Report Snippet: January
A couple of notes to show that I’m not asleep:
- I put the wrong start date in the calendar for the Baronial Meeting. It doesn’t start until the last Wednesday of next month, not this month. Fixed now. If you were planning to show up to Copland G030 at the ANU tonight for the meeting, nobody will be there. The actual venue won’t be known until the Baron and Baroness get back from Canterbury Faire in NZ and can negotiate a new year’s deal with the ANU for a meeting room.
- I’m working on the events design I wrote about in my last post. Currently I’m trudging through the date-specification logic, reusing as much of my old code as I can but adding new capabilities. This morning’s achievement: it handles exceptions, so I can tell it something like “last Wednesday of the month, except January” and it knows what I mean. The specification is solid and I don’t think there are any remaining hurdles; I just need a couple more days to get it running.
- My Deputy had an attack of life, as is traditional when you take on any SCA office but especially this one for some reason. She pinged me yesterday to say she’s recovered now and will be at work on content improvement shortly.
- Most officers aren’t using their blogs, I notice. I’ll have a chat with some of them privately to find out what I can do to help, and also with the Seneschal to see how he’d like to see reporting improved generally. I must admit it would be nice to see some snaps of the B&B’s trip to the eastern states on their blog, so we can go ooh and aah over pictures of sheep and gorse bushes and exceptionally well-dressed Lochacians with funny accents.