[Archers] Change to Marshal's experation - Please Read

[Jay Nardone]

Good evening my fellow archers. I wanted to take a minute and send you a
note about some changes that will be taking place concerning the way
expiration of Archery Marshal's will occur in the near future. Our Marshal's
pages are now connected to society and able to be tied to the expiration
date of each of our membership dates automatically. With the continuing
issues I/we are having with the blue pages, I feel this will be a much
needed system update to help me and our community as a whole. It is
extremely time consuming and unreliable in the current state with our blue
pages. I have reported these issues to the Kingdom and Society numerous
times now in my quarterly reports. Marshal's who are active are listed as
suspended, marshal's information is incorrect, etc. It makes verifying who
is current and not very difficult, especially for those who don't know
everyone face to face. I just tonight resubmitted changes that were
submitted by some of you I know 4 or 5 times last year and still not acted
upon. The effort of trying to track this multiple submission of the same
information is just too involved to be effective.

 

So this is what will be changing, stating in the near future the Scores Site
is going to start enforcing people marshal status automatically. This means
that I will be working from the scores site that Master Jonathas maintains
just as we do for many of our other documents and other important archery
related items. We have a very responsive webminister and it is a huge help.
I want to clearly state the Blue Pages are still the official kingdom roster
(so set by our boss the Earl Marshal, and I believe kingdom law), but the
Scores Site will be using the data the Blue Pages *should* be displaying, ie
Membership and Marshal Class attendance, and will be my 'day-to-day' roster
of reference as you I as DEM have complete control over updating it. 

 

Now stating this, you the Marshal will need to do a few things. Given that
the Scores Site collects the membership information by voluntary submission
of the Marshals, you need to logon and update that as soon as possible using
the 'Edit my Marshal Info' link.  Master Jonathas  has the following notice
on the 'My Marshal Info' page already. 


Also as everyone will be updating their info, I ask you  to consider who can
see their contact email address.  Currently almost everyone has it set to
'Private', which means only I as DEM can see your email address on the
roster. This will be especially important for the Training marshals, these
people should at least consider setting it to "Logon" so that other marshals
with accounts will be able to contact them.  The site does use Obfuscation
to hide the email addresses from Spam bots.

 

I will be setting  the date when the enforcement will begin, which will be
one month from now.  Once it's turned on enforcement will be automatic,
those who expire (or didn't update their membership) and whose Marshal Class
expires will have their permissions suspended until corrected.

 

I hope all of you can understand why we are doing this change, we have been
dealing with this issue for over a year now and a replacement for Baron Vlad
was supposed to be selected late last year. To my knowledge this has still
not happened even though many volunteers applied. So until the Kingdom
corrects things, we will police ourselves to maintain our high level of
safety and organization. Master Jonathas has been very supportive and I want
to take advantage of this opportunity to correct our rosters once and for
all. The one nice aspect of this change is that you will no longer need to
update your membership information because it will be pulled automatically,
it will just be marshal class updates that we will need to manage and I get
that information from our teaching marshals after each class anyway.

 

In Service to our dream!

 

THL Janyn Fletcher of Lancastreschire, DEM Target Archery Atlantia




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