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Grail Millennium, as of 2/9/96, formed several logical groups dividing up the workload of the Grail Team proper. For most of those groups I (min) have, in my spare time over the last few months, devised a basic prototype structure and interface from which the new teams can begin to shape a finished high-quality product.

Each Group has a team leader (and possibly myself as an executive team leader). Group leaders are responsible for creating the blurb that explains what they do at the beginning of their group's section on the WWW pages, as well as submitting occasional general public status reports to the site maintainer for inclusion on the What's New page.

More on this later.

Each group has available for browsing one or more documents that explain, in some detail, the current state of their endevours. At one time, the webmaster Dustin maintained all group documents in Rich Text Format(RTF) archived using PKZIP. This has changed recently. All documents excepting his FAQ are now in HTML.

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By applying to join a group, you are not automatically joined except for the Discussion Group. The leader of each group will usually do some form of a minor background check on you to verify that you are serious, and then within a few hours or up to a week at maximum get back to you with their decision. If the group has no current leader then background checks are performed by a temporary leader, which will either be the web-site maintainer or the founder.
(By background check I mean that yes, for everyone who's currently joined I've asked around about them and scanned the web for any trace of who they really are. No one freak. :) Paranoia is our friend.)

All applications for the brother(sister)hood are forwarded by CGI, erm... no, by JavaScript and email to the (temporary) group leader.

By joining a group, you are automatically subscribed to that groups mailing list, if any.

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Highly structured organizations can tend to stiffle the creative flame, thus groups within this project are not particularly organized. At least that's what we tell everyone. While that is true, it is also true that until very recently (August 1996, a full year after Grail was born) all decisions within the project were unilaterally made by myself, Lewis Sellers, as I was the only one involved in all aspects of design.

This has begun to change, so we present here a general guideline for all groups and potential groups to follow. The main guideline to remember is that the project founder reserves the right to be executive leader of all groups and make unilateral decisions without any prior notification.