[Sca-cooks] Looking for some feedback on a newFlorilegium format

Mon Sep 12 07:08:34 PDT 2016

I think a patreon <https://www.patreon.com/> would be a better model than a
kickstarter since you want to have continuous funding.

If you want to do some larger scale reformatting, I suspect that asking for
minions to help with it would be useful.

On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 12:30 AM, Ana Valdés <agora158 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Stefan I wonder why we dont start a Kickstarter crowdfunding for the
> Florilegium?
>
> https://www.kickstarter.com
>
> Ana
>
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 1:18 AM, Stefan li Rous <stefanlirous at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Ana said:
> > <<< But Stefan my point with all my input was to emphasize how much we
> > love and
> > need the Florilegium and why not support it with money? If everyone using
> > it could pitch in with ten dollars each you could have a little income
> >>>
> >
> > Well, for a while after I add the ‘donation’ button on the website,
> > occasionally folks would send in some money over PayPal. Initially, some
> > fairly large sums such as 30 or 40 dollars. Nut that gradually decreased
> > over time.
> >
> > I’m not even sure the donation button is still working. Like the code for
> > searching for things, sometimes the code on the server side of things
> > changes and I don’t know about it.
> >
> > <<< or why not make an SCA coins event to support your work? >>>
> >
> > Can you give me more details on this idea? I do period methods of pewter
> > casting and have created numerous site tokens in the past, but at about a
> > quarter for material to make them, my barony has decided it was too much
> > money. I usually sold them at cost or perhaps even a bit below my costs.
> >
> > For one event, when the event stewards didn’t have any site tokens make,
> I
> > did make about 50, when I found out about the lack of tokens on the
> Friday
> > night of the event. I sold them for 50 cents, making a little profit, but
> > mainly letting those who wanted a reminder of the event get something.
> >
> > For less materials cost, I can now burn wooden ‘nickels” from thin
> > plywood. I even had created a jig to allow me to make double sided coins.
> > One side featured my barony and the other had the Florilegium website,
> > meant to be handed out at a demo.
> >
> > <<< If you are ill or
> > tired in the future we should ensure the Florilegium is going to live
> > further on, as a great tool and as an hommage to all work and care you
> put
> > on it.  >>>
> >
> > Yep, this has been a major concern in the past, especially after I got
> put
> > on kidney dialysis. I’m feeling better now physically. For a while I was
> > pursuing getting some assistants, who would likely be one of the ones
> more
> > likely to take over when I can’t continue to do it.  My assistants
> > gradually stopped working on the Florilegium. I have worked out a system
> > for doing things, although as this thread presents, changes can be done
> to
> > it. Right now, even the description of how to edit a file of messages and
> > append that to an existing file runs to a page or so.
> >
> > There have been a time or two, when I was close to simply dropping the
> > Florilegium. One of those was when the SCA Editor said folks couldn’t
> > reprint my monthly Florilegium article because it had a link to the
> > Florilegium in it and I had ads on my site to help pay for it, which made
> > it a commercial site. Many people have trouble spelling “florilegium”,
> much
> > less remembering the link to it without a reminder. Hence I thought I
> > needed at least a simple, short link in the article.
> >
> > But being the rebel that I am, I decided to stop creating and sending a
> > monthly article to SCA newsletter editors. After all, it may be that most
> > people get such info from the Internet kingdom mail lists and FB groups.
> > And SCA Inc. can’t tell me I can’t post there. And since they were
> > complaining about single link to the top of the site, I decided that I
> > would then start putting a direct link in for all of the new files.
> >
> > Strange enough, I get more support for the Florilegium from far-flung
> > parts of the Known World than from within my home barony.
> >
> > Stefan
> > PS: I finally found a program that seems to convert my PDF files to
> decent
> > Html code. At least viewing the code doesn’t get all distorted with text
> on
> > top of diagrams or other text.
> > https://www.idrsolutions.com/online-pdf-to-html5-converter/
> > But I still don’t know if it handles links well, and while it works fine
> > to make a stand-alone file, I haven’t figured out if I can insert all or
> > part of it’s output into my Word created HTML header file.
> >
> > I still want to go back and try inserting the Pdf file into the Word
> > document. But I can only do that one page at a time and it converts the
> PDF
> > file to it’s own unusual format. But I could still upload the article
> only
> > PDF file and put a link into the HTML file, as I have been doing for the
> > original Word formatted article.
> > --------
> > THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
> >    Mark S. Harris           Austin, Texas
> StefanliRous at gmail.com
> > http://www.linkedin.com/in/marksharris
> > **** See Stefan's Florilegium files at:  http://www.florilegium.org ****
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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