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- From: parr@acs.ucalgary.ca (Charles Parr)
- Subject: Re: Heraldic questions...
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 16:53:51 GMT
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- In article <atterlep.724635384@vela> atterlep@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Cardinal Ximenez) writes:
- >parr@acs.ucalgary.ca (Charles Parr) writes:
- >
- >>1) the BoD (brace yourselves) is an impediment to the SCA
- >> and should be radically trimmed and concievably
- >> eliminated entirely.
- >
- > That may be true--but they are still the people who can tell the CoA what to
- >do. It can't hurt to talk to them.
- >
- >>2) I would rather speak to the populace than a bureaucrat,
- >> which is what i do when I post here.
- >
- > OK, now you're insulting my friends as well as me. The people on the BoD
- >aren't "bureaucrats," they're SCA members just like us (well, actually, more
- >experienced and careful than us.) I know two of the people on the BoD
- >personally--one is a local knight and a fierce defender of the right to have
- >fun (ask me about Sir Flamingo sometime...) Another is a duke who helped hook
- >me on the SCA with his war stories.
- > The BoD are people in the SCA. They care about the SCA and enjoy it as much
- >as you or I, and have no interest in bogging it down. Of course, since you've
- >never bothered to meet any of them, you wouldn't know this.
-
- Ahem. The Chairman lives 2 miles from me. I spoke to him, at
- length at our baronial council meeting eight days ago. His
- name is Keith Cartmel, In the SCA Ragnar the Bold. Nice
- guy. He's our baronial exchequer.
-
- It is my not at all humble opinion that the SCA outgrew
- the BoD and the concept of centralized bureaucracy about
- the same time that the concentration of membership shifted
- from "all of us live in California" to "we live all over
- north america".
-
- That is why the BoD is an impediment. That is why the
- COA cannot function...They are too big, they are trying to
- address too many conflicting concerns.
-
- The SCA should split into smaller groups. I'd like to see it
- split into kingdoms.
-
- >>3) The ombudsman, if not already aware of these problems
- >> from any number os sources (for example, Arval,
- >> Kwelland Njal, and any number of others who's opinions
- >> actually carry weight and prestige), certainly won't
- >> be swayed by *my* letter.
- >
- > Actually, that isn't true. The BoD reads letters, and pays attention to
- >them. Also, the problem isn't persuading the BoD (at least one member has
- >told me that the Board is as annoyed with the CoA as everyone else), but giving
- >them the ammunition to say, "this is what the populace wants." A pile of
- >letters supporting, for example, the elimination of mundane conflict-checking,
- >would be a strong lever for the BoD to act.
- >>4) I intend to write such a letter, right after I fix
- >> my armour, finish pellwork, cook dinner, clean my house,
- >> do my christmas shopping, and have anervous breakdown.
- >
- > I don't buy that. In the time it took you to write this, you could have
- >pounded out a short letter to the BoD and mailed it off. Why don't you take
- >half and hour off of reading the Rialto and send a letter to the Board instead?
- >It would have a much greater effect.
-
- Because to send a letter which I would consider adequately
- researched will take some time, some correspondance, and
- a tete a tete with a couple of heralds.
-
- To send a blathering rant would be of no utility whatsoever.
-
- Carolus Malvoix
- --
- Within the span of the last few weeks I have heard elements of
- separate threads which, in that they have been conjoined in time,
- struck together to form a new chord within my hollow and echoing
- gourd. --Unknown net.person
-