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Quote from: Alexandre (Monasteriolum) on March 29, 2025, 06:31:56 AMLol. Very well doneQuote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on March 28, 2025, 12:44:32 PM
WHEREAS under the current circumstances, there's a good chance that during any conflict the American Secretary of Defense will accidentally text us their plans, giving us a substantial advantage,
THEREFORE it is declared that a state of war now exists between the Kingdom of Talossa and the United States.
Uréu q'estadra så:
Alexandreu Davinescu (MC-PROG)
Erm... Should I join?
Envoyé de mon SM-A5460 en utilisant Tapatalk
Quote from: Mic'haglh Autófil, O.Be on March 15, 2025, 02:31:13 PMQuote from: Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP on March 15, 2025, 02:27:00 PMDoes that mean that the next Cosa term will be shortened to match the schedule?
Correct. The schedule chosen was intended to, among other things, make it so the Chancery is never tasked with conducting an election over the holidays. Personally I believe a yearly schedule would be even better suited to avoiding too much over the holiday season, but there wasn't enough support for that yet.
QuoteOn August 1, 2024 Minister Autofil responded to a terpleziun on cross-party discussions to replace the database, among other matters, as follows: "I thank the Member for his question. While I am still well within the legal window in which my response is required, I would still apologize for the delay, but I hope the depth of my answer makes up for it. Regarding the replacement of the National Database, I envision the process basically working as follows:
Consult with the Chancery regarding Database tasks to prioritize replacement
Hold a brief public consultation regarding preferred method of replacement
Begin to port functionality over to this new database
On the first point, I am currently preparing a list of common tasks (in my own estimation) that the Chancery uses the Database for. If anyone here is familiar with the term, what I'd like to do is an adaptation of one of our tools in the engineering field known as an FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis). We use FMEAs to identify the likelihood of a given failure mode occurring, and the severity of that failure mode if it should occur; combining these two ratings allows us to prioritize different design criteria to ensure that the design is as robust as possible. With respect to Database actions, I'll be asking the Secretary of State to rate different tasks on how frequently he needs to use the Database to perform them, and how difficult it is to get the Database to actually perform the task successfully; this will enable us to identify the "pain points" of the current Database and try to design around avoiding them in the future.
On the second point, I know there's already been some discussion on the possibility of using a large Google Sheet (which is my personal preference for a replacement), but I'd like to come to the discussion in Point #2 with at least one or two alternative methods on the off chance anyone else happens to be very familiar with them."
QuoteOn September 12, 2024 Minister Autofil responded as follows to a terpelaziun concerning progress on the ..."I thank the Member for his question and apologize for the delay.
Ministry staff (namely myself, the Deputy Minister, and the Backend Secretary) have a running document we are using to keep track of several of our projects, including the hosting transition -- notes, thoughts, suggestions, etc. At this time, we have a several candidates sourced, but no conclusions have been made as of just yet."
QuoteOn October 9, 2024 Minister Autofil responded as follows to a terpelaziun requesting an update on progress concerning the new national database: "Estimat Túischac'h, I thank the Member for his question. On the first step of the process, I can report that my adapted-FMEA process with the Secretary of State produced useful results; in accordance with the findings, Ministry personnel will be paying particular attention to how easy the new database makes it for the Chancery to add MZ's to a new Ziu term, as well as the processes by which Clarks are populated with bills and published for the Ziu to vote on. Apart from the occasional follow-up question with the Chancery which may arise, it would be appropriate to consider this step complete.
On the second step, we are nearing a few options in internal deliberations that I believe will be worth bringing to the public, keeping in mind this Government's other goals (for example, keeping as much of Talossa's digital infrastructure as possible on nationally-administered server space, and using "tailor-fit" solutions where possible). I would look for this discussion within a week or two, following the wrapping up of a few loose ends in our internal discussion.
The third step, of course, is contingent on completion of the second, but is also somewhat reliant on the Ministry's other main goal of re-nationalizing our web server presence. On that note, I am pleased to report that we should also be announcing a major development there in the near future (on a similar timeframe to the database-solution discussion)."
QuoteOn November 9, 2024 Minister Autofil responded to a terpelaziun concerning progress on the re-nationalization of the Kingdom's web presence and the new database: "Estimat Tuischach:
I thank the Member for this question. If he will allow me to answer in two parts:
The first priority is the re-nationalization of the nation's web presence. I am still waiting for the Permanent Secretary of Backend Admin to give final agreement, but the plan at this point looks like this:
* At the moment, the PermSec is overseeing server hosting using a service called Digital Ocean; we have a "droplet" (a piece of server space) with DO under the PermSec's name.
