[ANSTHRLD] Updates to submission page on heraldry website

[Jennifer Smith]

"Changing the forms" is pending Oscar 2.0.x and etc, since the list of
"things we want to change on the forms" is getting rather astronomical. :)
But yes....

-Emma


On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 5:18 PM Tim McDaniel <tmcd at panix.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Jul 2019, Equinox Herald <northern at herald.ansteorra.org> wrote:
> > Sorry at round table it was stated those items weren't needed.  Sorry
> about
> > the autocorrect autocomplete errors.
>
> I found the discussion I was thinking of.  SCA Heraldry Unofficial
> Chat at
>
> https://www.facebook.com/groups/SCAHeraldryChat/permalink/10157673307889203/
> It's unofficial, but there were replies by Julia Smith, which oddly
> enough happens to be the same name as Laurel Queen of Arms. I'm sure
> it's just a coincidence.
>
> Julia Smith
> 'The Laurel office does not require - and has asked submitters not to
> provide - their gender or their date of birth. The intended gender of
> the submission is still helpful (remembering that "No Preference" is
> there as a box and additional notes can be added in documentation - so
> if one wanted a name that could be used by men and women in
> period)....
>
> 'It has been removed - in part in response to the GDPR requirements of
> the EU (which require us to be clear about why we're collecting this
> information and have need for it) and in part because people are
> generally nervous about it. In the current world, it's much easier
> than it was in the 1990s to reach out and say "were you living in the
> X kingdom and playing in 20xx" and figure out if they're the same
> person.'
>
> Someone wrote in the discussion above:
>
> 'Richard Hershberger The original point of asking for the DoB back in
> the day was ...  That was before we used our DoBs to pick up our
> prescriptions at the pharmacy, making it a more delicate matter.'
>
> So if the forms are being worked on at the moment, might be good to
> yank those fields while it's metaphorically up on the rack.
>
> Danihel de Lincolnia
> --
> Tim McDaniel, tmcd at panix.com
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