[Artemisia] Fwd: [Announcements] Newsletter Production Stipends

[Padruig]

Call me old fashioned, and out of touch, if you wish (oh, hello, an anachronism), but I like the look and feel of stuff in print. I refuse to read books online, or with a kindle like unit. I read a book. I still read magazines. I prefer shopping from a catalog, rather than unline. 

Incidentally, I also hate direct deposit. I Like going to the bank to deposit checks (although I don't get to do it nearly often enough). I Like the peronal contact.

I am a high touch person, living in a high tech world. Which sometimes really sucks.

Padruig, the deluded one



Dr. Raymond Zentz
 
It is better to die a free man, than to live, a slave.



-----Original Message-----
From: Belladonna <belladonna.difrancia at yahoo.com>
To: Kingdom of Artemisia mailing list <artemisia at lists.gallowglass.org>
Sent: Fri, Feb 11, 2011 1:57 pm
Subject: Re: [Artemisia] Fwd: [Announcements] Newsletter Production Stipends


My reaction to this is, "Hurray!" I'd much rather get an electronic Sage. Loch 
alann already has an electronic newsletter option in the form of getting a PDF 
mailed to you. Perhaps other baronies do, too? Let's catch up with 1995, 
lready, even if our pocketbooks are forcing us to do it.
I know my opinion may not be popular with some. And yes, even in this day and 
ge, there still may be two or three people in the Kingdom without computers, 
nternet, or email accounts. But my opinion is that it's perfectly okay to 
hoose not to have those things, but it's not okay to cry about the results of 
hat choice. If someone chooses not to have Internet access, I think he or she 
s also choosing to take the responsibility for working a little harder to get 
nformation in other ways. One of the best ways to get information, anyway, has 
lways been and remains to make a few friends in the Society. 

esides, I think we're deluding ourselves if we think that very many people in 
ur Kingdom still rely on (or even really use) the newsletters to get 
nformation. I get the Sage. Sometimes, I thumb through it. If I want to know 
hat the upcoming events are or remember the details of one, I visit one of the 
roup Websites or call up someone I know and ask about it.
I'm a Chronicler and happy to serve, but I feel like producing a newsletter at 
ll anymore is something we do because it's required, not because it's needed. 
he Barony of Loch Salann's newletter has fewer than 25 subscribers. I believe 
he Sage's circulation is due largely to the fact that it's included with SCA 
embership. No offense to Hilde who does a truly marvelous job with it, but how 
any would really subscribe if you had to pay separately to get information you 
an find on the Web?
Belladonna



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ue to external economic conditions and increased overall costs facing the
CA Inc., the Board of Directors and senior staff have been forced to make
ver $250,000 in cost cutting measures to the 2011 budget in order to ensure
ontinued operations.

The largest recurring expense for the SCA at the corporate level is the
tipend payments made to the Kingdoms for publishing hardcopy newsletters.  As
ur modern society moves increasingly away from hardcopy publishing to
lectronic mediums, the costs of hardcopy publishing have increased
roportionally. Based on the need to curb these costs, and the responses of
he membership in the 2010 census, the Board of Directors believes it is
ssential to the continued financial health of the SCA to transition the
rganization away from paper newsletters. Accordingly, the SCA has initiated
 project to transition all kingdoms to e-newsletters, and is projecting
mplementation by Jan 1, 2012. Until the SCA has the infrastructure in place
o support e-newsletters, the 2011 stipend amount provided by the corporate
evel for production assistance will be reduced to cover only those aspects
equired by the governing documents. This will reduce the overall stipend
or mailings and production by 60%. The Board of Directors greatly regrets
he necessity of making these changes to the stipend structure, but feels
hat it is the best of an array of difficult options to execute its
iduciary responsibility to the membership of the organization.

     
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