[Ansteorra] Event Calendar

[Joseph Percer]

The SCA requires any event in which business of long-standing impact
is going to take place
be announced and published in the "appropriate corporate document."
For Ansteorra, that is the Black Star.
The planning calendar on the website is just that, a PLANNING
calendar. We must, within the confines of
the current structure, rely on the Black Star as our OFFICIAL means of
communication. In order for an event to be considered
Official, the event must not only appear on the official kingdom
calendar on the back cover, but it must also publish an
event announcement in the Black Star.

I'm sorry that you feel that it is an outmoded means of communication.
It was announced some time back that they're exploring
electronic publication of kingdom newsletters, but the fact of the
matter remains that the Black Star is our official news letter, and
therefore
by Corpora and Kingdom Law, it is the official place to get the
information you're after. If you don't have access to a copy, consider
asking
someone in your local group (An officer MUST have access to a copy) to
borrow theirs. It's really not as difficult to get the information as
some
of you folks are making it out to be.

If you wholeheartedly believe that the structure is not appropriately
run, I invite you to apply for the open Kingdom Seneschal's position,
or perhaps
a relevant office on the Corporate level. You seem to have passionate
feelings about the way things are presently run, why not put them to
work?

Yours in Service,

Andrewe Bawldwyn (formerly Jayme Dominguez del Valle)

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Jeffrey Clark <jmclark85 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Jay,
>
> Let me get this straight:
> *
> "I think it will fail because this proposal adds a level of biraucracy to a
> process that's already too cumbersome."*
>
> But then:
>
> *"If you want there to be a kingdom officer in charge of tracking the exact
> dates for every event, then don't ask some other office with other duties to
> do it; invent a new office and submit to the kingdom that you want to do
> this.  If you succeed in making it work, and people become dependent on it,
> then the office will continue."*
>
>
> So, "don't add another layer of bureaucracy to the system, the right thing
> to do is to add whole other office with new responsibilities and new
> reporting requests to event stewards."
>
> How is that not adding another level of bureaucracy?
>
>
>
> In regards to other things.
>
> This is the 21st century. Relying on the Black Star is an outdated mode of
> communication. The Internet communications need to supplant it as the new
> standard way to convey information. If you want to appeal to new members you
> need to make your systems current; and to do that the kingdom should *
> require* certain things of event website, and make official event websites
> centralized and checked for quality of content.
> *
> "Remember that we are an organisation of volunteers."*
>
> Mmhmm, and the solution is to create more positions, with *clear* and *
> established* lines of authority. The administrative side of the kingdom
> needs to be centralised into a clear chain of command and responsibilities;
> rather than a loose collection of volunteers, each doing their own thing.
>
> Just because we are a volunteer organisation does not justify having a
> "hands off" administration policy. How would a multi-national corporation or
> the national military function if their lines of authority and
> responsibility as ours?
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-- 
Joseph M. Percer, AAS, LP