As mentioned earlier in another thread, the house rule that grogs get 30 xp per year applies only to non-specialist grogs who have been statted out completely. This means that it's still up in the air how specialists at Mons Electi, or characters who aren't fully statted, advance.
I'd like to propose that those characters get 15 xp per year, that can be allocated however we want on a yearly basis. In other words, abstract annual advancement instead of seasonal advancement.
For characters that are simply not fully statted, I doubt this is that controversial (although let me know). For specialists, I don't know if Jonathan had something different in mind...? And I would certainly want to hear any objections or counterproposals where workshop-workers (Pierre Legris, Rashid, and their helpers) are concerned, since the workshops themselves are updated seasonally.
Thanks for your input all around.