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Cabinet Meeting 14.0
Topic Started: 26 Feb 2015, 17:55 (575 Views)
Defwa
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Hello and good [whatever segment of the day it is] to you. This is my first time in one of these meetings so I'm going to try and just dive right in.

I would say the region is at a bit of a low point. Low response rates in the last two elections, slow growth, its going to take weeks to get enough WA endorsements to make me delegate, nobody on the forum. This should be a time of change as we try to address this.
The theme for this cabinet is going to be suggestions for that change. I encourage all of you to suggest and undertake projects that you think will help.

To kick start this, an agenda (more suggestions and desires than orders) follows:

President/Delegate
I'm open to suggestions to raise our international recognition by:
-Running polls on WA proposals before they come to vote so that we can vote earlier and allow us to comment on our position on the forums
-Being available at request of cabinet members to make public statements- let people know what we think about events in interregional politics
As a little personal touch, I'd like suggestions for ambassadors for a DSA delegation to the WA- give me a character (name, picture, mannerisms) fro your nation and whatever area (resolution categories) they focus on. It will give some variety to our representation there as well as show your own nation off.

Secretary General
I'd like a look at our census data- how much of our population is puppets? What's our WA vs non puppet ratio
The blurb at the top of the forum is annoyingly large and inconvenient to scroll past every time you open the page. A large part of it serves the same purpose as the forum index page, with all its links to different forums. I think those can be lost.

Minister of Domestic Affairs
Corroborate with with the Secretary General to simplify the forum. We have too many sub forums for our activity, the page just looks kind of messy with all of them and its difficult to navigate. I think its part of our lackluster activity.
Do whatever you feel is appropriate to increase activity, of course.

Minister of Foreign Affairs
I'd like to have a summary of your ambassador reports on a biweekly basis so we an determine if the cabinet's opinion on the matter is necessary. Encourage your ambassadors do make their own comments but ensure it's clear they do it with their authority as DSA ambassador (as in non executive opinion). A standard signature for their ambassadorial postings might help.

Minister of Immigration
A couple weeks ago, I rolled a couple of nations intended to lean center left, hoping to attract DSA attention. None of them got a recruitment telegram. The parameters of our auto recruiter may need to be updated, broadened even.

Minister of Justice
Get elected.

Minister of Role Play
I'd like to review how our map is done. It doesn't make sense to me that we encompass the entire globe. I'd like to look at the possibility of dividing up our map into sectors.
Its something put out on the RMB some time ago. Let some of our veterans or those who have done service to the DSA describe what they want their surrounding area to look like, make some custom map areas for them and then let people start moving. It would be a lot of work. I'd be open to helping as needed. I like making maps.
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Defwa
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Public statements would probably be a boon but I don't think the 10% figure is the full picture. That's why we need the puppet count.
So far we have about 30 voters showing up for this vote in the WA so I do agree that at least that many people should be showing up for local elections.

Maybe we could create some kind of reward system for participation, but that would make anonymous votes naturally difficult.
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Gervase
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We need to have a time for campaigning between nominations and the election. The current system isn't much more than a popularity contest since candidates typically don't make any case for themselves at all.

The current schedule is:
7 days for nominations
7 days of voting
14 days total

I would suggest, for starters, the following:
5 days for nominations
5 days of campaigning
5 days of voting
15 days total

I think it's a much better use of everyone's time.
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Guertonia
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What if we were to use the polling feature to vote for elections? That way its right there in your face when you check the regional page? Idk how it would work in terms of multiple elections but I do think if it wasnt off the nationstates page we would have a better turn out. I dont like parties because it will divide the region and arguments are bound to happened just cause it is hard to read the tone of a post.
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Defwa
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Wouldn't we have difficulty filtering out ambassadors and and unqualified members in a vote on the NS page?

Adjusting the voting timeline should still have a full week for votes to be placed. Five days would be okay and it shouldn't make a significant difference, but just in case.
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Populaire
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The only thing that you have to think about with campaigning, though, is that it would give an advantage to those nations that have purchased the Postmaster package from the NS Store. Those folks would be able to send messages to all the members of our region, while those who don't have the package would already be handicapped. Plus, I worry that such a campaign would drive nations from our region if it ever got too intense.

All stuff to think about for sure.
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Defwa
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The USSR has asked for an embassy on the RMB. 45% of their population are in banned categories, so that's a no but they seem to be making frequent visits lately.
Recent members Communicar and Klotecnia are from there. Communicar recently made a factbook about leaving the USSR due to it's inactivity in the government. Klotecnia moved due to apparent bullying even though he was the foreign affairs minister of the region. Now, apparently their founder is absent and the region is feeling vulnerable.

This could be interesting
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17 Mar 2015, 03:50
The only thing that you have to think about with campaigning, though, is that it would give an advantage to those nations that have purchased the Postmaster package from the NS Store. Those folks would be able to send messages to all the members of our region, while those who don't have the package would already be handicapped. Plus, I worry that such a campaign would drive nations from our region if it ever got too intense.

All stuff to think about for sure.
I understand the intensity issue, but for campaigning, couldn't we delegate campaigning to a thread on the fourms?

Or, we could have a subsection of the Elections folder just for individual campaigns or a Q and A session.
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Defwa
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I've received an unsolicited invitation to join Comintern
http://www.nationstates.net/region=the_nationstates_comintern

It appears to be a failed attempt from several months ago to create another interregional leftist military plus role play group. I've given a soft decline because Comintern lacks any sort of structure and seems to just be the renewed attempt by an idealist with no follow through but I'm interested in other opinions on the matter.
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17 Mar 2015, 16:25
The USSR has asked for an embassy on the RMB. 45% of their population are in banned categories, so that's a no but they seem to be making frequent visits lately.
Recent members Communicar and Klotecnia are from there. Communicar recently made a factbook about leaving the USSR due to it's inactivity in the government. Klotecnia moved due to apparent bullying even though he was the foreign affairs minister of the region. Now, apparently their founder is absent and the region is feeling vulnerable.

This could be interesting
I'd be willing to bet that it will belong to Zenny soon...
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Defwa
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Good point. They're perfect for that. I'll keep an eye on them- last thing we need is more good leftists getting trapped in TCB
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