My term as MoFA has been quieting down some due to RL committments. You haven't lived until you are teaching (and grading) three writing courses, running a writing center, serving on an academic assessment committee (during a HLC accreditation visit), directing three one-act plays (and acting in one), preparing for a conference in a month, and readying a e-mail newsletter for a professional organization. Ok, you don't really live during all that either.
Since the last report, we have opened an embassy with Liberalia and declined a few embassies. Relations with The West Pacific and United Federation of Planets have also be interesting.
A few regions with which we are friends have suggested holding inter-regional chats. 10,000 Islands originally approached me with the idea, but I have been unable to attempt any coordination. Liberalia has suggest holding a summit between our regions so we can get to know each other better. The idea of more multiregional activites brings regions into stronger friendships.
Ess, Daemon, Redundancies, and 420 Celebrants have all done excellent work in helping to prepare and edit the ambassador's reports. Likewise all of the ambassadors have been doing excellent work. You all make this job easier and more pleasant.
Beyond all of this, I have been working on a manual of sorts for future MoFAs (since I will not seek election next term). It is my hope to leave a sense of continuity to the position at the end of my term. To that end, here is the first part of the manual I've been preparing.
If you have suggestions on items I should include, please respond in this post.
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I'm creating this thread so that what I've done can be understood a little better. Please document everything as it occurs so that your successors will always have a history and a list of contacts. There is nothing worse for a new MoFA than feeling lost.
As a bit of advice, I may have created more work than I needed to, and a beginning MoFA would do well to consider which events are most important. Perhaps you will choose to focus less on seeking out new embassies and focus on improving relations with our existing embassies, or not. Who knows?
Please also continue to update this thread as needed. I think all of the documents in the OMC are intended to be "living" threads, threads that are continuously being updated and added to.
This thread is broken into the following parts:
General
* Constitutional Definition
* Office of Ministry Coordination
* MoFA Workload & DMoFA
* Reporting to the Public
Establishing Foreign Relations
* The Hudson Bay Doctrine
* Types of Diplomatic Relations
* Seeking out new regions
* Being approached
* Proposing to cabinet
* After the cabinet vote
Maintaining Foreign Relations
* Embassy List
* Communicating with Regions
* The Ambassador's Report
Working with Ambassadors
* Finding Ambassadors
* Maintaining Relationships with Ambassadors
* The Ambassador's List |
btw - I think my weakest area has been the "Maintaining Relationships with Ambassadors". I wish I had stronger ideas to keep up with what you are experiencing in your host regions.
I am sorry that RL is so busy (unless it is invigorating or something akin to that). I am impressed and thankful for your idea for a manuel and also grateful that you are going to put it together. This is a position I have been interested in for awhile but without your guidence it would be nearly impossible to maintain the level of competency you have invested in the role.
Thank you and your list looks good.
I think it's a great idea. Bravo!!! :clap:
