As many of the regulars in the chat room know we are in desperate need of some full time IRC Operators. To that end the community will be electing three people to act as IRC Operators for the Spacevidcast channel on Ustream.

What the IRC OP is:
- The IRC OP is the servant of the IRC room and the people.
- They are there to ensure that trolls are taken care of swiftly and promptly.
- Add half OPs as required to help control the room or ensure that *someone* is there even after hours to watch over the room
- Help channel newbies

Suggested qualifications:
- Understanding of how to properly de-voice people
- Understanding of how to properly kick users
- Understanding of how to properly ban people
- Advanced IRC commands are a plus

The elections will be opening up on Saturday August 1st and will be closing Friday, August 7th at 23:00 UTC. The community will vote on the people that they want to serve as their IRC operators. An IRC operator will serve a 6 month term and can not serve two terms back to back, but can serve again one term later. At any time any member of the community can ask to have an IRC Operator removed from power at which time Cariann and I will evaluate the Operator and circumstance to make a decision from there. While SVC is opening this up to elections, we are still a benevolent dictatorship and Cariann/Ben have the final say if an IRC OP is booted (which we will not take lightly).

If *YOU* would like to be an IRC Operator send an e-mail to [email protected] stating that you would like to be an IRC OP. The list of people throwing their hat in the ring per say will be updated in this post.

Good luck to all!

Current candidates:
“randy_nacol2002″ Randy Nacol
“Optiquest21″ Brandon Rowe
“Beale” Liam Carbin
“Fox814″ Gabe Soltero
“Jeph” Jeff Noe
“QuantumG” Trent Waddington
“BZWingZero” Brian Zollman
“NovemberKat” Sarah Austin
“Tehjai” Jai Muise
“Defiant” Brandon C
“Gooey” Mathew R
“Bookwyrm”
“CarbonX” Steven B
“arma358″ Zachary McCauley