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Cabinet Meeting 6.1
Topic Started: 15 Jun 2013, 01:17 (949 Views)
Haltari
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Greetings, comrades of the Sixth Cabinet of the DSA!

Congratulations on being elected or reelected to your respective Cabinet positions and I look forward to working with all of you in this new cabinet. Just like with the 5th Cabinet, there will be new meeting every 2 weeks or so from this point forward. The issues below are what the cabinet will be deliberating on, and like in previous cabinets, these recommendations are simply what I would like the 6th Cabinet to discuss as its shared agenda. All of you are free to provide any feedback, ideas, or additional issues that you believe should be discussed by our cabinet.

For all new cabinet members, this meeting is designed to be a discussion of our region's issues as a whole and the various initiatives concerning each individual Cabinet member. Therefore, I recommend that all of you participate in this meeting at least once per meeting in order to keep the entire Cabinet informed of your various tasks, duties, and concerns. Each meeting, you will receive a small list of recommendations for your ministry to address, but you do not need to discuss all of your recommendations at once, as long as you get to each of them eventually. And with this statement, I officially open the 1st Cabinet Meeting of the 6th Cabinet.

1. Complete commendation for Grolsch
This has already been written and submitted, and I am hoping we will be able to get this finished and voted on in the next congressional vote.

2. Prepared ministerial statements workshop (ongoing project)
Now that the auto-telegram system is being implemented, it would be good to look at creating a more standard set of telegrams and statements to be sent out automatically.

3. Proposed back up Secretary-General and President in the case of inactivity
This was proposed by Grobladonia in the last cabinet, and since both Terlibe and I have been very active, this has not been necessary. However, I think that we could still discuss this further. If you would like to look at what we already discussed about this, look at the 3 meetings for the 5th Cabinet.

Currently being discussed on the charter revision.

4. Amendment #39: Total Revision of the Charter
This is currently in progress, so I encourage everyone to take part.

5. Review jobs offered in the 'Help Wanted' subforum (if you want an assistant for your ministry, post the job in the subforum)

6. Revitalization of the Newspaper
Windport posted one article in the newspaper during the elections, but I would like if articles were still much more frequent. We could also potentially create some kind of chief editor position to manage and encourage greater involvement in the newspaper.

This can be solved in the charter revision if necessary

7. Implementation of an Anonymous Polling System
This was an issue that appeared during the election, and I created the "Congressional Elections and Votes" section in the Election and Votes sub forum in order to test out the possibility of doing a anonymous poll. The only problem is that this kind of anonymous system would make preferential voting very difficult, but there are ways around that.

I have begun talking about this in the charter revision, so this issue will soon be solved.

8. Proposed embassy (and colonization) by Stonehaven

9. Inactivity on the forums, and a relative lack of new, lasting members.

10. NS Cultural Expo

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Items for individual ministries to address:

Secretary General (SG):
1. Try contacting Suceavija about the Charter Revision, and if possible, establish a date to begin its scrutiny.
2. Finish creating the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) section in 'Introduction' forum, edit 'About the Democratic Socialist Assembly' to include link to FAQ's.
--Contact Terlibe and United Republic of People for more information on these
3. Make sure everything is updated (Amendments, Charter nations, etc.)
4. Appoint an advisor, if desired
--United Republic People was Terlibe's advisor so I suggest contacting him.

Minister of Foreign Affairs (MFA):
1. Make embassy recommendations to P/WAD
2. Prepare interregional intelligence report for CAB
--Interregional partners/allies
--Interregional adversaries
--Other regions of interest, if any
3. Keep track of the progress that UDLS is making towards 20 members so that we can establish an embassy
4. Find out the situation with all of our ambassadors and embassies, and contact Herrebrugh to familiarize yourself with the positions
5. Appoint an advisor, if desired

Minister of Justice/Head of Supreme Court (MoJ):
1. Audit region for Civil Rights (CR), Political Freedoms (PF), and National Categories (NC) compliance
2. Make recommendations to P/WAD for nations to eject, if any
--Like I stated before, I would like to eject as few nations as possible until Charter Amendment #39 is completed, but report all of the violators anyway.

