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Cabinet Meeting 9.1; opened 25 January; closed 10 April
Topic Started: 25 Jan 2014, 00:35 (1,343 Views)
StJames
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To my comrades of the Ninth Cabinet of the DSA, greetings!

I wish to congratulate all of you on being elected or reelected your respective posts in the Cabinet and look forward to working with all of you during this term. Below you will find the issues that I would like the Cabinet to discuss and commit to as its shared agenda. However, all of you are free and encouraged to provide any feedback, ideas and initiatives you would like the Cabinet to pursue over the coming weeks.

For all newcomers, the purpose of these meetings is to discuss issues facing the region as a whole and receive status updates from ministers on their duties in the region. I shall ask each of you to regularly (preferably at least once every week or two) update the Cabinet on the status of your ministries and share any concerns. I shall provide each ministry with a small list of items to address, though you need not discuss all of these at once as long as you get to each of them eventually.

With that being said and without further delay, I declare open this meeting of the Ninth Cabinet.

---Agenda---

1. Review jobs offered in the 'Help Wanted' subforum
If you want an assistant for your ministry, post the job in the subforum.

2. Munificent Interregional Alliance (Continuation of IRALL)
The Alliance treaty is currently in the drafting stage on the NS forums. Our responsibility is to draw up the government section of the treaty. Once the entire treaty is completed, it will need to be put up for a congressional vote.

3. The World Assembly
I would like to see us acting as a more unified force on World Assembly affairs. This may include the Ministry of World Assembly Affairs, proposed by United Federation of Canada/Chester Pearson, last term or something of that nature. Ideas on this front are more than welcome

4. Interregional Diplomacy
I would again like to see the establishment of new embassies if possible. I would also like to see regular communication with and from our current embassy regions, whose ties we will be strengthening with the Alliance treaty.

5. Congressional Action
Now that we have a formal legislative process set up, I would like to get the ball rolling on proper legislation. One of the ideas brought up during the election was have Congress formally question the Cabinet. Other suggestions are welcome.

6. DSA Role Play Convention
In cooperation with the Minister of Role Play, I would like to see a second round of the DSA Role Play Convention to outline details on the new common currency, a Bank of the DSA, a miniature WA for the DSA and establishing our roleplay history.

7. Reorganising the Forum
To complement new activity in the Court and possible new activity in the Congress, I would like to see the Secretary General and I reorganise the forums under the guidance and recommendations of DSAers.

---Items for individual ministries---

Secretary General (SG):
1. Make sure everything is updated (Amendments, Charter nations, etc.).
2. Organise an evaluation of the Eighth Cabinet.
3. Appoint an advisor, if desired.
4. Contact the Scientific States to familiarise yourself with the position.


Minister of Foreign Affairs (MFA):
1. Make embassy recommendations to P/WAD.
2. Try to find new regions to potentially establish embassies with.
3. Monitor ambassadors for potential inactivity.
4. Appoint an advisor, if desired.

Minister of Justice (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.

Minister of Immigration/Regional Promotion (MIRP):
1. Make sure the auto-telegram system is transferred and working properly.
2. Review and revise recruitment telegram draft.
3. Contact the Suceavija to familiarise yourself with the position.


Minister of Domestic Affairs (MDA):
1. Come up with new debate ideas.
2. Try to come up with a new contest or game.
3. Try to update all the information in the NS Wiki. (This will be problematic, given that NSWiki is "down for maintenance".)
--There should not be too much to change. Mainly population and a few other minor details.
4. Update the DSA Capitol factbook.
5. Appoint an advisor, if desired.
6. Contact Lemur Isles to familiarise yourself with the position.


Minister of Role Play (MoRP):
1. Verify all nations on map are:
--Existing
--Reside in the region (domestic puppets okay, too)
2. Keep the map current and updated.
3. Encourage new roleplays in the Gymnasia.
Edited by StJames, 10 Apr 2014, 01:54.
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On a more uplifting note, we'll be passing champagne in the lobby in celebration of Auralia getting his ass kicked out of the WA and, if we're lucky, quitting NS entirely. Can you even imagine a world where we don't have to put up with that shrill, arrogant prick anymore? It's a new day for NS!
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It's always sad to see you give up a job in the Cabinet after how hard you have worked here, Grobladonia. I hope you will find some time in the future to become more involved with the DSA again.
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On a more uplifting note, we'll be passing champagne in the lobby in celebration of Auralia getting his ass kicked out of the WA and, if we're lucky, quitting NS entirely. Can you even imagine a world where we don't have to put up with that shrill, arrogant prick anymore? It's a new day for NS!
It's definitely great to see him leave the WA this way. While I doubt he will leave NS, at least now there will be less irritating WA resolutions.
Edited by Haltari, 4 Mar 2014, 07:12.
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Haltari
4 Mar 2014, 07:11
It's always sad to see you give up a job in the Cabinet after how hard you have worked here, Grobladonia. I hope you will find some time in the future to become more involved with the DSA again.
Gervase
 
