The webpage for the SciWord 2007 online convention has been updated with the info for this year. There are already some very exciting seminars scheduled and I have been told more are in the works.

I especially look forward to the “Blogs in simming” seminar hosted by AdmShuni of the Federation Sim Fleet. This since I have been having some ideas in that direction myself. I suppose you can see a PBEM game like a blog of sorts.

If you have any ideas for a topic or something PBEMPlayers.com could host a seminar about, please send in a comment!

The dates for the annual SciWorld online role-playing convention have been announced. This year it will be from Tuesday April 3 to Thursday April 5. If it is as exciting as it was last year, you do not want to miss it! More info will be posted here on the PBEM blog when it becomes available, you can also check the official website at http://www.sciworldonline.com/ later (it has not been updated for 2007 yet).

I just received an announcement from a simming organization that they are changing the way their club is run. It used to be a large bureaucracy, but now it will become more of an informal organization of games and groups. I applaud their effort to reduce the politics in the PBEM/simming community.

I have been told from many sources that it is politics that are ruining many of the larger PBEM/sim role playing organizations. When the rules are written above the heads of the players, there is something wrong. No matter if there are some sort of representative democracy in place! In my opinion, it should be left to each individual game to decide how to run things.

I have seen how politics can destroy fine organizations with many successful games. Playing a role playing game online should be about having fun and working together and not be about making rules and regulations, policies and orders.

I am therefore very happy to see this organization make the change and abolish the “bureaucratic and political mess”, as Chas Hammer puts it in his announcement.

Chas represents “The Simming League“, an umbrella organization for simming clubs. I now hope each and every of those clubs takes the hint and takes steps to reduce to politics and increase the fun.