Jahmen wrote:
Example: The Guild of Messengers. One might think their purpose should have been the "Official Guild" to host and post News for all the other Guilds or for a Master Guild Counsel representing all the Guilds to the Uru Community. The Central place for all the latest Guild Announcements, News, Agendas and Polls. The Centralized place for Uru Open Source Announcement to be posted. Just seemed a logical role and function for them, being called the Guild of Messengers and all. But instead we have the more recognized Official Uru Community website, The Cyan MOUL. With Open Source, I would have thought the Guilds Uru Community could see the need to organize themselves within their own Official Website Guild Masters. ???
I understand your concern that there is a lack of a single leader to direct the guilds. However, there are some strengths, as well as weaknesses, in the lack of a dictatorship.
Considering your example: The Messengers are serving the community to the best of their ability, but it is not the Messengers' role (nor is it any guild's role) to force the community or the other guilds to comply with some One True Vision(tm) of how things should be. What you perceive as a lack of organization is, in the view of others, a spirit of cooperation rather than a force of coercion. We are happy to post and spread news for the other guilds - but if other guilds want to manage their own news then that is not a problem and we are not going to tell others how they must do things.
Also, there are some members of the community who want to work on projects that seem like they might belong under the domain of the guilds, but those persons do not want to work with the guilds. Again, that is the prerogative of those individuals and the guilds won't be forcing people to organize into their structures. The guilds are voluntary organizations.
As for the way the Open Source announcement hit the community ... Cyan has a very good relationship with Tom Sowa, and he is local to them, and so Mr. Sowa tends to get the scoop before anyone else. And sometimes, I get the impression he releases that scoop just a little before Cyan feels prepared.
I have not seen any of the Messengers express any negative comments about our group not being the first to know and publish this information. I believe I can speak for the guild when I say that we're less worried about being first to receive information, and more concerned about ensuring information is spread to all in the community, rather than to just some. We do our best to meet that goal.
One last note - the Messengers had been talking to other Guild Masters about an all-guilds meeting to discuss how we can co-operate in this new paradigm of Open Source Myst Online, but that discussion is pending more information to be released from Cyan.