* The PermSec will create a separate DO account to be controlled and funded by the Government. (I will ensure that he works with the Burgermeister to set up relevant payment information.)
* Once this account and a nationally-run "droplet" is set up, our web presence will be migrated to it, completing this process and achieving the goal set out at the beginning of the term.
Overall, a fairly straightforward process, I am simply waiting to make sure that everyone agrees on what the plan is so that we can implement it.
Regarding the new database possibilities:
* I am similarly waiting on some final feedback from the Deputy Minister regarding his suggestion of a possible solution, but from what I understand it will be a good fit for our needs. (I anticipate that the last few weeks have been a bit busy for him, what with setting up the Heir Presumptive referendum and whatnot.)
* However, this does not mean that I will not honor my commitment for a public review of the suggested solutions. I would look for this sometime within the next two weeks; sooner, if we can get the server transition done quickly."
QuoteOn December 14, 2025 Minister Autofil responded as follows to a terpelaziun following up on his reply from November: "Estimadăs Tuischac'h, I thank the Member for this question. I will admit that the transition of the National Database has taken a bit of a backseat to some of the other issues currently being solved by the Technology Ministry, however as I have a significant amount of free time over the holidays, I will commit to holding this discussion by the end of the month/year."
QuoteOn January 30 Minister Autofil responded, as follows, to a terpelaziun concerning updates on the database transition: "Tuischac'h, I thank the member for this question, which if he will forgive me for presuming, is that last bit contained within his quote (due to formatting error?) I have been cataloguing the various types of information found within database pages (not the actual entries, just the fields themselves) to ensure that we are not neglecting to transfer anything. I will be working more in-depth with the Secretary of State in the coming week to ensure that we are laying out our models for each database entry (a model for Citizens, a model for Bills, etc) thoroughly."
QuoteOn February 20, 2025 Minister Autofil responded, as follows, to a terpelaziun concerning progress on our national digital presence: "Tuischac'h, I thank the Member for his question. The Permanent Secretary of Backend Administration has created our team on DigitalOcean, which, now that a minor snafu involving my webmail has been resolved, I should be able to join shortly and move forward on this process. This is also a fitting moment to notify the Burgermeister of Inland Revenue (tagging @xpb ) that he may be required to join the team as well, for the purposes of setting up payment information. I will be reaching out with more information for him when it is available."
QuoteOn August 6th, 2024 Minister Schiva responded as follows to our terpelaziun: "I thank the member for this question. We got quite a lot of pushback for that manifesto commitment, if I remember right. The big issue about provincial assignment reform is that the main function of the provinces in our Constitution right now - given they are mostly inert as far as self-government goes - is as constituencies for Senäts elections, and that therefore the question of assignment of new citizens is one of gerrymandering. So, if the current debate on Organic Law reform settles on moving away from one-province-one-Senäts-seat, then the question of provincial assignment reform becomes, IMHO, moot. Even more so, if possibly the question of the existence of self-governing provinces is brought into question. Does that make sense?"
QuoteOn September 7, 2024 Minister Schiva responded as follows to our terpelaziun: "I thank the Member for his question. Right now, "broosking" (the active recruitment of prospective citizens to political parties) is not a problem. Getting new citizens to actually participate and stick around is the problem, towards which the Government has been bending its energy. But I am quite surprised that the Member is so worried about broosking, since his former political party was the main beneficiary of it for years.
QuoteOn November 3, 2024 Minister Schiva responded as follows to a terpelaziun concerning the decrease in new immigrant applications: "I thank the member for his question. The Government is certainly aware that the immigration pipeline has closed off altogether since the rush from the Argentinian YouTuber ended, and this is an issue which has concerned me in particular. One suggestion I keep raising is for a Landing Pier on Wittenberg, open to "interested parties" (on pain of ruthless moderation) who might not be ready for citizenship yet - the technical people in the back room have got it on their to-do list down the line. We know from previous Governments that Google Ads are a waste of money and we are not aware of any other means of paid promotion - so we would have to rely on what they call "earned media". The best means towards that is our social media outreach, which has unfortunately been hampered due to the respective Minister's extra-Talossan commitments. But this is, at the moment, our Government's "best bet" on the issue."
QuoteOn November 18, 2025 Baron Alexandreu Davinescu submitted a supplemental question concerning the low rate of immigration and requested that the Government give first priority to the issue. Minister Schiva responded as follows: "No, we won't do that, if only because there's a list of at least 20 things that the Open Society party will scream about if we stop doing them. EDITED TO ADD: There is a small chance that the immigration form on talossa.com has simply ceased to work, or at least has ceased to forward immigration applications to the Immigration webmails. That would explain a lot. The Tech boys have been alerted."
