To all who come by these words, does Tibicen Blackmane offer this plea:

Help!

I am making a Domesday Boke for the East Kingdom.  In these days of
great instability the need is urgent for this work to be done.

Currently the only source of contact information for citizens of the
East is through the Corporate Registry.  Should anything happen that
caused the Corporation to cease publishing the mailing labels of
Pikestaff -- such as going into bankruptcy -- the Kingdom of the East
would be shattered into a hundred unconnected shards.  Even the Crown
would have no direct way to contact its subjects.

In addition, should the "pay-to-play" policy be implemented, an
unknown number of participants could be banned from those gatherings
which are their primary source of SCA information.  We will have no
way to contact them should the policy be altered of their help sought. 

I am determined not to let these happen.  Therefore I, as a private
endeavor, am going to try to gather the contact information for every
consenting citizen of the East Kingdom.  

I do this not as any officer or agent of the Society or the Crown.  If
I were to do this for the Kingdom, this Boke could be confiscated by
mundane authorities in the case of the SCA going bankrupt.  Thus I act
as a private citizen.

But I am going to need all the help I can get.  I need your help.

I'm going to need people to take census in their local groups,
especially to beat the bushes for non-paid participants; I'm going to
need people to travel to events and take census there.  I need people
to call everyone in their local Domesday Books and get census forms
filled out over the phone.  I and the above volunteers are going to
need help typing handwritten census forms into email.  I could use the
help of people willing to work on announcements and ad copy; and emacs
macro hacker would be useful at the moment.  At some point, donations
to help pay for an ad in Pikestaff would be useful.

I need people who can make a serious commitment.  This task must be
done *soon*, for the longer we wait, the more we court disaster.

HOW TO VOLUNTEER:  send email to dagoura@mit.edu with "VOLUNTEER
DOMESDAY" in the subject line.  Please include your names, your local
group name, and how you want to help; including your phone number if
you are hard to reach by email would be wonderful.  You will receive
an automated reply to begin with; I'm hoping to be overwhelmed with
offers of help.

Please email me with any questions, and I will try to get back to you
as soon as possible,

Thank you!

Lady Tibicen Blackmane                  mundanely Vanessa Layne
Mitgaard, Carolingia, East                        617/643-3443