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Repeal of directive for the Curator rei Informaticae

I. Established under the Senatus consultum ultimum de situ internetuali Novae Romae, enacted on a.d. XI Kal. Quint. Q. Arrio (III) A. Tullia cos. (21 June, 2021), this decree levied obligations on the Curator rei Informaticae to centralize, modernize and bring all digital infrastructure under Republic control. It is to be noted for the senate that the original Senatus consultum ultimum has now naturally deescalated to a standard Senatus consultum, as determined by law.

II. Although, control of assets was achieved, the website made functional and accessible, other mandates were not achieved or only partially achieved. For curator reporting that was submitted, senatorial archives already contain reports I-IV. All reports received are attached as an appendix to this SC.

III. With this senatus consultum, the senate hereby rescinds the original senatus consultum. Firstly, the senate acknowledges that the decree has now been overtaken by events. New reporting from the curator, under new decrees, are due shortly which may consider entirely new website platforms. The senate also acknowledges that through estoppel, the senate and other authorities failed to enforce the requirements. The senate also acknowledges that they overburdened the citizen assigned as curator with numerous other governmental roles, and as such, the senate holds the accountability. The curator rei informaticae is absolved of all conditions not met in the original decree.

IV. At this time, the curator rei informaticae shall continue to appoint and chair a committee of IT scribes (and potentially officers with other titles) to revise the homepage and digital services of the main webpage to bring them up to date with modern technology and standards (as best as possible) to better draw in more new citizens. This should include efforts to refine for SEO (Search Engine Optimized). The committee should include at least three appointed members besides the curator rei informaticae. The curator rei informaticae shall ensure that there are always multiple trusted officers with administrative access to our online assets to prevent any loss of access by the res publica. The curator is directed to maintain sustainment and fault correction of our current IT assets while considering modern platform replacements in the IT committee.

V. Once new reporting is received under Senatus Consultum De Initiativa Reformationis Situs Novae Romae, the senate will review ongoing website requirements and explore new platform solutions at that time. Additional ad-hoc reporting may be stipulated by consular or senate order but otherwise all other previous ongoing reporting is no longer required. The curator rei informaticae is required to submit a report within two nundina after such an order is made.

APPENDIX 1 – KALENDS REPORTS OF THE CURATOR REI INFORMATICAE ON THE PROGRESS OF THE REPARATION AND MODERNIZATION OF THE NOVA ROMAN DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE

I. Brief reports for the Kalends of August, September and October, Q. Arrio III A. Tullia coss.

Cn. Cornelius Lentulus curator rei informaticae Q. Arrio et A. Tulliae consulibus et senatui Novo Romano s. p. d.

Consules illustrissimi et patres conscripti, by the Kalends of August, I have received and acknowledged the commission from the Senate to centralize, modernize, update and bring all assets of the digital infrastructure under the control of the republic and to decide which ones have to be reinstated or abolished as the services fell out of favor or are disused. I am also given the task to appoint and chair a committee of IT scribes (and potentially officers with other titles) to revise the homepage and digital services of the main webpage to bring them up to date with modern technology and standards to better draw in more new citizens. The main entrance page of our website shall be up to modern standards which also should be SEO. Regarding another order of the Senate, I will need assistance in installing a digital office software to safeguard access to all the digital infrastructure.

By the Kalends of September, I spent time on estimating what exactly needs to be done, how it is best achieved, and who should be my co-workers in the future IT committee. I have conducted discussions about the possible directions of this undertaking with various officers of Nova Roma, including praetor C. Artorius Praeconinus.

By the Kalends of October, I have entered in contact with various IT technicians inside and outside Nova Roma in order that we start discussion on prices and possible options. I will keep you updated on the progress and the results of the discussions.

Report respectfully submitted by:

Cn. Cornelius Lentulus, quaestor CURATOR REI INFORMATICAE

II. Brief report for the Kalends of November and December, Q. Arrio III A. Tullia coss.

Cn. Cornelius Lentulus curator rei informaticae Q. Arrio et A. Tulliae consulibus et senatui Novo Romano s. p. d.

