(Not necessarily in order of priority, but the order they occur to me.)
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1. The scheduling of events: We've made a deliberate effort over the past 
several years, and still we seem stuck with a boom-and-bust cycle.  This 
makes it harder for us to retain new members ("Events are what it's all 
about; our next one is four and a half months away, and it's not a typical 
event") and for other groups to schedule around us (like one or two years ago 
when between Festival of Storytelling, Legends of Chivalry, and Falling 
Leaves Carolingia basically booked the month of September), and most 
important, makes it harder for us to put our best effort into every event and 
still have fun.  I would get us onto a more evenly paced calendar if I could.
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2.  More cross-communication and interaction between groups: I am concerned 
by the tendency for some guilds (and other activity-based groups) to turn 
inward, to turn their participants into specialists.  To a very real extent 
it's a natural consequence of factors which themselves are good things: 
having so very many activities going on, each being done at such a high level 
of proficiency.  No one can do *everything*, and doing your own thing takes 
so much time.  But it comes at a cost in community and fellowship, and if I 
could change the cost without losing the benefit, I would.
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3.  Recognition of achievement: There are more Carolingians than ever doing 
more cool stuff than ever, and our means of recognizing them are not keeping 
up.  I want to find more ways of showing the barony's appreciation of the 
things that make us so great.  See the question on the awards system for 
fuller development of this theme.
