[Artemisia] web site question

[Kristin Gulling-Smith]

Greetings from Athenais Golden Pillar!

> So, I'll ask Why is the Heraldry site down?

The maintenance of the website passed from my hands to another person's a  
few months ago; I see Malkin has already answered part of this.

> submission was two years ago. My name passed, but no word on my device.

Your device resubmission was sent to Laurel last fall after I received it,  
Redhawk. The Laurel meeting at which it was decided was in March but the  
Laurel letter from that meeting has not yet been published. This is all  
according to the normal schedule of things, as we've discussed before.

> submission in Dec 04 and also no word on his device or name.  Where  
> these submissions sit for so long is only a guess.  Because of this  
> length of time it takes to process submissions maybe why there is a lack  
> in submissions.

I will happily check the status of submissions if asked. I have not had  
time or opportunity to keep the submission status page updated over the  
last year for many reasons, the main one of which is that being in college  
has eaten up the majority of my time... hence why I turned the website  
over to someone else. Wolf's name and device were sent up last year; I  
have fallen far behind on notification letters for submissions. I'm not  
making excuses here---it is a fact. His name and device were both  
registered in August. (Note that his name was registered as Ulfr bonde, as  
he submitted.)

>  However, it can't happen very quickly when submissions are sent in two  
> years ago and still no answer.
>   Please, no flaming.. just asking questions about our Kingdom Heraldry  
> site and submissions..

No flaming at all. Real life has happened, and has happened fairly  
traumatically to the kingdom submissions herald (me) over the last two  
months in particular, but also for some time beyond that. That is why I am  
stepping down as Golden Pillar in June, because I have not been able to  
fulfill the requirements of my office for some little time now and because  
I do not wish to create a larger problem for my successor to handle. The  
kingdom has my apologies for this; if I had realised sooner how badly the  
issues I was dealing with personally would affect the submissions handling  
for the kingdom, I would have stepped down sooner.

For what it's worth, the submissions rate in Artemisia has always been  
low, mostly due to the low numbers of populace. Every so often, there are  
naturally upsurges as new members join, long-time members finally send  
things in, or people decide to change things. I have quite a stack of  
submission at the moment which will be dealt with this month; some of them  
have indeed been sitting for a few months, largely because of an  
unexpected and rushed move that my husband and I had to make recently. I  
plan on catching all of them up in the submissions process this weekend,  
and will be working on catching up the notification letter backlog this  
month, as I do not want to hand my office over to a successor in a  
shambles.

Again, my apologies to those who have been negatively affected in any way  
by this. My intention was never to make heraldry in the kingdom appear to  
be difficult, tricky, pointless, or just overwhelmingly time-consuming.  
Unfortunately, it looks like I have done so at least in part.

If anyone else has a submission (or submissions) that they would like to  
enquire about, please do feel free to e-mail me directly.

-Athenais

-- 
THL Athenais Bryennissa, Golden Pillar Herald
Artemisian CoH Website: http://heralds.artemisia.sca.org/
"And God said, "Let there be colour!" And there was colour. And it was  
Technicolour. And it was bright."