Consules illustrissimi et patres conscripti, I have started talks with IT professionals outside Nova Roma to estimate the possible costs of the full repair and modernization of the Nova Roma online infrastructure, censorial database, album civium and all online infrastructure. Cautious estimations put the costs somewhere between 20.000 and 30.000 USD, depending on how complete this overhaul would be.

At the same time, I entered contact with previous webmasters and IT service men of Nova Roma about their possible involvement to facilitate this project, also in the hope that their previous experience and potential commitment to our cause would help us to carry out the modernization project on a lower price or even for free. The original creator of the Nova Roma website, its internal database and all software of Nova Roma, M. Octavius Gracchus, has agreed to work for Nova Roma and to rebuild our website for an friendly price which is not yet specified but is going to be much more favorable than the price on the market for IT works of similar size.

It is my strong recommendation for the Senate to accept the offer, whatever that be, from M. Octavius, not only because of budgetary considerations, but because as the creator of all our website programs and the particular, very outdated (1998) Baldrick programming language, he only understands it well, and he can best save our archives and transfer them to a new programming language in the fastest, safest and most cost effective way, without the need of first completely deciphering it. For other programmers, a significant amount of the payment they would ask from Nova Roma would be for the time and effort they spend on decoding and understanding our particular and antiquated Baldirck software.

In the meanwhile, I have informally commissioned Octavius to make some updates and fixes on the Nova Roma Wiki which does not display certain type of images well, to make some cosmetic changes, and to update our automated province assigning program in the Album Civium, among other minor tasks and fixes.

At this point, professional planning with preliminary discussions have been initiated and are proceeding.

Report respectfully submitted by:

Cn. Cornelius Lentulus, quaestor CURATOR REI INFORMATICAE

III. Brief report for the Kalends of January, Sex. Lucilio II A. Tullia II coss.

Cn. Cornelius Lentulus curator rei informaticae Sex. Lucilio et A. Tulliae consulibus et senatui Novo Romano s. p. d.

Consules illustrissimi et patres conscripti, I have bad news to report. M. Octavius Gracchus has finally settled about his decision regarding reworking our website, and he thinks the task would be too big and too troublesome to do while he has got many new commitments. He has made the following comments and recommendations:

"Unfortunately I don't have availability for a big project now. I have a full-time job, my second book is about to be published ("Seattle Neon: Signs of the Emerald City"), and I'm in the process of buying a house. Finding someone else to maintain this will be difficult, because the programming language the existing app is written in (Perl) fell out of favour around 2008 - eclipsed by newer and better tools. It's a dead language. Generally, only programmers in their 40s and 50s (like me) are able to work with it, because young programmers would have no reason to learn Perl. It will be a long and hard search to find anyone who can do this. The only appropriate thing to do is a complete rewrite using modern languages and frameworks, but I don't have time."

"Anything but the most trivial of changes requires a development environment to be set up, mimicking the old environment as closely as possible, but running locally so I can make changes and quickly see the results. This is very difficult due to the advanced age of the app. For example, will the Perl database drivers from 2002 be able to talk to a Postgres 12 database installed in 2020? Probably not, the protocol they use to talk to each other would certainly have changed in that time span. But I can't install an early-2000s version of Postgres at home, both because it's not compatible with modern operating systems, and because I require the 2020s version for my day job! This is one of many problems I'd expect to encounter when trying to get the app running locally - there will be more, some of them impossible to predict."

"This really should have been done ten years ago, but of course no one wanted to spend the money, even though the Senate had received a really good proposal/estimate. As I recall, Titus Octavius Pius worked for the hosting provider then, and he was going to do it for $10K or so. That was a truly incredible price and the Senate should have accepted the offer immediately (I urged them to do that!), but instead there were accusations of corruption, lots of yelling and finger-pointing. (...) Turning down that incredible offer is one of the most boneheaded things NR has ever done. I think now it would cost at least twice that much for a rewrite now."

