[ANSTHRLD] Round Table Re-cap

[Ron]

The Heraldstick is in beta phase last that I heard. This means that you should have a pretty good handle on following printed directions and installing software without assistance. 

Eirik Halfdanarson


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-------- Original message --------
From: Andreas von Meißen <scamiz at gmail.com> 
Date: 07/15/2013  4:24 PM  (GMT-06:00) 
To: "Heralds List, Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA,	Inc." <heralds at lists.ansteorra.org> 
Subject: Re: [ANSTHRLD] Round Table Re-cap 
 
The point of a heraldstick is that it's available offline. If you're
already online, you can access all of the resources directly.

If you want to build your own, this is the website:
http://www.tanzos.net/STICK/. It's Istvan Non Scripta's baby. I've built a
few, and it's not hard but does take some time.

-- Andreas


On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Oakenwald Pursuivant <
herald at steppes.ansteorra.org> wrote:

> 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
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