From pennylin at swbell.net Wed Jan 7 15:16:07 2004 From: pennylin at swbell.net (pennylin) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 09:16:07 -0600 Subject: We're cited ..... and some thoughts & questions Message-ID: <069201c3d531$2d492cf0$4f5ffea9@cq5hs01> Hi all -- Invigorated by the New Year, I'm trying to step back into normal life again. One of my goals in this New Year is to at least update some of the FPs that I wrote lo so many years ago now. Turns out this is a pretty worthwhile goal, as I just finished a book entitled "Faith Journey through Fantasy Lands" by Russell Dalton, and he cites the Religion FAQ of HP4GU in his footnotes. So, I have renewed interest in updating some of these FPs that I wrote, but, being badly out of touch with HP4GU in general, I have some questions about how to best go about this. 1. The whole Enchilada ----- this resource covers how many posts starting August 2001 when we switched over from the Yahoo Clubs to egroups? Did we just get up to 30,000 or did we go beyond that? 2. For posts that aren't yet covered in the Whole Enchilada, I suppose I'm left with the Yahoogroups search function. Yes? :::groans:::: 3. If I just do a revised version in Word, using the original Word version I still have on my computer and revising from there, are there techie people still subbed to this group who could take that and HTML and otherwise magically cause it to be uploaded to our FPs site? I would still like to help out with the Harry FP, though I think I will edge back into things by trying to revise some of these earlier FPs. I think I mentioned that I did a post-OOP Hermione summary over on FA that will substantially update the Hermione FP, even if I haven't yet taken a look at any of the Hermione discussions that have occurred on HP4GU. Which I guess is another question: would it be worthwhile for me to update say the Hermione FP without reference to the HP4GU discussions and then spend the time to comb through HP4GU messages to update it further, or should I only do one massive update, no matter how long that might take? Hope everyone is doing well! Penny From joyw at gwu.edu Thu Jan 8 18:58:05 2004 From: joyw at gwu.edu (- Joy -) Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 13:58:05 -0500 Subject: We're cited ..... and some thoughts & questions References: <1073531311.554.9526.m12@yahoogroups.com> Message-ID: <111501c3d619$5974a910$92288c45@Joy> Penny wrote: <> I would be more than happy to take care of that kind of techie stuff. ~Joy~ From elfundeb at comcast.net Wed Jan 28 12:27:50 2004 From: elfundeb at comcast.net (elfundeb) Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 07:27:50 -0500 Subject: ADMIN Sent on Behalf of Abigail: A Proposal Message-ID: <002a01c3e59a$2558b280$5902a8c0@Belkin> Because Abigail is overwhelmed with RL at the moment, I am sending this message on her behalf as FAQ liaison: Dear Members of FAQ, As you've all no doubt noticed, FAQ has faded into silence in the weeks since our most recent unpleasantness. We feel that perhaps enough time has passed, and we're being nudged by list members wanting to know why the FPs haven't yet been updated. As Tom pointed out, the recent resignations have left several FP teams unmanned or undermanned. Other teams which still have nominal members are stuck in neutral. It is time to make a coherent plan of action. Even if all of you take on a new FP or update, it's clear that we don't have enough hands to get the project done in a timely manner. In light of that constraint, a number of us have come up with a proposal to find the needed manpower that we'd like to put before you. Instead of selecting good posters and inviting them to join the team, let's ask for volunteers, and let them select which FPs they'd like to work on. There are good reasons to make this a volunteer project -- it would get back to the project's roots, since the first FPs were written by volunteers. And even more importantly, there are many enthusiastic and talented members whom we would inevitably overlook if we undertook to select candidates. We will provide guidelines for how to write FPs, as well as a list of specific resources (such as the Enchilada). We envision that volunteers would choose which FPs they would like to work on. If each volunteer is working on a topic that interests them, they're likely to put more energy into the project, and the FPs that get written will be the ones the members want most. If more than one person is interested in the same FP, then they can split up the work as they see fit. While membership of this list would still be by invitation, we would generally allow anyone who expresses interest to join, as long as they've been active on the list for a sufficient period of time to have a good feel for the list and its culture. The leaders of the project (who will be drawn from among the list elves, reflecting the fact that Fantastic Post is an HPFGU project) will function as the "go to" people if the team members have problems or issues, and will monitor the progress of the FP project and its component parts. What would be the drawbacks? Would we get volunteers who don't write well? Probably, but we already have good editors on the FP team. Besides, most of the work is culling the archives for good posts, which doesn't involve writing skills. Would some of them not complete the FPs they chose to work on? Undoubtedly, but that already happens. We believe the benefits of recruiting volunteers far outweigh these drawbacks. But we'd like to hear what the rest of you think. Please, tell us what you think of this idea. Debbie (on behalf of Abigail) for the list admin team [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] From pennylin at swbell.net Wed Jan 28 20:41:24 2004 From: pennylin at swbell.net (pennylin) Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 14:41:24 -0600 Subject: [HP4GU-FAQ] ADMIN Sent on Behalf of Abigail: A Proposal References: <002a01c3e59a$2558b280$5902a8c0@Belkin> Message-ID: <002c01c3e5df$18e822c0$4f5ffea9@cq5hs01> Hi all -- I'm totally in favor of bringing on new volunteers! I edited several of the FPs written by others, because some of the original FAQ writers weren't necessarily strong skilled writers or familiar with standard punctuation, etc. I'd be happy to serve as an editor as needed for future FPs. I do still want to update some of my existing FAQs, and I appreciate the offlist notes that Debbie and Ali both sent me in this regard. I just can't make any promises as to when I can get to them, as I've got several other RL priorities going on at the moment and I've agreed to do a fairly comprehensive project for the Lexicon. I'd like to still reserve Hermione, but if volunteers want to update any of the other FAQs that I wrote, you can feel free to let them have at it! I actually also can probably update the Religion one as easily as anyone can, so you might keep that one in reserve or at least tell me if someone is showing strong interest. I'll try to tap into Hermione as soon as I'm able. I promise. Penny [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]