allow citizens to buy plots. As a result, a new group was created — Land Verwaltung ('land management' in German :) abbreviated to LV) — which included a building role. Originally, the CDS had three branches, but no executive; instead, there was a loose association of builders, scripters, and artists that fulfilled some of the roles that the current Executive has, but it was completely differently managed. That branch — the Artisanal Branch, also known as 'Die Guilde' or 'the Guild' in English, managed the LV group. Since admission to the Artisanal Branch was free — any citizen could join — this meant that most citizens were also in the LV group. Most, in fact, helped out with the extra building (we weren't that many!).

With the increase of the number of citizens, many of which were not interested in building (or were unable to do so), the role of the LV group changed and evolved over the years. First, membership in the Guild became more restricted and subject to a slightly more bureaucratic procedure of admission. Secondly, there was a special group of Guild members who were responsible for 'cleaning up' the public spaces, specially after events and similar things, which might have left a few stray prims around. These were the Janitors (later, these became part of the civil service, under the Chancellor). Surprisingly, all RA members were automatically Janitors, too (the logic being that at least the RA members would meet at least once every week — which was the usual schedule those days — and be around to clean up stray prims if needed).

In those days, the Artisanal Branch was formally responsible for maintaining the look and feel of the whole city, specially the public spaces, and, in fact, many were constantly tinkering with it — more notably Kendra Bancroft, but other members of the AC would do the same, too. We already had Covenants, but the AC was responsible for enforcing them, so, as long as nobody would do dramatic changes, constant tinkering was part of the CDS' daily life.

When we started to build Colonia Nova, a new group was created just for the initial building of Colonia Nova — people building there were actually not exactly the same as the ones building on Neufreistadt (they disliked the Bavarian theme). It was actually expected that at some point, when Colonia Nova was finished, a new group for maintaining both regions would be formed — call it the 'CDS Janitor Group' — and both groups would be dissolved after all public land was turned over to that new group.

This never happened. In fact, most members of the LV group also became members of the CN group, specially the Janitors, which had to be in both. A few members of those groups were also 'promoted' to Estate Managers to help to assist the Estate Owner with her duties.

In the mean time, the CDS became more complex. We created an Executive branch and dissolved the Artisanal Branch. The Executive inherited most of the roles and responsibilities of the old Artisanal Branch. However, the Chancellor heading the Executive was not expected to be a builder or to bring a team of builders to work on the Executive; they had now far more tasks to deal with. As such, they appointed Janitors to aid them with the roles strictly pertaining to maintaining the regions (e.g. cleaning up stray prims, claiming land, and so forth), which required, at least, membership in the LV/CN groups, and often Estate Manager privileges as well. But a new role was also put in place: the Executive would now also deal with public notices on the CDS group, through the PIO. Nobody else was allowed to post public notices.

Things naturally became even more complex as we expanded further and started to re-do old buildings. There was a 'new Guild' in place — the second organisation bearing that name — which had an official status as an advisory board to the Executive related to all building issues. The Executive would work closely with the Guild to deal with new buildings and remodelling old buildings, while still keeping the duty of 'cleaning up' stray prims, fixing things, claiming land, and so forth, which meant that the Janitors were part of the Executive, while Guild members were completely independent. The Chancellor was considered to have a 'permanent seat' at the Guild meetings; but remember that the Guild was an official advisory body during those days (and the Chancellor was elected by the RA acting as a collegial body, not universally elected by all citizens), and, while not truly 'part of Government', it had some special duties established and recognised by law.

Janitors were appointed by the Executive for a full term, like all civil servants, with a few exceptions — the RA Archivist was appointed by the RA; the SC Archivist by the SC; the Treasurer and Estate Owner were specially appointed — and that meant that the Chancellor would revoke the rights of former Janitors and appoint new ones.

However, things soon became very messy. Chancellors tended to be re-elected often, and new Chancellors were also often former members of the Guild, the RA, or previous administrations. Thus, often the same Janitors served under different administrations. Guild members might be employed for doing some specific public works, but they 'forgot' to leave the LV/CN groups — often without malice, just neglect — and Chancellors would not constantly evict LV/CN members who happened to be in the Guild, since sooner or later they might get employed again on further public works. To make things even more confusing, former RA members, at the time they were expected to act as Janitors as well, also retained membership in the LV or CN groups, and often in both.

