Sapphire

Sapphire Development
Industry	Internet
Genre	Gaming
Founded	Davie, FL, United States September 20, 2011
Founder(s)	Bryan Gregory; t3sla; Mohammad Bhatti; Michael McGloin; Caleb Duke; Ole Martin Fiska;
Headquarters	Davie, FL, United States
Key people	Bryan Gregory (Chairman); Ole Martin Fiska (Vice-Chairman); t3sla (Head of Technology); Mohammad Bhatti (Head of Media & Art); Michael McGloin (Head of Community);
Products	Media
Services	Game Servers
Number of employees	about 14
Divisions	Dirty Players Gaming (dissolved)
Website	http://sapphiredev.org

Sapphire Development is a group of gamers and content producers. It is a social organization of mainly friends and it is structured and known as the Staff.

Founding of Sapphire

Sapphire started as a small project on a sandbox game called Minecraft. The original project name was “Redemption” and was a custom Minecraft client designed for personal use. The name evolved to Sapphire as they began a Texture Pack project to go along with the client. Diamonds were changed to Sapphires. Eventually, the second part of the name, “Development”, was adopted to signal that the group will expand into more projects and have “developers”. Sapphire today is composed of the group of friends that met on the Minecraft server in which Project Redemption started on. The main goal currently, is to travel and experiment around games, gaining or losing members.

Staff of Sapphire

The Staff of Sapphire is the structure by which the members of Sapphire function.

It goes: Board of directors, officers, regular crew.

Board of Directors

The board of directors hold the highest position in all of Sapphire. They oversee all functions.

Chairman: Bryan Gregory
Vice-Chairman: Ole Martin Fiska

Head of Art & Media: Mohammad Bhatti
Head of Technology: t3sla
Head of Community: Michael McGloin

Moderators/Officers

The moderators do what the board tells them to do, and make sure everything is going according to protocol.

Regular Crew

The regular crew is composed of friends or friendly people associating or directly employed at Sapphire.

Retired Members

Retired members have chosen to leave Sapphire, or have been marked to be retired due to inactivity without warning. This is NOT to be confused with people who are expelled from all Sapphire facilities.

Previous Head of Community: Caleb Duke
Previous Moderator: CobraStrike

Mysterious Appearences

People whom Sapphire members have encountered and are considered saints.

Game Servers

One of Sapphire's main attractions is its game servers. Currently, all funds are paid by Chairman Bryan, and previously were paid by Vice-Chairman Fiska.

Minecraft

Minecraft is where Sapphire started. There is one Sapphire sponsored server available currently.

Sapphire's Tekkit Server - 174.48.154.154

Availability: Up by request. Operator: Bryan

TeamSpeak3

TeamSpeak3 is a voice communication program that allows members of Sapphire to communicate daily. Customers, window shoppers, and totally random people are invited!

Sapphire's TeamSpeak3 - ta01.gameservers.com:9241

Availability: 24/7. Operator: Bryan Administrators: t3sla, Cydax Sub-Administrators: Mike, Jeremy Channel Mods: Jimmy, Funky. CreasingWolf