Brainstorming Organizational Issues and What Are We?

[abigailnus]

Nothing new here, just a bunch of 'me too's.  I agree with Tom and 
Cindy's thoughts on organizing the group's efforts, and I think the 
prefix idea is a very good one.  I, for one, think team names are a 
great idea, and I don't mind being a Slytherin or a Hufflepuff (after 
all, according to both online sorting hats I belong in Hufflepuff so 
Slytherin would in certain ways be an improvement).  A little 
inter-house competition probably wouldn't be a bad idea.

As for the fate of the soon-to-be 'classic' FAQs, I agree with 
Derannimer that it seems a bit unfair to seal them when in fact we 
haven't written so many of them, but that is the situation as it 
stands.  I think it only makes sense that when we write new FAQs, 
we write them from the perspective of OOP, which means that if 
we discover definitively in OOP that Harry is the Heir of Gryffindor, 
the rest of the theories regarding him shouldn't go in the FAQ.

What we might want to consider, though, is a dead theories 
basement - a place for good theories that were proven wrong.  It 
would provide an interesting historical perspective, and who knows, 
some of those theories might be rehashed into new forms.  We 
might write in this hypothetical Harry FP that 'the group advanced 
theories A,B and C to explain Harry's importance, and in OOP we 
learned that B was the correct one', where A and C would point to 
the dead theoris segment of the FP, and only B would be expanded 
on.

Tom, if you look on the upper or lower right corners of the group 
message index you'll see that we've only used up 1% of our alloted 
space.  I wouldn't worry about list volume getting out of hand.  After 
all, most of us manage to make heads and tails out of the main group, 
which has 7000+ members and dozens, if not hundreds, of posts a 
day, so a 40-member, weekly update group shouldn't be a problem.  
(By the way, Tom, was that you who said that he now reads two 
groups?  Does that mean you don't read OT-Chatter?  I really 
recommend it if you don't.)

In closing, I've had a potentially unpleasant thought.  Like several other respondanats 
to this thread, I would also like to work on the Harry FP, but now I've been wondering 
what happens if too many people want to work on a certain designated FP and not on 
any of the others.  I know, I'm just stirring up trouble with this, but I suspect the 
question will come up.

Abigail
Late for class.