[SCA-BMDL] Purim Event in Trib?

[Edmund LoPresti]

I just tried to visit the Trib online page in question, and saw the  
wine tasting, etc, but not the Purim event, so perhaps it has been  
pulled.

I realize there are a number of very serious concerns with this, from  
the standpoints of society rules (e.g. people should be aware they  
should come in garb), logistics (e.g. the attendance limitation,  
which may not have been reflected in the online copy), and especially  
that the Trib should not have copied information from our website  
without checking one of the organizers for permission, assuming this  
is what happened.  The latter, especially, if indeed unacceptable.   
However, I'm a bit taken aback by the implication that the event is  
not open to the public.  Aren't all official events effectively open  
to the public, within some fairly typical constraints (entrance fee,  
member discounts, attendance or feast limits) that are published in  
event announcements and that should be no surprise to any non-Scadian  
attendee, and at least one implicit constraint (coming in garb) that  
a non-Scadian wouldn't be expected to anticipate?  To the extent any  
of our events are not open to the public, this should be clearly  
stated in announcements that we put on a publicly accessible  
website.  Aside from some Trib reporter finding it and clumsily  
posting it, ordinary people could potentially find it in a web search  
and decide to drop by.  If some events are not open to the public, or  
if events are open to the public but we want casual web-searchers to  
be aware of the garb rules, we might want to have some standard  
boilerplate language to add to event announcements when they are  
posted to the web.  This language shouldn't be required in Althing  
and Aestel announcements, since these are going to people who should  
be familiar with our rules.

Edmundo

On Feb 13, 2007, at 1:31 PM, Cara and Char wrote:

> That you, Ruth; your link worked.
>
> As you implied, Pam, this is entirely unacceptable.
>
> I have just called the Trib web editor, Joe Chudicek, and expressed  
> my displeasure in no uncertain terms.  He is currently tracking  
> things down; I will post again when I have more details.  Joe is  
> trying to figure out how the Trib News Room got wind of the event  
> in the first place.  On our side, if anyone knows how this event  
> became public knowledge, I would very much like to know so that we  
> can prevent it from happening again.  My guess is that someone in  
> the Trib news room came across the web site while searching for  
> social events in Pittsburgh, and mistakenly concluded that it was  
> open to the public.
>
> --Char
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pam Bolkovac" <pmb_pa at yahoo.com>
> To: <Sca-bmdl at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 12:24 AM
> Subject: [SCA-BMDL] Purim Event in Trib?
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just got an e-mail from a non-SCAian saying that
>> they saw an annoucement for the Purim Event in the
>> Trib and wanting to know if it was open to the public.
>> I don't get the Trib and had not heard anything about
>> an annoucement going in it.  Has anyone see this and
>> if so, could you bring it to Barony Meeting or send it
>> to me?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Cassandra
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