[SCA-Dance] Fw: KWDS report (What I Did on my Summer Vacation...)

[Felice Debbage]

I think Lowrie's got a good point-- four groups want to host it *now*, and
these four groups can only plan as far as 2013 probably. It's clear at this
point to me that a meeting at Pennsic is pretty necessary, because there's
now more than one issue at the table. So, let's put forth a few ideas for a
meeting time of say, two hours, with a date and time, and perhaps select a
moderator (or a few) who has no interest in running KWDS in the future to
make sure that we move in the direction of progress. A meeting agenda would
be helpful to keep us on track. (I don't know how your local meetings are,
but in many places that I've been, it's like herding cats!)

Felice

PS. I spoke with my baroness over the weekend in person. As a middle eastern
dancer, she sends her blessings over the Barony of Middle Marches' bid for
KWDS. So that's settled. ;-) Yay! We're bidding!

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 1:41 AM, Nadine <ianthe at gmail.com> wrote:

> That was several years ago, maybe 6 years ago or more.
>
> I think we can revisit the topic, especially when we have 4 places
> expressing interest in hosting. Personally, I don't think "it does
> draw from the whole known world" being a good excuse. When I was in
> the Seattle KWDS, there were maybe a handful flying in from outside
> the country (not counting Canada), similarly for the KWD in Texas. And
> you see the same usual suspects at Pennsic and KWDS, and the same
> subset of them at Terpischore or Crystal Ball (both yearly dance
> events which draws people from outside their kingdom).
>
> Either way, there is a lot to be gain for letting KWD be annual for 4
> years, and then revisiting it to see if it needs to be once every two
> years. We don't have to be set in one particular way or another.
>
> I know if the next KWD is in Europe, I will be missing it. And having
> missed the one in Canada, and the next one in Europe, that's 4 years
> of no KWD for me, because of travel limitations. Having it annually
> would mean I miss it every other year, instead of for 4 year stretches
> at a time.
>
> Lowrie.
>
> On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Mary Railing<mrailing2 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > The idea of an annual KWDS was discussed and rejected early on because
> people said the expense and time commitment would be too great.  Since it
> does draw from the whole Known World, a significant number of attendees pay
> to fly in.  Since it uses three days, plus travel time, it uses up weekday
> vacation time that could have been spend at Pennsic, etc., so people said
> they didn't want to make that commitment every year.
> >
> >
> > I'm not familiar with Skype.  Is a conference call among a large group of
> people actually possible in a campground?
> >
> > Sir Alan Culross has agreed to advocate for Mynydd Seren at Pennsic, but
> he will only be there during the second week.  So, where and when do folks
> want to meet and make a decision?
> >
> > --Urraca
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: Caroline Walsh <thlroz at hotmail.com>
> > To: sca-dance at sca-dance.org
> > Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2009 9:58:56 AM
> > Subject: Re: [SCA-Dance] KWDS report (What I Did on my Summer
> Vacation...)
> >
> >
> > Greetings to the list.
> >
> > I would put forth the suggestion to do a confernce call, perhaps on a
> free service such as Skype.  I have used this to plan a locally hosted
> kingdom event (here in Trimaris) and found it fairly easy to coordinate.  An
> extra benifit of this is that you dont have to spen the time you are
> physically together discussing when you could be dancing.
> >
> > Alas, I will not be at Pensic.  I would love to be in on the discussion
> (even if my good cousins here don't know me from Adam's housecat) as a
> couple of us here in southern Trimaris have been bouncing the idea of
> bidding on a KWDS.  We haven't spoken to the others in the dance community
> in our Kingdom - yet - and so I have been loathe to mention it previously on
> this list.  I will admit, the prospect of looking to being able to do this 8
> to 10 years from now is somewhat discouraging....   *Has* the idea of an
> annual event been previously discussed?
> >
> >
> >
> > As ever,
> >
> >
> >
> > Mistress Roz, the Younger
> >
> >
> >> From: gwommy at gmail.com
> >> Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:56:41 -0400
> >> To: sca-dance at sca-dance.org
> >> Subject: Re: [SCA-Dance] KWDS report (What I Did on my Summer
> Vacation...)
> >>
> >> I was thinking that perhaps we could set a time to meet at Pennsic for
> further discussing the next KWDS bid here on the list and since Uracca can't
> be there, you'd think that someone would be able to call her and put her on
> speaker phone similar to a conference call. If we met on the middle Sat or
> Sun, we could use my phone.
> >>
> >> --Gwommy
> >>
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Good dancing to you!

Felice




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