Greetings,
Would each member of Assembly leadership be able to report on their activities since assuming office?
This is primarily directed towards the Deputy Chair and the Clerk, but I would not say no to details of the Chair’s work, setting aside the processes of opening/closing votes and assigning tags and codes to Assembly discussions.
As for myself, I’ve been primarily working on the implementation of bi-weekly (that’s once every two weeks) Assembly briefings alongside Penguin, as it appears likely Penguin will be leaving office shortly in order to assume their role as MoC (subject to their confirmation of course), I will be taking over the final stages of implementation. I’m hoping to get a first briefing out on the 15th. I’m also toying with the idea of a potential voting/discussion tracker for specific proposals, displaying their current status, who introduced the proposal, etc. Something similar to this, the Parliamentary Bills tracker currently utilised by the UK Parliament, or something like this, used by the U.S Congress. I’m considering different ways in which I would implement such a system. I’ll let both @Welly & @Penguin provide an update on their own independent work.
Seeing as ~5 months has passed since the last reply here, and the Assembly has to elect (or re-elect) a new Chair in about 4 months time, can the current Assembly leadership provide updates on their recent Assembly-related activities?
Certainly. In addition to the day-to-day responsibilities like updating the Assembly Gazettes and my initial tentative foray into opening votes, my primary project has been revising the Assembly Concourse materials. This includes the Assembly Concourse landing page, the Office of Assembly Affairs, the Chair Guide, the Legislator’s Guide, and the List of Historical Chairs. These all needed a fairly comprehensive edit to reflect, among other things, major legislative changes that have taken place over the last few years; the last overall edit seems to have been prior to the last Great Council. About 90% of the edits have been implemented so far, with only a few major paragraph-length rewrites remaining.
Once that project wraps up, I would be interested in undertaking a similar revision of the gameside Assembly dispatches, which also could use some updating. I recognize that editing gameside dispatches is beyond the scope of my office alone (not to mention my power to edit), so I look forward to discussing this with the appropriate government minister.
Of course, as for myself. I have been working on a new and completely redesigned Assembly formatter tool, which works with the new forums BBCode compared to the old-style forums, this new tool works for Assembly Bi-Weekly Briefings, the Assembly Gazette and opening/closing votes. I am also working on adding functionality to format Discord posts, and potentially State of the Assembly’s, if I can figure out how to code it! - aOps
Bi-Weekly Briefings have been implemented and are being released as needed, however, I must say that briefings as of late have not been very detailed with the lack of activity in the Assembly. However, I will continue to keep this updated.
Finally, I am planning on undertaking a comprehensive audit of the two spreadsheets we use for keeping discussion and voting activity recorded, alongside both the forumside and gameside Gazette’s. Ensuring that everything is correct and up-to-date.
EDIT: I will be standing by for any potential questions!