East Kingdom Gazette
Covering the Eastern Realm of the SCA
Last week SCA, Inc. released it’s new Social Media Policy. The East Kingdom Webminister’s office has clarified a few things and also offered a few more details in regards the East’s presence on various Social Media outlets in this open letter to the populace.
As much as the Gazette would have loved to send its intrepid reporter across the kingdoms to fair Atenveldt, Baroness Leonete spent Saturday in the frigid north, waiting for news from the BoD meeting to inform you, our dear readership as to the goings-on of our great and noble society. As was already reported in …
The Board of Directors has approved the social media policy which was created by a working group of Society and Corporate officers starting in early 2012. For more about the approach that the SCA is developing for social media, see the Gazette’s interview with Lord Tobias Morgan, Deputy Society Seneschal for Social Media.
The agenda for Their Majesties’ upcoming Curia is now available on the East Kingdom Seneschal’s web site: http://seneschal.eastkingdom.org/curia.html Or this link: http://seneschal.eastkingdom.org/Jan2013Curia.pdf The Curia will be held the day after Birka, in the Barony of Stonemarche: Sunday, 27 January 2013, 10:00am Stark Room, Radisson Hotel Manchester Questions may be directed to lawclerk@eastkingdom.org . in service, …
Via the SCA Announcements E-mail List: On November 1, 2012, the Board of Directors put the following proposed change out to the membership for comment: Corpora IV. B. 4. No one may take part in a Royal Lists as both competitor and prospective consort. Due to significant lack of support for this change, the Board …
Their Majesties Ansteorra recently posted this missive: Concerning Same-Sex Combattants/Consorts in Ansteorra Crown Tournament And the Announcement by the Crown at 12th Night Court As we are sure some of you have heard, in court at Steppes 12th Night, We, in accordance with recent Society Corpora changes did issue the following edict: For the duration …
As the topic of the language change around the Inspirational Equality debate heats up around the East Kingdom, I would like to take a moment to thank everyone who has responded here and on Facebook and commend the civility and courtesy with which you have replied. I expect nothing else of our readership, but when an issue is …
If you are a Companion of a polled East Kingdom award Order, please note that Their Majesties have just sent out a new round of recommendations. Polling responses are due by November 22, though replying sooner is encouraged. Each Royal couple usually runs two sets of pollings, one while they are Prince and Princess, and …
Late in the day on Saturday at the BoD meeting, the Vice Chair, Mark Faulcon, introduced a new piece of business, “Madam Chair,” he said addressing Leslie Vaughn, Baronessa Isabeau della Farfalla, “ I have some proposed language that I would like to send in conjunction with the most recent language about same sex couples …
By Leonete D’Angely During the SCA Board of Directors meeting on Saturday, October 27, the Society Treasurer asked for a policy interpretation on a loophole in the Non-Member Surcharge. Groups had contacted her regarding a practice of not charging site fees to non-members, so that they could benefit from the policy that those who are …