[MR] Ok.....5% or thereabouts....

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But I DO feel like a guest at other groups' events. I don't mean I
won't help out, but I don't feel the same obligations as I do in my home
group. I thought that was the point of having different groups put on
different events--everyone has a couple of times a year when they work their
asses off for everyone else's benefit, and the rest of the time they get the
benefit of another group's work. (Kingdom events and things like Pennsic are
different.)

I think that my feelings are pretty common.
 
 
I would have to respectfully say that hasn't been my experience, in theory or practice. 
 
It wouldn't occur to me to feel like a guest at a volunteer run event. I don't know how common that thought is among others, I can only say that I've been amazed that at *every* event I've gone to in the past year, I've met people from all over Atlantia that are volunteering their services in some way for events that aren't being run by their barony. I'm from Marinus and aside from helping at our events, in the past year, I've served lunch at a Stierbach event, washed dishes all day at a Tir Y Don event, cooked all day at a Yarnvid event, and done plenty more behind the scenes work in other baronies. At every event I've gone to in the past year, I've either e-mailed the autocrat and/or feast cook in advance to offer help, or if I've gone at the last minute, found them when I got there to see if they needed help with anything (with one exception when I was already late for an archery shoot). I'm only offering this as a single person example, I've met people at ALL of those eve
 nts that were doing the same things for baronies that weren't their own.
 
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