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Cabinet Meeting 6.1
Topic Started: 15 Jun 2013, 01:17 (954 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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Haltari
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I'm am yet to receive a response from Alberrta about the whole situation, but it looks like some of the other members are interested in forwarding the region at the moment. I'm also going to send my puppet there to also aid in the entire process of closer diplomatic relations and tips.
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Also, I received this telegram about an interregional expo:

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Hello, I'm Hector of Demivillia. This is not spam. I am currently gauging willingness of participation in a NationStates Cultural Expo to occur by the end of Autumn.

To this end, I would like to know if your region would be interested in participating in a NS Cultural Expo. Nothing will really be required of you if you do attend. We would like to showcase your regions cultural achievements in a section of its own, so you would have to determine what cultural achievement would be best for that. We would also like to provide a nice snippet about your region highlighting on some of the more important parts of your region and what it stands for. Also, we would like to know what forum games your region enjoys the most so that we may better entertain our guests, as well as have competitions and awards for the winners.

This is not our main agenda, however. For the moment, I would like to remain silent about that agenda (rest easily, it's nothing bad) so that people can be better surprised when we get it going. It will be a discussion panel regarding NS culture. That's what I'm willing to say at the moment. As we get closer to opening the expo, we will be inviting one Diplomat, one cultural team member and the current leader (at the time of the expo) of your region, to take part in the discussion panel. Everyone else is, of course, invited, however they will only be able to add to the discussion through a public forum created for that purpose. The choice of which Diplomat and Cultural member to take part in the discussion is yours to make.

I understand that this may not be a decision that your position allows you to make. Please discuss this with whomever is able to make it if it is not yourself. If you would like to help in setting up the expo, it would be more than welcome as there is a lot that needs to be done, but understand that we do not want too much said about it until it opens.

Thank you for your time and please respond as soon as possible,
Hector


I am in favor of this because this kind of event has not happened in a long time. Additionally, I believe that we could potentially help set up this entire event. That might help make us seem more involved and potentially improve our relations with regions like TI that could potentially be attending. Also as for the members, I think that Gervase and Terlibe should be chosen because the MFA is obviously involved wit external affairs and part of the MIRP's job involves interregional expos. However, all of that can be decided later. So what do all of you think about this?
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We haven't a problem with this. This could be another opportunity to bring in some active participants to our community. (And we're in favour of anything of that sort.)
If anything, we'd have to say that our biggest cultural achievements would have to be the community we've set up and our democratic and open spirit. And we haven't a problem with Terlibe and Gervase representing us; in fact, we think they're probably the best two for the job. :)
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The Expo would be a great thing for our region to get involved in. And as said above Terlibe and Gervase would be great representing us.
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The expo sounds great! It is certainly something I would be interested in!
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I'm glad everyone is agreeing to participate, but one thing I am still wondering is whether or not we should help set up the expo. I feel like we should because that would reflect positively on our region, and we could put our region a bit more on the world stage.
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We haven't a problem with us helping to set up. Might just make us shine even more at the expo. :)
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No objections there from me, either.
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I don't see why we shouldn't help set up the expo. It's a great idea.
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Ok. I'll send a telegram saying we are interested in setting up the expo.
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