[MR] Unevent Boycott Reply

[Wayne Remes]

> Did you, perhaps, get your group to submit a bid for Unevent?
> *Absolutely not.  First of all, we all believe that unevent is 
> unnecessary,
> it is just what it says it is, an unevent.  If there are matters to be
> discussed, then attach sessions either to or in place of Summer 
> University,
> so as to not waste people's time and money.

Unfortunatly you and "all those that believe Unevent is unnecessary" have no 
idea what you are talking about, and do not understand the purpose of 
Unevent. It's purpose is to provide an opportunity for Kingdom level 
officers to hold major meeting of their subordinates, and for meetings of 
major orders to be held . Unevent provides a place for SCA officers and 
orders to do needed work and not take time way from regular Kingdom Level 
evens. If you are not an officer or a member of an order there is no real 
need for you to even attend..unless you want to sit thru curia. I suspect, 
not having been around 20 years ago when Unevent was established you fail to 
see what would happen if  did not occur. Unevent was began because every 
last one of those meeting currently being held at Unevent were held at 
Kingdom events, unsually 12th night. This meant that excessivly large 
amounts of time at 12th night was taken up with meetings of the major 
offices, and believe me, it was a major pain. I've seen what it was like and 
if you want us to go back to that, you have not thoughly thought out the 
ramifications. Twenty years ago it was bad enough with just Seneschal, Heavy 
Marshals Herald, Chronicler, Exchequer, Kingdom and Peerage orders, there 
are a lot more offices and Kingdom orders now than then, and personally I do 
not want to see 40+ meetings shoehorned into 1 or 2 other Kingdom level 
events taking away from the enjoyment of those events. While email and AIM 
has allowed rapid communication it does not substitute for face to face 
meetings.

Sir Axel of Tavastia