How have we done on these goals so far? I was on LOA so I didn’t really get to attend, but my perception is that the Winter-fest went well. How was our attendance?
Has Slab reached out to a potential new embassy partner yet?
I know there have been discussions aboput the rank rename/rethink. When will a draft be presented to the Assembly for comment or a vote? (I believe it would require an Assembly vote…)
How did our event with TRR and TEP go? Are there any additional events planned?
A rank renaming draft will be submitted to the Assembly today.
From a planner’s perspective, the Winter Blizzard Bash went well, with less people than we had for HPFoF last year. A few South Pacificans joined the server, but I didn’t see any get super involved.
Neither Slab nor myself have reached out to a new partner to ask the question, but I will be planning an event with Alcris for some time this month soon.
The TRR-TEP-TSP event went well, we had about 7 or so folks join in.
Aside from an event with Alcris, I’d also like to do an event with Lazarus and will reach out shortly to see.
Hello all.
The last time a new Prime Minister went into office, the state of the Coalition was much different than today. The Great Council was still going on, we still had Local Councillors, Ministers were still elected rather than appointed, and the frontier update that halved our spawn rates wasn’t released yet. This term is the first with a new Prime Minister in a year. This means that this term marks the start of a new era, one that adapts and responds to the constant changes going on in NS today.
To this end, I have nominated a cabinet comprised of both new and experienced ministers. The previous Prime Minister, @ProfessorHenn, is taking a new role as Minister of Foreign Affairs, seeking to close ties with our embassy partners and establish a new embassy this term. @Sir_Zanny is the new Minister of On-Site Events, seeking to revive activity on the RMB to pre-frontiers update levels through festivals such as SwanVision.
Veteran @Penguin is serving as the new Minister of Culture, taking over Resident Spotlights and organizing both intra-regional and inter-regional events. On the Roleplay front, @Flaming will be updating the TSP Wiki and adding new guides for our various Roleplay canons. I will take the reins for Defense, where I will work towards giving TSP a more active and better trained update presence, and OWL, where I will increase TSP engagement in WA affairs.
I will also be appointing @Ontarian_goose to the Domestic Affairs Council. He has a history of organizing large events, notably in NS Sports, as a Local Councillor and his experience in that regard will help Trivalve achieve his goals as MoOSE.
With this new cast of ministers, I am confident that TSP will be a better place at the end of the term. The gears of progress are already turning, and results will be evident sooner than later. I seek to bring more life to this already bustling community through this term and beyond.
How is our current WA voting being decided?
Is there a plan to appoint an OWL Director or similar WA-oriented role?
How is our current WA voting being decided?
Pending the addition of WA voting threads/the roleing of me as OWL Director the WA votes are entirely my decision.
Is there a plan to appoint an OWL Director or similar WA-oriented role?
Not right now, no.
Are you taking the advice of other foreign affairs or WA-facing officials in making those decisions? Why or why not?
How and when are those decisions being communicated to the Delegate? To other members of Cabinet? To the public? Why?
Why?
When can we expect an update on Cabinet activities and progress this term?
Are we going to get a response from the prime minister?
Are you taking the advice of other foreign affairs or WA-facing officials in making those decisions? Why or why not?
How and when are those decisions being communicated to the Delegate? To other members of Cabinet? To the public? Why?
Sorry for the long wait, I had an unexpected personal event that had me out for a while. I’ve added back in WA resident voting, but aside from reading the draft threads of the WA proposals, I’ve used my own judgement for the vote, which is communicated to the delegate either through DM or in the #swan-lake channel when the proposal comes to vote. For SC proposals, votes are usually based on TSP/defender interests.
Why?
There really hasn’t been anyone that fitted my criteria for OWL Director (WA proposals authored, experience with writing IFVs, knowledge of WA affairs).
Tomorrow in the Midterm Address.
No worries—thanks for communicating that. Was it communicated to Cabinet and when?
Where can I read more about that? It sounds like a significant change.
As is your right as PM. That doesn’t mean unilateral judgement is the best model—the government functions best with the PM as a decider taking input from their team. Why haven’t you been consulting the MoFA or others in these decisions?
Why are those your criteria?
We’ve had a pretty non-existent OWL for a while, which is a structural problem that far predates you. But it also means that, well, you’re probably not going to find the dream candidate you are describing. At least, not without effectively pulling from another region’s talent pool.
I’m looking forward to it!
Is it possible to appoint someone already in your cabinet if there are absolutely no other choices?
Have you reached out to the region or issued a general call for applications? My concern is that it isn’t clear to me if you are purposefully limiting WA to just the ministerial duty of sending vote instructions or if you intend to take steps towards developing a WA talent pool.
No worries—thanks for communicating that. Was it communicated to Cabinet and when?
Since it was sudden, I did not (my bad on that).
Where can I read more about that? It sounds like a significant change.
I’ve been pinging WA Update Ping for the votes.
As is your right as PM. That doesn’t mean unilateral judgement is the best model—the government functions best with the PM as a decider taking input from their team. Why haven’t you been consulting the MoFA or others in these decisions?
Between when the MoFA was originally implemented and when I added back WA resident voting, there has been four SC votes which were: 2 queue-stuffers, a fash-bash liberation, and a likely plagiarized declaration. As for the GA votes, there was simply no one I trusted within my government that could give me a good judgement on them.
Why are those your criteria?
We’ve had a pretty non-existent OWL for a while, which is a structural problem that far predates you. But it also means that, well, you’re probably not going to find the dream candidate you are describing. At least, not without effectively pulling from another region’s talent pool.
I want my OWL Director to have extensive knowledge about the WA so that they can read WA proposals and effectively write IFVs for them. And that’s the problem, I kinda have to outsource talent from out of the region.
If you want to develop home talent and not have to outsource then why are you hampering your ability to do so by not creating the space for people to discuss resolutions and develop the skills and knowledge to begin forming their own opinions and writing their own IFVs? I mean, is it really that important for the IFV to be written by you if you aren’t actually building talent for TSPWA?
According to Discord announcements, there’s a ‘game day’ scheduled for tomorrow that, as far as I can tell, hasn’t been announced via any forum posts, telegrams, dispatches, etc. Are there any plans to advertise such events to South Pacificans more generally, or did the Ministry of Culture decide to focus only on South Pacificans who check Discord regularly?
I’m particularly confused because the promotional image posted states that three of the four games do not require Discord. If Discord is not required, how are South Pacificans supposed to find out about these games?
I hate to disrupt Pronoun’s request, but currently I do not have access to discord. Could somebody please post this in announcements and ping all 3 of the roleplayer roles? Thank you!
After a long, two-and-a-half-year wait, Treasure Island Report is back! Written by the current Minister of Roleplay, it is a report on the happenings of the roleplay community. It will be released on the 20th of every month. https://thesouthpacific.org/t/treasure-island-report-redux/5334?
After reading the article, you can go nominate events and roleplayers to be featured in next month’s edition!
https://thesouthpacific.org/t/treasure-island-report-voting/5335
On it 
I’m sorry I forgot the forums but most people check the discord. And I did make an RMB Post. Admittedly I could have done a better job there but it was posted and reminded. I put focus where a majority go and for me that felt like the discord server. The next event that gets planned will have better and more communications on more avenues of announcements.