Author: Sisuile Butler

Open positions

Hello,

As with the any group in the SCA the Shire of Quintavia is a volunteer organization  and as such we depend on the good will and energy of the people filling the Officer roles so everyone can continue to have fun.

While we do well in keeping roles filled,  there is always a small turnover as people take well deserved breaks, and the desire to have more deputies to spread the work around

In particular Elena and Perronelle would like to take step back from the Chamberlain and Chancellor Minor positions respectively.

 

On the job training is happily provided 🙂

A listing of current positions, can be found here.

Shire Officers

If you are interested in any of these positions, or being a deputy please let myself and the current officer know,

seneschal@quintavia.eastkingdom.org

Thank you,

Matthias

 

Shire Yule

Quintavia Yule is Saturday Dec 30th, from noon to 4pm or so at the Camelot Common House (69 Village Ct, Berlin, Ma).
This is a relaxed garb optional event, and is mainly a just chance to hang out with folks in the Shire.
 
More information can be found here  (https://quintavia.eastkingdom.org/events-practices/events/yule/)  Yes the date is Saturday, that will be fixed up soon.
Food is potluck, and there is a Viking swap.
 
The Viking Swap is just like a Yankee Swap, but with no grumbling. Gifts should be of interest to SCAdians, approximately $10 in value, and brought wrapped. Anyone mature enough to be a good sport at being robbed is welcome to participate.
Gifts for children too young to go a-viking are also encouraged
 
Finally the Keepers for the new year will be announced.
http://quintavia.eastkingdom.org/home-page/keeper-awards/quintavia-keeper-descriptions/
 
Please come join us.

Email Posts Poll

Hello to the mighty populace of the Shire of Quintavia!

This is your friendly, local, webminister checking in. At the past business meeting, this past Sunday, we discussed the weekly email notices of posts on the blog. The general feedback was that the way the email blasts are not working as is. The information, when it arrives in your inbox is too late to be useful using a once weekly blast. I picked this option initially to minimize the amount of mail into your inbox because I know that we all get more than enough. To that end, there are three options that are available.

At the meeting we discussed adding a second email blast and making it go on Monday and Fridays. With the new update to the plugin it allows us to do an immediate email blast with the newest post. Unfortunately, it’s an all or nothing deal. So if three posts are written on Monday, you’ll get three separate emails. Granted, there’s not a lot of fluff that is posted here and getting three in a day would be a once in a blue moon occasion. With this in mind, I would ask that you please select your preferred solution to improve our current situation in the poll below.

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November Business meeting

Hi,

Please join us for the November business meeting  at the Camelot site  (69 village court, berlin, ma)  from 11:00am to 1:00pm

We have officer elections, plus  other shenigans like the shire yule gathering to plan.

For the current elections , Seneschal — Matthias Grunwald Currently running unopposed,

Captain of the Archers, Thrya Eiriksdottir currently running unopposed,

Webmister Perronnelle de Croy currently running unopposed.

TW Marshal is also up, and I have someone I’ve been talking to but that hasn’t fully been sorted out yet, so we’ll likely have special election in the winter to fill that position. Anyone is welcome to run for any position, please send a short letter of intent to seneschal@quintavia.eastkingdom.org and I’ll add you to the list.

Thank you,

Matthias

Writing folks in for awards

New Info,
There highnesses are accepting folks for there first polling until tonight. Please write in worthy folks. Non-polling awards can be acting at any time.
http://surveys.eastkingdom.org/index.php/945932/lang-en

The SCA is a volunteer organization and work best when people are recognized for the good work that they do.  The heart of that recognition is the  Kingdom (and baronial) award system.  But for people to be brought to the royals attention they need to be written in.   I was going to post some thoughts on writing people in for awards but it turns out someone has already posted a very comprehensive guide on the eastkingdom wiki.

https://wiki.eastkingdom.org/index.php?title=Recommending_Someone_for_an_Award

Please check it out if you haven’t done so already.

The awards form can be found here  http://surveys.eastkingdom.org/index.php/945932/lang-en  (it is linked on the main page of the EK website).

One tip that I like that isn’t covered in the wiki article is I save all of my award recommendations,  as with any writing style it helps to practice it.  So having an archive of  recommendations to look over when I’m written people in helps make the next one better.

Between the Award of Arms,  AOA level  “silver” awards, grant level awards and peerages, there is a large range of  awards focusing on people’s progression as they put more time and energy and skill in.

The OP database page as a nice listing of the  awards and handy way of searching if some has an award already.

http://op.eastkingdom.org/op.php

Thank you

Matthias

 

October Business meeting

Hello

The next business meeting will be October 8th  from 11 – 1pm in the Camelot Common House. 69 Village court Berlin Ma.  We  will be in the downstairs meeting room this time.   We’ll talk about Yule and whatever other mischief has been dreamt up in the previous month..

As a reminder In November we will have elections for  Seneschal, Webminister, Captain of Archers, and Thrown Weapons Officer.  If you are interested in serving in any of these roles please send me a letter of intent.   I do plan on putting my name in for another term, but always welcome other folks to step forward as well if there is interest.   Please email letters to seneschal@quintavia.eastkingdom.org

The Letter can be a one/two paragraph email on why you like to do with the office.

Finally  business meeting minutes are archived on the site for perusal. See

Business Meeting Minutes Archive

Thank You,

Matthias