[Artemisia] web site question

[Redhawk]

Okay.. well, now we are getting some where..  thank you for explaining the process.  it gave me a headache figuring all this out.  it sure explains alot as to why oh why it takes so long.  i was just hoping to get the device passed before i was so old i couldn't sew any more.  which by looking the the mirror i just might be to late.  
  Red

Kristin Gulling-Smith <kgullingsmith at juno.com> wrote:
  Redhawk wrote:
> PS.. i still want to know why it takes so long..

Here is a copy of something I sent to a submitter at some point in the 
fairly recent past. While the months are subject to change, of course, the 
time spans remain fairly constant.

...
Unfortunately, it is still too early to know. It takes roughly nine months 
from the time of submission for a decision to be made and for you to know 
the outcome. Your submission has to go through the internal writeup, 
commentary, and decision process before going to Laurel, where it then 
goes through the Laurel-level commentary and decision process, followed by 
the Laurel letter of decisions, which goes through its own writing, 
proof-reading, and printing stages. This time starts from the submission 
of *each* item, so even though your original name submission had gone to 
Laurel, the fact that I withdrew it because you submitted a different name 
started that time over.

Your resubmitted name was sent to Laurel in October, which means that the 
Laurel decision on it will be made in February. (Three months for 
commentary and response, then a month for the Laurel meetings.) The Laurel 
letter of acceptances and returns (LoAR) takes anywhere from one to three 
months to write, depending on how many kingdoms sent submissions for that 
month and how many submissions were on each kingdom's letters, as well as 
the complexity of the decisions. Once I receive the LoAR, ideally, I'll 
have notification letters out to the submitters within a month. I am in 
college, so that "ideally" is often less so, but I do have a prospective 
deputy to help me out with that issue.

Since your name will be decided on in February, I won't know what the 
decision is until at least March, but more probably into April or even 
May. Once I do, either I or my deputy will attempt to get the notification 
letters as soon as possible at that point.
...

That does not of course include the delays that have been cropping up on 
my end for the last few months, which I alluded to in my first response to 
this thread. Those I take full personal responsibility for; however, it is 
important to remember that there are delays all along the line, most of 
them due to a desire on the part of the heralds of the SCA to make sure 
that you get what you want. The fact that we handle the most paperwork out 
of any office in the SCA, and ALL of us do so on a volunteer basis, does 
factor into the times as well. (Trust me, as I've told people before---if 
I were *paid* to do heraldry, it'd be an eight-hour-a-day job for me, and 
happily so. ;)

Hopefully that will help enlighten the not-so-murky submissions process.

-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."
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