[Artemisia] Fwd: [Announcements] Newsletter Production Stipends

[Belladonna]

Although I think that sounds reasonable on the surface, Your Grace, the 
announcement stated that the 40% stipend is only a temporary measure until the 
Society gets the e-newsletter system set up. Even if it were not, depending on 
whether the printer has bulk breakpoints in their pricing scheme, the 40% may or 
may not cover many fewer issues printed. It might be possible to find a printer 
that would fit into the budget with 80% fewer copies to print, but that's not 
guaranteed.

Also, what you are suggesting is that a small portion of the membership fees 
that I pay to the Society should go toward printing your newsletter. Really, in 
the end, I'm probably okay with that if the Society can afford to allocate it 
there, but it seems to me like a strange sense of entitlement, nonetheless, for 
you to ask it of me.

One other point I'd like to make about entitlement is that the newsletter the 
Society has included with our membership fees has always relied on having free 
volunteer labor. As a Chronicler for a Barony that does not cover outsourcing 
printing, I'd like to point out that even though I'm willing to do the work of 
printing, stapling, folding, addressing, stamping, and mailing our newsletter 
for everyone, I also would not cry if a bunch of people who prefer printed 
copies told me they were equally happy and willing to take on the work of 
printing their own copies. I'd even gladly still produce two electronic 
versions: an online reading version and a centerfold, stapled version 
ready-to-print.

Belladonna






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From: Allen Hall <dukealan at q.com>
To: Kingdom of Artemisia mailing list <artemisia at lists.gallowglass.org>
Sent: Mon, February 14, 2011 5:00:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Artemisia] Fwd: [Announcements] Newsletter Production Stipends


"This will reduce the overall stipend for mailings and production by 60%." 

OK.  I don't see any reason to totally do away with printed newsletters.  I do 
believe that the vast majority of folks will go with the e-newsletters.  Good 
for them.  I also believe that some folks will prefer the printed version.  I 
suspect that this will be a small group, probably no more than 20% of the 
sustaining members getting a newsletter now.  That being the case, the 40% the 
Kingdom will receive from Society will more than cover the expenses.

Cases where a household, with more than one sustaining member, received multiple 
copies of the Sage, will go away.  This too, will reduce costs of the 
production.

This seems to be something that can be easily accomplished, and works out for 
"both" sides of the issue (pun intended).

How's that work out for ya?

Alan