The constant hopping between roles in Government and Guild meant that soon there were far more people in the LV/CN groups than necessary, a few of which also had Estate Management powers. Simply put, once someone acquired that status for necessity (i.e. because they participated on some building), it was rare that their privileges were revoked, unless they voluntarily left the group(s). The sole exception was when events were hosted by non-citizens; then they would get temporary LV/CN status to be able to deploy their items on public land, and immediately expelled from the group once the event finished. But many citizens hosting events were also invited to the LV/CN groups and would not be asked to leave it afterwards — specially because many might hold regular events after the first one.

In the mean time, the CDS group also strayed a bit from its purpose. When it became hard to keep the count of citizens who were part of groups owning land in the CDS — without having land of their own — a popular choice to keep track on who was a citizen and who wasn't was simply to ask them to join the CDS group and give them the 'Citizen' role. Alas, this meant that the CDS group had always to be checked manually to see who had the 'right' to be in the Citizen role — there were many groups set up that way, and it meant regularly going through them (at least before any election!) and see who should join the CDS group that way.

I don't remember the year when a new issue popped up. During a campaign, some candidates wanted to announce their platforms via the CDS group notice mechanism. They would have to go through the PIO or Chancellor. But in some cases, the PIO might take some time to post their announcements — meaning nobody would be informed in time about campaigning events. In some cases there were allegations of bias — PIOs would allow access to some, but not all, candidates. Then citizens wished to announce their own events through the CDS group as well; although the PIO is supposed to announce all events in the CDS, sometimes they would only announce Government-sponsored events, sometimes not. At the end of the day, it was felt that a PIO could be too biased to be the sole person responsible for announcing events, so every citizen was given the right to post notices. This lead to new issues: spamming, trolling, and all sorts of abuse.

Right now, as the LV/CN groups stand, as well as the Estate Manager powers, they are seen as a 'merit badge'. Do something nice for the CDS, and you get invited to a privileged group that allows you to change the way the CDS looks like — in exchange, you're expected to help out new citizens, fix things when they're broken, remove stray prims, etc. Do even more nice things for the CDS, and you get granted the much-valued Estate Manager role, where you can even start claiming land from fellow citizens or reboot regions. New Chancellors were expected to work with this group of 'privileged citizens' who, because of their past work benefitting the CDS, have special roles — and might refuse, for whatever reason, to work with the Executive, but rather act as a counter-power to a too-ambitious Executive, by blocking them access to roles in those groups/powers. I think we have reached a saturation point where the majority of members of those groups actively oppose the current Government and refuse to relinquish their 'rights'; the usual claim is that this is made in the name of 'stability' and that Chancellors have to 'learn to work with elder citizens', instead of opposing them.

Thus, what first started as merely a technical issue — to be able to build on group-owned, public land you need to be part of that group — now became something much more subtle: a meritocracy of unelected members, 'earning their right' to say how the CDS should be managed, because they have been doing that for so long that they know best how to address the many issues of land management.

The main problem is not how the group members view themselves. The main issue is indeed a lack of legislation. Within the boundaries set by our constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, we ought to adapt existing legislation to fit better to the current way of doing things, or, if that way goes far beyond what is permissible and sensible within the spirit of a democracy as established by our constitution, move to legislate to organise things and clearly define checks and balances to prevent abuse.

