DMW SC Organisational Structure - Draft 1

[TeaLeaf]

Google Drive shared folder set up and invites sent via your deadmen email addresses.   Minutes posted there.

[TeaLeaf]

Oldie, can I get a link to the current RSI DMW logo in size at least 500x500 with a transparent background?   (for PACT, we can update later).

[TeaLeaf]

Do we have an RSI recruitment thread?  Everyone in PACT seems to have one and I guess we should too.



Ignore me - I found this one:  
https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/111162/dmw-dead-men-walking-neutral-good-with-a-sneaky-underbelly

Do we want to update it?   I've used the link as our recruitment thread in the PACT text, so let me know if I need to change the url.   Fortunately it is our Dir of Comms who posted it, so we did well there with our ESP!

[Obsydian]

Do we have an RSI recruitment thread?  Everyone in PACT seems to have one and I guess we should too.



Ignore me - I found this one:  
https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/111162/dmw-dead-men-walking-neutral-good-with-a-sneaky-underbelly

Do we want to update it?   I've used the link as our recruitment thread in the PACT text, so let me know if I need to change the url.   Fortunately it is our Dir of Comms who posted it, so we did well there with our ESP!

It could do with a refresh, I feel.

I posted this in October in a hope to drive some more traffic to us:
https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/comment/5754633/#Comment_5754633

We could do with a 'sub-forum' link in the SC forum that redirects to this thread to make it easier for members to post stuff into (saves having to search for the post as people have to do right now).

[TeaLeaf]

I like it Obsydian.

I added it to the google drive for us to update and then I would suggest that we bury the old thread and work on pimping the new one (using Oldie as the poster in his role as Dir of Comms)?

When we've done that we can add a link on our forum as suggested.

[TeaLeaf]

Ship Hire Programme

I think we need to flesh out an announcement about this:

-firstly to outline the proposed programme (subject to RSI enabling such functionality)
-secondly to invite interested members to register their interest in either providing a ship they own, or hiring on out
-thirdly to sort out some draft rules and SOP's for such transactions

[Obsydian]

Ship Hire Programme

I think we need to flesh out an announcement about this:

-firstly to outline the proposed programme (subject to RSI enabling such functionality)
-secondly to invite interested members to register their interest in either providing a ship they own, or hiring on out
-thirdly to sort out some draft rules and SOP's for such transactions

I think it's a little early to flesh this out tbh.  We need to see what in-game systems there will be that can be used to support this.  I just thought it worth putting out there as something we're planning on doing for our membership in order to attract new members.

I'm certainly willing to allow my ships to be used (as I am sure others will), but I would also envisage the org owning ships that can also be hired out.

[TeaLeaf]

Woger that.

[OldBloke]

First draft for comments/amendments.

Did we miss the CFO (financial director) role i.e. the person responsible for our 'guild bank' including revenue from joint operations etc. Would we, as Tealeaf suggested in his draft, discuss these matters at board level?

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Star Citizen - DMW Organisational Structure

Dead Men Walking's Star Citizen Organisation will be based on a corporate model. We will have a board of directors lead by a CEO. Each Director will have ultimate responsibility for one or more divisions that will be aligned under three broad groupings - Operations, Diplomacy and Communications. Each division will have a Division Head who will report to the Director responsible for their division.

DMW will have a board consisting of 4 directors: Obsydian, OldBloke, Smilodon and Tealeaf. Our CEO will be Smilodon.

The Directors will be assigned divisions as per the following diagram. It should be noted that our Director of Diplomacy (Tealeaf) will also be DMW's representative on the PACT board.



The 7 Divisions will align with the various game-play elements.

Security
Escort duty, search and rescue, infiltration, bounty hunting, boarding parties/ground troops.

Logistics
Personal transport, haulage, trading, information running, refuelling.

Industry
Mining, manufacturing, salvage, engineering (over-clocking).

Science
Exploration, jump point navigation/charting, research.

Diplomacy
Alliance matters (Director), inter-organisational matters (Head).

Human Resources
Recruitment, promotion/demotion, ejection, awards, penalties.

Public Relations
Press releases, consistency of message and rigidly-defined content (web, forum etc.)

When we have filled the remaining 6 vacancies then those 11 people will form DMW's Star Citizen management team.

This model suits our current membership level but also has scope to adapt as we grow the organisation. In due course we will publish the job descriptions to go along with the roles as defined here.

[smilodon]

I was assuming that you'd all just give your credits to me to look after?

 Failing that the role does seem to be a requirement. However holding the purse strings would be an important role that depending on how it plays out in the game, might have to go to a senior member of the dMw community.

[OldBloke]

I was assuming that you'd all just give your credits to me to look after?

 Failing that the role does seem to be a requirement. However holding the purse strings would be an important role that depending on how it plays out in the game, might have to go to a senior member of the dMw community.

It would, IMHO, have to be a director. We could have a 'Director of Finance' without any direct reports. Until such time as we consider increasing the board I would suggest that we expand Tealeaf's role to 'Director of Finance and Diplomacy'.

[Obsydian]

I suspect that the org changes will include a role or roles that allow the movement of money between org bank accounts (I believe we wil be able to set up multiple accounts for various things) and we can decide when that happens as to who is to be entrusted to handle org funds.

But if you want to assign the role to someone in the meantime I have no objection.

[TeaLeaf]

I like it.   I posted something to help you in the interim OB, an article for our website front page.

Finance is going to cross all of those roles.   Not sure if we want it as an isolated role or shared amongst us at this stage.  I have no problem with it being at Board level instead of with one person.  I think any of us would suit if the role were to be assigned to an individual.   Just remember I'll be pulling out millions of UEE credits to repay other orgs for lost ships as I reverse my Reclaimer out of the hangar and destroy a friendly flotilla of smaller ships who happened to be passing. (the blind spots on a Reclaimer are a bitch!).

[OldBloke]

Are we agreed to post the structure to the masses?

[TeaLeaf]