I am happy to lay on the table what I’ve gotten done as MoD, as well as what you can expect from the last month of my term. I’ll keep it as simple as possible, giving you a list of what has been done and what is yet to come for the ministry and the SPSF.
1) What have we gotten done?
- The application backlog that had accumulated since May has been cleared and applications are now being regularly processed again.
- A personnel audit was performed as promised, though I must admit it was a bit more of a dreary affair than I had hoped. Though I note hopefully that a couple previously inactive people have returned to activity, which has raised our spirits greatly.
- Internal policies surrounding application processing were amended to reduce processing times. The biggest change had to do with the timing of a CitComm IP check: previously, policy was that someone needed to have passed a Citizenship application check or a separate IP check in order to be admitted to the SPSF at all. Now, policy has been changed to allow us to start basic training pending that check and make that check passing a condition for promotion to Ensign.
- Training has been quite a lot more active. We have started utilizing downtime in Libcord to run staged detags, Liberations and triggering training. We’ve welcomed one new officer into the Wardroom and a couple of cadets are now in active training as well.
- Utopia was appointed as Tidal Force Coordinator. With a small amount of guidance from myself, he actually built a system for off-update detags for the Tidal Force. It’s ready for implementation. Unfortunately, it was around that time that raider tagging severely dropped off and the on-update crew cleared the remaining tags. This plus the still-going delegate transition has paused it’s implementation.
- A new “Enlistment Office” thread is ready for implementation to overhaul the SPSF application. Desired changes to the Getting Involved wizard have been sent to Kringle as admin, and I am awaiting his action there.
- A new Ensign training guide has been written. There was some backwards-incompatible changes to the way the encryption of the training guides work that delayed it’s implementation.
- A conversation has started in the assembly about potential changes to the SPSF’S limits on offensive actions. We are now awaiting the results of a case in the High Court on the matter before continuing.
- The early stages of planning for the upcoming Defender Awards, hosted this year by TSP, has begun.
- Tonight there will be a ribbon ceremony honoring those who joined us for the climactic liberation of Liberty Islands.
- A regular recruitment messaging campaign has been started in the RMB.
2) What things should we look to see from the ministry over this month?
- I would like to publish a report of the last few months. This, I fear, is the biggest task that slipped through the cracks for me.
- We had briefly started an event involving the Tidal Force with the RRA that TRR pulled out from at the start of the moderation crisis. If that can be cleared up soon, I want to see that resume.
- I have on my own been working on a proposal to the Wardroom to reform some of our rank policies, especially around retirement and reservist ranks. I’m looking to ramp up that conversation soon and push it through before the end of the term.
- If the more important stuff gets handled, I would like to turn my attention to the history project I had mentioned. I view this as a lesser priority, however.
There may well be things not immediately coming to my mind in both lists. A lot of things were complicated this term by the sudden shift in the state of R/D that occurred at the start of the term. I would love to answer any questions you, Silva, or anyone else may have.