KG minutes August 2007

22/08/07

Present: Tiffany Brown (A&S), Paul Harrison (Constable), Lillian Johnston (Web Mistress), Michele le Bas (Reeve), Conrad Leviston (Marshall), Margaret Rendell (Seneschal), Steve Roylance, Peter Ryan.

Pre-meeting A&S:

Woven buttons (Tiff). Demonstration and provision of materials for people to try it out. Some documentation at http://www.employees.org/~cathy/buttons.html

Officers' Reports

Reeve:

• We have $2981.20, which is the most we've ever had.
• Have paid last year's full $350 tithe
• Will pay this year's full $350 tithe now.
• Term of office as reeve has expired: will hand over to Cathy.
• (the reeve made a button during the meeting)

Web:

• The minutes are up.
• The Tournament of Ivy results are up.
• There was a security issue with sca.org.au and some pages were taken down, but this did not involve any of KG's pages.
• Still having difficulties removing some php code that Sui put up – don't know what it is, password protected, can't remove without password.
• (long discussion of ways of integrating calendars for the multiple Victorian groups, no real conclusion. Lillian will continue interacting with other web/mailing list/calendar maintenance people.)
• (the web mistress made a button during the meeting)

Marshall:

• Friday nights continue.
• Have new fighter come from US, currently getting armour together.
• Tournament of Ivy happened, was good.

Constable:

• No constabulary issues coming out of Tournament of Ivy and Burgundian Feast. Waivers were signed, will be stored.
• (the constable made a button during the meeting)

A&S:

• Look, look, people are making buttons!
• (the a&s officer did not make a button, as she had loaned out all her needles to other people to make buttons)
• September Wednesday night meeting: there will be a debate between CL and PR, topic to be determined. Will advertise.
• Upcoming A&S topics for meetings/workshop days – handmade eyelets, brick oven making, photographic portraiture of people in their best garb.
• The next library display is Wheelers Hill in October.

Seneschal:

• Temporary changes of meeting venues – September workshop day (conflicts with rattan symposium) will be at Michele's. Tailors' Guild (Saturday 25/8) at Margaret & Rob's.
• MR put up hand on KG's behalf for group ownership of the industrial sewing machine found by Baron Rodrigo of Stormhold. Will need to work out issues of location and accountability of it as a group asset. (Reeve will write up assets register, go on website)

Event Report

Tournament of Ivy and Burgundian Feast

In spite of not great luck with weather, event was highly enjoyable. If similar event repeated, would be better later in the year (also avoids flu season). 48 attendees at feast, small loss of $54. Loss might have been avoided if had been more strict about taking payments with booking – people booked (even in the week before the event), did not pay, and did not turn up.

Upcoming Events

Soirees

Preparing documentation to ask for bids for menus. Out soon.

Summer Twilight Tourney Series

Competition stuff for 07/08 is now up on the web pages: comments requested.

Ice Skating in Garb

This suggestion by Tiff (who's been watching too much Orlando) was warmly received. Tiff will organize a date and advertise, no other real organization necessary.

Sewing Workshops

Michele would like to run a series of sewing workshops on specific topics including guest experts). After discussion, tending towards thinking this would be better run under the auspices of Tailors' Guild rather than KG.

Themed Tournament/Feast Reprise

Conrad would like to reprise the tournament-and-feast idea next year, later in the year. Sue would like to do a feast Germany circa 1200 and do a Knight-and-the-Swan soteltie: this would link in well with a ‘Parseval' themed tourney. Possibly September 08?