Minister of Immigration/Regional Promotion (MIRP):
1. Try to add filters/improve the API as much as you can
2. Verify if/when interregional leftist fair is being held
--I am just going to keep this in here for you to remember to notify the cabinet about any of these kinds of events if they show up

Minister of Domestic Affairs (MDA):
1. Continue coming up with new debate ideas.
2. Try to come up with a new contest or game
3. Update all of the information in the NS Wiki.
--There should not be too much to change. Mainly population and a few other minor details.
--Also elaborate on the timeline that Grobladonia started
4. Read over Grobladonia's suggestions and contact him to familiarize yourself with the position.
5. Appoint an advisor, if desired

Minister of Cartography (MoC):
1. Verify all nations on map are:
--Existing
--Reside in the region (domestic puppets okay, too)
2. Add nations from map opt-in subforum who request placement on map
3. Essentially just keep the map current and updated
4. Contact New Andureo to familiarize yourself with the position.
Edited by Haltari, 15 Jul 2013, 08:20.
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First in foremost, I plan to make a list of all of our ambassadorial puppets and the nation's the control them so we can avoid any confusion down the road.
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I think there is a space for that in the Foreign Ministry sub-forum, but nothing was ever added in.
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@Haltari: Okay, we can handle that task list.

Current Status:
1. We've only Taradesha (who wants their old place back) requesting a position on the map right now, so we'll need to find a historical copy of the map with Taradesha on it.
2. So we've found the DSA SkyDrive page, but we haven't a password to post maps in there. And we're pretty sure it's not anyone's personal SkyDrive, but we'll have to find that out from New Andureo.
3. And New Andureo's already contacted us to see if we knew how to remove nations from the map. (We do.) He hasn't given us any other information related to the Ministry.
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Haltari
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@Saint James Islands Ok sounds good. For the historical map, contact New Andureo. I didn't record all of the old map links he sent me.
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@Haltari: There are copies of the old maps in the SkyDrive, we've found a copy with Taradesha.
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I know it's a little early for this, but we might want to think about getting a little more specific in our mid-term Cabinet evaluation this time around. It's a very good exercise, but this past term we were able to detect some dissatisfaction with the Cabinet without knowing what people necessarily wanted improved. One approach could be for each Cabinet member to think of a few specific questions about their performance that they want information on from the other members of the region so that we could include them on the survey.
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Personally, I think if we do not use the polling system, it would make things much easier and provide for a more productive evaluation. I think our Cabinet members will be able to take criticism, and I do not think the nations of the DSA will have a problem with criticizing us. Especially if we make it well known that constructive criticism is encouraged and no one will be offended.

I do not believe a poll provides for a good evaluation at all. It should be more of a discussion-like evaluation. Maybe we could do something like a series of questions that each nation will answer.
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I agree, Terlibe. I think in the next evaluation we need to really encourage constructive criticism. Last time, everyone was probably scared that we would get offended even though their critiques would have been more helpful than harmful.
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1.Try contacting Suceavija about the Charter Revision, and if possible, establish a date to begin its scrutiny.: I think we do need to get this moving. We (Gullud) has had an amendment to the Charter sitting in hold for the last few months.

2. Finish creating the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) section in 'Introduction' forum, edit 'About the Democratic Socialist Assembly' to include link to FAQ's.
--Contact Terlibe and United Republic of People for more information on these- Have to read that myself first, is there a like for the FAQ.

3. Make sure everything is updated (Amendments, Charter nations, etc.) Amendments are up to date as far as I can gather for the charter other than the in progress amendment from Suceavija. As for the charter nations, I hope to have time to sit with that list later today.

4. Appoint an advisor, if desired
--United Republic People was Terlibe's advisor so I suggest contacting him. Good idea. Thank you

As for other idea, I (and the PM) are sticklers for nation categories to follow the charter. Other than eyeballing each new nation, is there a site I can use to review the national category of the new nations.


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