The Noble Robot wrote:
I'm really interested in becoming an active member of this guild. Tiran has developed a pretty fair structure, IMO, and I think we all know who the Guild Masters are going to be, so I don't think there'll be a lot of in-fighting off the bat (unlike some other Guilds, which lack a well-established membership/cheerleading squad).
Don't count on me 
I'm not interested in politics and long discussions about nothing. I see my role as a technical advisor, mentor and administrator for the infrastructure but not as a politician.
The Noble Robot wrote:
My only suggestion, but one I feel really strongly about, would be to eliminate the "Guild Cadet" caste. It's demeaning and not actually very useful.
There should be one barrier to "Guilds(hu)man" status, building a single age which is approved by the guild. That's it. It gets too complicated after that.
A member that has played a major part in developing an age, tool or assets for ages (textures, objects) will become a guilds(wo)man. Here in Europe especially in the German speaking areas we had something called "journeyman" since the medieval ages. A journeyman travels from master to master and town to town over some time to learn the arts of his guild from different people. A guild cadet is going to have a similar position. He may join one more multiple groups to learn different techniques until he feels that he has mastered the art. He shows his work and letters of recommendation to his fellow guild members.
Again the status of Guild Cadet is more an OOC status to show that a person likes to learn the techniques but doesn't feel quite good enough to call himself (or herself) a guild man.
The Noble Robot wrote:
I'd also like to aggressively (:wink:) offer my services as a web developer and designer for the GoW when the need arrises. I can learn any CMS system in under an hour, and can code for php and java. Let me know.
I'll try to reduce the PHP part as much as possible. I don't like PHP for various and good reasons. There is no way around a PHP based board since Python based boards are not ready yet. I'm going to post a list of ideas later. Thx for the offer 