• Giving Artists access to the Job plugin:
  The first topic was already one of the longest and most difficult ones. We have noticed that Designers more and more often create Jobs for Artists. Thus the suggestion came up to give Artists to some extent access to the Job Plugin.
  
  The main concern was on one hand that being able to lead jobs is simply not a requirement for Artists, and it may be possible that the Artist leading a job cannot properly handle the job or an other kind of unwanted situation results from it.
  
  Another concrete idea we had is creation of a temporary Foreman-like rank that has access to the Job Plugin, but expires when a minimum amount of job per time (e.g. 2 jobs per week) is not achieved. Downside of that is additional administrative work and inconsistent amount of work for jobs, so that it may simply be impossible to fulfill the requirement with proper jobs.
  
  In the future the Plotbuild plugin may allow more flexible permissions for Artists as it will be possible to create Plotbuilds with Artists as Plotbuild staff, something that could be used to make jobs managed by Artists.
  
  
• Support for creating videos:
  While talking about Public relations and which channels (Facebook, Youtube) to use in which way (we mainly want to use Facebook more intensively again) @_Luk was speaking up asking for help with creating videos for the MCME Youtube channel. We want to carry this on to you dear readers: If you have some skills in video recording and editing and would be interested making official MCME videos, please contact @_Luk or @Tyranystrasz!
  
  Furthermore @Tyranystrasz brought up the idea of having 360° videos, e.g. of Moria locations.
  
  
• Head Designer support:
  With having laden a lot of jobs onto my back by now I am now trying to share these jobs out again so that I can be a bit more flexible with what I am doing, when not all my free time is used up for administrative things. As it looks now @Fireinferno13 will support me with some help on the MCME Times, @Ivan1pl may take over the lead of the Themed Builds and @Eriol_Eandur, @_Luk, and @bender400 may take care of reviewing the Artist apps. Thanks a lot already for speaking up!
  
  
• Community Meetings:
  @Fireinferno13 brought up the idea of having meetings to exchange suggestions and concerns between all members of the community. As I reckon with not enough interest, not enough topics and too much organisation work (It's tedious enough to organise a staff meeting ) I did not support the idea. As counter-suggestion I brought up allowing everyone to listen to the staff meetings as they take place, and be able to contribute to the discussion through chat. But concern with that was that it may be too hard to regulate.
  
  As solution I will make an AMA (Ask me Anything) resp. Q&A (Questions & Answers) thread where you can voice all general concerns, ideas and so on, as this may be the easiest and most flexible solution to allow more communication between staff and non-staff.
  
  
• Modded MCME?:
  Upon various suggestions from all corners of the community I brought up the question whether we should think about using mods as a requirement for MCME, to have more blocks available, and maybe more client side features firmly in use, e.g. the Better Foliage Mod.
  Main concerns, and reasons why MCME is still vanilla (mod free) are difficulties when installing (incompatibilities with certain operating systems), maintenance discomforts (every user has to update when something changes, as opposed to plugins that only the server has to update), along with that with newer Minecraft versions we get more and more options to get more blocks through vanilla mechanics (3D block models, randomized textures) we all agreed not to consider using Mods (beside irrelevant optional graphic mods as Optifine and Shaders) on MCME and stay vanilla.
  
  
• Boosting Donations with PVP attributes:
  The amount of donations has ceased a lot recently. They are vital to keep MCME alive! The idea that was brought up for the meeting was giving advances on the PvP server (which is currently being reworked by @DSESGH to be more reliable). But the idea was quickly discarded, not only as it may cause legal problems with Mojang (they forbid to restrict game content with money) it would of course also ruin the fun. Still in consideration may be small features that do not change the game, colored nametags and similar.
  Please consider donating now and then, even if it is only 10$. Else we soon have to consider more desperate solutions! We already lost Freebuild due to lack of donations, so make sure we don't loose anything else!
  
  
• Proper Moria Kickoff:
  Since a very long time we say that Moria will properly start (be in close focus, many staffs and non-staffs working on it) when Gondor is wholly done. As the last parts of it (especially Andrast, Belfalas and Tolfalas) may still take a while to complete we did set a deadline for the wait now and plan to start Moria properly this summer!
  Furthermore Despot suggested that the main city part of Moria will be done carefully step by step, reasoned by the area being very densely filled with things. After that we may split up the remaining areas and treat them like sub-projects with a staff member leading one of it each.

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