[HP4GU-FAQ] How About Progress Reports? & Harry FP, Again

[pennylin]

Hi --

<<<<<<<<On another matter, should I come to any conclusions with regards to the silence on the Harry FP front?  Before OOP, there were four people other then myself who had signed up to this group - Penny, Ali, Dicey and Phyllis.  Are they no longer interested in this FP?  I'd like to know one way or another, so that I can decide if I want to join another group or start work on my own.>>>>>>>>>

I apologize for the silence.  I'd actually been ruminating some on how much, if any, time commitment I want to make.  I think I've concluded that yes, I do still want to make a contribution to the Harry FP, but I need it to be a very manageable chunk.  I've got alot going on in RL.  Abigail, could you possibly post the latest outline version you have on the Harry FP?  This would help me identify which chunk(s) I can commit to working on.

RE: the FAQ List going dark: I too am on individual emails for this group, so wouldn't have noticed this event.  This is, in fact, the only HPFGU list in which I receive individual emails any longer.

Cindy wrote:

<<<<<Nevertheless, that "solo author" system is the system we now have,
more or less.  Heidi is doing a legal issues FAQ.  Eileen and Elkins
have Crouch.  I have Pettigrew.  Penny has Shipping and Hermione and
maybe something else.  Ali has Quidditch.  Dicey has Sirius.  This
leads me to think that folks don't want to work under the House
System, and if not, the argument that we don't need a leader because
the House System will lead us becomes unpersuasive.>>>>>>>>>

:::::Snorts:::::

Yeah, well, I have/had a few more than 3 FPs.  Or, at least, I did initially individually author some 9 FPs before my daughter was born.  The FPs that I wrote that have not been revised or claimed for revision by anyone else are: Hermione, Romance Pairings, JKR, Religion, Universal Appeal of HP and Hogwarts.  I can add Geography to that list based on mine and Steve's Geography presentation at Nimbus.  I substantially expanded the existing Geography FP.  I've already told Steve that he can publish our presentation on the Lexicon, so does that present a copyright issue if the material is duplicated on the FP site, Heidi?  I'm not even sure if Steve would be amenable to it being duplicated .... I'm just asking if it was even possible.

I recently was given very short notice to write up something on Hermione for FAP (thanks, Heidi!  <g>).  I made substantial progress, even with the short time-frame, on updating the Hermione FP to reflect OoP.  However, I didn't consult HPfGU discussions for this update, so if it were desired that I do that, it would take considerably longer for me to update it.  As is, I could send an updated version of Hermione in the next week.  Is the preferred technical protocol for me to upload it as a Word document or use Word's "save as HTML" feature and then upload it?

Steve asked me to do an update on the whole Shipping debates for the Lexicon ...... another copyright question for Heidi would be whether we could duplicate the material over here, assuming Steve was amenable to this.

JKR --- updating it would take about 1 hour max.  She hasn't exactly been granting a lot of interviews in the last 2 years.  She got married, had a baby and earned another multi-million dollars.  <g>

Universal Appeal and Religion ---- updating would probably take *some* amount of time, and I'll try to get to it before year-end.

Hogwarts: I have no desire to continue this FP, as it is very time-consuming.

As for the others that I initially authored, I believe Mysteries and Govt have both been claimed by other individuals or teams.  Correct?

LEADERSHIP -- I mainly have a question.  We had a very .....er.......heated discussion about adding Michelle to this group in August.  Was this issue ever resolved?  Did we want to discuss adding her as a member?  Did we need to discuss protocol and procedure with respect to adding new members in general?  Is Michelle even still interested?

Penny



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