Thanks for your confidence in me as Prime Minister. We have some great ideas in mind for this term, and I can’t do it alone. This term, the Cabinet I’m appointing consists of X ministers.
@ProfessorHenn as Minister of Culture. No stranger to the Cabinet, Henn will lead the charge on creating a culture of everyday fun — bringing the ‘party,’ as they like to say — with events available across our three platforms and involving our diplomatic partners.
@UnitedDisneyStates as Minister of Integration. UDS will help continue our foray into recruitment and coordinate its incorporation into our broader integration processes, as well as helping to publicize opportunities for involvement on the executive job board.
@Banexet as Minister of Trading Cards. Drew brings personal experience with farming trading cards to our fledgling cards project, and will take aim this term at turning that program into one with defined methods of contribution, incentives for participation, and guides to farming.
@ConcreteSlab as Minister of Foreign Affairs. Slab returns to this position with broad name recognition among our diplomatic partners, and will help to coordinate our diplomatic communications with our allies and partners as we seek to inject some cultural dynamism into our foreign affairs portfolio.
Separately, I’m pleased that LordNwahs has indicated their interest to me in staying on in OWL Director, and I’m excited to see them stay in office. I look forward to working with them this term.
We’ll have more opportunities for involvement opening up soon. Keep an eye out for opportunities to get involved, and if there’s anything you’d like to volunteer for, feel free to contact me at any time. We’ll do our best to advertise new opportunities, but don’t feel any need to wait for us before reaching out.
None of these roles should be very different from what I described in my campaign, but I’m happy to answer any questions. Looking forward to hearing from y’all!
I don’t know if I’d say it’s being elevated to a ministry, because I don’t think we have a clear answer about where it’s actually being elevated from. Our cards project has been in limbo for a long time. In some sense, it exists — the 883 cards we have in storage have to belong to someone, but it’s not entirely clear in what sense the cards program is really a ‘program’ as opposed to a series of occasional discussions and events. It’s hard to place exactly where in the government the cards program actually resides. In these circumstances, I think it is natural to try and establish a clearer leadership structure and overall direction. A ministry structure offers a point of contact (a minister), an agenda (to define how and why folks should contribute cards), and a defined structure (the ministry). I don’t think it’s necessarily a ministry we need to have forever, but our ministry structure is flexible for a reason, and that allows us to create ministries with term-long projects without having to shoehorn them into a separate ministry that isn’t really working on the same thing.
We’re gonna do hockey. We’re gonna do VCs. We’re gonna do a host of other events with friends, allies, and partners that I couldn’t tell you about right now because the invite’s getting sent in a month.
The head honcho is bringing a jobs board along with them. I’ll use it too. I can run some events on Discord, but other folks might want to try running things on the RMB, on the forum, and we need to capture them.
We have a Cultural Act defining official things of the Coalition, let’s promote their use on the RMB, the Discord, the forum, the sense that folks get when they think about this grand community of ours.
Could either you or UDS (or both) update the Assembly on your plans for recruitment? A general outline of the status quo and future plans would be helpful, but I do have a few specific questions:
Do you plan to retain the current set of recruiters?
Are you seeking more people to work as recruiters? If so, what qualifications or criteria are you looking for in prospective recruiters?
Do you have a planned recruitment telegram and, if so, could it be shared with the Assembly?
Are the current recruiters actively utilizing the recruitment bot and, if not, when will those efforts begin in earnest?
The main challenge is formalizing recruitment — by that I mean defining how exactly the initiative operates (a limited group? a public opportunity? a chance to earn rewards?) and thinking about where we want to direct people from that telegram the same way our other integration resources offer defined pathways. Yes, the telegram has a button to move to the South Pacific, but our goal here is to recruit active community members, not to recruit residents.
I wish I could offer more specific details, in all honesty, I’ve only recently gotten access to internal Cabinet communications regarding recruitment and am still trying to piece together the reasoning for a limited set of recruiters and the materials we received about how to actually use the bot. I don’t have any issues with our current recruiters and think our current telegram are fine as a starting point but we’ll take a closer look at the term progresses.
What I do know in terms of specific work to be done is that, from personal experience, we’ll need a how-to guide if want to expand the program. As far as I can tell, that’s one of the items left over from the former Ministry of Recruitment, alongside drafting multiple recruitment telegrams to compare or organizing promotions if/when the program is opened up more broadly.
