[SCA-BMDL] Do we need a monthly Althing?

[Ann Kopchik]

Two people have requested hard copies.

The minimum frequency any newsletter in the kingdom can be reduced to  
is quarterly, as the newsletter is the local chronicler's report to  
the kingdom chronicler. A chronicler is one of the offices required by  
Kingdom law, so the office cannot entirely be replaced with a webscript.

Not all of the information contained in the Althing is also published  
website, currently. While officer announcements could be published on  
the website, I don't believe that the webminister is CCed on what the  
officers send to me.

Out of Barony events are not published on the Barony website. Granted,  
they are in the kingdom newsletter which members of SCA Inc. get every  
month (but not all those who play in the Barony are members of SCA  
Inc.), and you sometimes can find links to event announcements on the  
AE website (but not always). Half the time, I get event announcements  
by culling through posts on the AE list or by hunting down the  
information on other groups websites.

If a pretty version of The Althing isn't wanted or is found to be  
annoying by the populous, I can just produce something in text.

Or maybe just a list of links to information on the web so you can  
make your build your own newsletter.

I'm open to suggestions.

-Ann

On May 22, 2008, at 7:41 PM, Dani Zweig wrote:

> The information and announcements that were the raison d'etre of the
> althing may be found on the Baronial web site.  Perhaps we should drop
> the monthly newsletter in favor of a less-frequent publication
> schedule?
>
> There may still be a need for relatively-current hard copy of some of
> the information on the web site such as officer contacts and event
> announcements.  (Does anyone know how many barony members have
> requested hard copies since we went online?)  If there is, and if
> pretty format is not so important, could a script be added to the web
> site to generate such a precis in printable form upon request?
>
> For the situations in which a pretty format matters, we would still
> have something to show if we went to a much-reduced publication
> schedule.
>
> - Dani
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