[Artemisia] Uprising scheduling

[Chuck Heisler Jr.]

Greetings Excellency,
 
I'd say respectfully, that the same situation applies to having a tournament starting at 10:00 am.  You don't know how long its going to run.  In point of fact, there isn't much control over how long it is going to run unless you put a time deadline on it (a thought there, to be explored later).
 
Court is the one of the things that Royalty actually DOES have control over.  It stops when the royalty says it stops.  Therefore, if we scheduled court to start at ten in the morning and end at one in the afternoon, then that could certainly be done.  Any business left over can be held until ten in the morning the next day.  Court CAN be scheduled.  Like classes.  In point of fact, it SHOULD be scheduled, like classes.
 
If you put classes at two until six or seven you could have cooking classes to coordinate with dinnertimes.  If you thought you wanted a class that might run long, you could do it an not butt up against court.  
 
If you started fighting battles or fencing at two or three then you'd have the same situation you describe except that anyone who wanted to needed to go home wouldn't have missed court.  I realize its a philosophical difference, but honestly, I've never seen it done that way so I don't know that anyone knows how it would work.
 
Again, respectfully,
 
Cvz

--- On Thu, 5/29/08, LYNETTE STUMPP <pandabr_28 at msn.com> wrote:

From: LYNETTE STUMPP <pandabr_28 at msn.com>
Subject: [Artemisia] Uprising scheduling
To: "Artemisa mailing list" <artemisia at lists.gallowglass.org>
Date: Thursday, May 29, 2008, 11:54 AM

I meant to send this to the List and Conrad but hit the wrong button. Here is my
response to Conrad in case anyone else is interested.
 
Baroness Antoinette
 
Conrad and others who are interested, Here is the reasoning used when
determining schedules for this year. The question of moving court to a
different time was considered. I talked with others to get input on this
question. When setting the schedule, people seem to appreciate specific times
for classes, children's activities, fighting scenerios and tournaments. It
is extremely hard to predict how long court will last. If court is scheduled to
start at 10:00 a.m. and we plan for two hours, by the time court is over and
people are ready for other things, it is 12:30 p.m. If court runs long that
pushes the entire schedule back. That means everything is still going on during
the warmer parts of the day. Likewise, if we schedule court for 1:00 p.m. then
everything has to be stopped. Depending on how long court runs, it could be
3:30 p.m. or later when activities resume. If a tourney, like the unbelted
tourney, does not start until 11:00 p.m., it has to be stopped for court at
1:00 p.m. and then resumed later. No one I talked with liked that idea. By
putting court at night it does not interrupt, stop or disrupt any other
activities during the day. If it runs long, only darkness is being burned and
not daylight hours that people want to use for other activities. The 8:00 p.m.
schedule is used to allow kitchens to have dinner over with so that those who
want to attend court can and those who don't can do other things. Court in
the middle of the day does not affect just the fighting but everything else we
schedule for Uprising. Likewise, trying to keep court to one hour or two hours
is not always possible. This is one of the best opportunities the King and
Queen, and the territorials, have to get caught up on awards and give out
recognition that is deserved, sometimes way over due in being done. By having
court in the evenings there does not have to be a worry about time because of
other activities that have been stopped to do court.  I hope this helps explain
a bit the reasoning used in setting the schedule. YIS,Baroness Antoinette
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