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Hello everyone,

Welcome to a new OpenAnno status update. There are quite a few things to announce this evening :).

1. New Members

I'd like to welcome Kilian], kaschte and Nightraven to the team officially. They have done a lot of great work on the website and game designing areas in the past weeks. Welcome aboard!

2. New Website in the Making

Kilian], kaschte, Nightraven and Andre are working on a new OpenAnno website. We will get a completely new main website, which will contain much more information regarding the game than the current website and will of course be redesigned. I am not allowed to post a preview, but let me tell you, it looks great already.

3. New Team Coordinators

After a long discussion on IRC yesterday, it was decided that we need a team coordinator in order to keep the development active and organized.

The main jobs for the team coordinator would be:

• Assign jobs/tasks to the developers.
• Guide discussions on irc.
• Post blog entries.
• Public relations and advertising.

We decided on three candidates: Yonibear, Nightraven and me(Nihathrael). Resuld was: 1 Yonibear, 3 Nightraven, 3 Nihathrael. We decided to take the job together. There for Nightraven and me (Nihathrael) are now the project coordinators. Nightraven will be focusing on public relations, while I will focus on assigning tasks. The other points are taken care of by both of us. Our job is also to be the contact for interested developers and gamers. If you have any questions, email us at team@nullopenanno.org.

LinuxDonald has agreed to be set to "Sponsor", as he does not have the time to continue his work as Project Leader. We would like to thank him for his dedication to the project in the past and future :).

That was it for the this evenings news post. More game related news coming up shortly. If you are interested in OpenAnno join us at #openanno @ irc.freenode.net or write an email to team@nullopenanno.org.

So long,
Nihathrael

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