[MR] Acorn & Internet

[Denise Nelson]

Greetings,

I'll second the Herveus's statements.  If you want a change, request it
(nicely!) from the people who can do something.  I've included some
information that should be helpful.

If you'd like to ask the BoD to reconsider 

Society Publication Policy: 
"B.5.f. Electronic Distribution
The Kingdom Newsletters may not be distributed electronically and are
only made available in printed form."

They typically beg for comments.  You can send them to directors at sca.org
 or mail them to the address found at 
http://www.sca.org/members/welcome.html#mso

When writing, be sure to keep the following two points in mind (from the
Governing Documents of the SCA):
"I.C.5.
c. For communications to be considered by the Board, they must be dated
and include
the author’s legal name. A Society name may also be included when
appropriate. A
method of contacting the author (either postal or email address) must be
included.
d. The Board does not accept anonymous communications, and electronic
communications with no identifier of the sender other than an email
address will be
considered anonymous."


If you would like to ask Atlantia's Chronicler to reconsider her Policy:
"6.9.1   The online version of The Acorn (http://acorn.atlantia.sca.org)
is not intended to replace the hard copy version and is provided for the
sake of convenience only. The online version will not be updated until
after the hard copy version has had time to be received by the
subscribers so as to not undermine this valuable benefit of membership."

Send her a message (I'd suggest following the same guidelines as writing
the BoD, but I can't find anything specific):
chronicler at atlantia.sca.org


Above all, BE POLITE!  

Lady Helewyse

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 08:21:08 -0500, "Michael Houghton"
<herveus at radix.net> said:
> Howdy!
> 
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 10:11:21PM -0500, E L Wimett wrote:
> > There are a couple of issues.  
> > 
> [snip]
> > 
> > Secondly, at one point there were limitations placed on when information to
> > be included for events could be posted by the Chronicler on a kingdom web
> > page.  (That is one reason why local groups were encouraged to put flyers on
> > their sites.)  This was an attempt to force people to get memberships to get
> > information and keep sustaining membership up.  (The phrase I have seen is
> > to "add to the perceived value of membership", but that is what it boils
> > down to.)
> 
> Book of Policy, 6.9 The Acorn Homepage, says:
> 
> 6.9.1   The online version of The Acorn (http://acorn.atlantia.sca.org)
> is not intended to replace the hard copy version and is provided for
> the sake of convenience only. The online version will not be updated
> until after the hard copy version has had time to be received by the
> subscribers so as to not undermine this valuable benefit of
> membership.
> 
> Strict application of this rule to events whose flyers first appear in
> the
> month the event occurs means that those flyers will be inaccessable vie
> the
> web page in time to be of any value, for most such events. Given that
> third
> class mail seems to be taking so long to get to subscribers, it is pretty
> much essential that flyers get published in the prior month's Acorn if
> they
> are to be of any value.
> 
> I had a brief email conversation with the chronicler (I don't recall if
> it
> was the current or previous; it's not terribly relevant) in which I asked 
> that this policy be reconsidered. The reply showed a concern with
> membership
> numbers, and offered hope that, with an increase in same, it might be
> reconsidered.
> 
> I encourage people to raise this concern with the chronicler. Remember to
> *ask*
> *nicely*. Don't demand. This policy has been in place for quite a while
> now;
> don't blame the incumbent.
> 
> yours,
> Herveus
> -- 
> Michael and MJ Houghton   | Herveus d'Ormonde and Megan O'Donnelly
> herveus at radix.net         | White Wolf and the Phoenix
> Bowie, MD, USA            | Tablet and Inkle bands, and other stuff
>                           | http://www.radix.net/~herveus/wwap/
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  Denise Nelson
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