The elaborate nomenclature denotes a clear chain of command.  In the Scribery, I am the big cheeze, Txec is #2, and so on.  Who will be No. 3 in the Scribery?

Quote from: Dr. Txec dal Nordselvă on July 08, 2020, 01:24:41 PM
Thank your Your Majesty and Honorable Seneschal. I am truly humbled and honored.

Post-Reunision Talossan history is fog-filled to me, even though I've been around for all of it.  I had no idea you'd been with us for so long.  May you be around for many years to come with my great thanks for your years of service past, present, and future.

Txec has volunteered as Secondary Scribe of Abbavilla, and I know he will do a brilliant work in that post.

Tertiary and Quarternary still to go.  Are you game?

FILLED by Txec Nordselva ca 8 July 2020: Secondary Scribe of Abbavilla
Duties: Double-check the work of the Scribe and, at the Scribe's discretion, have a go at scribing a Clark or two in each Cosâ and being someone who can step in should the Scribe need it.

Job title: Tertiary Scribe of Abbavilla
Duties: same as the Secondary, but lower in the chain of command - as Tertiary, you will provide an extra level of redundancy and will be scribing some, too.  You will also double-check the scribing work done on the Clark.

Job title: Quarternary Scribe of Abbavilla
Duties: And still more redundancy!  You, too, will double-check all scribing done each month and will, along with the other scribes, make sure the updations to El Lex and the OrgLaw are pin-point accurate.

Not a lot of work is required, but in an age of 'unprecedented' this, that, and that, we need redundancy, we need shared experience, and we need people who can mess with WikiCode easier than GV can.

PM me with my great thanks in advance!

GV, [Principal] Scribe

Those who follow the admittedly-dull doings of the Royal Archives will know already I have posted a bunch of online-friendly primary-source materials to www.libraryoftalossa.com - That page directs to the Wiki, but you can find all my stuff at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DQs53chil5a43Ff6PdSCLn1jaJ_8DCIg?usp=sharing

This work is still a work in progress, and next on my list of stuff to get done is Talossan National News.

This coming week, the Royal Archives will advertise for a mission-critical lead-person whose work will be central to getting this stuff done and dusted sooner rather than later.  Stay tuned, because when we get that particular project done to where I can put together its completion to suit me (and hopefully everyone else), it will be huge for Talossa.

GV

It's not just Miestrâ.  It's about a brilliant program that, when enacted, will put us in very good stead. 

Votez für Talossa!

Votez FreeDems!

Long time no-see, Diet...

Our esteemed Seneschál rightly thinks of 'Culture' as language-work above all. 

The Royal Archives and its mission to preserve Talossan heritage fall outside the purview of any Government, but it is currently run by a FreeDem with the brilliant name-translation help of Danihel Txechescu without which none of this would have been possible.  Coronatide has given this FreeDem once-in-a-lifetime stretches of unbroken days and weeks in which a literal horde of nagging Talossan projects have been worked on and completed with more to come.

For the first time ever, the Big History is available for download in an online-friendly edition.

For the first time in probably fifteen years, the extant issues of Oraclâ magazine are available for download, and for the first time, they are available in online-friendly presentations.

I have just uploaded to the Secret Archives (not available publicly) a new scan of xerox copies of a bunch of Wittenberg V posts from 1996-1999 Ben Madison gave me in 2002.  Online-friendly presentations of these two documents collecting all those posts will be worked on in time.

For the first time, 'Invasion of the Androids' is available in an online-friendly format as is 'Upward!  Onward!  Forward!'.  The monstrous task of getting Talossan National News in an online-friendly state will be slow, but it has begun.

'Front Page Talossa' and 'Clashing Symbols' are also available in online-friendly presentations.  Wittenberg XI has been roughly archived with most or all of the 13,897 threads having been archived: at least fifty gigs of .html

Other projects have been done as well: my own magazines, müchaps and Sanavar (both short-lived) are also available in online-friendly presentations; 'T-Fest 2003: A Look Back', 'EM200: A Closer Look', the gigantic (and I mean 'gigantic') 2nd Edition of the Water Street Codex; Sentinel Press' 'The History Project'; 'The National Atlas of the Kingdom of Talossa'; and 'Àr Päts' have all been made into online-friendly presentations, protecting the name-privacy of Old-Growth Talossans while making it safe to share Talossan history with the world.

Internally, GV's digital holdings have been reorganized into a state where if he is abducted by aliens, someone can go into his stuff and make sense of it.

Internally, GV is creating a museum-quality catalog of his Talossan physical holdings, which are extensive.

GV is slowly getting his parts of the Wiki up-to-speed on all things Archives.  He has been busy, and this is not intended to be a criticism of the Seneschál whose work this term and always has been exemplary.

Miestrâ can be brash and loud.  But she is honest at all junctures, and at times, she is blunt.

In late 2010 or so, she extended an invite to me to do Republic politics with her.  I believe this was the point when I started doing Talossa again on an active basis after nearly falling off the face of the earth in Talossan terms from 2009-2010.  It continues to be a delight and honor to work with her in building a better Talossa.

Votez FreeDems!  We are not done, and with our coming programme, the best for Talossa is yet to come.

As for the work the Royal Archives has put in, if libraryoftalossa.com is not working, https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DQs53chil5a43Ff6PdSCLn1jaJ_8DCIg?usp=sharing is.

GV, Senator (Fiôvâ) and Royal Archivist

Quote from: Sir Alexandreu Davinescu on June 16, 2020, 06:13:17 PM
There was a special midterm referendum on the monarchy just a few years ago, with 71% of respondents saying they wanted to keep the monarchy and 60% saying they didn't want it to be a figurehead.  I guess this question will be asked over and over in different ways until it produces the answer that is desired.

Perhaps that valid referendum didn't ask the best questions to deliver clarity?

Thanks for all you do to keep on top of things, Glüc.  The SoS post is the most important in Talossa, and your work is in the grand tradition of SoS leadership brilliance.

I am not married to Zoom.  :-)

An online-friendly version of Ben Madison's National Atlas now exists and is available at www.libraryoftalossa.com - enjoy!

Eiric S. Bornatfiglheu had a lovely chat just now in our first Café Talossa.

And next Tuesday, I want to see more of you, and I will do a better job at getting you all Zoom links.

If you want to chill out on Zoom for Café Talossa next Tuesday 23 June 2020 at 8pm Central, let me know on this thread as well as your preferred means of communication for the Zoom-meeting link.

Thanks, ESB, for being able to show up - we had a nice visit.  (And I'll remember to get a screenshot next time, too!)

See you all next week!

Beautiful work, sir!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/14_ZrAPOnLSVlFs4r17Y94Btfmqdu9pi-/view?usp=sharing

Get it at the link above - my first-ever Talossan periodical...  The Talossan Royal Archives keeps chugging along...