"This is also the reason the hosting costs are so high - the service provider is having to maintain a turn-of-the-century environment and tools just for this site. Ancient servers can't be maintained with modern tools (Chef, Ansible, AWS, etc.), so this server requires hands-on attention every time there is an OS update or security patch, hence the additional costs. In the time that's elapsed since the proposal was rejected, NR has likely spent an equivalent amount on hosting fees that are 4 or 5 times what they would be on a modern server - all that money has now been burned with nothing to show for it."

"This was a factor in my decision to quit for the second time (there were many other reasons). The Senate rejected the only sensible course of action, due to infighting and political game-playing, when I was begging them to take it; I considered this a rejection of my professional competence too, with a would-be client doing the exact opposite of everything I advise - that's generally not an environment any programmer is willing to tolerate. (...)"

"But it has to be done. This web app is going to be 20 years old in a few months. It's several generations of technology behind and cannot be maintained."

This is the end of his quoted letter.

Patres conscripti, I will spend the next month on trying to find an alternative solution.

Report respectfully submitted by:

Cn. Cornelius Lentulus, quaestor CURATOR REI INFORMATICAE

IV. Brief report for the Kalends of February, Sex. Lucilio II A. Tullia II coss.

Cn. Cornelius Lentulus curator rei informaticae Sex. Lucilio et A. Tulliae consulibus et senatui Novo Romano s. p. d.

Consules illustrissimi et patres conscripti, I have very good news: I have found the best solution for our IT project. I have contacted both our hosting company, its owner Fredrik and Titus Octavius Pius (Kristoffer From), former officer in the IT management of Nova Roma, the person M. Octavius Pius mentioned as a candidate for the rebuilding of our website 10 years ago whom the Sullan-Caesarian regime neglected to commission for the important task. T. Octavius Pius has answered my called and agreed to work for Nova Roma! The most fantastic news in this, that it turned out that Titus Pius works for our hosting company, Fredrik, and thus all aspects of the work can be brought together in one central agency. Furthermore, as a past webmaster of Nova Roma, Titus Pius knows the internal mechanisms and needs of our website and the Nova Roman community intimately and from first hand, and this will put him and a similarly good position as if our website's creator would work for us again. In professional life, this is the resume of Titus Pius:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristofferfrom/

Working together with our host and provider, I have granted Titus Pius all the necessary access permissions into our website so that he can survey and examine its conditions, its various parts, the various necessary fixes to make, and to give us an estimated price. I have explained him all what we need, including the new front page (SEO), fixes and updates in our system etc. He took a very good stance and approach to our situation, and, I quote, he expressed his general attitude to the project with the following:

"First, as a past citizen and webmaster/developer of NR, I'm trying to look at this from the perspective of "affordable but not cheap/bad solution, easy for volunteer staff to help maintain and develop". If that's the wrong viewpoint, let me know. My advise is to try to make the initial "project" as small as possible; in my experience, development projects ALWAYS sprawl - if they start sprawling, they never end. I'm not certain what budget you have for this, but a "minimum viable product" of, say, a modernized wiki and a new editor-editable Album Civium might be a good enough start, so you have a way of keeping track of citizens and their information."

"I would suggest PHP as language, since it's quite a lot more popular than Perl for the web, harder to break than Javascript and more familiar to me than Python. Those two are the big alternatives, and I have worked with both. Any of the three should be very easy to find web host alternatives for, unlike Baldrick. I would further suggest the Laravel platform, since it provides a standardized platform in active development, is based on PHP and also something I am familiar with."

End of the quotation from Titus Pius' message.

Meanwhile, I continued negotiations with M. Octavius Gracchus, the creator of our website, and I succeeded to have him on team as advisor so that he can facilitate, and thus lower the costs, of the the work of Titus Pius when it comes to that. I have also secured his promised that he would do those minor fixes within a few weeks that we agreed in the previous months, including updates to the Nova Roma Wiki image display, province assigning automated mechanism in the Album Civium etc. He is working on these things during February.

