CDS Declares Members of Next Representative Assembly

  

The Confederation of Democratic Simulators, or CDS, is unique among Second Life communities in that it has procedures for choosing it's leaders. Twice every year, there is a call for candidates to run for office. If there are more candidates than offices, then there is an election with voting. This time, the number of candidates matched the available offices.  On Friday May 7, Delia Lake, the Dean the Scientific Council announced the news to the community.

We have a slate of candidates for the CDS 35th Term of Government. Candidates who declared for the 1 Chancellorship and the 5 RA positions are:

Chancellor - Samara (Kyoko) Barzane

Representative Assembly -  Almut Brunswick, Laure Levenque, Rosie Gray, Tailsworth Horsley, and Tor Karlsvalt.

We have the exact number of candidates as we have available government positions. Therefore the CDS will not hold voting for this next term. The candidates will be officially installed in their respective offices on June 1, 2021, the first day of the new term.
Thank you all for declaring and volunteering to serve our community!

The Scientific Council of the CDS would make it official the following day, Saturday May 8. With this, the election becomes a formality as there will be no campaign or further voting. As the announcement states, the new Representative Assembly begins on Tuesday June 1.

Bixyl Shuftan
  

Builders Brewery Recovering from Mass Ejection

Last month, the popular Builder's Brewery group found almost all of it's members ejected. On October 19th, their membership plummeted from almost 17,000 members, to just 400.

We're not exactly sure what exactly caused it, and we are not going to point fingers, as that would be useless. But it seemed to have started during Linden Lab's critical server software upgrade that day, along with rolling restarts that came with no warning countdown even. There was tremendous issues across the grid, including inability to log in, no teleporting, groups and friends not loading, overwhelming lag even in an empty full sim (causing us to cancel at least two classes that day). Our two sims were greatly affected during this time, which apparently and sadly, "may" have caused our group bot to get stuck in constant eject mode. We may never know the exact reason, but it was a combination that created the "perfect storm" where everything all comes together at the wrong time. Steps have been taken to prevent this tragedy from ever happening again.

A few weeks later, the group still hasn't recovered from the crash, still only a fraction of their onetime numbers, and has continued to get the word out for people to rejoin, "copy and paste the following link in your local chat window to pull up the group join window -
secondlife:///app/group/04f595b0-cdc8-97f0-e710-9564824c03b2/about/ ... We want to thank everyone for your incredible outpouring of support and love we have received during this time. We hope to recover from this loss swiftly with your help and patience."

Builder's Brewery is at Builders Brewery, (110, 157, 23)

The Builders Brewery Members are some of SL's finest creators, as well as new creators, who take great pride in their work, and strive for excellence in ALL they do. Our goals are to help improve the visual and structural quality of SL, by encouraging intelligent design, builds & innovations, through education, sharing & support. Events & classes held regularly. Learning & helping one another is key.

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