Assembly Hall

Quick update on Day 1 of the summit. Sorry if this is a bit of a teaser of a post, but we don't want to spoil the minutes.

CSM Intro / White Paper

We discussed a broad range of procedural topics, including reforms to the CSM election process and possible other structural changes. There will be an internal discussion of these things followed by a public discussion period before anything is decided.

We gave the new meeting recording / remote conference system its first live test, and it seems to work well. We also discussed and will implement some ways to improve the level of detail in the minutes.

What is a Stakeholder?

A very productive discussion with Senior Producer Unifex about the role of the CSM in the development process, in particular release planning. During the next development cycle, some test projects will be undertaken to determine the best way to fold CSM input into the process at earlier stages.

Winter 2012 / EVE Future

Broad discussion of what CCP plans to do in the near, medium and long-term, including some preparation for discussions later in the summit. Some very interesting stuff is going into the pipeline.

The State of Incarna

We got a briefing on the goals CCP has for Incarna. Large parts of this in the minutes may well be NDA'd, but it was a very positive meeting.

Live Events

Closing out the day, we had a session devoted to finding ways to encourage more live events, both CCP-created and also player-created (such as Hulkageddon). Some interesting stuff IMHO.

The final event was an excellent indian dinner at a restaurant fast becoming a CSM favorite. Some of the ideas that came up in conversation were brilliant, demented, or both -- the one about a special event during the Alliance Tournament being in the latter category.

CCP Unifex was sending email notes to himself during the entire dinner, which allowed those seated nearby to consume more than their fair share of the Naan.

It is a life signt, a reminder, that we as the playerbase are not fogotten by our elected council.

I like it. Keep on.

good teaser update, I'll be sure to check the final minutes.

Maybe you should learn to read before you respond.


I got more information out of two-steps posts in Jita park than the horse crap you slung here.

All you've told us is you went to a meeting and dined and thats it.

There is litterally no content.

A simple "We're posting the minutes soon so be patient with us" would have been more productive than the tripe you posted there.

This isn't Jita park...we're not interested in your political grand standing and top hats with canes and monocles posturing.

If your going to communicate...do so with constructive information and not fluff.

Attending "100's of hours meetings" would imply a hell of alot more content than the mere excuse of "NDA".

that's like posting a document with black bars painted on the page...why bother posting in the first place if that's all you got.

The way this works is that we are basically in meetings from about 0830 until 1800 local time with a few short breaks for three days straight. We then all head out to dinner for some ~real talk~ chill time with the devs where a lot of the stuff discussed during the day that we ran out of time for gets delved into more deeply. Trebor managed to throw this quick summary together (as he always manages to do somehow) to give people at least a minimal update of our impressions of that day's sessions. After we all fly home, we'll start working on the minutes. While that is going on I will write up a blog that goes into a bit more detail about the summit as a whole. More info is coming, obviously, but as the summit progresses it seems like folks would want to know, at minimum, that things are going well and there have been no 'Incarna-level' type events take place yet. v0v

Dude, for real? What was political about that. Here's what I learned: CSM election process and structure are being looked into, Incarna discussons were started on day one, always good, more ccp/player hosted live events. And who doesn't like a dinner story. You should thank your god of preference that trebor is there and posting and not darius.

Look at the CFC member crying guys.

I am as quick as anyone else to hold the CSM's feet to the fire, but I call bull### on you, here.

Two step is secretary, and if he's putting out more informative posts that would be appropriate, that's his office.

Trebor is near-live blogging an NDA'ed event. I think maybe you should cut him some slack here. Save the condemnation for a case where it is deserved.

Thanks for the update, Trebor.

Thanks for the update Trebor. Keep it up.

Nice writeup Treb. As a side note, can you give Greyscale, Ytterbium, and other devs a spork with "Dev Blogs are good" engraved on them? Just to remind them that dev blogs of changes are good.