At the time of this writing, Titus Pius is investigating all details and mechanisms of our digital infrastructure in order to form a price offer. I will keep you updated, and will draft a motion, into the hands of the consuls when ready, to decide whether the Senate deems the offer acceptable.

During the following month, I am going the appoint the IT committee for the reparation and modernization of our digital assets.

Report respectfully submitted by:

Cn. Cornelius Lentulus, quaestor CURATOR REI INFORMATICAE

V. Brief reports for the Kalends of March, April and May, Sex. Lucilio II A. Tullia II coss.

Cn. Cornelius Lentulus curator rei informaticae Sex. Lucilio et A. Tulliae consulibus et senatui Novo Romano s. p. d.

Consules illustrissimi et patres conscripti, I claimed in my previous message that the best solution is found, however, thanks to the turns of events, now we have a much better, cheaper and perfectly inside solution for fixing and reforming our website. I have recruited an IT expert citizen, C. Amatius Structus and have started preliminary work with him already, and I will make him my primary IT assistant once we clarified everything.

In the next months, we will hold joint consultations with the previous experts at our web host provider Fredrik, his assistant and our citizen T. Octavius Pius, with P. Iunius Brutus who promised to land his web infrastructure to NR, under the leading role of C. Amatius Structus, in my coordination. I expect to report happy results soon.

Report respectfully submitted by:

Cn. Cornelius Lentulus, quaestor CURATOR REI INFORMATICAE

VI. Brief report for the Kalends of June, Sex. Lucilio II A. Tullia II coss.

Cn. Cornelius Lentulus curator rei informaticae Sex. Lucilio et A. Tulliae consulibus et senatui Novo Romano s. p. d.

Consules illustrissimi et patres conscripti, I am back with great news to report. I have appointed C. Amatius Structus as scriba programmator situs internetualis publici. I have granted him root access to the entire structure of our website. He is now figuring out all details of the arcane Baldrick systems programming language created by our website creator C. Octavius.

C. Amatius would do all of the work largely for free, but a modest recompensation would be expected at least, but only a small portion of the price that is the normal market price of such work. Huge improvements are already made.

I announce you the great results of a very long term work project, which, in lack of IT experts and resources, was only a plan for a long time, but after recruiting an IT expert and programmer, C. Amatius Structus, has become a quickly evolving and developing reality. Our Census Point system has been reformed at the end of the consular year of Q. Arrius, the second time, and T. Domitius, the third time (2020), and we had to wait until we found the appropriate programmer to the task to implement the provisions of the new system. This year, after several attempt with other companies and experts, I was finally able to work together with C. Amatius, and, after seeing his good performance, I appointed him as scriba programmator of our website. Now our website is fully functioning and it is updated to meet our current laws and rules.

All current provinces, according to the current system, distribution, geographical limits and names of the provinces, have been updated on each citizen's Album Civium page. Now even those citizens receive a geographic "badge" who don't belong to any NR province. They are labeled as "Extra limites", with a nice picture of the Roman limes and the foreign ("Barbaricum") territory on the image, which leads you to a summary page about citizens without province and their contact person.

The tribes and centuries of all citizens who are capite censi have been updated. The tribes and centuries of assidui will be updated after the conclusion of the tax payment period. Until that time, they are labeled as capite censi and remain, temporarily, without their tribe marked.

The equestrian status of those who donated for it or obtained it as an award has been updated.

The current Census Point system, that has taken effect today by my edict putting the lex Arria de censu civium aestimando into effect, has been updated on the Album Civium CP "details" page. For those who don't know, Nova Roma determines the voting power of our citizens by Census Points that they can earn by various services, qualifications, and meritorious actions toward Nova Roma. Note that the current rules about Census Points can be found here:

http://www.novaroma.org/nr/Lex_Arria_de_censu_civium_aestimando_(Nova_Roma)

Now you will find that the amount of your CP has been changed, for many citizens who have never offered their service to NR it decreased, for those who did many things for NR it increased greatly. Treasury Points (a form of CP) have been also added for paying equestrian taxes or treaury tribune taxes.

