A small dot on the Cézembrean horizon.

[Glüc da Dhi]

Continuing on some of the things I said here: talossa.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=chatroom&action=display&thread=6819
Cézembre has always been the most awesome province. My attempts to build a website have not been a big success. Yet I still dream of a more active Cézembrean provincial life. Things have changed in Talossa recently. Witt is getting more crowded every day, we have many new citizens, including Cézembreans. More and more people seem to agree that witt needs reform. That one forum on the long term will not be enough to control the growing flow of information in Talossa. That the role of press is going to increase. That there needs to be an official government forum and next to that separate private forums. I think the time for Cézembre to start thinking about its online future has come. I would personally like to see a separate forum for Cézembreans, to discuss provincial culture, but also to conduct provincial stuff, including the elections of a senators.

I know there are many barriers. Citizen will not come to visit a separate provincial forum if theres nothing interesting to do there. We should not want to replace witt in the near future, as ties to Talossans from other provinces are not strong enough outside witt. We dont have a lot of active citizens yet.

Still I think it can be done. We have a working constitution. We have a working assembly. Also, there are plans that most parties support to make provinces responsible for senatorial elections.
I dont believe in the near future a separate Cézembrean forum will be very active, although we can have temporary boosts of activity during provincial elections. However, on the long term (Im talking 10-20 years, when witt becomes too crowded and cant handle all the information any more and active population will grow, I believe a provincial forum can be very useful and have a positive effect on provincial activity. Creating a forum for ourselves now can turn out great in the future.

So thats why I want to suggest a few things for next term:
- Working on a amending the constitution so we can conduct senatorial elections, if national amendments to the orglaw will be passed to allow that.
- End 2012/begin 2013 working on creating our own forum. Maybe something like cezembre.proboards.com, maybe something else. Wed have to keep the provincial subboard to inform citizens of the stuff that is going on there. The forum would be for both official and unofficial stuff as a split between the two is not yet something we can handle.
- Abandoning TST and coming up with our own time, as Cézembrean affairs being conducted based on GMT-7 is a bit odd, considering that Cézembre itself is GMT+0/+1

We would also have to think about the position of the Sénéchal, who is now both something like provincial sos and responsible for the Cézembre page on kot.net. Maybe the Sénéchal could appoint someone for admin stuff, so there wouldnt be a new admin every time we have a new Sénéchal. Same goes for conducting provincial elections. I dont know what would be the best solution, but Im sure we could figure something out.

These are just some ideas. I dont know how realistic they are. What does everyone think?

[Glüc da Dhi]

Thoughts? Comments? Ideas?

[Ián Tamorán S.H.]

I have commented elsewhere on

Abandoning TST and coming up with our own time, as Cézembrean affairs being conducted based on GMT-7 is a bit odd, considering that Cézembre itself is GMT+0/+1

as I believe that TST should be GMT+12 and GMT+36 simultaneously. And, no, I have not gone mad.

Even within Cézembre we have more timezones than GMT and GMT+1...

And, in principal, I have no objections to what you have written, S:r da Dhi, but we have to remember not to split Talossa too deeply - it is still one entity, one kingdom.

[Glüc da Dhi]

I agree with you, we should be careful about not creating eight different Talossas. Of course, at some point, when the population increases, it will no longer possible for any citizen to handle the enormous flow of information in Talossa. Provinces might become more important then, but we should make sure there will also be a lot of interprovincial bonds, like a govt site and forum, an active press, organisations like the cug, the university,the coa, instant messaging, etc,etc. For now, however Im only suggesting a forum for provincial stuff to be used occasionally. I dont want Cézembre to replace witt or Talossa, just add a little extra to it.