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<span>Building off of Greg's conclusions, I would support spending the money in pursuit of good events. I would glady support comping a Duke or 7 to get them to come to Grand Tourney, and imagine the dancers feel the same way. Following the same path, I would imagine that in short order the event in question would gain great prestige and well exceed the cost of the "seed money".</span>
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<span>Best,</span>
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On September 13, 2011 at 4:09 PM Greg Less <greg.less@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi All-
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> I certainly understand reduced/comped site fees for non-SCA members and or
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> specially invited guests of honor. These should be considered in the cost of
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> the event as, at least ostensibly, these guests would increase the renown of
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> the barony and be part of the attraction to the event.
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> When we extend this courtesy to anyone who is teaching/performing however,
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> it strikes me that we are in essence paying certain members of the Society
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> to partake in the hobby, while asking other members to subsidize their fun.
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> That being said, it could be that Terpsichore is the exception to the rule
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> and the event would suffer if we changed our site fee policy. If that is the
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> case, and I certainly hope that it wouldn't be, the group would need to
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> decide which is more important, a few dollars or a great event.
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> Respectfully,
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> -Gregoire.
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> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Elaine Cohen <elainec@comcast.net> wrote:
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> > For what it's worth my impression was that a primary reason for the reduced
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> > fee for teachers and musicians for Terpsichore was an incentive to get
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> > non-local and/or non-SCA people to fill these rolls for this event. A
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> > result of that non-local member talent is that we end up with a more diverse
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> > class list (which draws more people here) and a reputation for a fantastic
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> > dance band (which we have achieved). We may want to keep that in mind if we
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> > make changes to the policy or craft a general policy for all Cynnabar
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> > events. We may have greater expectations that local members will work at
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> > events without such a discount, acting in the hosting roll.
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> > Alina
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