Calendar on the WWW

[Burke McCrory]

At 02:33 PM 9/24/96 -0700, you wrote:
>
>
>>> 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*)
>
>

Putting the Kingdom Calendar online will not hurt the Black Star.  The
event announcements are the things that are really important.  The Calendar
is a convenience that is there for quick reference.  Also I think if you
look now some groups are already putting their event notices up on the
local (unofficial) web site.




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