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After much consideration, I have decided to [eventually] seek new leadership for the Ministry of Integration. While I appreciate Point Breeze's service to the Monarchy and to the region, including leading the ministry with great skill and ability, he has been away from the community for some time now, and I can only conclude that he's become busy with real life. While there's nothing wrong with that at all and it's certainly not something I hold against him, the business of the region must continue, and that is why I've made this decision.

That being said, instead of choosing a replacement immediately, I have decided to attempt to restore the ministry from the ground up, by attempting to revive the recruitment and mentoring guilds. I have opened up a topic for anyone interested in leading either of these guilds, as well as suggestions on how to improve the guild system in general. My hope is that someone will prove themselves worthy of being considered for Jarl of Integration by leading one of these guilds to success, by ensuring they are active and by continuously improving them with fresh, creative ideas that fall within the principles and values of the region.

We shall see how this goes, but I have high hopes. I hope someone out there will meet them.

If I had more time, I might have tried my hand at this. But since I don't... @Gerrick, @tatte, @Emoticonius, might you three be interested?

And also @Sapphiron.

Well, the only position I have with actual work involved is in TRR, I could take up another gov't job. And I suppose Integration would give me a little more to do. I'm up for it.

I was thinking about the recruitment guild since I'm like the only active recruiter (besides Wintermoot, of course), but I was trying to think of how to incentivize people to want to join before I attempted at it, since that is basically the job.

I'm thinking perhaps temporarily lowering the bar to win the monthly contest (which I'd no longer participate in, though I'd still recruit) to get people to recruit. The only prizes we currently have are the Steam games, though (which I obviously think are great), so I don't want to give those out easily, especially since they're not mine.

Maybe we just need to advertise more. Show people just how easy it is. Ask new UH members to pledge  to send so many recruitment messages. Have recruitment nights where we try to recruit as many people as we can at once, with a special prize for the winner (any ideas?). Or make it a part of our recruitment message itself: "come to Wintreath where you can get a free Steam game just by winning the monthly recruitment contest".

Have recruitment nights where we try to recruit as many people as we can at once,

I like this idea, but we'd run out of fresh joiners quickly and end up recruiting hours old entries, and I'm not sure how well the portal would handle multiple people at once.

Easiest way around this would be to pick the target nations from elsewhere. If we're bold enough, we could pick a region, assign every participant a group of letters they'd be responsible for recruiting and go through innocent regions one after another.

In any case, recruiting in dedicated recruiting nights could be really fun. You tend to see some pretty bizarre names every now and then, good pieces for conversation.