Here are, off the top of my head, a few questions that I would like this commission to answer:

  • Should the LV/CN groups, as well as the Estate Manager power, be a privilege granted to 'worthy citizens' who have worked hard over the years to create the CDS? In that case, who grants that privilege? (RA? SC? Executive? All together?) How can we revoke the privilege? Who oversees the privileged citizens to see that they do not abuse their powers? Where should a list of all privileged citizens, and the reasoning behind their appointment, be publicly listed? (e.g. 'Jane Doe is granted the privilege of being a LV/CN member because she did an awesome job remodelling building X')

  • Or should, by contrast, those groups be merely administrative/technical? Who should be in charge of them? Who is supposed to be able to invite citizens to those groups and set their roles? How can a decision be appealed — or does it not make any sense to appeal that, if the groups are under control of the Executive, and, as such, all 'privileges' are automatically removed when the Chancellor loses office and appoints a new staff? How can we prevent that people are appointed to such a group without having the required skills and qualifications for being there? How do we, the citizens, control abuse of powers? Who is responsible for those persons, and what are the limits of their responsibilities — and what happens if they neglect those responsibilities, for whatever reason?

  • What roles should exist in those groups and what purposes are they supposed to serve? Who is responsible for creating new roles/deleting old roles and assigning people to them? If the wrong person gets assigned to the wrong role, who is responsible for the mistake?

  • How do we fit in the need for 'temporary' group membership, e.g. events? Who is responsible for checking that the person abandons their membership/special role after they finish their event?

  • What difficulties are there in merging the many land management groups into a single one? Is that even advisable?

  • Regarding the CDS group, who should be responsible for notices? Is the language is group chat to be moderated? Who does the moderation; how do they get appointed and removed from office? What are the consequences of being 'kicked out' of the group?

  • How can we automate the process? Is it advisable to do so? What resources do we need for that?

I'm sure there is quite a lot more to ask, and after I finish reading the appropriate threads, I hope to add a few more questions. In the mean time, please help me by pointing out what worries you most about the CDS/LV/CN groups, and how you propose to deal with your issue.

Thanks all in advance!

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Gwyneth Llewelyn wrote:

[*]What difficulties are there in merging the many land management groups into a single one? Is that even advisable?

Lots to think about there Gwyn, but I just wanted to point out that there is only one land management group now for all of the CDS, and that is the LV group. All public land in the five sims are set to the LV group, so only that group can be set to manage it. Of course this is seperate from the powers of the Estate Managers.

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My apologies and thanks for pointing out that the old 'Colonia Nova' group is now extinct. That's very good to know; one group less to worry about!

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Rosie Gray wrote:
Gwyneth Llewelyn wrote:

[*]What difficulties are there in merging the many land management groups into a single one? Is that even advisable?

Lots to think about there Gwyn, but I just wanted to point out that there is only one land management group now for all of the CDS, and that is the LV group. All public land in the five sims are set to the LV group, so only that group can be set to manage it. Of course this is seperate from the powers of the Estate Managers.

rosie and here Is another confusing issue. You say it's deprecate from the powers of the "estate managers " to be clear. You do mean the Estate Manager tool on the region settings.

We seem to use the people working for the chancellor now and that tool iinterchangeably and I think that has caused some confusion.

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Also at the moment from what I can see, all LV land is set so anyone in the group can rez on it. This very much limits the use of the variable roles within the group. If that were turned off via the land tabs we could use group roles and abilities more specifically.

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I volunteer to be part of this commission. Will the meeting be Friday 5 September, or Saturday 6 September?

Thanks for your history, Gwyn. I think it is very helpful to set context for this discussion and recommendations. I want to throw one more bit of historical context into the mix. I had only been in the now CDS a few months in the fall of 2006 when there was a group announcement that it was time for season change in NFS. Summer was over and fall was rapidly moving into winter. Flowers would look silly sticking out of the snowy ground. Evergreens would be laden with heavy snowfall. Included was a call for volunteers to help switch out the summer LL plants for winter LL plants. Unlike ordinary objects, LL plants can only be rezzed by people who have special land permissions. So all of us who volunteered were added to the LV group to allow us to place LL plants on the sim ground. This process continued for a number of years, right up until a couple of years ago when all the LL evergreens on public lands were replaced by much more realistic purchased trees most of which are now owned by our CDSArchive avie an placed by a small number of people with access to Archie. The new plants look ever so much better than the old LL plants did, but in this process of updating the aesthetics, we also lost something. That is an opportunity for citizens who had never done any building, and might not even have any interest in building, to be part of the twice a year community spruce up an clean up of the sims. It was for me at least as a new citizen in 2006 a way to really "get" that the CDS was different, that our sims were actually community property an to feel some pride as a citizen in participating in making the sims beautiful. It was also a good way to get to know more fellow citizens.