You can observe the updated and reformed color coding of the offices on this Test Citizen Account:

http://www.novaroma.org/civitas/album?id=14399

- GREEN marks IV RANK subordinate officers and miscellanous minor offices and awards. - BLUE (new) marks I-II-III RANK, that is higher ranking, subordinate officers and special state ministers, such as the curators and prefects. - LIGHT PURPLE (PINKISH) (new) marks municipal magistrates, such as duumvir or decurio. - DARK PURPLE (VIOLET) marks ordinary magistrates, such as consul, praetor, quaestor etc. - TYRIAN PURPLE (REDDISH) (new) marks imperium bearer governors and special grants of imperium, and senatorial status, and the pater patriae, princeps senatus, princeps civitatis titles. - RED marks priesthoods.

Here you can observe the Census Point effects of current and past offices of the Test Citizen Account:

http://www.novaroma.org/bin/cpoints?id=14399

The system of voting classes is divided according to census points in the following way:

0-24 census points: Vth Class 25-49 census points: IVth Class 50-74 census points: IIIrd Class 75-99 census points: IInd Class 100-... census points: Ist Class 400-... Equestrian Order

I call all citizens to examine the amounts of their Census Points and submit their requests for accounting any of the Census Points that they think they are due according to the lex Arria de censu civium aestimando, which can be read at the link above. Send your CP requests to:

novaromacensus@gmail.com

Report respectfully submitted by:

Cn. Cornelius Lentulus, quaestor CURATOR REI INFORMATICAE

VII. Brief reports for the Kalends of July, August and September, Sex. Lucilio II A. Tullia II coss.

Cn. Cornelius Lentulus curator rei informaticae Sex. Lucilio et A. Tulliae consulibus et senatui Novo Romano s. p. d.

Consules illustrissimi et patres conscripti, I am reporting only the fact that since the last report intensive talks were conducted in Discord chat platform and in email with my scriba programmator C. Amatius Structus, T. Octavius Pius Ahenobarbus, C. Octavius Gracchus, with our web host Fredrik. P. Iunius Brutus was very helpful and he is working on merging the website system of his Roman organization the Res Publica Canadana Romana with Nova Roma, and is working out a solution where our outdated programming language can be migrated to the new, provided by him, with the guidance of C. Amatius Structus.

Great debates have been held about all details, layout, graphic design and key functions and principles of the new set up. This all is still ongoing, but what I can report is that within the foreseeable future, our work is completed!

Report respectfully submitted by:

Cn. Cornelius Lentulus, quaestor CURATOR REI INFORMATICAE

VIII. Brief reports for the Kalends of October, November and December Sex. Lucilio II A. Tullia II coss. and January, C. Cornelio Q. Arrio IV coss.

Cn. Cornelius Lentulus curator rei informaticae C. Cornelio et Q. Arrio consulibus et senatui Novo Romano s. p. d.

Consules illustrissimi et patres conscripti, the census has distracted the Officium Rei Informaticae in the last few months, but I would like to report, with pride, that thanks to our fixing the function of our old website in the past year, the census was conducted using tools in the website that has not been used for over 10 years, and they are now functioning again. This was a great improvement, and this alone makes us confident that whatever the future holds, we, currently, already, have a fully functional Album Civium and database infrastructure that enables NR to operate according its laws.

After the little winter break and rest from the project debates and discussions, we intend to implement the migration of the home page and main cover of the Nova Roma website this year, in my aedilician year, in honor of our 25th Anniversary and Quindecennalia. The NR Wiki will remain a subsection of that newnewed web appearance.

I can report you the results in a few months.

Report respectfully submitted by:

Cn. Cornelius Lentulus, quaestor CURATOR REI INFORMATICAE

IX. Brief reports for the Kalends of February, March, April, May and June C. Cornelio Q. Arrio IV coss.

Cn. Cornelius Lentulus curator rei informaticae C. Cornelio et Q. Arrio consulibus et senatui Novo Romano s. p. d.

