Okay. was Plea

[Amanda Geist]

Jo said:

> Can we please, please, *please* just stop this?  Now?

I'm up for that.

> If anyone has any tangible suggestions for how I can begin working
> on the Weasley FAQ, please email me off-list.

No, really, if it has come to the pass where FAQ members are doing their FAQ
posting offlist to make room for the nonFAQ stuff, that's beyond bizarre.

So. FAQstuff.

I saw the polls up asking which of the four FAQs we should work on, or
something. Were those concluded? Who are the team leads for  those four, and
what's the status?

Will Pip or whichever MEG it was who posted to MEG about the notice, try to
follow up and see if they said yes yet?

Didn't someone have proposed text for the message? Can we have comments?

At the risk of frightening everyone with that four-letter word "poll," can I
set one up to get a take on everyone's thoughts about doing FAQ volumes?
I.e., volume 1 = theorizing and thoughts through Book 4 (basically what's
already up); volume 2 = theorizing and thoughts about Book 5 (what we'll be
working on); etc. This seemed a good way to retain all that old thought; let
it stay as a snapshot of what people thought then, and preserve the work and
writing to that point.

What else; Oh, on gathering post nominations:

Did the notice that someone drafted have instructions in it? I don't recall;
we'll need to be telling listmembers *how* to nominate, as well as
requesting input.

And about the alternate nomination method, a main list database: can another
MEG post to MEG and ask about permission to set up a database for FAQ-worthy
post nominations? I have no idea how list size and memory stuff and all that
work; we need the minds on MEG who do, to tell us if this is feasible.

So, what size of sample do we wait to get before we start..? And do we keep
refining the Volume II FAQs up until Book 6 comes out? Bring me up to speed,
guys.

That's all I can think of. I summarize and organize pretty well, but I don't
have a lot of time to actually *do* stuff, so there will be suggestions and
ideas from me more than actual bookwork. Apologies. Full-time working mom
with three kids, 8, 7, and 4. Also a TechnoSquib. Alas.

~Amanda