[Toraerie] FW: Nordskogen and Tor Aerie combined meetings (proposal)

[Ben Tucker]

Some background on meetings and timings:

In 1989, the barony used to have meetings on Sundays and fight practice on
Thursdays.  Then there started beeing more events and people were always
coming back late on Sundays, so attendance at Sunday dropped.  These
Sunday meetings happened various places, sometimes at Coffman, sometimes
at City parks, libraries, and even at Lake St. Police station.

After this, the Barony met at the U at the Armory as their primary meeting
site for about 3 years, and baronial Curia moved from Sundays to
Wednesdays.

Since RotC rotates command of the building every year, communication was
difficult long term.  They finally closed the building for a remodel
(which never actually happened), and Barony needed to go somewhere else. 

Throughout the above time Tor Aerie was meeting separately at Coffman,
usually on Tuesdays.

Then Coffman was closed for gutting/rebuilding and Tor Aerie wound up at
various places including for a time back at Armory, but access was spotty,
sometimes locked out, basketball in the Gym, no regular access to
classrooms there, and it moved to West bank and then back to Coffman when
it reopened.  The Tor Aerie date has changed several times through this
process.

When fight practice was locked out of the armory for the "remodel", the
Barony had a Wednesday night dance practice/rapier practice which I had
set up in St. Paul back when I worked for StP schools, which had been
going on for about a year. The barony had no where else to go at the time
that was obvious, so it started meeting at the Weds site.

Fight practice took the opportunity to move away from general meeting
(which had encroached on practice) because the fighters felt that all the
meeting bits were eating up fighting time.  It shuffled around several
sites before winding up at Bracket Park wherre Kenneth die Kaatze was
working.  He's now on a two year missionary trip to the Phillipines and
our access to Brackett is long term unsure though I believe currently
available.

Fight practice moved from Thursday night to Tuesday night when it left the
Armory.  (Something about Babylon 5 being on Thursday, IIRC).

So the barony is in a position of having to rethink all of it's meetings
more or less concurrently.

I'm Happy to talk more about this, but them's the facts and the rest is
opinions. As I'm not tremendously active right now, I don't wan't to mix
opinions in with the historical background stuff.

Owen




On 15 Aug 2006 pafk0003 at umn.edu wrote:

> This doesn't sound like a bad plan but I'd like to know more about how the 
> combined Baronial and Tor Aerie meetings go in the past? Were there any 
> negative aspects? Also, would we end up switching meeting days to 
> Wednesdays?
> 
> ~Eyja
> 
> 
> >On Aug 15 2006, Dan wrote:
> >
> >> Giovanna sent me this, and I'm passing it on for discussion. I think if 
> >> we take a serious look into it now, we might be able to come up with 
> >> some reasonable options in time to change meetings for spring semester. 
> >> (Yes, this means I'm actually hoping people will talk on the list 
> >> instead of reading something and forgetting about it).
> >>
> >>If people are wondering about the history of Tor Aerie meeting places and 
> >>how it relates to this question, I can post about that later-let me know.
> >>
> >>Laurence
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>Giovanna wrote:
> >>
> >>Hey Laurence,
> >>
> >>   I have a question for you and the gang at Tor Aerie.
> >>
> >>   Nordskogen is planing on meeting at the Middle school again this year, 
> >> mostly because another option was not looked into. I have suggested for 
> >> the past 2 years that another option should be looked into and so I am 
> >> writing you.
> >>
> >>   It feel that the Barony has long outgrown the school and we should 
> >> find another place to meet. When I first started going to Baronial 
> >> meetings, we met at the U at the Armory. I believe that the Barony and 
> >> the Canton met together, but don't quote me. The armory wasn't an ideal 
> >> place either, but we managed to hold armored combat, business meetings, 
> >> dance and general social practice. I think we lost the Armory about 6-8 
> >> years ago (something about the gym floor not being sturdy enough for our 
> >> group). Anyhow, I thought the arrangement of the 2 groups meeting 
> >> together and using the same space made sense and I would like to speak 
> >> to the members of Tor Aerie about forming this relationship again.
> >>
> >>   here are the benefits that could come of this:
> >>   1) we could use a site that is free or low cost somewhere on campus 
> >> (St. Paul campus might be a possiblity)
> >>   2) the heavy combat and rapier could have a reliable practice site 
> >> that is indoors, which could help foster new fighters in Tor Aerie and 
> >> Nordskogen.
> >>   3) having a combined meeting could help new members in Tor Aerie meet 
> >> more established members in the Barony. Baronial members could be 
> >> available to teach classes or hold workshops.
> >>   4) having a weekly meeting where a lot of activities take place could 
> >> free up other nights of the week so people don't have as much time spent 
> >> on SCA stuff.
> >>
> >>   I have presented my idea to Ellen and she thinks it sounds like a good 
> >> idea but also agrees that we are pretty late in the game to go forward 
> >> with the plan at this time. I also did not want to move forward with 
> >> anything until I spoke to the members of Tor Aerie and see what they 
> >> thought of the idea.
> >>
> >>   Please let me know what you think.
> >>
> >>   G
> >>
> >>
> >>
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