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msmemory_archive) wrote2003-10-15 03:19 pm
msmemory_archive) wrote2003-10-15 03:19 pm
Money - Mouth
As in, putting my money where my mouth is.
About an hour ago, the President of the SCA sent out an announcement of a membership survey, that will run from now til the end of December. (Sound off soon, before you forget: http://www.sca.org/survey/ )
They do say they will accept hardcopy responses as well as www ones. It occurred to me that some of the people they should really hear from are those who don't get the Announcements list, and may not even have a kingdom newsletter where, one presumes, the survey annoucement will be reprinted. So, about those hardcopies. Well, print preview tells me that printing the page as is will take 10 pages. Even double-sided, that's more than 1 ounce of US Postage to send the thing in (and who ever remembers to put the second ounce stamp, or even to check if it's needed?).
So I wrote to the Directors, copy to the society webmaster, and said, why don't you have a shorter format copy of this document available for download, for those who do want to print & mail, something in the 3-4 sheet range at worst? And how about pdf as a format?
Promptly got IM'd by the webmaster, who has me on his buddy list anyway. I may be redoing the layout for print format for them this weekend, unless he finds another volunteer.
Oh well, at least it's not Crown Tourney weekend.
About an hour ago, the President of the SCA sent out an announcement of a membership survey, that will run from now til the end of December. (Sound off soon, before you forget: http://www.sca.org/survey/ )
They do say they will accept hardcopy responses as well as www ones. It occurred to me that some of the people they should really hear from are those who don't get the Announcements list, and may not even have a kingdom newsletter where, one presumes, the survey annoucement will be reprinted. So, about those hardcopies. Well, print preview tells me that printing the page as is will take 10 pages. Even double-sided, that's more than 1 ounce of US Postage to send the thing in (and who ever remembers to put the second ounce stamp, or even to check if it's needed?).
So I wrote to the Directors, copy to the society webmaster, and said, why don't you have a shorter format copy of this document available for download, for those who do want to print & mail, something in the 3-4 sheet range at worst? And how about pdf as a format?
Promptly got IM'd by the webmaster, who has me on his buddy list anyway. I may be redoing the layout for print format for them this weekend, unless he finds another volunteer.
Oh well, at least it's not Crown Tourney weekend.
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Basically they seem to only consider two positions: "Pay to play" and "How it is/was", and as we all know there are MANY more points of view, and many subsets of these views.
Of course, part of my profession is creating and analyzing surveys, so I'm a bit sensitive -- but surely with enough of techies in the SCA they could have found someone to de-opinionate the survey? Blech.
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Didn't mention it, but the only reason bought the darn membership was to get the savings at Pennsic.
Isabel
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(Anonymous) 2003-10-16 05:25 am (UTC)(link)--Elric