Message-Id: <9403031719.AA13142@us2rmc.bb.dec.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 94 12:19:21 EST
From: touche!  03-Mar-1994 1200 <groff@epee.enet.dec.com>
To: dagoura@MIT.EDU
Cc: groff@epee.enet.dec.com
Apparently-To: dagoura@mit.edu
Subject: RE: Plea 3

I am going to try to "weed out" any words that might be used against this
project...

In the end, it should be as "neutral" a project as you can make it.  While this
may assist in the reform effort: it should *NOT* be linked to it.  If it is,
you will find that silent (but sizable) group that is perfectly happy following
the BoD (and not participating).

I removed "and protects it from seizure by mundane authorities" because I am
not sure that the "mundane authorities" (who?) would ever have a legal claim on
this!  The only authority is "DEC" that will have any claim... or maybe "MIT"
but that is a seperate issue.  Further, off-site backups cover those options. 
No, this is a red-herring that SOMEONE will flame about...

I also added "titles" to our names and added a note about the information.  It
probably needs another spell check :-).

Some things I softened... see if you like this tone.

What I think is best emphesized, is that this is insurance against INSTABILITY. 
Use that angle.

-Danulf

PS: I would have had this back earlier, but the phone lines were tied up this
AM... its a problem w/ this weather...

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To all who come by these words, does Lady 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
could be shattered into a hundred unconnected shards.  Even our Crown
would have no direct way to contact its subjects.

Additionly, participants who are not members cannot be contacted today.  If a
need arose to contact those individuals directly, there is no mechanism today
to do that except through announcements at events.  Further, while we have
estimates, we have no firm figures on the number of unpaid participants in the
East. 

In these uncertain fiscal times the East Kingdom risks losing its only
mechanism to contact its citizens.  It has no firm numbers on the number of
participants.  Further, it has no ability to independantly contact its
citizens.

This situation should not continue.  You can help.  With enough hard work it
should be possible to gather the contact information for every consenting
citizen of the East Kingdom.

This not done in any office or agency of the Society or the Crown.  As such,
this eliminates any valid claim that this Boke is really an official part of
the East Kingdom and SCA Incorporated.  It cannot be controlled or abused by
the corporation or the Kingdom.  This project is done with knowledge of
our Crown.  While they take no official part of its formation, they see
this effort as a positive act.

The information we will be collecting will be of two parts:  one is simple
domesday information (modern and sca contact information), the other is a poll
simular to what the EK Crown has already requested.  This will allow us to
generate demographic information that can assist our Crown in the short term.

All this information will be kept in extreme confidence.  In no way
will it be used for commercial use.  Access to it is restricted to
myself and my deputies.  Presently this includes myself and Don Danulf
Donaldson (who is developing the database software).

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

There is a need for people to take census in their local groups,
especially to beat the bushes for non-paid participants.  People will
be needed to travel to events and take census there.  Within each
group, we will need people to call everyone in their local Domesday
Books and get census forms filled out over the phone.

Once the census forms are submitted, they will need to be formed into
EMAIL and submitted to our central DB.  This will require a lot of
help.  Those helping will need access to reliable EMAIL (and
preferably emacs with a mail interface).

Additional help is needed: 
	- Develop and typeset announcements and ad copy
	- an emacs macro hacker to develop a mail form
	- donations to help pay for an ad in Pikestaff 

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.

Note: if you can hack emacs macros, please also contact Don Danulf
Donaldson directly at groff@epee.enet.dec.com

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
                                                  dagoura@mit.edu