ANST - P-words...in a nut-shell.

stddly at SHSU.edu stddly at SHSU.edu
Wed Feb 18 23:25:30 PST 1998


Heilsa Gillian...and Well Come...

Kief here again...

Gillian Queried:
>So, what are your suggestions to fix the "ills" of Ansteorra?  

Excellent question. Working with each other to start. How many of you regional
and Kingdom officers can say all of your people report on a truly regular
basis? How many local officers know what's going on in their own chapter? Petty
differences and personality conflicts are the rule in some groups, not the
exceptions... We were the third most populous Kingdom in the Known World but a
few short years ago... Now we are about the seventh. We have dropped from over
50 groups to 40 or less... An interesting note. We still have about the same
number of people playing as we did before the BoD incident... They just haven't
renewed their memberships... Something about voting with their feet...... Some
have said the calendar is "too crowded" good folks there are open dates on the
calendar in the very near future...! I think that Regional Events are one
answer... Even bi-Regional Events. Get out and see what you and your neighbors
can accomplish... This is one way to engender population flow and generate
interest with new comers and others... To all those folks that haven't renewed
their memberships.... DO SO...!!!! We need your talents and skills once more.
While we do have a great many capable and willing folk in the officers ranks
and the steward's ranks we need new (old) blood... Help prevent your friends
and neighbors from burning-completely-out... Shucks folks, how many of you know
someone, or several someones, that hold multiple offices... At a local
level...!!! Or have held one office after another because, "...no one else will
ever volunteer...!" 

Sure enough I can read your replies... "But a principality will do just
that...!" "It will fix the problems..." Will it? Or will we end up with 2 or 3
or more principalities in a few years...? To what end?  

>I am moving from Calontir to Ansteorra and right now I am flabbergasted that
>Ansteorra has limits on events in any area, the low numbers of newcomer
>reported on the net is alarming and that information that recovery from the
>BoD has been slow in your {soon to be mine} neck of the woods has raised many
>questions about where I am moving.  

The limit of events is a hold-over from the days of 50+ groups here... Also to
prevent a few groups from holding 5-8 "official" events a year just because
they could...

The low numbers of newcomers...??! Hel's Gate, Gillian, we here in Raven's Fort
have more new folk than you can shake a rattan spear at... Seems to be the same
in many areas of the Kingdom... Lots of new folk... The "slow recovery" from
the BoD "crisis" is merely one of independence and individuality on the part of
all our folk... Most all of us don't take to "being told what to do..." So,
theres plenty here to do...lots of great people to meet...and tons of
interesting things to chat about...*grin* I certainly did not mean to alarm you
into thinking we are in a bad way here... Quite the contrary... We are,
however, having one of our "little" differences of opinion about one of our
favorite subjects....

Again...Well Met and Well Come...

>Gillian Esmond of Dragonsley

Kief av Kiersted....semi-professional loudmouth...

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