Consules illustrissimi et patres conscripti, I am reporting bad news. A key figure in our project, P. Iunius Brutus has disappeared and is not answering any new attempts to reach him. A lot of plans and discussions were made purposeless with this, and in addition, this caused a disappointment and poor morale in the Officium Rei Informaticae. Our excellent active programmer, C. Amatius Structus, my scriba programmator, has recently indicated to me that he is scaling back his participation in the work. He remains available for minor updates, and he considers getting back to full website reconfiguration work should we come up with a new approach and new assisting experts. At the moment, consensus is that with the currently involved people we cannot complete the project.

When preparing to this report, I came to the conclusion that I have to restart everything. I have to find the necessary personnel who is fluent enough in arcane programming languages to decode the Baldrick system of Octavius and recreate our web structure.

A small positive development: we have fixed the internal email sending program of the Album Civium. Citizens can know contact each other even if they don't have each other's email addresses, which can facilitate interconnected community building, networking and work in general.

I hope I can come back with something positive soon.

Report respectfully submitted by:

Cn. Cornelius Lentulus, quaestor CURATOR REI INFORMATICAE

X. Brief report for the Kalends of July, C. Cornelio Q. Arrio IV coss.

Cn. Cornelius Lentulus curator rei informaticae C. Cornelio et Q. Arrio consulibus et senatui Novo Romano s. p. d.

Consules illustrissimi et patres conscripti, there may be a solution for our problems: I have found near to me a programmer who is even involved in Roman and Latin studies digital works, Zs. Ferenczi, working for a small IT company. The prices seem amicable, the mutual understanding is giving promise. Please give me some additional time to see if this is a possible solution.

Report respectfully submitted by:

Cn. Cornelius Lentulus, quaestor CURATOR REI INFORMATICAE

XI. Brief reports for the Kalends of August, September, October, November and December, C. Cornelio Q. Arrio IV coss.

Cn. Cornelius Lentulus curator rei informaticae C. Cornelio et Q. Arrio consulibus et senatui Novo Romano s. p. d.

Consules illustrissimi et patres conscripti, I have to report that due to the heavy workload in the 25th Anniversary Year, the Quindecennalia, I was unable to make progress, I couldn't advanve with my planned discussions with the newly found IT company, and work has been paused. I make no further excuses, I did not have time left to make more progress with the task this year. Next year I will restart.

Report respectfully submitted by:

Cn. Cornelius Lentulus, quaestor CURATOR REI INFORMATICAE

XII. Brief reports for the Kalends of January, February, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November and December, M. Cotta C. Petronio coss.

Cn. Cornelius Lentulus curator rei informaticae M. Cottae et C. Petronio consulibus et senatui Novo Romano s. p. d.

Consules illustrissimi et patres conscripti, after lots of restart attamepts this year, back and forth, and after an ongoing attempt to keep our programmer on board, my right hand C. Amatius Structus, scriba programmator has resigned from his position on a.d. III Kalendas Octobres. At the moment, we have no staff to work on any substantial programming required projects.

I don't see at the moment how I could appoint a three strong staff of IT experts and complete the work as required by senatus consultum. For the next months, I will concentrate on maintenance and finding colleagues to form the committee that was required. Without experts who are able to work on that, the task cannot be done.

Report respectfully submitted by:

Cn. Cornelius Lentulus, quaestor CURATOR REI INFORMATICAE

XIII. Brief reports for the Kalends of January, February, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November and December, P. Aurelio C. Flavio coss. and January, M. Metello D. Aurelio coss.

Cn. Cornelius Lentulus curator rei informaticae M. Metello et D. Aurelio consulibus et senatui Novo Romano s. p. d.

