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Cabinet Meeting 9.1; opened 25 January; closed 10 April
Topic Started: 25 Jan 2014, 00:35 (1,342 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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Grobladonia
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Since I can still post here, I have another observation. I never really understood just how important contests were until I had to organize them and couldn't. No matter what, at least 2-3 contests need to be organized each turn in order to keep people engaged in the region. It's also important to make sure that people have things in-game to keep them engaged in the region. Simply debating RL events is not enough. Sorry I can't do more.

I'll try to keep thinking up ideas for nation for a scavenger hunt, but I don't have the sort of time I used to. Don't rely on me if you have another option available.
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StJames
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Yeah... I've been feeling somewhat detached from the Cabinet lately, so I'll be retiring after this term. I'm obviously going to try to finish out this term strong and do something with the MDA position that I temporarily have, but I think I'll be of better service to the DSA outside the Cabinet.
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Haltari
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I'm also going to be retiring after this term. I'm still doing all of my duties regularly, but I sadly seem to have lost the motivation I had when I was President. Also, it probably would be a good idea to organize a contest or scavenger hunt of some sort.
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Kiptoke-Ruselia
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Or you could take my job, do nothing, and somehow look as if your doing a good job. Did I just say that? Whoops.

Just kidding! I send telegrams, THEN I do absolutely nothing else. (Well, at least I tried to do something else...)
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Haltari
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10 Mar 2014, 00:51
Or you could take my job, do nothing, and somehow look as if your doing a good job. Did I just say that? Whoops.

Just kidding! I send telegrams, THEN I do absolutely nothing else. (Well, at least I tried to do something else...)
Your position has really changed a lot in the past year. I used to send every recruitment telegram manually!
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Terlibe
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Weird, I'm feeling the same lack of motivation. I most likely will not retire after this term, but I may take a hiatus.
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Terlibe
11 Mar 2014, 00:20
Weird, I'm feeling the same lack of motivation. I most likely will not retire after this term, but I may take a hiatus.
I might not retire permanently either, but I will probably do a semi-retirement similar to Grobladonia's semi-retirement a few months ago. If I actually was retiring from the NS or DSA government completely, I would post it on the RMB.
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Haltari
11 Mar 2014, 03:21
Terlibe
11 Mar 2014, 00:20
Weird, I'm feeling the same lack of motivation. I most likely will not retire after this term, but I may take a hiatus.
I might not retire permanently either, but I will probably do a semi-retirement similar to Grobladonia's semi-retirement a few months ago. If I actually was retiring from the NS or DSA government completely, I would post it on the RMB.
I probably won't retire, I mean, geez, because of Auto-Telegramming, I have the least stressful job.

Of course, I would love some extra help and some new ideas. Every idea I've seen is mostly pertaining to the telegram, and how I could make it longer....
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I won't be running for MoJ again, and I'm debating whether I want to run at all. It sounds like we're going to have an exceptional level of turnover this election, with the P/WAD, SG, MFA, and MoJ out and the MDA already gone -- it's just the MIRP and MRP left. Not that I'm planning any backroom intrigues here, but do we have any candidates for these jobs that are up to the task?
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For the record I never confirmed that I wouldn't be running. ;)
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