Tuesday 15th September 5pm UTC

Overview
- Horace is going to be available to work on during Hacktoberfest this year
- KOA is going to be hosting a Halloween Costume Contest in October!
- Our next pom war is going to be taking place in December
- A new club has been launched: Minimalism
- KOA is going to become a community server on Discord
- A new role is coming to the server: Welcome Wagon
- Our staff have gone through a few changes
- Some of our channels have been moved or removed
Previous Quarter Feedback
What did we do well?
- Group Goals has been a really fun and helpful event
- Ankle is doing really well as the new BOTM Manager
- Chloe has been working hard to improve our website’s SEO
- Colin is keeping busy with lots of fun new R&D projects for KOA
- Emilie has been helping to plan the Halloween Contest and get Minimalism Club up and running
- Gratfeluness Club has been getting a lot of love and is well used
- People have enjoyed seeing what the staff are up to in Staff Accountability
What can we improve on?
- Making the difference between Accountability Station and Keystone Habits clearer
- People would love to see more fun community events happening
- It’d be nice to get more prompts for journalling/writing in Journalists Club
- It’s would be nice to see more people taking up an unofficial role as Club Leaders
- It was suggested that a Google Calendar be made so that KOA events can be added to the community’s calendars
- Create a channel where we can welcome new members and help them become part of the community
- Create a Welcome Wagon role, that could be based on activity, to encourage the community to engage with new members
What's Changing?
- We’re launching a Minimalism Club for all things minimalism, run by Emilie, where members can find more resources and challenges to encourage them to downsize.
- At the end of October, Emilie and Linh will be hosting a Halloween Costume Contest on both Habitica and our Discord server. There will be prizes for the best avatar costume and the best real life costume.
- KOA is opening up Horace and our Pom Bot to be worked on during Hacktoberfest! By creating three pull requests that get added to either of these projects, or other open-source projects on GitHub, you can get a t-shirt.
- The foundations for the next KOA Pom War are being built with the aim being that we hold our famous competition in December. Zach, one of our new engineers, has suggested a system where teams aim to build their own walls while trying to take the other team’s down.
- KOA is hoping to start using Discord’s new community server feature to help the Guardians better serve the community.
Staff Changes
- Mark and Josh have both stepped down as Guardians
- Chloe is taking a break from being a Helper/Guardian as she starts her new job
- Ankle has taken up the role as our new BOTM Manager
- Zach is now the new leader of our Academics sector as Colin stepped down from the role