So for me when I was first added to the LV, it was not about ability or merit or privileging some citizens over others. Rather being added to the LV was a way to volunteer my time in small amounts, to give back to the community. And this twice a year volunteer opportunity was open to any citizen who wanted to help.

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It sounds like a lot of fun rezzing stuff all over five sims without paying for the use of the prims. I hope we can find a way for all of us to rez our own birds statues rocks trees sandcastles
Chairs animals and rides flowers etc all over the five sims so we can all feel that pride sense of contribution and accomplishment and sharing that some get. Generally I have to pay dearly for the abilty to rezz my own objects so to do it for free and get this sense of well being too is something we should allow all almost 90 citizens to do. How do we do that ? Each get a public prim allotment ? Can we buy unlimited prims ?

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Hi Delia -

I am not a member of the LV group now, but I was 6-7 years ago. I was an LV for part of a term, where I dutifully went over all the public land and hunted for errant prims, people who rezzed them for greifing, or as not part of the build. I quit eventually, since the job really was "janitor" more than anything else, and my RL got to the point where I didn't feel I could do a good job.

I find your description of LV membership to be endearing, but fundamentally wrong from the way I understand it. At least it was explained to me that it wasn't a beautification committee, or a special, small, unannounced projects job either - it was hunting for, and returning things that were rezzed that shouldn't be there.

Maybe we shoudl have such a position - given an allocation of public prims "go forth and create beauty" and then report back on how you used them. I'd actually like that. But I'd also like to make sure it wouldn't use up all the public prims, too.

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I volunteer to be part of this commission. Will the meeting be Friday 5 September, or Saturday 6 September?

Thanks for your history, Gwyn. I think it is very helpful to set context for this discussion and recommendations. I want to throw one more bit of historical context into the mix. I had only been in the now CDS a few months in the fall of 2006 when there was a group announcement that it was time for season change in NFS. Summer was over and fall was rapidly moving into winter. Flowers would look silly sticking out of the snowy ground. Evergreens would be laden with heavy snowfall. Included was a call for volunteers to help switch out the summer LL plants for winter LL plants. Unlike ordinary objects, LL plants can only be rezzed by people who have special land permissions. So all of us who volunteered were added to the LV group to allow us to place LL plants on the sim ground. This process continued for a number of years, right up until a couple of years ago when all the LL evergreens on public lands were replaced by much more realistic purchased trees most of which are now owned by our CDSArchive avie an placed by a small number of people with access to Archie. The new plants look ever so much better than the old LL plants did, but in this process of updating the aesthetics, we also lost something. That is an opportunity for citizens who had never done any building, and might not even have any interest in building, to be part of the twice a year community spruce up an clean up of the sims. It was for me at least as a new citizen in 2006 a way to really "get" that the CDS was different, that our sims were actually community property an to feel some pride as a citizen in participating in making the sims beautiful. It was also a good way to get to know more fellow citizens.

So for me when I was first added to the LV, it was not about ability or merit or privileging some citizens over others. Rather being added to the LV was a way to volunteer my time in small amounts, to give back to the community. And this twice a year volunteer opportunity was open to any citizen who wanted to help.

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I was talking about the 2x a year/seasonal plant swap out volunteers. The plant swapping took place for about a week each season. Volunteers were given the LL plants for that season and asked to remove the previous season plants and replace them with the incoming season plants--i.e,,remove green conifers and replace them with snowy conifers. It was not to place any plants you wished anywhere on public lands that you chose. This 2x a year request for volunteers was not the same as the ongoing janitor function that keeps our sims clean of debris and lost prims.

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I did that once, years ago, and it was fun and a bit of an event! I must have been in LV for a short time during then, too - didn't even think about it.

I agree that that is the sort of event that would allow for a (temporary) ability to rez in CDS public lands.

