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Emme Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 5347 days ago 980 posts - 1594 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German Studies: Russian, Swedish, French
| Message 529 of 553 12 December 2013 at 9:15pm | IP Logged |
daegga wrote:
Just another idea. What about a "board of veterans", where members with TAC experience
step in as temporary leaders whenever they have the time and are in the mood to do so?
Maybe people would more likely take the initiative this way instead of waiting for the
team leader to come up with something. […] |
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I like this idea! After all it seems to have worked for this team somehow even after Julie’s participation in the TAC got derailed by real life.
daegga wrote:
[…] This would still require a "diplomat" for
interactions with the outside world, updating the first post with important information
etc. though. […] |
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I wonder whether the importance of the first post has been overestimated: in this thread it wasn’t updated after February and I doubt there was much editing of posts going on after that date in other parts of the thread as well.
Anyway, we still need to find someone willing to open the new thread. In the new scenario, the role of the “thread-opener” would be less daunting, I suppose. Ideally this person should be tech-savvy enough to be able to, for instance, upload pictures (personally I wouldn’t know where to start). I’ve seen that the new threads of other teams are aiming for prettiness, not just efficiency (not that a plain thread would particularly bother me).
What do the others think? We're still missing the opinions of many of you. Please, come forward with your ideas and suggestions or to volunteer!
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Meanwhile here’s an updated list of people who’ve expressed an interest in joining the new TAC team (again apologies if I missed someone!).
Cavesa: Swedish (new entry in the Scandinavian team)
Sarnek: Swedish (new entry in the Scandinavian team)
Kez: Swedish
mick33: Swedish
WoofCreature: Norwegian
AlOlaf: Danish
Expugnator: Norwegian
daegga: Norwegian / Danish / Swedish
Suzukaze: Swedish (observer / new entry in the Scandinavian team)
Emme: Swedish
Fasulye: Danish and Norwegian
yuhakko: Norwegian (wanderluster)
jeff_lindqvist: Danish / Norwegian (active Wanderluster ?)
Othar: Norwegian (new entry in the Scandinavian team)
Edited by Emme on 13 December 2013 at 1:54am
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| suzukaze Triglot Senior Member Italy bit.ly/1bGm459 Joined 4602 days ago 186 posts - 254 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, Spanish Studies: German, French, Swedish, Japanese
| Message 530 of 553 12 December 2013 at 9:34pm | IP Logged |
I'm quite familiar with both HTML coding/image editing so I'd be glad to help with all the tech-related stuff :)
Also, I like daegga's idea of having a group of experienced TAC users. If a team's leader has to leave their position for whatever reason there will be someone else capable of replacing them.
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| Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6903 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes 5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French
| Message 531 of 553 12 December 2013 at 10:24pm | IP Logged |
I would like to join the team for the next year, if my busy schedule allows me and if you still have an open spot for me :) (the worst leader ever, argh!).
Furthermore, I find the idea of a "board of veterans" really good! The life is full of surprises and not always all that compatible with language learning / on-line activities, as I have had to learn this year the hard way. It is good to have some possible replacement, and it is generally great to have more people engaged and coming up with team activities.
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| Emme Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 5347 days ago 980 posts - 1594 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German Studies: Russian, Swedish, French
| Message 532 of 553 12 December 2013 at 11:01pm | IP Logged |
@Julie
You're most certainly welcome back in the old/new Scandinavian team! ;-)
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One by one, little by little, it looks like we’re slowly approaching the default active-member limit of 15. Are we ok with that limit? IIRC the limit can be changed if the team agrees. Personally I’m ok with the 15-member limit since the majority of the team is made up of senior members and so the drop-out rate shouldn’t be too dramatic this year.
But should we discuss the matter before we actually reach it? Please, voice your opinions.
Here’s the updated list:
Cavesa: Swedish (new entry in the Scandinavian team)
Sarnek: Swedish (new entry in the Scandinavian team)
Kez: Swedish
mick33: Swedish
WoofCreature: Norwegian
AlOlaf: Danish
Expugnator: Norwegian
daegga: Norwegian / Danish / Swedish
Suzukaze: Swedish (observer / new entry in the Scandinavian team)
Emme: Swedish
Fasulye: Danish and Norwegian
yuhakko: Norwegian (wanderluster)
jeff_lindqvist: Danish / Norwegian (active Wanderluster ?)
Othar: Norwegian (new entry in the Scandinavian team)
Serpent: Danish / Swedish (observer)
Julie: Swedish
Edited by Emme on 13 December 2013 at 1:54am
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6597 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish
| Message 533 of 553 13 December 2013 at 12:04am | IP Logged |
Observers aren't supposed to count towards the limit, although it's up to the team to decide.
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| Emme Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 5347 days ago 980 posts - 1594 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German Studies: Russian, Swedish, French
| Message 534 of 553 13 December 2013 at 1:55am | IP Logged |
You’re right, Serpent, and that’s why I said we’re getting there (but we’re not there yet).
If everybody on the list confirms their status, we’ve got 13* active members already signed-up and 3 wanderlusters/observers. I think we’d better get the conversation going on the upper number we agree to accept before a 16th person asks to be part of the new team, so we don’t have to either reject them only because of the default limit or put them in stand-by until we decide whether to allow them in or not. I honestly think that would be unpleasant and awkward to do.
*Until we hear from jeff_lindqvist I think we should count him as one of the active ones, though maybe he really intends to be simply a wandeluster/observer.
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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5334 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian
| Message 535 of 553 13 December 2013 at 7:24am | IP Logged |
Since you are a multilingual group, if there are too many you may of course go for one Swedish team and a
Norwegian/Danish team too, if you like. Though our experience at team MIR is that it is better to go with a
larger group, even if it is 23-24, because people disappear along the way. It is sensible to stop around 15 in
the first place, because if the final count is 30, two teams of 15 have a better survival chance than one of 10
and one of 20, but it is good to be flexible in the end.
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| Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4639 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian
| Message 536 of 553 13 December 2013 at 11:02am | IP Logged |
Solfrid Cristin wrote:
I would also like to vacate the position as fairy Godmother for Norwegian :-) I have loved working with you
guys, but it is always good to have some fresh blood, and someone with new ideas.
If no one comes forward I am willing to step in, but if someone with lots of new energy and ideas come by and could do it, that would be even better. |
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I don't know if I have lots of energy and ideas, but I am willing to consider taking up the role - in my case as Godfather - if you don't get any other enthusiastic candidates.
In case you don't refuse the offer, I'll try to keep track as best as I can and contribute when needed. However, I do hope that Cristina will still be around to complement my input with her excellent advice.
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