[Ansteorra] maybe an answer to recruitment problems

[Morgan White]

^^^ Awesome! That really sounds like something a bit more manageable and
"grassroots".

On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 10:42 PM, willowdewisp at juno.com <
willowdewisp at juno.com> wrote:

> Back in the days we were trying to organize the SCA in Dallas one of our
> BIG recruitment tool was was the little event
> Later when I was in Namron the group would put on little events  every
> month and the bardic guild would do a little bardic revel every three
> months and the players guild did a fete every 4 months. Other guilds and
> households did things on the average of one a month. Business meeting which
> everyone who cared came and had impute. We had to have a lot of impute to
> keep this kind of schedule going. Lots of room for people to try out ideas
> and be creative and lots of places to learn how to do things.
> Populace meeting were the little revel in the loft.The populace
> meetings--revels were very important because the money gathered at these
> activities paid for the Loft. The group was always promoting  pieces ( ie.
> people ) up to the level of having interesting fetes so people would be
> willing to donate money.
> The officers spent most of their time working with people so they would
> get  the training needed to do these fetes. Leadership in the  group came
> from the Baron/ess and the officers and the heads of the household, peers
> and other interested people.  This is important because each and ever task
> was done by choice. By that  I mean someone chooses to have a guild meeting
> or bring a dish to a fete or to make sure the hall had decorations. They
> would go to whoever was in charge and say I or "we" will be doing this and
> once they got their OK they did it or failed to do it. Once the person in
> charged "autocrat" said "yes" to the general idea the person or persons
> were mostly on their own.
> You would Think that the officers just stepped out of the way ,but this
> was not true. The officers and autocrats provided a communication network
> that would gently check up and offer suggestions and link people to
> resources both physical and social. If the person knew what they were
> doing( the end product of all the work the "leaders" were aiming at) they
> left the person alone with some "that a boy's" and a general idea of who
> was doing what.
> Keeping track of who was doing what and how well was how the B and B knew
> who was ready to advance. Back then we took the idea of Noble obligation
> very seriously. We thought that awards served as a way for new people to
> look for role models and information resources.The medieval program implied
> that people with awards were our leaders. This is because the Medieval
> model is based on a military model.
> One little revel hosted by a guild or household every 8 weeks This was
> done by the group and was paid for by the group. This was check up on by
> the officers but it was viewed as a time that people learned by trial and
> error. The Barony wasn't going to lose anything if something didn't come
> off. These were the training grounds that allowed people to hone skills
> that made people capable of doing the Big Barony events.
> willow
>
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