Quote from: xpb on Today at 08:50:23 AMThis has been laggy in no small part to my peripheral activities.  I remain fairly constrained by other work likely till mid August 2026.

Hmmm, I am glad I checked in then, XPB, and thank you for your transparent response. Good luck with your extra-Talossan constraints and I hope you can return to fuller attention earlier than August. I must say with the personal challenges mentioned by the Culture Minister and your report here it is looking like the government is largely manned by the Seneschal currently.

Not unprecedented but not ideal and also quite stressful I can imagine.

Just saw the email. Looking forward to getting my Patriotic Award.

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on Today at 08:41:51 AMOk, fair enough.  I apologize for not reading carefully enough to see that post!  I don't quite see why it's still better to separate News and Governmental, but I'm happy to defer to you in that regard.

To be fair, I do think we should revisit the cultural mailing list later if we can strike a balance regarding the issues I raised there. And for what regards separating News and Governmental, I mostly just outlined why it's been written this way; at the end of the day, it probably does make sense to just merge them.

This has been laggy in no small part to my peripheral activities.  I remain fairly constrained by other work likely till mid August 2026.

Since I think the underlying bill is a pretty good one, it seems like a good idea to provide a chance for it to pass into law.  If you think people are likely to vote against it or abstain because you're the sponsor and because you were condemned by the Ziu for your predatory behavior, then we should have an available version that might actually pass.

Ok, fair enough.  I apologize for not reading carefully enough to see that post!  I don't quite see why it's still better to separate News and Governmental, but I'm happy to defer to you in that regard.

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on June 03, 2026, 07:31:49 AMThe PA is likely to facilitate the passage of the original version of this bill with absententions while registering symbolic disapproval. If that does not happen then I will move forward with throwing this bill into the next Clark and prepare for "disreputable" comments when folks vote No or Aus and add another exhibit for the next election.

Sigh, it looks like we will have two versions of this bill now on the Clark.

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on Today at 07:38:36 AMThe way the proposed process is written is fairly sloppy, and I don't think it would work as intended.

Constructive feedback toward desloppifying it is welcome.

Azul @Moses Henry Emefiele  , this board is meant for the operation of the Ziu, our parliament, and it's not typically open to feedback from prospective citizens.

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on Today at 07:50:45 AMI'm wondering why these are separate?  It's not necessarily bad, but it seems like if we're going to have three categories, we might want to think broader.  Probably not a ton of people want La C'hronica but don't want other government announcements.

I think the answer is twofold:

1) Past practice and different purposes. The Government list was necessitated by the current C.1.2.2.5, the News list was created under the new database for a separate purpose. Although, now that I think of it, the legal basis for the delivery of La C'hronică is C.1.2.2.5 as well.

2) The News list was born when putting together the new database, and at that time, I didn't necessarily envision it as delivering La C'hronică only.

I don't think there's much harm in merging the two, but I think keeping them separate provides more clarity when managing consent.

QuoteI wonder if there's a possibility of instead having a Social list for the forwarding of announcements by Talossan organizations?  Any given organization could be limited to two announcements per term or something like that.  I think it would be great to have stuff like TCAT eligible to send out announcements to let people know it's starting, since there might be some cycling fans out there who just never noticed it before.

I addressed this here (I called it "cultural" and you called it "social", but I think the idea is the same): https://wittenberg.talossa.com/index.php?msg=43335