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I was talking about the 2x a year/seasonal plant swap out volunteers. The plant swapping took place for about a week each season. Volunteers were given the LL plants for that season and asked to remove the previous season plants and replace them with the incoming season plants--i.e,,remove green conifers and replace them with snowy conifers. It was not to place any plants you wished anywhere on public lands that you chose. This 2x a year request for volunteers was not the same as the ongoing janitor function that keeps our sims clean of debris and lost prims.

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Yes .. that's when I got my LV place .. we were planting snowy trees ... its easy to watch the prims as you were replacing a tree you had removed ... and it was huge fun :D

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So sorry Delia I guess I got confused because I have noticed so very many of your things rezzed around CDS. In fact the flamingos you put in the water at the beach at LA caught my eye just this weekend, the ones there by your big rock formation. I've seen animals and various plants flowers etc of yours all over CDS so I thought you meant that sort of beautification as well, things like the sandcastle Calli has on the beach etc. It seems lots of people have been rezzing all sorts of things all over cds common land for the past few years now so it's hard to tell what's something that is supposed to be there and what is not. You know, officially approved or not.

Sometimes it's things in the middle of the common land and sometimes it's just fudging on parcel boundaries .

I know people think they are being generous to donate their items to CDS in this way and I'm very grateful. But it does send a message that we are all welcome and should do the same. I know some newer citizens saw this sort of rezzing g and seemed to think it was status quo accepted behavior. AND how sweet of the chancellor to a oblige. The other way to see that is to see a chancellor granting favors to people who generally have to pay many dollars a year to rezz items. Basically giving away CDS property in exchange for loyalty. Or maybe it sends the message that only certain a people are Priveleged. I get that isn't the intention but that's how it looks sometimes.

Again when the sims are quite empty, wr jave plenty of vacant parcels and a very few ever show up this becomes the norm, so transitioning to rule of law and a need for some control will turn off those who used to run free and enjoy that

Since now the chancellor has the legal burden of taking care of the use of the land , I guess the past chancellors approved this free rezzing beautification. Since the chancellor is in charge of the land they have to be in charge of the group that controls the land now. Or else they have responsibility without control, never a good combination.

And we so have laws about this. The laws about the archivist are not being followed apparently by some recent chancellors or so many roads and streets and buildings built in the past few years wouldn't be owned by residents. Didn't we learn anything from Ulrika? For example what power do people with thousands of prims of streets and buildings rezzed I'm cds that they personally own hold over the community ? If at any time they decided to make a mess of cds they could do so. Sure we could do a sim rollback and ban them. But why do we want to be situated so that this can happen?

We need to control who can rez in CDS. Why make work for janitors ?? And how do they tell what's supposed to be there now anyway ?
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We need to get every single public prim possible put in the name of not sudane rosie and cadence moon etc. What's up with the major buildings not being owned by the CDS archivist. An SC member has a waiver to handle this. Is this working for us ?

The SC controls Archie. And personally I think we need a separate avatar to archive the super important public buildings and keep these under a special lock and key by the SC. Not on the same avatar we keep day to day incidentals anyone may need.

Do you realize that .....

If items are deleted out of Archie by someone I seriously doubt linden lab will replace them for us. We won't get them back. I have NEVER seen or heard of LL giving deleted inventory back to some one who broke tos shared a password and had it deleted. The stuff would disappear. So I'm glad the password to Archie isn't given our willy nilly.

Of course a few of people who have long left sl may hwvr things that are irreplaceable but there are huge numbers of things in cds that you would sorely miss and would take a long time to redo if certain someone's who have hundreds and thousands of prims rezzed. wanted to make trouble. They actually hold CDS hostage in some ways. ==== don't upset so and so, they may take all their things and leave ! This is why we need to follow the law and get stuff archived !!!! It's easier to return prims we don't want than to get back prims someone takes back because they are theirs and they own them.

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Thank you all for your contributions so far, the discussion seems to be progressing nicely :)

Delia, you're so right, Friday is the 5th, not the 6th! Gosh, I should have paid more attention to the calendar...

I also loved the whole idea of having lots of citizens spontaneously changing public land with little oversight, and everybody would be able to join the fun. It was even therapeutic: after so many discussions and arguments on the forums, citizens would forget (at least temporarily!) their issues, and work together collaboratively to beautify CDS. Building seems to bring out the best in us; or, at least, so I thought back then!

