Opening Address - January 2026

Fellow North Pacificans,

Many of you may not know who I am, so I'll give a brief formal introduction. I'm Voopmont, or Islandwalk in TNP, and I've been working as part of the WA ministry ever since I joined TNP in September of last year. Since then, I've been one of our leading IFV writers and thread maintainers, and have also contributed on the side to the integration and culture ministries. I am, as of writing this, a 2x World Assembly author.

As MoWAA I want to focus our efforts toward achieving what I see as our primary missions: projecting power through our World Assembly vote, smoothly maintaining the infrastructure for the democratic WA vote, and supporting TNPers nominated for C/Cs and WA proposals by TNP authors. To do this, we need to be on point with keeping up to date voting threads and publishing IFVs on time. I will aim to tackle the issues we faced on these fronts during Chipoli's term, and most especially do my best to communicate with my team what tasks are highest priority. It's no secret that we've missed a lot of IFVs under the previous term, in large part due to the WA staff being very occupied with IRL responsibilities. There's no shame in that, but I want to ensure even if we have trouble meeting our quota that our time is spent well: all published IFVs are sent to the mailing list, priority is given to write IFVs for the most important proposals, and stickied threads are updated at least once for every new at-vote.

As those in the ministry might already know, I have been in contact with 9005 about using a fork of a program he's working on to automate some aspects of voting thread creation, which could save us massive amounts of time long-term as well as reduce lag between proposal submission and thread creation (most relevant for SC proposals). I have no guarantees that this project will work out, but I'm willing to put in the full effort on my part because of the high predicted return on investment.

@Cretox and @Fachu will remain as deputy ministers even with potentially limited availability, as I trust their experience and level-headed attitudes. One hope of mine is that new applicants and more junior staff will find their work enjoyable and rewarding as we look toward the future of the ministry, and I'm always ready to work towards that goal.

As always, my DMs are fully open to questions and business inquiries.

Thanks for your time,
Islandwalk

First of all, I wish you success in your term.

Could you elaborate a bit more on how the planned IFV automation tool will work and when it is expected to be implemented?

Meteturan:

First of all, I wish you success in your term.

Could you elaborate a bit more on how the planned IFV automation tool will work and when it is expected to be implemented?

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Timelines are mainly dependent on 9005 as he is the primary coder and is making it first and foremost for The Wellspring, I have no solid estimate on this. The tool is intended to facilitate the creation of voting threads. He mentioned his desire to use it for automating creation of Discord-side voting threads for TW, which is where I come in to modify that for TNP usage so the Discord message it sends is instead just a pre-formatted version of our voting thread templates, so theoretically we would only have to copy paste that into the WA Affairs subforum and maybe go fetch the NS forum link. In sending that message it also reminds us that a proposal has been submitted and is on track to make quorum.

Voopmont:

Timelines are mainly dependent on 9005 as he is the primary coder and is making it first and foremost for The Wellspring, I have no solid estimate on this. The tool is intended to facilitate the creation of voting threads. He mentioned his desire to use it for automating creation of Discord-side voting threads for TW, which is where I come in to modify that for TNP usage so the Discord message it sends is instead just a pre-formatted version of our voting thread templates, so theoretically we would only have to copy paste that into the WA Affairs subforum and maybe go fetch the NS forum link. In sending that message it also reminds us that a proposal has been submitted and is on track to make quorum.

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Thank you for the information.