The guild is divided into 5 department. Click each department name to link to the subforum for that department. Due to recent events, the Grand Masters have stepped down from their positions on hiaitus; however, please feel free to contact the names listed below if you are looking for more information.

Age Development

As with the D'ni maintainers of old, some present-day maintainers are students of the Art of Age Writing. D'Lanor and Andy Legate can answer any questions you may have here. The department offers resources, tutorials, trouble-shooting discussion and support to all.

Inspections

One of the core roles of the D'ni maintainers was to inspect Ages before others to check on their safety. The modern guild does much the same in inspecting and testing new Ages, both prior to and after general release to the public. This is done currently using Uru: Complete Chronicles via the Uru Library Manager (ULM). This department uses the GoMa/GoW bug-tracking system (based on Mantis, provided by OpenUru), and writes reports and critiques on Ages when Writers ask for supportive feedback.

ametist can answer any questsions you may have here.

Personnel

The guild continues to grow, and its members need supporting and encouraging. Similarly, maintaining links and working closely with the many branches and groups that form the Uru community is critical to GoMa's mission. The Personnel department covers guild enrollment, the Code of Conduct and other guild documents, individuals' roles and promotions within the guild, and GoMa liaisons with other groups. Frisky Badger and Leonardo can answer your questsions in regards to the Personnel area. Frisky current serves as a forum Moderator

Projects

The guild has many other projects that don't easily fit within other departments. Dot can answer your questions regarding this department, which looks after projects run by guild members in other online worlds (e.g. There), competitions and GoMa publishing services (for journals, manuals, etc.). A key role of the modern Guild of Maintainers has been to work with Cyan and the Guilds of Writers and of Archivists to develop a process for issuing licences for fan-created art (Ages and other artefacts that expand the Uru universe).

Technology

This is the department that works hard to keep all the others functioning by supporting the GoMa forum, website, wiki and chat rooms. Nynaveve is responsible for keeping all this running smoothly.

Previous grand masters

The guild would not be the success it seems to be today without the hard work and inspiration of leaders who played key roles in its formation and development. These previous grand masters are still involved through contributing to discussions and projects. Thank you, Jishin, Montgomery and MustardJeep!