[Artemisia] Newsletter Production Stipends

[Redhawk]

PRINT!  Yes!  Geeze, I forgot I can do that.. doh.  Great idea!  Thank you.. 
Imadork...
Red




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From: Daniel Watson <dan.watson at usu.edu>
To: "<artemisia at lists.gallowglass.org>" <artemisia at lists.gallowglass.org>
Sent: Mon, February 14, 2011 4:25:46 PM
Subject: [Artemisia] Newsletter Production Stipends


I think the best approach, given that the kingdom newsletter will eventually go 
electronic, is to have local groups decide how they want handle it.  Perhaps a 
group will decide that paper copies of the kingdom newsletter are important 
enough to print and mail to individuals, or at least to individuals that request 
them.  I think this can be done either as a part of the group's budget, or as a 
for-fee service to recoup costs.

I think it is also quite likely that an enterprising individual will step 
forward who will be happy to provide this service for a modest fee.  


But the real argument here is about money.  SCA-corporate, faced with a revenue 
stream that does not cover its obligations, has only two tools at its disposal:  
raise fees or reduce services.  In this case, it has chosen the latter, and the 
service it is cutting is the printing and mailing of newsletters.

If I did not have access to email or the internet, I am certain I would be 
unhappy about this.  But the only effective way the SCA can continue to meet its 
obligations without dramatic cost-cutting will be for it to raise the membership 
fees to cover its increased costs.  Presumably and perhaps over-simplistically, 
fees would be raised to cover the cost of printing and mailing newsletters.

I have a problem with that.  I don't mind so much if my membership fees go up 
for something we need, but I'm not so keen on fee increases foisted on me 
because we must *all* receive increasingly expensive paper copies of newsletters 
that contain information that could more easily be sent to my inbox  at a 
fraction of the cost using electrons that are easy to recycle.

Especially not when, for the effort of clicking a "print" button, it is possible 
to turn an electronic newsletter into a paper newsletter using a font-size of 
our choosing that can be brought to shire meetings or dropped into an envelope.  
There is no "unprint" button.


-bart


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