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herveusHowdy!
There's two parts here. First is the announcement of Virtual Heralds Point, in which you can make that (those?) heraldic submission(s) you've been sitting on because COVID or "I have to write a check?". Second is my personal bits of coolness.
The announcement:
From Dame Marie de Blois on behalf of Dame Lillia de Vaux, Virtual Heralds Point coordinator:
The SCA College of Arms will be hosting a Virtual Heralds Point beginning on Sunday, 24 Jan 2021, and ending 14 Feb 2021.
Are you in need of heraldic consultation for names, devices, badges, household names, etc? This Virtual Heralds Point can help.
You'll be paired up with a herald for the consultation and do the consult via any compatible contact - email, Facebook, Zoom, etc - so that it can be live or asynchronous as needed. The herald working with you will have other heralds to lean on for advice; we also have processes for senior heralds to doublecheck things after your consult and before final approval, so the entire process may take a few days to complete from beginning to end.
As an extra bonus, for this Virtual Heralds Point only, we will be able to accept electronic payments via PayPal invoicing. The cost per item will be as usual for your kingdom.
Sign up to request a consult here: http://heraldry.sca.org/heraldspoint/
Additionally, if you are willing to assist with this effort by being a consulting herald or a heraldic artist, we would be glad to have you! We need both name and armory heralds, and both by-hand and digital artists are welcome.
If you are familiar with the forms program and processes used at Pennsic, you'll be very familiar with the program and processes we are using for this Virtual Heralds Point (and it's been updated and improved by Istvan). If you are not yet familiar with them, we will be happy to get you up to speed on them with user guides, checklists, and Zoom training as needed.
Sign up to be a consulting herald or artist here: http://heraldry.sca.org/heraldspoint/
As this is a new thing, and we haven't tried it out yet, there may be a few snags as we figure out the best ways of managing everything remotely. Please be patient as we work out the bugs.
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Second: Having been to Korea on business enough times to have experienced all the seasons and having developed an affection for Korea and things Korean, I jumped at the chance to acquire a copy of a book that listed names from the Goryeo period (900s into 1400s). Given the evidence in the 13th century of an Englishman writing of his travel to Korea, the time range in the SCA for Korean names is pushed back to the 13th century. I have a spreadsheet with the data from the book, and it's currently filtered on 13-14c. And I've used it to help document Korean name submissions quite successfully.
I was approached by someone to assist a submitter with getting their Korean name submitted. As it happens, the name appears to be unremarkable for 13-14c Korea, and is probably unremarkable from several hundred years earlier all the way to today. But that's not surprising.
Instead of simply giving the submitter the documentation to put in the submission, I steered her to the Virtual Heralds Point. She signed up and asked for me to be her herald (and I covered that angle from the other side). We chatted in FB and I showed her the writeup for the Korean name and the English name she had tried to submit several years ago (paperwork black hole). Both were simple and fine names, and to put the cherry on top, her submission was the first one to get all the way through to payment, beating out something from Ansteorra by about half an hour.
Am I kvelling a bit? You bet. Is it silly to do so? Of course. But I can only be honest about it.
There's two parts here. First is the announcement of Virtual Heralds Point, in which you can make that (those?) heraldic submission(s) you've been sitting on because COVID or "I have to write a check?". Second is my personal bits of coolness.
The announcement:
From Dame Marie de Blois on behalf of Dame Lillia de Vaux, Virtual Heralds Point coordinator:
The SCA College of Arms will be hosting a Virtual Heralds Point beginning on Sunday, 24 Jan 2021, and ending 14 Feb 2021.
Are you in need of heraldic consultation for names, devices, badges, household names, etc? This Virtual Heralds Point can help.
You'll be paired up with a herald for the consultation and do the consult via any compatible contact - email, Facebook, Zoom, etc - so that it can be live or asynchronous as needed. The herald working with you will have other heralds to lean on for advice; we also have processes for senior heralds to doublecheck things after your consult and before final approval, so the entire process may take a few days to complete from beginning to end.
As an extra bonus, for this Virtual Heralds Point only, we will be able to accept electronic payments via PayPal invoicing. The cost per item will be as usual for your kingdom.
Sign up to request a consult here: http://heraldry.sca.org/heraldspoint/
Additionally, if you are willing to assist with this effort by being a consulting herald or a heraldic artist, we would be glad to have you! We need both name and armory heralds, and both by-hand and digital artists are welcome.
If you are familiar with the forms program and processes used at Pennsic, you'll be very familiar with the program and processes we are using for this Virtual Heralds Point (and it's been updated and improved by Istvan). If you are not yet familiar with them, we will be happy to get you up to speed on them with user guides, checklists, and Zoom training as needed.
Sign up to be a consulting herald or artist here: http://heraldry.sca.org/heraldspoint/
As this is a new thing, and we haven't tried it out yet, there may be a few snags as we figure out the best ways of managing everything remotely. Please be patient as we work out the bugs.
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Second: Having been to Korea on business enough times to have experienced all the seasons and having developed an affection for Korea and things Korean, I jumped at the chance to acquire a copy of a book that listed names from the Goryeo period (900s into 1400s). Given the evidence in the 13th century of an Englishman writing of his travel to Korea, the time range in the SCA for Korean names is pushed back to the 13th century. I have a spreadsheet with the data from the book, and it's currently filtered on 13-14c. And I've used it to help document Korean name submissions quite successfully.
I was approached by someone to assist a submitter with getting their Korean name submitted. As it happens, the name appears to be unremarkable for 13-14c Korea, and is probably unremarkable from several hundred years earlier all the way to today. But that's not surprising.
Instead of simply giving the submitter the documentation to put in the submission, I steered her to the Virtual Heralds Point. She signed up and asked for me to be her herald (and I covered that angle from the other side). We chatted in FB and I showed her the writeup for the Korean name and the English name she had tried to submit several years ago (paperwork black hole). Both were simple and fine names, and to put the cherry on top, her submission was the first one to get all the way through to payment, beating out something from Ansteorra by about half an hour.
Am I kvelling a bit? You bet. Is it silly to do so? Of course. But I can only be honest about it.
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Date: 2021-02-03 10:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-02-04 04:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-02-04 07:40 am (UTC)I was wondering if your Korea trips had turned into SCA-relevant expertise; glad to hear that working so well.
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Date: 2021-02-04 05:26 pm (UTC)VHP is a Laurel activity, not any particular kingdom.
Based on how this is going, one can reasonably expect this to be a recurring thing, although episodic, not permanent. The software is effectively in a public beta phase, and there have been bug fixes and enhancements. Staffing the VHP is not trivial.
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Date: 2021-02-07 03:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-02-07 01:15 pm (UTC)