[Artemisia] Survey re: SCA Name/Device Submission

[mattkatie2]

Because getting your name/device passed in the SCA is a major contributor to
keeping someone's enthusiasm for the game (and retaining them as members), I
think it's important that as many people as possible reply to the Laurel
Queen of Arms survey explained below. See:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GLJZDDZ

Katerina
Atenveldt
-----Original Message-----
From: Julia Smith <julias at alumni.pitt.edu>
To: SCA Submissions Heralds <submissions_heralds at lists.sca.org>
Sent: Mon, Dec 21, 2009 2:04 pm
Subject: [Submissions_heralds] Laurel Office Request for Feedback on the
Rules for Submissions

To those to whom these words come, greetings from Olwynn ni Chinneidigh,
Laurel Queen of Arms and Juliana de Luna, Palimpsest Herald. 
 
The Laurel office is starting to review our policies and procedures for
submissions. We expect that the eventual outcome will be a complete rewrite
of the Rules for Submissions.
  
To start this process, we're asking the populace and heralds to give us
feedback about the heraldic submissions process and how it should work. A
survey which asks some basic questions can be found at
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GLJZDDZ
we'd appreciate it if interested people would take time to answer the
questions there. Anyone can complete this; we promise to read all answers.
We expect the survey to take fifteen to twenty minutes. Additional comments
about or ideas for this process can be sent to rules at heraldry.sca.org.  

We have several goals for this process: 
- to make the Rules for Submissions easier to use for heralds and submitters
alike 
- to reduce discrepancies between the Rules as written and the rules as
applied 
- to reflect on the degree of authenticity we want for the registration
process and how best to codify rules to evaluate it 
- to reconsider the level of difference we should require between names and
devices for registration 
 
In all areas, the Society for Creative Anachronism has moved towards
progressively better understandings of what people did in our period. Given
this, we are not interested in discussing rules changes that would
substantially lower our standards for registration of names and armory. But
we are interested in exploring ways to make it easier for people register
items that are in period style, whether or not they fit the rules as they
currently exist. We welcome ideas about how to do that from all sources.  

We look forward to hearing from you! The deadline for the survey is January
31; we will continue to accept comments by e-mail until the review of the
rules is completed. Please forward this message to other mailing lists, so
that as many people as possible can respond. 
 
Juliana and Olwynn