[MR] Event listing, making plans, etc.

[Brown, Tracey]

The process for registering and listing events is ever changing and (I hope) improving.  To give you an example...  a year ago if you wanted to have your event listed on the Kingdom calendar you had to send in a hard copy Event Registration Form complete with signatures of the autocrat, group Seneschal and MiC and MoL (if you planned on having fighting).  Now if you want your event on the calendar you can go to SPIKE and fill out your event's information and I get it right away.  The hard copy with signatures still needs to be mailed in but I will generally list an event (if it's more than a month away) without having the signatures.  My process is to send the Webminister a copy of the updated event calendar and 2 months of flyers as soon as I send the hard copy of The Acorn to my printer.  The way things are set up now there is a large human reliance, thus the website getting updated is contingent on me remembering to send the files, the email not getting lost in cyberspace, the webminister having time aside from his modern life, job and all the other projects I have him working on, etc, etc, etc.  That is why SPIKE 2 is in the works - to automate the process and at least get events listed on the online calendar sooner.  Downfall to that is that a lot of events will not technically be official events until we get the signed hard copies.  But, like I said, it's ever changing and comments and suggestions from the populace are actually listened to and considered for the next revision.

And just in case anyone would like to know what is on the complete as of this very minute calendar (both official and unofficial pending paperwork)...

March
1	Kingdom Arts & Sciences Festival
	Nottinghill Coill		Greenville, SC
8	Banquet dels Quatre Barres
	Caer Mear	Chesterfield, VA
10-16	Gulf Wars XII
	Kingdom of Meridies	Lumberton, MS
15	Lezione al Palazzo (Lesson at the Palace)
	Isenfir		Crozet, VA
15	Rencester Celebration of Spring
	Rencester	Williamsburg, VA
21-23	Raiders of the Lost Cove V
	Raven's Cove	Lejeune, NC
22	St Paddy's Day Bloodbath
	Ponte Alto 	Vienna, VA
28-30	Baronial Birthday and Investiture
	Tir-y-don	Williamsburg, VA
29	Inn on the Road VII
	Aire Faucon	Casar, NC
29	Defending the Gate
	Sudentur	Fredericksburg, VA

April
5	Coronation
	Falcon Cree	Saluda, NC
12	Challenge of the Heart
	Dun Carraig	Lothian, MD
12	Spring Revel
	Caer Gelynniog		Palmyra, VA
18-20	Night on Board VI: Night Overboard
	Lochmere	Crownsville, MD
19	Atlantian Dance Symposium 4
	Isenfir		Charlottesville, VA
25-27	Beltane XXII
	Berley Cort	Sedley, VA
26	A Viking Tale
	Roxbury Mill	Damascus, MD

May
3	Crown Tournament
	Buckston-on-Eno	Ellerbe, NC
9-11	A Hero's Portion III
	Marinus	Spring Grove, VA
9-11	Tourney of St Inglevert
	Crannog Mor	Lenoir, NC
10	Games Tourney of Isenfir
	Isenfir		Charlottesville, VA
16-18	Feast of Thirty
	Falcon Cree	Blacksburg, SC
16-18	Garb Wars, the Investiture
	Bright Hills	Street, MD
16-18	On Target
	Lochmere	Annapolis, MD
23-25	Baronial Birthday
	Hidden Mountain	Cheraw, SC
23-26	Sapphire Joust IV
	Caer Mear	Richmond, VA
Rapier Workshop/Coastal Champions - RESCHEDULED (new date to be announced)
31-1	Storvik Baronial Birthday
	Storvik	Glenn Dale, MD

June
7	Spring University
	Lochmere	Gambrills, MD
14	In a Phoenix Eye
	Sacred Stone	Hickory, NC
20-22	Stierbach Baronial Birthday Celebration
	Stierbach	Triangle, VA

July
18-20	Novice Tourney
	Storvik		Marlboro, MD

August
1-17	Pennsic War XXXII
	Æthelmearc	Slippery Rock, PA
30-1	Sacred Stone Baronial Birthday
	Sacred Stone	Elkin, NC

September
19-21	Herbstfest (Autumn Party V)
	Crannog Mor	Blowing Rock, NC
26-28	A Viking Thyng
	Yarnvid		New Canton, VA
26-28	Knight of the Heart
	Lochmere	Crownsville, MD

November
8	Eine kleine Fest mit ein großes Essen
	Ponte Alto	Fairfax, VA
15	Baronial Birthday and Investiture
	Dun Carraig	TBA, MD


And keep in mind I always have this info and am usually pretty good about responding to emails if you have questions.
Cassandra