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

[michael sheppard]

Sounds like the plan.  Just checked and completed!

YIS,
Saphir



On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 7:55 PM, Jay Nardone <jaynardone at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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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