East Kingdom Gazette
Covering the Eastern Realm of the SCA
From Maistir Mael Eoin mac Echuid: Greetings! For the period of thirty days, starting yesterday, I will be the interim East Kingdom Webminister. After that period, an announcement will be made regarding the full Kingdom Webminister position. Lord Lorenz and I will be at the East Kingdom Webminister meeting at War on Thursday (EK Royal, 3pm …
The Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) is seeking candidates for the position of Society Webminister. This position reports to the SCA Board of Directors. The Society Webminister is a supervisory position, and is not involved in maintenance of the Corporate website (www.sca.org). The Society Webminister is responsible for the following duties: 1. Ongoing development and …
A message from Joel of Vestfell, East Kingdom Calendar Deputy Webminister: PLEASE, if your event is not showing up on the Calendar online, PLEASE DO NOT WAIT until the last week before your event is scheduled to occur to bring this up. There are a variety of reasons why your event may not be showing up, none …
This is one of a series of Q&A articles with East Kingdom Officers. The Gazette thanks Lord Lorenz Greylever, East Kingdom Webminister, for answering our questions. Please describe your job responsibilities. I am the Lead “Defender” for the East Kingdom’s Æther Realms. In other words, if it has something to do with the security, usability, …
This just in from Baron Mael Eoin mac Echuid, EK System Administrator. He encourages anyone who detects any problems he might not already know about to contact him directly. ( E-mail Baron Mael Eoin ) Greetings to the populace of the Kingdom, As everyone is aware, there are issues with our old sever at this …
Lady Raffaella Mascolo, EK Webminister, and her team are working to resolve the issues that remain from the server migration over the weekend. She assures the Gazette that solutions will be achieved as soon as possible, and asks everyone affected to please have patience. Most changes were implemented gradually and with minimal impact over the …
This morning, anyone who is subscribed to a mailing list through the eastkingdom.org domain (including the discussion lists for all the Kingdom orders) recieved an email notifying them they have been unsubscribed from the list. This ‘purge’ of the mailing lists is one small part of a long-planned part of the of the migration of the web …
Posted on behalf of the EK Webminister (direct questions to webmaster@eastkingdom.org) As part of the migration to a new server, all mailing lists hosted at eastkingdom.org (minus the admins) will be purged starting on April 21, 2014. Subscribers will be able to re-subscribe to the lists on April 24th, 2014. This action will not affect …
Greetings! If you are the webminister for an eastkingdom.org hosted site (local group, guild, etc.) that uses WordPress, please read the following: http://blog.hostgator.com/2013/04/11/global-wordpress-brute-force-flood/ There are attacks being leveled at WordPress-powered sites and any site that has a weak password will be especially vulnerable. If you can take the time to change your site’s password(s), please …
Greetings Unto The East, With the expansion of our great Kingdom moving into the technical age, Eastkingdom.org will require some extra assistance. The East Kingdom Web team is looking to start two new groups of gentles that can assist with moving forward with new technology. The first is a group of gentles who have technical experience …