Consules illustrissimi et patres conscripti, last year brought fruit regarding the restart and the building of the committee that the senate required from me. I can report that I have found the necessary number of candidates, and if the senate is satisfied if we make our restart according to the once approved parameters, I am ready to create the IT reconfiguration committee. My candidates are D. Aurelius Ingeniarius, A. Scaevius Alcor, M. Ulpius Tuscanus, C. Valerius Silvanus and L. Aemilius Canus. I identified at least two others who are interested to help but their commitment to the task has still to be clarified.

With these citizens, I will create the committee that was required by the Senatus consultum de situ internetuali Novae Romae, and we restart the process that failed after the departure of the scriba programmator. We haven't had previously this number of dedicated and interested volunteers, which is promising.

The senate recently issued a new directive under the Senatus consultum de initiativa reformationis situs Novae Romae. The goals of that decree are largely identical with the goals of the Senatus consultum de situ internetuali Novae Romae, and together with my committee, we will satisfy the requirement of both decrees.

As of this month, the status of the task and the completion of the tasks stands the following way.

There were 3 mandates from the senate:

I. Task: The curator rei informaticae is commissioned to centralize, modernize, update and bring all assets of the digital infrastructure under the control of the republic and to decide which ones have to be reinstated or abolished as the services fell out of favor or are disused:

Status: I centralized, updated, fixed and brought all assets under the control of the republic. I decided that except our Yahoo forums which we migrated to Groupsio, all assets are to be retained. I didn't succeed to modernize the website.

II. Task: The curator rei informaticae shall appoint and chair a committee of IT officers to revise the homepage and digital services of the main webpage to bring them up to date with modern technology and standards to better draw in more new citizens. The main entrance page of our website shall be up to modern standards which also should be SEO (Search Engine Optimized). The committee should include at least three appointed members besides the curator rei informaticae.

Status: Until just recently, I haven't found three people to create this committee. The maximum number of people at one point was two, C. Amatius Structus and P. Iunius Brutus working under my hand. At the moment, I have five candidates: D. Aurelius Ingeniarius, A. Scaevius Alcor, M. Ulpius Tuscanus, C. Valerius Silvanus and L. Aemilius Canus. With them, this part of the mandate will be possible.

III. Task: The curator rei informaticae shall install a digital office software to safeguard access to all the digital infrastructure with clear instruction for the higher magistratus on how to regain the access should anything unforeseen happen.

Status: At the moment, this is ensured by granting access to multiply trusted officers to prevent loss of access by Nova Roma as an organization: Cn. Cornelius Lentulus, D. Aurelius Ingeniarius, T. Domitius Draco, C. Flavius Stilicho, M. Cassius Iulianus have access to some or all assets, and with the exception of Forum Cassium (ML), where Cassius holds the highest admin rights, and Twitch TV, where D. Aurelius Ingeniarius, Cn. Cornelius Lentulus has highest admin rights to ensure all are centralized and under corporate control.

Overall IT assets development status at the current phase:

Over the last few years, as curator rei informaticae of Nova Roma, I worked on a gradual reform and step-by-step development policy for the online infrastructure, social media and web presence of Nova Roma. This included the creation and developing Nova Roma's Instagram account, the Nova Roma Twitch TV with interviews and educational programs, entrusted to scriba D. Aurelius Ingeniarius, presenting our international Roman celebrations and ludi programs on YouTube, and many other improvements.

One of the important steps in this development was the involvement of C. Flavius Constantinus Aeneas Stilicho, and his appointment as praeco to manage and co-manage the social media accounts (Instagram, Facebook etc) together with other contributors, under the curator's responsibility.

I am proud to report the great contribution of my scriba Flavius, by this date, resulted in over 17,000 followers and 1 million reach by the Nova Romanitas Instagram account, the official account of Nova Roma on Instagram!

Conclusion:

At this point in time, I would like to recommend that the senate abolish monthly reporting requirement and change it to reporting upon consular or senate order, giving a time of two nundina for preparing the report after receiving such request. I reprimand myself that I didn't report monthly but in batches, and I didn't always send it to the consuls without request. I kept senting my reports in batches to subsequent consuls, in the most recent time, I prepared them but haven't sent until requested. Report upon requesting would be practical enough.