[Sca-cooks] OT- Input request from SCA BoD/politics

[Vladimir Armbruster]

I do not pay to play...

But I do attend events, I do pay my way in, and I can count a great many
friends I have brought to the SCA, who would not have come if they had to
pay.  But yet they come, they contribute to the dream, some of them have
gotten memberships, some of them have not.  But they all, in their way,
support the dream by coming and being a part of it.  Personally, I can't
AFFORD to pay my membership, and, in all serious.. Paying my membership
would be two or three events I couldn't attend.  And thats about all I get
out to a year if I'm lucky.

Thats my two cents.

----- Original Message -----
From: Vongraph <vongraph at earthlink.net>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 7:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] OT- Input request from SCA BoD/politics


> This newest thing about gee maybe we should raise the fees, gee
> > maybe we could just send the tailwinds etc out by computer, gee maybe we
> > should just sit with our hands up our butts and do nothing, is so much
> bull.
> > Why can they simply take a stand and say "if you want to do this, play
> with
> > us, or enjoy this game, pay your way!".  It was awesome thing for
bunchof
> > hippies to say we do this and its for free, those days are gone, this is
> the
> > real world if we are to survive we have to realize that no matter how
much
> > we think of the daily SCA as a game and hobby, in reality it is a
business
> > that MUST be viable in the business sense.
> >
>
> << A quick note on this part, I was told the other day that if the BoD
> forced a pay for play rule many people would no longer attend. These are
the
> people who do not pay to play! they are not members now,  where would the
> loss be? The lackof them paying attendence at events would be missed to a
> degree but allot fo those folks don't even pay to attend events.  what
would
> be the loss? A large number of people who are not members, do not pay for
> membership are not going to be there to not pay membership?
>
> Elric
>
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