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Here's a too-detailed list of the heraldry projects I've got on my docket at the moment. I'm putting it here for accountability, as much as anything else, and so I can look back at it later when I've finished all of them.

(This list doesn't include the usual consults and commentary arguments in varying stages of completion, because those are constant.)

Personal projects:

  • Write up the research I did for my name into an article on Czech byname patterns.
    • probably also do more research to flesh this out some; I mostly only did enough research to justify the name I wanted, and there are more patterns than just the ones I used. Possibly just split this into an article series instead of a single one, because otherwise it'll never see the light of day.
    • submit this to Palimpsest for an edit to SENA Appendix A
  • Pull out dated lists of Czech given names and bynames from the sources I already have.
    • names (given, byname, construction) in Vepřeková
    • names (given, byname, construction) in Štefková
    • names in the 1526 parliamentary records ETC gave me last summer
    • dated names in Moldová
  • Write up a thing about Czech orthography in period so that we don't have to have the "did they use diacritics, and if so, which ones" conversation every single time anymore.
  • Write up a thing evaluating the various Czech sources I have so far and their relative usefulness for SCA purposes.
  • Copy out the intro to Moldová's Naše Příjmení so I can run it through Google Translate and have a better sense of whether this is a useful resource even for the bynames that she doesn't provide dates for.
  • Research alternate titles in Czech.
    • talk to Ursula and ffride about how best to go about this, since they've done some recently
  • Write handouts/blogposts for the two classes I've already got written.
  • Get the Heraldry Myths Debunked class into teachable shape.
  • Get the How to SENA class into teachable shape.
  • Put together an SCA resume.
  • Pick a couple of emblazons to toss up onto the What's My Blazon group, to try and breathe some life back into it.
  • Go through the EK wiki category "no heraldry" and pull from OSCAR as possible.
  • Do up a small banner of my device, and possibly also one of my device marshalled with my partner's, before the next camping event.
  • Do up an emblazon of the unregisterable joke badge that goes with my Imaginary title (Checky ermine and pean mailly counterchanged).
  • Clean up my documentation/resources folder, because yikes.

Golden Gryphon projects for the Barony of Carolingia:

  • Carolingia roll of arms project
    • Remove unregistered armory from the dataset.
    • Get updates from the Liber editor for changes since I last pulled the data a year and a half ago, and pull blazons for the new data.
    • Determine what needs new emblazons, and split that workload with Richard.
    • Data entry into both Justin's database and the wiki.
    • Write up the process for keeping this maintained.
  • Finish writing process documentation for the Golden Gryphon office.
  • Finish populating the office Drive with useful and relevant resources.
  • Compare the Carolingia order lists against the EK OP, verify with the principals of the orders, and update Shepherd's Crook with the discrepancies.
...and I still feel like there's at least one project missing. 



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  1. Greg TremblayMarch 7, 2021 at 7:45 PM

    That's a whack of projects! I'm glad you'll have plenty to keep you going. :)

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