[MR] A proposal for the hard copy Acorn

[Joshua Thomas]

I agree with you both. I think currently we are shooting ourselves in
the feet. I am not sure how much a membership benefit the newsletter
is. I have made the point before. The reason people become members:
1) Some how required by the rules for what they are into (Officer,
Fighter, etc) to be a member.
2) Avoid the Surcharge. 

I am not sure the newsletter is number one for anyone.

I think we will eventually embrace the Internet and realize how
counter-contemporary a mailed newsletter is for passing on events and
officer reports. We should be try to improve PR not hamper it with
rules that lack any sort of protection or benifit.

Not to say we don't appreciate what the Chronicler and others do. It
just seems like we could stream line the release of information. Like
maybe a login members areas on the Kingdom Website, if keeping the
information hidden for a period from non-members is really that
important. I know the idea is forward thinking and would require some
level of Society support, but these are the kind of ideas we should be
sending to the BOD.

Tristand de Brailes


On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 11:53:40 -0500, Michael Houghton <herveus at radix.net> wrote:
> Howdy!
> 
> On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 03:42:25PM +0000, oswald at chesapeake.net wrote:
> > Please bear with me all, I've not posted here before....
> >
> > I, too, recieve my hard copy Acorn so late as for it be pointless (Feb 4 for
> > Jan)the majority of the time.
> >
> > Since we quite apparently cannot change the US Postal Service, perhaps we could
> > consider changing The Acorn?
> >
> > Specifically, could January's Acorn (which arrives near the beginning of Feb)
> > carry event announcements for Feb (and late Jan?) instead of Jan?  I do not
> > know if the Kingdom Chronicler reieves the event announcements in a timely
> > enough fashion to do this.  But, if so, sending the Feb announcements in the
> > Jan Acorn would at least make the event announcements in the Jan Acorn relevant
> > again.  It does seem rather a waste of many people's time, effort, funds
> > (trees?) to send announcements for events that are almost certainly past by the
> > time the majority of the subscribers recieve them.
> >
> > The various missives from various officers, functionaries and so on , will be
> > as relevant as ever and meet various hard copy publication requirements
> > whenever they are recieved.  But it seems to me that this owuld be a way to
> > regain the usefulness of the event announcement portion.
> >
> Alternately, the chronicler's policy that forbids posting flyers to the
> kingdom web site prior to publication could be dropped. That would allow
> the online calendar to be useful as a planning tool and would reward events
> that are sufficiently organized to have useful information available farther
> in advance.
> 
> yours,
> Herveus
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