The September newsletter for style="font-style: italic;">EVE Online is
hot off the virtual presses. As always it features the latest in
upcoming changes to the game, mostly centering around the eagerly
anticipated Dominion expansion, as well as current ingame issues and
hot topics. Information regarding the upcoming fourth version of the
CSM is the main feature of the month. The CSM or "Council of Stellar
Managemnt" is a player based and player elected group that meet and
discuss in game issues directly with CCP.

Here is an excerpt from the newsletter:

The
CSM - How YOU can affect progress and change in EVE Online
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Dominion,
the expansion headed your way in November, brings changes and new
features to sovereignty and how players control the game universe
around them. Several of these changes are the result of input from and
research pushed forward by the Council of Stellar Management. CCP
Xhagen in his style="color: rgb(255, 165, 0); text-decoration: none; font-style: italic;"
href="http://www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=699">latest
blog style="font-style: italic;"> states that "roughly 60%
of all style="color: rgb(255, 165, 0); text-decoration: none; font-style: italic;"
href="http://wiki.eveonline.com/wiki/CSM">issues style="font-style: italic;">
brought up by the CSM" have moved into development in one form or
another. No other MMO community can claim such an impact on how their
virtual universe evolves.

Here is the link to the entire  href="http://www.eveonline.com/community/newsletters/vol033.html?sp_rid=MjgxNTExNDAwMgS2&sp_mid=34086341"
target="_blank">September 2009 Newsletter