[ANSTHRLD] Round Table Re-cap

[Oakenwald Pursuivant]

Might the contents of the heraldstick be made available through a shared
Dropbox folder or somesuch?

Sorry I wasn't able to attend RT, but thanks for the excellent summary!

--Antoine


On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 7:28 AM, Doug Bell <magnus77840 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> Some observations.
>
>
> Be very careful with Facebook. That
> company has little respect for the privacy of submitters or the SCA's
> intellectual property. It is easy to run into trouble with the SCA
> Social media policy with Facebook pages.
> http://www.sca.org/docs/pdf/SCASocialMediaPolicy.pdf
> The Society's Facebook page is under
> close management. It's the other sites used by kingdom and local
> groups that are of concern.
>
> Facebook's business model is to spy on you to
> gather a personal profile to deliver custom ads to you. The software
> is programmed to collect as much data on you as possible and share it
> in any way it can come up with. An open Facebook logon will read your
> posts, read any email you look at on other sites, monitor your web
> page visits, and search engine use (even on secure search sites that
> are not owned by Facebook). Face recognition software is used to
> analyze any images you post. This is all used to create personalized
> stalker ads that follow you around the web. This is why Facebook is
> regularly sued and fined by countries in the European Union for
> violations of their privacy laws. Google, Gmail, Utube, and Amazon do
> the same thing but that's another topic.
>
>
> How to deal with it?
> Log in to these sites, conduct your
> business and log out as soon as finished.
>
> Regularly empty cookies and
> browsing history on your browser.
>
> Given the issues, some folks refuse to use Facebook. Their concerns are
> understandable and should be honored.
>
>
> An SCA heraldry Facebook page will
> generate stalker ads for bucket shop heraldry web sites that sell
> fake coats of arms and shady genealogy services.
> Those are easy
> enough to ignore.
>
> The main problem is privacy. Facebook's
> privacy software is rewritten about every 6 months. You can have all
> your data set for private viewing but when the new software comes in
> everything gets reset to public viewing. Facebook software WANTS to
> share your data with as many folks as possible. It may not be a good
> idea to have the private discussions of your "SCA family"
> or a private heraldic consult shared with everyone from your employer
> and non-SCA friends to your great aunt Matilda.
>
> Previous consulting has used private
> email or mailing lists on SCA owned web sites and servers.
>
> Those we
> can control to some extent but social media may not be that easy to
> keep under control.
>
>
> We used to staple everything to keep
> attached documents from getting lost. Now that all submissions are
> scanned that would cause trouble. I would recommend that you number
> the pages of any attached documentation to keep it in order in case
> the file falls off a table and scatters (cats love to do this to
> heraldry materials). Stray staples can cause similar damage to
> officers and scanners as the claws of the above mentioned cats. If you
> want to use paper clips go for the plastic coated ones. Metal paper clips
> can cause similar damage as the above mentioned cats.
>
>
>
> Sorry to see the Gazette go away but
> its function is long past and outdated.
>
>
> The Education Arm of the College of
> Heralds is like I-45 at Corsicana, it's always under restructuring
> and construction.
>
>
> There are sources on name and armory
> research for storage on flash drives at St. Gabriel's reports and
> articles, Laurel's site at the SCA web site, online rolls of arms,
> Google books, and Internet Archive (archive.org). The last two have
> some obscure old and rare books for medieval research as well as items
> like Bardsley.
>
> best regards
> Magnus
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-- 
*Lord Antoine D'Aubernoun*
Oakenwald Pursuivant
Barony of the Steppes
Kingdom of Ansteorra