From the Editor: Mathurin’s Retirement

It is time for me to retire from The Falcon Banner.

Mistress Sofya la Rus will be maintaining the site, and Mistress Dorcas Whitecap will continue the court reports.

I would like to see someone continue the In Memoriam articles, reposting kingdom news from Facebook, and miscellaneous items from SCA Announcements. These can certainly be different people. If you are interested in taking on one or more of these roles, please message or email me to discuss.

Mathurin Kerbusso

Non nobis solum

From the Editor: Feed the Wiki!

Printer, 1568 by Jost Amman

It has been a busy day here at the Falcon Banner.

Covering Queen’s Prize 2019, with the help of Nesscia and Dorcas, has been a great joy. Hopefully we provided those of you who could not make it a taste of the wonderful work that was presented. And those of you who were busy judging, being judged or attending meetings, got to see some of what you missed.

In any article, we link folks’ names to their persona page at the Calontiri Wiki.  This is our sister web site that is the loving labor of Mistress Sofya la Rus. Sofya provides a personal page for all Calontiri to show their beautiful faces, their arms, their interests and accomplishments.  These pages can be a much more detailed picture of folks than the official op.calontir.org or armorial.calontir.org, not to take anything away from those important resources.

I know my old brain really appreciates it when I can look people up in the Wiki and put a face to the name. How about you?

But, it is in the nature of a wiki that it requires community participation. That means, you need to fill in your own page — or fill in friends pages for them — in order for it to work.

Sofya has written articles on how to do this, but it is pretty simple:

  1. Email Sofya at sofya@heraldshill.org to set up your page and/or account. Sometimes pages are set up already, in which case
  2. Go to the Basic Instructions page and follow the instructions to add text, photos, arms to the page you want to edit
  3. Edit to your heart’s desire, save it, and the Kingdom will rejoice!

I strongly encourage everyone to take the time to make sure they have a page that reflects them. Why not do it today?

Mathurin