[Ansteorra] Event Calendar

[Jeffrey Clark]

Just because SCA Inc. has a certain requirement, does not mean that the
Stellar Kingdom of Ansteorra cannot institute higher requirements and lead
the way in communicating with its members. I do not *feel* that paper
publications are outdated ways of communicating information, it is a fact
which every news source in the modern world has had to come to grips with;
which is why they publish all of their content online and are doing their
level best to make news stories as internet-friendly as they can.

Centralised internet content is more efficient and provides a higher level
of quality control (mistakes and updates can be performed faster) than paper
publications, and provides a higher level of access. If you want to
encourage new members to join, information needs to be disseminated in the
most efficient way possible. The structure of the SCA's administration might
be fine for how things worked, but it needs to change to keep up with the
demands of modern society.

If you want to attract newer and younger members to the group; the SCA's
operating methods need to be made "college student friendly". Especially now
with a good portion of people going after not just undergraduate but
graduate degrees.

While I'm sitting in the back of a library surrounded by a mound of books
and digging through RILM and JSTOR, do you really think I want to take the
time to dig through the recesses of the internet to find out what format an
A&S competition is going to be? While waiting three months for an event
steward or autocrat to get back to me telling me that he doesn't know and I
need to email someone else so that I can find out what is going on a week
before it happens...

Not helpful.




On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Joseph Percer <jpercer at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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