[SCA-BMDL] Fwd: [Announcements] Deputy Society Seneschal - Event Support Services

[Robert Smith]

See below for an announcement from the Board of Directors.  Comments  
encouraged!

Alaric

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Subject: [Announcements] Deputy Society Seneschal - Event Support Services
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 16:14:18 -0500




The  SCA Board of Directors is directing the Society Seneschal to develop
and implement a new Deputy Society Seneschal Office and accompanying
kingdom level infrastructure to deal with broad-based event support
services.

The  core activity and a core competency of the Society for Creative
Anachronism is holding events - and our event autocrats and event staff
are tremendous volunteer resources who typically shoulder the burden  for
our mutual benefit over and over and over again.

The  Board of Directors of the SCA, Inc. believes that it is possible for
the Society to take steps to reduce some of that burden by providing an
ongoing information clearinghouse resource to provide autocrats and  event
staff with lists of providers of the support services needed to  hold and
best manage SCA events.

With this  initiative coordinated by a Society-level Deputy Seneschal,
and  information gathered, managed, and supervised at the Kingdom level
by  deputy Seneschals, the new Office might thus gather, manage, and
provide  valuable and timely information for those who put together our
events  and activities.  The new Office will be charged with developing a
clearinghouse of event support services like local port-a-john  providers,
local externally certified SCA first-aid volunteers, local  emergency
services companies, perhaps even local event sites, etc…  The  Office
might not only provide a list of providers, but could also  provide
additional information about those providers — such as if they  had been
used successfully or unsuccessfully by the SCA in the past, if  they
provided competitive or uncompetitive rates, basic information  about
their certifications/licensing (where applicable), etc…

This  new Deputy Office will thus be responsible for providing
information  about the types of services listed above so that they might
be made  available for events when wanted or needed, along with
information about  the broader range of services of use to event planning
and  implementation staff.

The Office will be  created as a new Deputy Seneschal position and, like
the Deputies of all  offices (e.g., the Seneschallate, Marshallate, Office
of the Exchequer,  Arts & Sciences Office, Herald, etc…) will act to
develop and  coordinate these resources at a Kingdom-level.



Comments regarding the creation of this new office should be sent to both
comments at sca.org  and seneschal at sca.org. Comments may also be sent by mail
to:
SCA Inc.
Box 360789
Milpitas, CA 95036



This  announcement is an official informational release by the Society
for  Creative Anachronism, Inc. Permission is granted to reproduce this
announcement in its entirety in newsletters, websites and electronic
mailing lists.


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