Quote from: Tierçéu Rôibeardescù on Yesterday at 09:35:49 PMDo we have any... data on even just engagement numbers per captia of citizens on Wittenberg? Just curious

Yes, on our national information portal, Infotecă, you can check on the Wittenberg tab (or look on the visualizations tab for a graph, or look at the stats on Witt yourself at the bottom of the main forum page).

Wow, that's astonishing.  Things have changed -- you never used to need anything back in the day (although I guess we're talking like 20 years ago at this point, and maybe we were supposed to have one even then).  It seems like there's a lot of people who know about this stuff and can offer help, though!  That's amazing!  That's what we're all about here!

Quote from: Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP on Yesterday at 01:24:42 PM

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on Yesterday at 01:11:29 PMI don't think you need any kind of license to do broadcast "radio" over the Internet.

You do where I'm from, sadly.

Wait, really? I'm surprised. I guess it would probably need to be headquartered somewhere that makes it possible, then.

Quote from: Mximo Malt on Yesterday at 12:29:30 PMI was thinking of having a block of faith-related programming, would this violate the First Covenant in any way? I think it would since we're establishing this as part of the Government.

If this were a Government project, then the Government would run it.  This would be a private project, and accordingly you could do faith-based programming at your whim (and based on the desires of any collaborators).

However, I'd be happy to contribute in a private fashion just like His Majesty to some kind of joint thing; not religious, of course, but maybe a short weekly show about what the government has been doing or issues of concern.  I mean, a lot of interesting stuff happens... today I informed someone who applied under the name "Adolf Hitler" with the alias "Osama bin Laden" that their application was incomplete, for example.  (Somehow I doubt that the gentleman's application is going to work out.)

Quote from: Mximo Malt on Yesterday at 12:29:30 PMAlso, should we have a licence to fund RNT?

I don't think you need any kind of license to do broadcast "radio" over the Internet.

If you're interested, you can message the other people involved or just propose something here.  Options you might want to consider:

• Making it a legal incorporation with rules about how decisions are made. (You'd need a lawyer for this probably.)
• Asking for your own forum after things get going.
• Deciding on your branding and what programming you'd want to offer.  Presumably chosen music, but also old Talossan media and new language programs.  I'd offer the episodes of Beric'ht Auscultuval to be played, if it helps.
  
  I'd be happy to offer any assistance I can.  I know from experience that running a media thing is likely to burn you out, unless you find a way to share the burden.  I published Beric'ht Talossan for two years without missing an issue, and it's only because I had many others on whom I could rely for content.

It sounds like there's three people with some level of interest here... @Mximo , @Tierçéu , and @Barclamïu , maybe you could collaborate?  Take it from me when I say that most of the successful media enterprises involve more than one person.  That way they don't fall apart when that person's initial surge of interest dissipates.  In fact, @Tafi was also interested in trying to get a journalism thing going in el glheþ -- you guys could all four team up and make this into something really dynamic, without any one person feeling all of the pressure.

Historically, for audio stuff there's been:

• RT Radio
• Beric'ht Auscultaval
• The Talossan News Project
• and the once-official Regipäts Televiziun (RTV)

I feel like I'm missing something, though.

I've added you to the rolls as a private.  Any cultural thing you do will earn a promotion to Private Second Class, and then it takes two more to be promoted to Private First Class.  And so on.  Welcome!

@Mic'haglh Autófil, O.Be , I'd still love to get the files for this, when you get a chance.

SKA @Béneditsch Ardpresteir , just wanted to check to make sure this didn't slip away.

--SVA

Recently, we had to bid farewell to Sir Ian Plätschisch, el Capitan dels Zuavs del Altahal Rexhital (the captain of the Zouaves of the Royal Bodyguard).  As we were making inquiries about which individuals might wish to be promoted to fill the position, His Majesty wrote to offer his efforts.  This act of enthusiasm and patriotism will not surprise anyone, and His Grace is a particularly fitting person to be in charge of our premier cultural force.

Els Zuavs del Altahal Rexhital are dedicated to the recognition of the amazing work of our citizens.  Doing things like designing new cultural artifacts, running a competition, translating something, or most any other cultural achievement becomes a vehicle for promotion to higher ranks in the Zuavs.  A high rank is something that has serious bragging rights, since it shows you've done a great deal to make our little country into a bigger and more vibrant place.  His Grace has done an enormous amount of this, and we are sure that he do a wonderful job recognizing the contributions of others on a monthly basis (with assistance, of course).

Accordingly, as acting Minister of Defense, I hereby appoint @King Txec as el Capitan dels Zuavs del Altahal Rexhital.

If you are interested in joining the Zuavs, please let him know (or post here).

So many polyglots!

The draft has already been published and will be up soon after we have a chance to double check it.

I am the acting Minister for that post. Someone has already been volunteered and I just haven't had a chance to do the appointment yet.

As anyone in the Cabinet can tell you, we were quite careful and insistent to ensure that anyone of questionable character would neither be held forth as a representative in any way, nor given power over anyone in any way.  That's the bright line we've drawn.  I thought I communicated that clearly in the two-sentence policy statement, but either way, this guideline is firmly established now.

"Members of the nobility and knights are ineligible for the award, although any awards earned by such persons before receiving a peerage or knighthood are retained by them."

I don't think that restriction makes sense, so I'm removing it.  We have way too many members of the nobility and knights at this point for that to be feasible.

Under the provisions of El Lexhatx E.4, as no petition for a grant of citizenship has laid before the Secretary of State within the first sixty days of this prospective's examination period: with great regret, the immigration process for the prospective citizen is terminated.

Sure -- the role of information liaison was very carefully designed so that it was not "a position representing their fellow citizens or wielding government authority."  Such a liaison is gathering information, but is specifically not empowered to represent the Kingdom of Talossa and has no power to make any decisions.  There is no current prospect of the Information Liaison for Asgardia being placed in a position of power or serving as a representative of the Kingdom of Talossa.

Under the provisions of El Lexhatx E.4, as this prospective citizen has failed to make a first posting to Wittenberg within thirty days of their introduction by the Immigration Minister, the immigration process for the prospective citizen is terminated.