QuoteAlso on November 18, 2025 Minister Schiva elaborated as follows: "The Immigration Ministry has the grim task of provisionally confirming that the talossa.com immigration form seems to have simply not forwarded any emails to anyone since August 2 this year. Looking in the files, there appear to be something like forty (40) immigration applications which have been stuck in the "bit bucket" for most of my Government's term. This is a failure of the STUFF/Backend part of the Government which I am chasing up with urgent haste. However, I am pleased to note that this is not a failure of the Immigration part of the Government. I have emailed every single one of these applicants personally and invited them to renew their applications."
QuoteOn December 8, 2024 Minister Schiva responded as follows to a terpelaziun suggesting minor modifications to the Immigration thread: "I thank the Member for his constructive suggestion. I had forgotten we'd done that, as it wasn't done in the previous Government, but now I've flipped back to last year and I see what you mean. I think what I'll probably do is lock old threads, but add a notation for those who got citizenship."
QuoteOn February 15, 2025 Minister Schiva responded as follows to a terpelaziun seeking assurances the constructive suggestion was being implemented: "Yes, those are the ones with the Citizen Petition threads still open."
QuoteOn August 6, 2024 Minister Excelsio replied as follows to a terpelaziun concerning updates to La C'hronica, Infoteca, and our social media sites: "- I was out for a few days but everything is going back to normal. These are very busy times for people working in schools/uni.
- La Infoteca is now updated.
- La C'hronica will be updated up to july in the next 7 days.
- The STUFF deputies have very specific task that are not related to Social media: the IDs and content creation. This contents will be properly displayed to the world in a few days as well.
- The STUFF calendar of posting was set to have a post every 3 days but I then personally felt like it was too much too quick, so I'll aim to post once a week at least, so at the end of the cosa, that will be the average posts per account."
QuoteOn October 3, 2024 Minister Excelsio responded to a terpelaziun raising concerns about not meeting a previous commitment concerning social media postings, as follows: "About social media:
I acknowledge I haven't been able to post as much as I would like. I will aim to have 3 posts per month for the rest of the Cosa.
About STUFF Deputies:
Citizen da Miéletz is creating content in the form of handbooks focused on his cultural area of interest, while Citizen Autófil, besides handling his Ministry and other government-related duties, is assisting me with gathering materials for the creation of IDs and will print them when we're absolutely ready, hoping mid-November.
What I can share in advance is that we will once again begin the process of collecting data for all citizens who have passed the civic exam in order to print and ship their respective IDs. During October 5-31, all citizens will be able to post in a dedicated thread to verify and confirm that their information is accurate to ensure proper delivery of their identification. Additionally, we want to take advantage of this time to await a positive outcome in the current referendum on the Heir Presumptive, as the design of the official IDs would change in light of this news."
QuoteOn November 3, 2024 Deputy Minister Autofil responded on behalf of the Ministry concerning the potential existence of a website or email link bounce issue as raised by someone on our Facebook page: "As Deputy Minister, I may be able to assist here. (And I thank the Member for this question.) The Permanent Secretary of Backend Administration is currently working through an authentication problem on our webmail accounts, but I anticipate it will be resolved shortly."
QuoteOn December 5, 2024 Minister Excelsio responded to a terpelaziun requesting updates on the status of distributing new ID cards: "We are starting the process of address confirmation today and I hope we'll be printing them in no longer than 2 weeks."
QuoteOn January 27, 2025 Minister Excelsio responded to a terpelaziun concerning overdue updates to Infoteca: "Thanks.
I am the one who updates the Infoteca.
Thank you for bringing it to the attention of the Ministry.
When I read the terpelaziun on January 24 I immediately went to update it but forgot to answer this terpelaziun until today."
Quote from: Iason Taiwos on March 10, 2025, 03:25:41 PMThat was an enjoyable video. I would like to have participated, but I had two of my granddaughters visiting that day, and I doubt they would have left me alone long enough to join in. (Well, they might have, but I doubt I would've been able to hear you guys over them chattering in the background.)
The King mentioning his SF trilogy made me wonder if the TalossaWiki Culture section should contain entries on things created by Talossans that may not necessarily be related to Talossa...like the King's books, Miestra's Vostok Lake albums, etc. I mean, these things are the products of Talossans... doesn't that make them Talossan?
