Reaction to Jousting League website announcement

Comments on the new Jousting League website have been favorable, citing its professional look and quick access to tabulated standings for jousts.

Future plans include expanded information and features beneficial to the general jousting community.

If you have suggestions or wish to provide information, contact:

joustingleage@gmail.com

REACTION BY UNITED JOUSTERS

The UJ was swift to react to UJ member Forester Lowenhart's notice in the UJ group announcing the Jousting League website and the included notecard appealing for UJ and SLTA groups to work together.

To review notice see Medieval Herald Blog: 'Jousting League is online!' March 4, 2014

The following day, the United Jousters called for a secret session closed to general membership:

Special Meeting Notice

Wed 05 Mar 2014 14:22:30

United Jousters

Special Meeting (Closed Session) - 3/5/2014

4:00 PM SLT at Stillwater Estate Tiltyard

Jordan, Nyza, and Cesta have asked that a special meeting be called today to address some recent concerns which are to remain confidential. 4 members of the Committee are needed to have a quorum. Committee Members can vote by proxy (IM). It has been asked that the meeting be closed session (not be open to the public). If the agenda is not approved, the meeting cannot be held.

As a result of the meeting, notice rights that were originally granted to all members were revoked and limited to certain roles within the UJ organization. This made it impossible for many group members to promote their events.

Groups profile (at right) grants all members the right to send notices.

REVOKING MEMBER RIGHTS The UJ has been a staunch critic of groups which do not provide an open democratic forum to all members and heralded it as a primary reason for the formulation of its group.

No reason was given for this change, or why the democratic process is applied selectively without membership debate.

UPDATE 3/15/2014:

A subsequent notice was sent by the UJ Leader proposing permissions remain limited to certain roles. It called for 'unanimous approval... with no objections'.

3/14/14 message

*** IMPORTANT ***

Committee Members:

I have been giving a lot of thought to what notices we allow to be sent in the group.

Going by the original intent/charter of the group I propose the following:

1. We leave the premissions to send notices as they are now only Team Captains, Staff,

Officials, Officers, Committee Member's, and Affiliates can send notices.

2. If a team captain has a joust sponsored by another group (i.e. SLTA intersim) that

team captain may put a notice in the UJ group.

3. In addition the results of the joust can be included in the UJ records and the points

will be included in the points system.

This follows the original charter of the group and I would like unanimous approval

of this at best or a majority agreement at the least.

In addition this is already part of our charter so I do not expect any objections!

The intent of this notice is that I don't want to hear any drama if one of our captains

wants to send a notice.

-Capt

UPDATE 1/2016:

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