Luckily, we already have access to the posting history of all our internal candidates. We have vetted a number of candidates that were suggested to us and we have reviewed their forum posting history along with a number of other qualifications in order to be sure they live up to the standards we are setting for the beta War Council.

Yes, we didn't want there to be a whole lot of politics surrounding this beta selection. We will however, likely have the full blown political campaigns seen in the EVE CSM upon the election of the first Full-Term Council.

To all those who have already been selected (whether you know it or not), congratulations! We're behind you! (in a good way, not with a nova knife or anything )

Seriously, I'm very jealous of this first WC and its free trip to Fanfest (the timing can't be a coincidence). You'll have earned it. Deciding how a representational democratic body will work with a free-to-play, sign up as often as you want, virtually-central, globally distributed voting body is going to be a big, sweaty, cold-pizza-in-a-conference room kind of job.

Actually, now that I think about it, you should outsource it to the Goons. The security system that they've implemented just to get on their voice chat system should easily be able to handle sorting out individual players. I think that the current "record a sample of your voice for the polygraph and hold up your thumb to the webcam for a fingerprint" system should do it.

I have e-mailed all of the selected players using their registered PSN e-mail addresses. Tomorrow, I will send an eve-mail to all those who have not responded to ensure that their registered e-mail address is still actively monitored.

You can literally FEEL the heat from the drool dripping off of this wolf's fangs.

I'll just continue without them. I will do all I can to get in contact with everyone on my list, but I easily have enough people to form a War Council.

No. You should know who is representing you or threadcrapping your votes away for their own agenda. They need to have a reason to do the job rather than be all "Look at me I'm a game dev! HI MOM!"

I haven't seen the name mentioned but i would think that one obviouse merc that should be considered is Zion Shad. I mean the guy regularly talks about dust on podside and runs a respectable corp that i was once a part of. He's interviewed ccp dev's numerous times. He was considering running for csm. Seems to me he would make a good fit. If not now im sure he'll be voted in down the road.

The WC Will be all goons and allys and will ask for voting so that no one else in dust will be allowed to enter

Where's our blog? I want to know who Goonswarm is going corrupt.

Not to sure about that if it's done proper. For now most community projects and works are pointed out to CCP by way of e-mails, forums and twitter. What would be wrong to have a place here where you already log-in to use the forums and be able to submit a link to your blog posts, wiki work, youtube videos, so on and have it all registered and associated to your user account. It just seems to me as a way to save both the player and CCP time, plus help in giving recognition where it is do.

The ISD have no problem posting about their work, the WC shouldn't either.
There needs to be someone to tell us what's going on. 1/2/30 what ever, I understand not everyone doesn't have the interest in keeping the community in the loop, yet may still be a good candidate, but SOMEONE should be there to pass on the information.

There are people with different opinions, and just because CCP has selected people on the council, doesn't mean those people carry the best opinions from the community. As you say, people excel in different areas, but if we don't hear about it, we can't gage that contribution.