Bright Idea (Duck!) (was RE: Re: pennsicdance: Planning Dance at Pennsic )

[Greg Lindahl]

> Rhetorical question: if you were a 16th century denizen of London (for
> example), what would you call a group of people

I hate to break it to you, but the main object of a 16th century guild
was to raise the price for something by making it rare. Many people in
the SCA believe that SCA guilds tend to turn as many people off as
they inspire. I have no interest in being in any guild.

We had the same discussion earlier, when you proposed a committee, and
others pointed out we didn't need one.

> (1) We know, from previous lengthy discussion on sca-dance, that there
> are people who would teach, but don't feel confident enough to put
> themselves forward.

This doesn't take a guild. That just takes mentoring volunteers. I
expect the nightly volunteers for next year wil be encouraging such
people.

> (2) A guild can have institutional memory, persistence from Pennsic to
> Pennsic, and possibly learn from it's mistakes.

We already do that.

-- gb


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