From: mittle@watson.ibm.com (Josh Mittleman)
Subject: Re: Event announcements
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 18:38:15 GMT
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Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center


Greetings from Arval!

Dissecting Eastern law with Lindorm (an exercise well-worth the effort)
Tibor wrote:

> However, I would recommend that the Board modify the original wording,
> and require official events to be listed in Corporate publications.

The Board chose exactly the opposite in its definition of an event:

  II.A. The term "Society events" refers to tournaments, feasts and other
  activities ... All Society events must be ... publicized at least to the
  membership of that branch ...

This definition deliberately includes all manner of meetings, workshops,
and practices, for good reason: It makes all those events eligible for
coverage under the liability insurance.  An event expressly need not be
listed in a kingdom newsletter; it is sufficient to list it in a local
newsletter or to announce it at any event.  The term "official event," as
used in Eastern law, is not defined; I believe that it must therefore be
understood to have the same meaning as "event" in Corpora.  This provides
the answer to one of Lindorm's questions:

(EK law concerning the chronicler)
>  Is the editor of, or supervises the editor of, the Kingdom newsletter
>  Pikestaff, and is responsible for publishing all required announcements, 
>  notices of official events, Kingdom Law, and the like.

L> Is it clear if the Chronicler is responsible for publishing "all
L> required ... notices of events", "all ... notices of events" or "notices
L> of events"? I don't think so. 

In light of the preceding, I assert that the chronicler must publish
_required notices_ of events.  What notices are required?  There are
certain activities which can only take place at events published in a
kingdom newsletter: proclamation of law, giving of awards, and other
official business of the SCA.  Thus, for example, an event notice is
"required" if the Crown intends to hold court.

Now let me turn to the heart of the matter, the EK seneschalate policy: 

  All event announcements must appear in Pikestaff no later than the month
  in which the events will occur, and conform to the requirements of the
  Chronicler's Office.

This policy requiries that all events be listed in Pikestaff; since no
other definition of "event" is provides, then the policy applies to every
organized activity in the SCA; this is obviously absurd.  Clearly, this
policy was written with the assumption that "event" had the colloquial
meaning of the word, whichw as the meaning used in old versions of Corpora.
However, in the absense of any other definition of "event", the Corpora
definition stands.  This is a problem: One could legitimately conclude that
Eastern law requires publication in Pikestaff of ALL events, and therefore
that anything not published in Pikestaff is NOT an event and thus not
covered by the insurance!  If the question ever arose, I think we can rest
assured that the insurance lawyers would assert this interpretation.

I thank you both for hammering out this point; I am writing to Duchess
Sedalia to bring this problem to her attention.

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