Local Events Merits

[Leese Sulan]

This is pretty much just a tedious question, but I'm still curious. For the local events merits, do the events *have* to be announced and planned in the local events forum? For example, the Toronto Tower peeps have gathered together several times, but we tend to not use the Local Events forums for it because we never really check it, and we've found other forms of social media such as texting and facebook to be better suited for spreading the word to each other and planning such things.

I imagine the point is that administration would prefer to see the thread as proof we planned and gathered for it, but what if we are gathering and just find making the thread to be of no benefit towards our planning? And then, if this is acceptable, how in turn should we prove that we gathered together? There may only be a few of us in Toronto, but I feel like it deserves some kind of credit that we make the effort to get together, with some people traveling from other cities to come join in.


Thanks in advance.

 

[Sonea Ilandred]

My personal take would be yes it needs to be in Local Events, otherwise you're a group of friends getting together who happened to have met via the Tower. We Brits get together without using the boards and I wouldn't expect those events to be counted. By using Local Events it also allows anyone new or visiting to attend so works with the Tower mentality a bit better.

I'll double check but my gut says if it's not on the boards it doesn't count.

 

[Kelgan al'Moranwin]

That said, even posting a thread that says nothing more than "get together at date/time x, PM so-and-so for details" should correct for that.

 

[Sonea Ilandred]

I wouldn’t want that to be accepted practise as it undermines the point in the merit and the community value of having a Local Events forum. The posts should at least contain all the details of the when where and mostly who – not refer people to PM.

 

[Serenla Tamowith]

Yes it has to be posted in Local Events and yes it has to be open for general Tower Members to count.



(The Atlanta crew gets together all the time too, organized off site and it doesn't count for merits.)

 

[Toral Delvar]

The Michigan people sometimes do that as well. I'm sure it happens in most places. We also have more open things, such as the Ren Fair

 

[Yelenia Hylraren]

The object is - for a local event to truly be a local event that counts for merit, it needs to be open to everyone. A post on the boards with the details facilitates that.

 

[Serenla Tamowith]

Exactly.

 

[Lireina ni Dormerus t'al`Bearach]

Yup- I've done lots of those, which is how I actually earned my merit, but we do also have events on occasion that we plan outside the boards, even though they involve Tower folks.