Teams

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See also: Leadership Roster to find out whom to contact if you're interested in helping out with a taskforce! A team, for our group, is defined as group of members who play a role in organizing a part of our group in an ongoing basis. Teams are commissioned indefinitely to keep the area of the group they are responsible for going in a forward direction. StarBase 118 Academy Training Team If you're a Lieutenant or Lt. Commander, we need your help on the training team! Keeping up with regular training sessions requires a lot of enthusiastic members who can participate in at least one training group a month. » Where to go: Talk to your captain and ask that they get you introduced to the Academy Commandant. UFOP: SB118 Group Elements Publicity Team Without the efforts of our Publicity Team, we don't bring in new members, can't expand our fleet or launch new ships, and have difficulty maintaining the fleet size. You can join this team to help us find and recruit new members. No experience required, just a willingness to help out. We have lots of little tasks that can be done in just 15 minutes to help bring in new people. » Where to go: Publicity Team sign-up form. You will be added to team email list. See also: Publicity Team wiki area. Newsies Team Our Community News plays a vital role in keeping our members informed, showing prospective members that we're active, and keeping our site fresh for search engine rankings. Members of this team draft one post a month for the news, which can include interviewing members of the fleet, writing about interesting content on the wiki or forums, or finding interesting science and Trek news to share with the fleet. » Where to go: Team email list. Request membership to join the list. See also: Newsies Team wiki area. The (Image) Collective This team helps our members create great-looking character images, design new ship banners and logos, and keep our wiki and website fresh with interesting graphics. If you have any skills in graphic design, this is the team for you. » Where to go: Team wiki area. Information about requesting an image, or joining the team, is available on the message board. Chat Team We have all-fleet chats once a month, and some ships also organize their own ship chats as well. You can join in, and even help organize a special chat if you're so inclined. Members of the fleet also hang around the chatroom on a daily basis, and you can pop in to say hello. » Where to go: Chats forum. See also: Chat site. Podcasts Team Every few months, our Podcasts Team creates and releases a podcast with interesting interviews with members around the fleet, and insight into the news that makes up our community. If you have experience creating podcasts, or would like to learn how, join this team. » Where to go: Team forum. Wiki Administrators Interested in becoming a wiki admin? You should have at least 500 contributions of appreciable quality (click here to see the number of your edits under "basic information"). You should regularly attempt to organize and participate in the wiki and also be motivated to help the wiki grow. » Where to go: Wiki Administrators page with admin duties and information on how to apply Department of Veterans Affairs Long-term members can sometimes experience burn-out, and difficulty reintegrating after a Leave of Absence. This team discusses ways to ease the transition back into the group, smooth issues with our disciplinary processes, and make our membership rules more fair. » Where to go: Team forum. Federation News Service Team Interested in worldbuilding beyond just your ship? The Federation News Service allows any member to provide "bite-sized" IC news developments that can be shared across ships and referenced in sims to promote greater fleet IC continuity. Help develop the larger prime Trek universe. What's going on in the sports world of the Federation? What's the newest holonovel to hit the suites? You can help shape life in the 24th century! » Where to go: Open submissions are accepted to the Federation News Service. For those interested in becoming regular contributors, consider joining the Federation News Service Team and get OOC credit. Community History Team If you have an interest in either our history as a group, or general Trek history, you might want to check out the Community History Team and the Timeline Projects, which are intended to catalog our In Character, and Out of Character group history, including our "Captains Genealogy," showing the "parentage" of each captain in the fleet, all the way back to the start of our group. Open to all, you just need a willingness to help out with research and organization. » Where to go: Team forum. FWPA Team The Fleet Wide Plot Arc Team was launched on December of 2392 to facilitate and lead the development and execution of the Fleet Wide Plot Arcs that affect UFOP: Starbase 118 RPG. » Where to go: FWPA Team wiki area. Newsletter Team Keep the membership up-to-date by helping prepare our weekly e-mailed newsletter. » Where to go: Newsletter wiki area. Advanced Starship Design Bureau The Advanced Starship Design Bureau (ASDB) is a project group working on building a new starship creation tool/game called the Starship Designer. The ASDB also maintains and expands the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards ASDB Technical Database, which provides specifications and design histories for Starfleet starship classes and small craft. » Where to go: ASDB Signup Area. See also: Advanced Starship Design Bureau wiki area. 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