Dear Members,

The AEC have reviewed the existing Community Guidelines and made some necessary amendments and alterations. These have now been updated and can be found in the usual location within the Help menu.

One significant change I would like to bring to your attention is the increase in AEC term from 3 months to 6 months. This will be in place for the upcoming elections due in the next two weeks.

As you know, we have amended the role of an Advocate to include the Guide role (formally Greeters) and also Moderators of the Wading Pool.

Update: we migrated back to our Brooklyn server as of September 5, 2011

Our server is located at a facility in Brooklyn that is under a mandatory evacuation order. The base level of the building is approximately 8-12 feet above sea level. The National Weather Service (as of 12:04 pm Saturday) is currently forecasting a storm surge of approximately 3-6 feet at high tide (11 am Sunday).

Dear Members,

Neopoet is your community. As members of this community we are asking for you to volunteer your skills and time so we can move Neopoet forward.

To keep you posted with what the AEC are doing behind the scenes and to keep you all up-to-date, we are working on the following:

Advocates/Greeters/Wading Pool Moderators programme
Chat Programme
AEC Chat sessions
Neopoet Book Committee
AEC Guidelines - review and update

To help with these we need volunteers for the following positions:

Dear Members,

I was honoured to have been nominated as a candidate for the recent AEC elections, I was pleased to have been successful and blown away that I also got the chair.

I have been chair for a few days now and haven’t yet been able to sit in it. The recently elected AEC has had to hit the ground running, with no time to ease into the role gently. My team have 3 months to deliver a successful term and help Neopoet move forward and evolve for the benefit of its members.

The responsibility is huge but a real exciting challenge for each one of us.

We would like to cordially welcome the new members of the 14th Advocate Election Committee:

Hooded Stranger, AEC Chair

And, in alphabetical order:

China Blue
geezer
Lou*
scribbler

*Note: Lou joins in the place of Eduardo Cruz, who was unable to join the AEC due to an outside professional commitment

Please join us in congratulating the new AEC and wishing them the best for the upcoming term.

OUR BALLOT IS LIVE: http://new.neopoet.com/community/form/3042

This is our final ballot for the upcoming AEC election. Ballot order was randomized by www.random.org
The election will start on Tuesday, June 28 (though we may open the ballot Monday night for logistical reasons)

Barbara Writes
China Blue
Eduardo Cruz
geezer
Hooded Stranger
Lou
scribbler