Calendar on the WWW

[Deborah Sweet]

>> Gunnora said:
>> If the calendar is available outside our official
>> publication, where is the incentive to become a paid member?  Are we not
>> doing the organization as a whole a disservice? 

>Leonardo said:
>This where I do not have the experience to make any 
>arguments. I think we could be doing a great service by making
>information we would normally receive easier to retrieve. 

Only a few months of the calendar is printed in the Black Star. 
Seneschals get a current calendar every month that is 13 months long. If 
you ask your seneschal to view it, they're *supposed* to let you (member 
or non-member has never been differentiated, as far as I know). This 
could be a time-consuming process though. (You ask, he doesn't have it 
this week, next he forgets or you're not there, etc.)

IMHO, better to have it posted to a web site (or at least on this list) 
where access is almost instantaneous. Not everyone is going to be 
interested in a 13-month long calendar. It mostly provides help in 
planning what dates might be free for the next local event (or it could 
be used to decide when to take a vacation). All it really helps people 
know is that yes, group X really is holding their event Y, it's on the 
calendar on date Z. 

Estrill

(of course, I'm just one of those people who enjoys *knowing*)