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Pegasus is the Official Newsletter
of the Kingdom of Lochac, of the Society for Creative Anachronism Inc. It
is available to subscribing members of the SCA.
Pegasus can be accessed electronically by subscribing members at the
Registry.
The Pegasus Editor is Annabel de Swinburne.
Australian subscriptions are $AUS45 per year from:
Registrar, c/o SCAA - Office of the Registrar, 29 Redbank Road, Redcliffe QLD 4020
registrar@sca.org.au
New Zealand subscriptions are $NZ40 per year from:
Registrar, 179 Pembroke Rd, Wilton, Wellington
registrar@sca.org.nz
Membership forms are published in every second Pegasus, or are available online from:
(Australia) http://www.sca.org.au/committee/index.php/standard/61, or
(New Zealand) http://www.sca.org.nz/membership.html
All subscription problems should be sent to the above addresses. Do not send changes of membership address to the Chronicler!
Pegasus copy MUST be received by the TENTH of the month prior to the month you want your copy to appear (e.g., deadline for JUNE Pegasus is May 10th). Send all Pegasus copy to pegasus@sca.org.au. Please have a descriptive subject header to distinguish from spam.
If you would like to submit articles or artwork for Pegasus please contact the Pegasus Editor for size details, format etc. As a guideline Officer reports are requested to be no longer than 500 words if possible. Please include a written statement of permission to publish, dated and signed for all original work. PDFs cannot be directly inserted, so please send material as separate text and images. Please do not send scanned copies of handwritten event notices, as they are difficult to read.
Advertising rates are $30, $20 or $15 for a full, half or quarter A5 page, $7 to reprint a business card (rates in $AU). Larger size advertisement rates upon application on a case by case basis.
Prices are for publication-ready ads (i.e. ads MUST be formatted for an A5 page) on a space-available basis. Payment must arrive in advance of printing. Make cheques payable to "SCA Pegasus." Specify month(s) for publication. Paid adverts from outside Australia please contact the Pegasus Editor for arrangements. Pegasus has a readership of approximately 500.
Kingdom Events (Investitures; Crown Tourneys) are entitled to up to three (3) full page advertisements at no charge. Event notices are published in the Calendar and Coming Events section for free.
Official articles from Society Officers and event notices in Pegasus may be reprinted without special permission in newsletters and other publications of branches of the SCA. Rights for illustrations and other articles remain with their authors. For information on reprinting articles and artwork from this publication, please contact the Pegasus Editor (pegasus@sca.org.au), who will assist you in contacting the original creator of the piece. Please respect the legal rights of our contributors.
In this document you will find a record of all awards recorded in Pegasus between March 2004 and August 6 2006 -- as a 131KB PDF or as a 175KB Word document.
Reports from group Chroniclers are due to be submitting to the Kingdom Chronicler by:
Are you a group Chronicler? Join the Lochac Chroniclers Email list!
Are you a Webscribe? Join the Lochac Webministers Email list!
Read about the Golden Quill prize for Webscribes in Lochac. The judging criteria used when it was first awarded may come in handy if you are looking for ways to improve your own group's website.
Below is a slight adaptation of the job description for the Southron Gaard Webwright. It may be a useful basis for considering any webscribe position, whether for a group, guild or office. The important thing to remember is that the job essentially revolves around communication, not technology or design. Special technical or design skills can often be brought as needed in for particular projects, but the need to obtain and communicate useful and timely information is a constant!
In charge of creating and updating Baronial Web pages and mail redirections and pro-actively keeping Baronial communications and information flowing smoothly.
Capabilities in Website page creation, HTML, graphics manipulation, FTP and associated site management, associated computer/email support and an excellent sense for both acquisition and rapid turnaround of useful information.
Monthly updating of the Baronial Website and addition of new material as required, especially for the calendar, so it is always as current as possible. Notifications to email lists as required, picking up information from other people's notices or comments and adding to online calendar or special pages. Typically around three or four hours a month unless you embark on a major update or expansion of some kind.
Active monitoring of local email lists is essential, wider (e.g. Kingdom) lists very desirable. Twice-annual checking/reporting of page visit statistics and numbers subscribed to local email lists desirable.
Webwright is a sub-officer of Chronicler so should provide a Web-related summary for their quarterly report; Council attendance strongly encouraged to keep up-to-date with proposed events for calendar.
These will vary over time and may be initiated by you, officers, special groups or Council. Significant examples in recent years have been:
The single most useful technical thing you can remember is to obfuscate email addresses so "spambots" are far less likely to harvest them. NEVER put a plain myaddress@somewhere.com in the HTML (including in mailto: statements). Instead, put myaddress@somewhere.com. The browser will still handle it fine, but most spambots will miss it.
Oh, and put this link somewhere on your main pages...
Suggestions and comments should be sent to the Kingdom Webwright.