III Non. Novembras MMDCCLV a.u.c.

Civibus Novae Romae M. Octavius Germanicus salutem plurinam dicit,

Citizens of Nova Roma, I come before you today to declare my
candidacy for the office of CENSOR.

I have served our Republic for two and one-half years.  In May 2753,
I was elected Curule Aedile, and dedicated myself to improving
the management of our citizenship records.  To accomplish this,
I built tools by which the Censores could edit a database of
citizen information hosted on a central server.  In June of that
year, the Senate unanimously voted to transfer the web site
www.novaroma.org to my server and to use the new database and
tools for citizen information.

As a result of this, the Album Civium and Album Gentium, which had
previously been a pair of simple text pages, were transformed into
a system of personal profile pages for each citizen, many with lists
of titles and offices held, contact information, and photographs.
Additionally, by continuing to host our central web site on my
server for no charge, the treasury of Nova Roma has saved over
$200 each year in hosting fees.

The next year, I was elected to the office of Curator Araneum by
the Tribes, and Propraetor of Lacus Magni provincia by the Senate.
Simultaneously, I served as scriba to the Censores, assisting them
in their duties - performing database queries, generating lists of
citizens for provincial governors, and allocating tribes and
centuries.  I made a number of web site improvements that year,
including a login feature, automated voter code mailing, and a
greatly enhanced new citizen application allowing listing of gentes,
selection from that list, and automatic notification of paterfamilias
and approval of the applicant.  My online calendar provides Roman
dates in the traditional form, easy visual identification of days
on which voting or public business is permitted, or religious
festivals are scheduled, and scheduling of events by citizens.

I was next elected Consul, and took office in January 2002, and
also served a second term as Curator Araneum.  When we unexpectedly
lost control of our mailing list, I was ready with four years of
message archives, made available to you the very next day,
preserving our history for the study of future citizens.

To protect our name, I filed for a trademark of "NOVA ROMA" (to
be owned by Nova Roma, Inc., a non-profit Maine Corporation) and
engaged an attorney at my own expense to ensure that the application
would be processed smoothly.  He has since discussed the matter
with the trademark examiner and we expect the mark to be
issued early next year.

Although I held two offices, Consul and Curator, I continued to
assist the Censores as scriba, generating lists of citizen information,
performing mass mailings, and allocating tribes and centuries.  As
Curator, I continued with website improvements, including reformatting
of the message archives, installing a search engine, installing
versions of the main page in six additional languages, and adding
new citizen applications in two new languages.  The multilingual
web site is a work in progress, and I hope to have three more
languages on the new citizen application by the end of the year.

I authored several laws this year, one of which was a Constitutional
Amendment, reducing the number of centuries from 193 to a number
proportional to our population, which will reduce the likelihood
of any future election being inconclusive.  I authored a proposed
lex guaranteeing the right of any citizen to leave a gens by their
own choice; this was eventually issued as an edict by the Censores.

I attended two meetings of Citizens this year.  In June, I attended
and photographed "Roman Days" in Maryland, where I met other Senators
and Citizens for the first time.  In September, I traveled to
Columbus Ohio for our second provincial gathering.  I intend to
return to both these events next year.

Citizens, I ask you to elect me as Censor.  Although I have not
held that title in the past, I am very aware of the exact nature
of the work - for I designed and maintained the tools that the
Censores use.  I created the new citizen application, and know
better than anyone how a citizen's records are created, who is
notified, what changes have to take place before they can become
active, and all of the steps involved in the transition from applicant
to citizen.  I have (acting as scribe) performed every tribal and
century allocation for the past two years.  I created the repositories
of citizen, gens, magistrate, priest, province, and century point
information; I can (as the need arises) modify these to add extra
capabilities to the system, or increase efficiency.

I believe that, because I designed and built the system used by the
past four Censores, supported and advised each of them, and am on
excellent terms with my future colleague C. Flavius Diocletianus,
I am the ideal candidate for Censor.  I ask for your support.

Valete,
Marcus Octavius Germanicus,
Consul MMDCCLV,
Candidate for Censor MMDCCLVI

Campaign Website:
   http://romanrepublic.org/octavius/censor/

PAST EXPERIENCE

Curule Aedile                  MMDCCLIII (2000) May - December
Scriba Censoris                MMDCCLIII (2000)/July - present
Scriba Curatoris               MMDCCLIII (2000)/July - December
Senator                        MMDCCLIII (2000)/November - present
Propraetor Lacuum Magnorum     MMDCCLIV (2001)
Curator Araneum                MMDCCLIV (2001)
Consul (Senior)                MMDCCLV (2002)
Curator Araneum                MMDCCLV (2002)

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