On a more uplifting note, we'll be passing champagne in the lobby in celebration of Auralia getting his ass kicked out of the WA and, if we're lucky, quitting NS entirely. Can you even imagine a world where we don't have to put up with that shrill, arrogant prick anymore? It's a new day for NS!
It's definitely great to see him leave the WA this way. While I doubt he will leave NS, at least now there will be less irritating WA resolutions.
*whimpers at the fact that that's the same reason I lost WA status*
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Okay. I have some ideas about what can be done to make the job of the MDA more manageable. Basically, the newsletter needs to be handled by more than one person since it takes a lot of work to put it together everyday. Also, due to the importance of the job the team that does this needs to be relatively stable between terms. This team should be between hold between 2-4 people, including the MDA.

The best way, I think, would be to create a Directorate for the specific task of handling the newsletter. The Director should be legislated to always be the currently elected MDA. This way and elected official is always the head of this Directorate, giving it some accountability. The team itself is selected by the MDA and doesn't necessarily change when a new Cabinet is elected. This should give it some stability.

This task should be included in the Agenda of the MDA for as long as it takes to get it done. I unfortunately don't have time to work out the legislative details of this proposal.
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I'll see if I can take care of that, Grobs. ;)

On to some more unfortunate news: unless I take up the MDA position myself, we'll have to hold a by-election for the post. Now I don't believe that I would be able to handle the post myself, so that puts us in the undesirable position of holding a by-election so close to the Tenth Cabinet elections.
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4 Mar 2014, 02:21
Grobladonia
3 Mar 2014, 22:19
Today there will be no Daily Spam, like the previous days. Having not found anyone to help me with it I find that it is just impossible to deal with both RL issues and my duties here. I won't be submitting my official resignation until tomorrow around the same time. This is just a 24h heads-up so you can have time to find someone to replace me in the interim.

If the Charter still permits this I recommend that no by-election be held. By the time it is over the nominations for the 10th Cabinet will probably begin.

I'm sorry.
watch this crumble into another 8th cabinet.

Sorry to see you go, Grobs.

But, I guess a report on how recruitment is going, the population is still stable at the 370 nations level. However, practically all three of our embassy regions have seen drops in their population, especially the Union of Democratic Leftist States.

The Auto Telegram program for me is spotty, and a bit badly programmed at that, it keeps on crashing while I'm at school, and I have a lot of studying to do, so Auto Telegrams might be down for a while.

Plans:

I have some ideas for increased recruitment;

1. Find a more reliable telegram system. I know NS++ has an auto telegram, but without regional controls, I'm not accessing it.

2. Redesign the recruiter program and get new recruiters. Ever since auto telegramming came, recruiters became obsolete. My idea is to send recruiters into feeder regions (The Pacifics, possibly some Refounded regions, possibly the Rejected Realms) and have them recruit on their RMB.

3. Use the NationStates forum. The Versutian Federation gained any users from the forums, why can't we? I think possibly opening up a 'ask us anything' or recruitment thread would help on the forums

Other ideas are well accepted. Thanks!
You might want to look into Aforess' recruitment program. From what I've heard its superior to Auralia's and it also support recruitment from Sinkers. However I also heard he's not too keen on sharing.

And if you want to recruit on RMBs be careful. Many GCRs have rules against it. Make sure to investigate this first. Also, I recommend against recruiting from The Rejected Realms. We may wind up having to send them back.
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Okay. I have some ideas about what can be done to make the job of the MDA more manageable. Basically, the newsletter needs to be handled by more than one person since it takes a lot of work to put it together everyday. Also, due to the importance of the job the team that does this needs to be relatively stable between terms. This team should be between hold between 2-4 people, including the MDA.

The best way, I think, would be to create a Directorate for the specific task of handling the newsletter. The Director should be legislated to always be the currently elected MDA. This way and elected official is always the head of this Directorate, giving it some accountability. The team itself is selected by the MDA and doesn't necessarily change when a new Cabinet is elected. This should give it some stability.

This task should be included in the Agenda of the MDA for as long as it takes to get it done. I unfortunately don't have time to work out the legislative details of this proposal.
Well, speak of the devil! I think someone might have just crafted such a thing. :P
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Considering that I resigned, how come I am still listed on the WFE and can still see this meeting?
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I can't help but be reminded of the 4th Cabinet at this point.
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9 Mar 2014, 15:06
I can't help but be reminded of the 4th Cabinet at this point.
I'd answer your previous question, Grobladonia, but I fear there's not much I can say. Other Cabinet members -- let's regroup and finish this term on a high note. I know I've got some housekeeping to do in my Ministry as well, so let's get it together.
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