EVE Online developer Diagorus has just announced changes to CCP's Council of Stellar Management program via a dev blog on the official EVE web site. The Council, initially formed in early 2008 as a way to solicit player feedback and encourage community participation, features nine player-elected representatives and five alternates, the former of which travel to CCP headquarters in Reykjavik, Iceland for Council meetings.

The program changes deal mostly with term limits and obligations, including a lengthening of total CSM term time from six to twelve months, as well as the removal of term limits. Diagorus also lists a few time-related adjustments for the fifth iteration of the Council, applications for which open up on March 26.

Check out the full dev blog as well as the lengthy white paper detailing the roles and responsibilities of the Council of Stellar Management.