Nowadays I'm afraid we will have to be stricter. That doesn't mean that the LV group might be temporarily open for many citizens during a special building event. Even if things get out of hand (too many prims wasted), after the event is over, people would leave LV, and then someone could remove excess prims in peace. In fact, that's pretty much what happens when we invite hosts to set up events in the CDS who are not citizens: we invite them to LV temporarily and return their prims after the event is over. I don't see any problem with having similar things for citizen events. So long as everybody understands it's temporary and don't get angry because they will have to leave the group after the event is over!

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Re: Call for volunteers: RA Commission reviewing CDS/LV grou

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I want to address your implied accusation, Cleo, that I put out whatever I wish wherever I want on CDS public lands.

So sorry Delia I guess I got confused because I have noticed so very many of your things rezzed around CDS. In fact the flamingos you put in the water at the beach at LA caught my eye just this weekend, the ones there by your big rock formation. I've seen animals and various plants flowers etc of yours all over CDS so I thought you meant that sort of beautification as well,

I do not "run free" around the CDS sims putting out objects just because I feel like it. Over the years I have been asked by some of our past Chancellors to do landscaping of specific areas of some of our sims, which I have done. The larger areas where I have been asked and have done landscaping are the lake and river area of AM, the cliffs and plateau of Monastery, and the beach and northside cliffs of LA. At the request of two previous Chancellors, I landscaped the LA beach. The Covenant for LA states that this sim is "inspired by and modeled after rural Tuscany." So to landscape the beach in a realistic way, I used photos of the Tuscan coast that had similarities to our beach area. One particular reference was the Tuscan Orbetello Nature Reserve. Here is a link to some information and photos of that location. http://www.maremmaguide.com/riserva-nat ... tello.html. If you scroll down the page, you will find pictures of "Fennicotteri rosa (Pink Falmingoes)." Yes, perhaps it is surprising to some but there are pink flamingoes in RL Tuscany along the shore.

Regarding "the laws about the archivist" that you mention later in your post, Cleo, there is only one law listed in the Active code of the Laws of the CDS that specifically addresses archiving and "archivist." NL 7-10 IP Licensing and Content Archivist Act was passed by the 7th RA on 09 December 2007. http://portal.slcds.info/index.php/faqs ... r-09-2007/ You may remember this as your ThePrincess Parisi was a member of that 7th RA. NL 7-10 includes within its body the rationale for passing it.

RATIONALE FOR THIS IP LICENSING AND CONTENT ARCHIVIST BILL

In the first half of 2006, because of a dispute, Ulrika Zugzwang removed a substantial number of key structures from Neufreistadt (such as the walls, gates, long bridge) that were considered part of the CDS. The CDS did not have backup copies nor a license to use backup copies.

"Nearly all CDS key structures are owned by builders (e.g. the NFS Kirche, the Amphitheatre and two bridges in Alpine Meadow), and owners could potentially remove any structure from the CDS without notice. This could disrupt the CDS project. This bill aims to remedy this situation by:
1) Making the IP license agreement issued by the New Guild official and allowing the Chancellor to sign specific IP contracts on behalf of the CDS.
2) Establishing a new position, the Content Archivist, who will preserve backups of CDS infrastructure using a dedicated avatar.
3) Allocating a budget to be used by the Chancellor to provide reasonable compensation to CDS infrastructure builders who are not willing to accept a token payment of L$1 for their work.

The rest of the Act is divided into three sections:
A. License Agreements and License Budget
B. Content Archivist
C. Content Archivist Agreement

Section A references the IP license agreement posted by the New Guild. You may find the template posted by Moon Adamant here: IP License agreement for reference http://forum.slcds.info/viewtopic.php?f ... 6de8#p9295 The intent of this agreement between Builder and the CDS is to

allow the CDS to reconstruct property that may be damaged or destroyed at any point in time.

Neither NL 7-10 nor the IP license agreement template support your claim that

We need to get every single public prim possible put in the name of not sudane rosie and cadence moon etc.

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