Officer Campaign
Posted: 02 Aug 2020, 20:48
It has been some time since I last ran for something in TRR. There is not much I want to say because in all honesty I don't have "great plan" for any office.
My first choice would be Foreign Affairs - this has been a position in which I've been in before, and in particular while I was Delegate, was something that I think we did good progess in. This is the main area this thread will be focusing in, even if this thread will be rather brief, I guess.
Second preference would have been culture, but I have to admit I'd rather have DeadEye Jack be in charge of Culture than me as when he was Culture Officer he was excellent in that position and I'm sure he'd be great at it again.
A far off third preference is Outreach, but perhaps I'd rather take it over Culture if Jack becomes Officer, which unless he decides to withdraw his candidacy, I'm sure he will. I don't have many great plans for outreach - perhaps recycling some previous ideas, such as RMB or Delegate-endorsing awards, newsletters for the RMB crowd, and such things that we've done before. I would also like to revisit the idea of a monthly newsletter for the region-side population as way to get informed, and perhaps interested in off-site stuff, which would basically work as foreign update for internal consumption, though probably something more brief than the updates usually are.
Of the current four offices the one I wouldn't want to be in charge of at all would the WA one. I have no experience and little to no interest in managing things such as a WA programme. In the end I wouldn't mind being given some more unhortodox assignment, if Sarah comes up with an interesting proposal.
On Foreign Affairs, I have no intention of trying to reinvent how Foreign Affairs works. For the most part our current embassy policy works, as does our "ambassadorial programme". I don't think there's any use in reinventing the concepts of embassies or ambassadors in NS.
A bit of managerial work, but I'd like to take a look at our current treaties. For example, of the XYZ treaty we're currently the only region that remains active. As someone said, repealing a treaty is not exactly exciting campaign stuff, but this is just a bit of what I'd go through with the Delegate in trying to comb through our treaties, and embassies, and seeing what can be retired and what can be put to good use.
On the topic of treaties, I'd also like us to utilize some of our treaties. I don't think we'd be able to hold an event with another region but organizing something in the mid-term with our partners of the January Accords would be something I'd be happy to discuss with TSP, TEP and with the Delegate and the Culture Officer.
This might be stretching too much in Culture territory, but we could also hold smaller events - we could hold some RMB games with other regions, in the past there have been games of Rock/Paper/Scissors with other regions using the poll function, for example, but we could aslo gently invite other regions, particularly ones from whom people have in the past participated in discord games, to partake in things such as Popmaster, or we could organize regional teams for games such as Codenames. These things can work outside larger events, like festivals, and would be easier to organize.
This is perhaps an underwhelming campaign but maybe Gorundu can shut up now.
My first choice would be Foreign Affairs - this has been a position in which I've been in before, and in particular while I was Delegate, was something that I think we did good progess in. This is the main area this thread will be focusing in, even if this thread will be rather brief, I guess.
Second preference would have been culture, but I have to admit I'd rather have DeadEye Jack be in charge of Culture than me as when he was Culture Officer he was excellent in that position and I'm sure he'd be great at it again.
A far off third preference is Outreach, but perhaps I'd rather take it over Culture if Jack becomes Officer, which unless he decides to withdraw his candidacy, I'm sure he will. I don't have many great plans for outreach - perhaps recycling some previous ideas, such as RMB or Delegate-endorsing awards, newsletters for the RMB crowd, and such things that we've done before. I would also like to revisit the idea of a monthly newsletter for the region-side population as way to get informed, and perhaps interested in off-site stuff, which would basically work as foreign update for internal consumption, though probably something more brief than the updates usually are.
Of the current four offices the one I wouldn't want to be in charge of at all would the WA one. I have no experience and little to no interest in managing things such as a WA programme. In the end I wouldn't mind being given some more unhortodox assignment, if Sarah comes up with an interesting proposal.
On Foreign Affairs, I have no intention of trying to reinvent how Foreign Affairs works. For the most part our current embassy policy works, as does our "ambassadorial programme". I don't think there's any use in reinventing the concepts of embassies or ambassadors in NS.
A bit of managerial work, but I'd like to take a look at our current treaties. For example, of the XYZ treaty we're currently the only region that remains active. As someone said, repealing a treaty is not exactly exciting campaign stuff, but this is just a bit of what I'd go through with the Delegate in trying to comb through our treaties, and embassies, and seeing what can be retired and what can be put to good use.
On the topic of treaties, I'd also like us to utilize some of our treaties. I don't think we'd be able to hold an event with another region but organizing something in the mid-term with our partners of the January Accords would be something I'd be happy to discuss with TSP, TEP and with the Delegate and the Culture Officer.
This might be stretching too much in Culture territory, but we could also hold smaller events - we could hold some RMB games with other regions, in the past there have been games of Rock/Paper/Scissors with other regions using the poll function, for example, but we could aslo gently invite other regions, particularly ones from whom people have in the past participated in discord games, to partake in things such as Popmaster, or we could organize regional teams for games such as Codenames. These things can work outside larger events, like festivals, and would be easier to organize.
This is perhaps an underwhelming campaign but maybe Gorundu can shut up now.