SCA membership

[dsrtao]

My membership in the SCA expires this summer. I'm thinking about not renewing it.

The cons: I would not be allowed to be an officer, including running events. Each event I attended would be $3 more expensive.

The pros: I would make SCA, Inc., a tiny bit unhappy.

Comments

[malvinareynolds.livejournal.com]

erm, can't help it, gotta ask:

am not following why you think the corp. would notice or care? you matter to us, but not to them. not in the least.

conversely, the corp. is utterly irrelevent to the participants, as far as I am concerned. The macrocosm is made up of things I cannot change and is mostly nto worth my energy to notice. The microcosm is made up of my "village" where I CAN effect change and is very much worth my effort.

thoughts?

hugs,
-N

[dsrtao]

You know, if one person, just one person does it they may think he's
really sick and they won't take him. And if two people, two people do
it, in harmony, they may think they're both faggots and they won't
take either of them. And three people do it, three, can you imagine,
three people walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking
out. They may think it's an organization. And can you, can you imagine
fifty people a day,I said fifty people a day walking in singin a bar of
Alice's Restaurant and walking out. And friends they may thinks it's a
movement.

Or I could be sensible.

[jducoeur]

Just a specific note: while the Corp doesn't care in the individual, it does in the aggregate. The SCA, Inc is losing money -- at the moment, a *lot* of money. They're not panicking yet (a nice change of pace), but it would be accurate to say that they are Deeply Concerned, especially about the fact that membership numbers are steadily dropping. They're casting about for solutions at the moment.

My only real comment to DSR, therefore, is that *if* he were to decide not to re-up, it should be accompanied by a polite note to the Board about why. At the moment, it's way too easy for them to speculate arbitrarily about the cause of the trend -- some actual information, even if anecdotal, would provide a little more reality...