[SCA-AE] Who is a member?

[Solveig Throndardottir]

Baron Fridrikr!

Greetings from Solveig! A small point of possibly out-of-date  
information. In one sense, the SCA, Inc. is not a membership  
organization. We have an appointive board instead of an elective  
board. This most likely means that nobody, and this includes members  
of the board of directors, is a member. However, the Society also  
sells annual or longer-term "memberships" and "membership" shows up  
in various places in historical and current official documents. At  
one time, there was a class of "membership" for anyone attending an  
event. Regardless, back when the issue was litigated about twenty  
years ago, a judge ruled that calling those things we buy  
"memberships" did indeed confer some membership rights on those who  
purchase them. I suppose the big technicality is whether we have a  
self-appointing board (which we have) or have periodic membership  
elections for board positions (which we don't). While interesting,  
this technicality is far removed from the actual operation of the  
Society which is primarily on the local level where we have a hodge- 
podge of de-facto organizational structures operating within the  
context of appointed seneschals and exchequers. I suppose that every  
office in the Society is technically appointive.

Your Humble Servant
Solveig Throndardottir
Amateur Scholar