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Hey its another meeting! -DJ Sith- Feb 15 06:10pm -20 comments-

This meeting clocked in at around 2.5 hours, that's almost a record isnt it?

We discussed much. Here's the high points:

The class points system the way is is now isn't the right way to get people ready for trial. Points right now are based on attendance, not knowledge. It was agreed upon the start up cirriculums for each rank with the trial at the end of the cirriculum to see if you get the rank. The details on this will be discussed in private by the JATs. Expect to see a much more involved (and fun) trial process.

To the JATs: for now keep awarding points on classes until we get the new system worked out. If you think a student is enrolled in your class just to get the attendance point & they blatantly don't learn anything go ahead and deny them their point.

Asking for donations from companies so far is going nowhere. We're going to set up a PayPal account for donations and a store where you can buy neato JA merch still. Nightcrawler is almost done with the logo (so far it looks FANtastic. ), and Doobie will get the PayPal acct created.

Keep in mind that giving money is not manditory, but is much appreciated. We can purchase servers with this and have actual tournament prizes.

If you have any suggestions or know of a company that can hook us up with something please tell Arcuss, who's heading this effort (Thanks, Arcuss).

We're going to create a JAT position called the "LeadKnight". Like our Lead Trainer does for our instructors this LeadKnight will help the JAK's with their Knightly duties. The JAT to do this will be voted upon by the Knights via email. La Magra and Jacen Solo are heading this one up.

The JACs are going to set up sessions to make sure the JATs are doing an effective job teaching.

The Academy has an official Hydroball team! The JA Aurochs will be joining a league soon. I see this as analogous to a college's football team. JumpinJedi and Eclipse will mascot.

I'm closing all classes that are taught by anyone that's not a Knight or above. I broke the rules when I let a J-Man or 2 teach classes, and its getting out of hand. My apologies to those whose classes I'm closing. Students can still hold informal classes on the non-classes if they want. Knights are going to be approved by the JATs before they start teaching on their own. Knights can assist classes no problem. We're doing this to make sure that our classes are helpful for the students.

We created the Knight admin capability to help limit the abuse that was rampant on the servers 2 months ago. We think that has subsided, so we're going to close off Knight logins. This will be a test case though. If it turns out that we still need this we'll turn it back on.

Whew! Fun stuff! Those brave enough can read a transcript of the meeting here.

The return of an old friend -doobie- Feb 13 04:23pm -29 comments-

Ladies and Gentlemen, one of the original JATs has returned to his rightful position. La Magra, Nofrikinfun, Jacen Solo, and I ran a "Knight" trial for Shannon today, but instead of promoting him to knight, we promoted him to trainer (with consent of the rest of the Council). Magra got a demo of the proceedings. Everyone do festive gestures and congratulate Shannon on his re-promotion!

*edit* the demo is up, and it actually works

	Silent Whisper Skin -Loaf- Feb 12 02:37pm -4 comments-
	It's a bit late, and I totally overlooked this, but for those here who haven't heard of it or even Silent (heh, she was a JAC), you can view / download / comment on it here. Remember, if you need news posted, email The Loafster .

Trainer Promotions a'plenty! -doobie- Feb 12 12:48am -31 comments-

Believe it or not, we didn't forget that trainers can also be promoted. In fact we have not one, not two, not three, but FOUR promotions to announce. Everyone bow your heads, raise a glass, light a saber, and smile as we announce that Jacen Solo, Huxley, and Aayla Secura have been promoted to Jedi Mentor, and Eclipse has been promoted to Jedi Master! Congratulations guys, you've earned the respect of everyone in the JA

	Profile Pictures -Â - Feb 11 03:35pm -9 comments-
	Just a reminder folks, that only DJ Sith and massadoobie can put up your profile pictures ! Send your pictures to fixtheja@hotmail.com : All the JACs check that email account. If you send your picture to any of the Staff guys, or the other JACs, chances are that they'll never get on the site. So, for your pictures sake, send them to DJ and doobstermeister !

Jedi Academy Mod Upgrade... -cHoSeN oNe- Feb 11 12:27pm -8 comments-

Well, its about that time...I am heading back to the coding bubble to work on an upgrade for the Jedi Academy Mod.

Since its 1.0 release, many people have been anticipating what I will have in store for the next version. It received an overall performance of 9.3/10 so far on PCGamemods Not too bad with almost 900 downloads and a little over a month in circulation. I have tried multiple times to get the mod posted on the "Big Two" websites for Jk2 downloads, but I dont know why they havent posted it.

If anyone has any questions/comments/suggestions on ideas for the mod or anything of that matter, you can easily post in the forum Jedi Academy Mod Upgrade or come to channel #academy on irc.enterthegame.com Thanks and may the Force be with you!!

	KS server update -DJ Sith- Feb 11 01:10am -5 comments-
	The KS server has a new IP. Update your favorites, everyone! This goes without saying... if anyone asks you for the new IP.. tell em "check the site", don't give it to 'em plz.

	Another meeting! -DJ Sith- Feb 10 05:48pm -19 comments-
	Our random JAT meeting is scheduled for 2pm CST (8pm GMT) this Saturday in #ja-meeting on EnterTheGame. We have quite a few subjects to discuss. If you like watching boring procedural meetings all students are welcome to observe. We think you guys may want to see what goes on behind the JA curtains to keep this place running. Be there or be parallelofifed.

Jedi Academy Aurochs -Loaf- Feb 10 03:01pm -20 comments-

Whilst skimming the forums, and being harrassed on mIRC by Corruption (!), I just want to highlight the idea.

Luke Skywalker and Dark Blade camne up for the idea of a JKII hydroball team in the academy, here is what he says:

"For those of you who are interested, post a comment on this thread. For those of you who do not have the MOD yet, go to http://www.jediknightii.net/files/index.php?link=file&id=332 and download that as well as the patch for it.

And for those of you wondering, "Where the hell we gonna play?" Well I got your answer. It was posted on a thread called "Hot Women" by Sared introducing the server and hydroball to the Academy. The IP is:195.23.133.158:28071

Download the MOD, check out the server, and join the team! It's that frikin simple! Hope to see as many petitions as possible for this Academy hydroball team
Luke Skywalker
Dark Blade
{team captains}"

--Update--

If you want to submit news, look here.

	New Staff Member -Loaf- Feb 09 02:09pm -20 comments-
	Wow. My idiotic antics and various witty remarks have earnt me a nice little place on the JA Staff . I am the dedicated news poster for the Academy now, so expect some....stuff .

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