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blamebrampton ([personal profile] blamebrampton) wrote2009-07-11 10:39 pm

Further to yesterday's post ...

[personal profile] empress_jae  and I have been nutting out some of the details. A few things are becoming apparent. Firstly, we will almost certainly need a few more mods scattered around the world's time zones. Anyone keen?

Secondly, we're looking at ways of managing the tag team fic and crack drabbles. All of them boil down to moderated or un-moderated. Does anyone have any firm and unyielding opinions on the joys or evils of moderation?

Finally, the con itself runs Thursday to Monday. Do we want to go that long, or stop on Sunday?

Once we've finished working out what we're doing, we'll advertise the comm and anyone can come to play!

[identity profile] jamie2109.livejournal.com 2009-07-11 01:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Not in different time zones or anything but I'll be around to help out with whatever needs doing as long as I know what. :)

[identity profile] blamebrampton.livejournal.com 2009-07-11 01:17 pm (UTC)(link)
That's jolly good news, as I might be in Melbourne on Saturday ...

[identity profile] marguerite-26.livejournal.com 2009-07-11 01:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm available to lend a hand. I'm around 1pm GMT to 8pm GMT Thursday and Friday and Monday. And a wee bit otherwise.

but if that's too sporadic, no problem. I'm happy to just pimp and participate. ;)

[identity profile] blamebrampton.livejournal.com 2009-07-11 02:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Sounds v good to me. I am waiting on a spot of feedback from Jae and will get back to you in the next 24 hours!

[identity profile] lotus-lizzy.livejournal.com 2009-07-11 02:07 pm (UTC)(link)
I can help, if you like! :)

[identity profile] emansil-08.livejournal.com 2009-07-11 02:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I can volunteer to do whatever on either Thurs or Sat.

Just let me know what's needed, and hopefully I'll have a clue how to do it.

[identity profile] blamebrampton.livejournal.com 2009-07-11 02:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Jolly good news, I'll get back to you!

[identity profile] blamebrampton.livejournal.com 2009-07-11 02:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Cheers, dear! I will add you to the volunteer list. Any times particularly good for you?

[identity profile] calanthe-fics.livejournal.com 2009-07-11 02:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I have no idea what you're on about, but if it's time limited helpfulness I'm sure I can chip in.

[identity profile] cassie-black12.livejournal.com 2009-07-11 02:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm pretty much free all day Saturday and Sunday (yes, I have no life) so give me a shout if I can help at all.

[identity profile] tomatoe18.livejournal.com 2009-07-11 02:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Here to offer help. It's okay if you don't need me. (But can I just cast my vote to have it extended until Monday? I figured, the longer the better, actually...)

[identity profile] blamebrampton.livejournal.com 2009-07-11 02:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh! Someone who read all the way through! Bless! That's 1:0 so far for Monday ...

[identity profile] blamebrampton.livejournal.com 2009-07-11 02:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Yesterday's post! I am taking a leaf from your book and being mildly useful. (I know that you don't need the adverb, but I am not as good at being useful as you are!)

[identity profile] blamebrampton.livejournal.com 2009-07-11 02:49 pm (UTC)(link)
I will! Thanks miss!

[identity profile] raitala.livejournal.com 2009-07-11 03:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Hiya - I can do UK timezone. I'm not in front of my computer 24/7, well that's a complete lie, but some of that time I should be working. I have 2 birthday parties and a family revel on Saturday, but otherwise I'm keen to help. No idea how a drabble fest or tag-team fic might be moderated, but I can cut and paste and manage limited html and I can tell people to 'play nicely' in my best Head Girl voice...

Do we need a fixed end date really? Is there going to be a sort of grand reveal type thing? If not, I'd have thought that we could just hold the thing nominally in place of Az but if it dribbled into the following week, no biggie?

Do you need an icon - what would you like?

[identity profile] blamebrampton.livejournal.com 2009-07-11 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh! Icons! I have one bad one at the moment, which is the trio hanging out at The Burrow, working with the whole Con at Home theme. I'll email you ...

The current theory is daily mod postings with topics for drabbles, discussion points for the film and at this rate general HP discussion points (which we will probably be calling for in the next couple of hours).

The need for regular mods will only occur with the tag-team, so that we can just give entries a quick read-through. Since we will be aiming for two-hour turn arounds on that, it will need a bit of a mod presence across the weekend to handle it.

As to an end point ... good question. It would be kind of nice to see if we could work the big fic towards a closing point so the mods could all ignore the comm after that, but then what if it is truly epic? The drabbles and discussion can probably keep going until we all run out of steam!

[identity profile] shanes-lullaby.livejournal.com 2009-07-11 04:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm voting for extending it through to Monday. :3 I'm in the Eastern United States, so that may be helpful, since I'll be awake when Australia is asleep.

I don't have any event-organizing experience, but I'm a fast learner. :)

[identity profile] blamebrampton.livejournal.com 2009-07-11 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Lizzy, any idea on times or dates you'd be available?

[identity profile] raitala.livejournal.com 2009-07-11 04:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I'll be around pretty much all of Sunday and I could do a few hours on Thursday, Friday and Monday too, if needed. Just email and point me in the right direction!

[identity profile] blamebrampton.livejournal.com 2009-07-11 04:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Cheers dear! That's 2:0 for Monday! (3 if we take Rai's KEEP GOING as a tacit Monday ;-)

Jae and I are having a look at timetabling moddage, but we will pop you on the reserve team if we're sorted so far. Thanks so much!

[identity profile] faynia.livejournal.com 2009-07-11 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Monday's good. 8D

I'd volunteer, but I tend to crash out around midnight EST every weeknight now. Playing still? Oh yes!

&hearts

[identity profile] blamebrampton.livejournal.com 2009-07-11 04:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Cassie, can you email me? blamebrampton at gmail.com Cheers!

[identity profile] pingrid.livejournal.com 2009-07-11 04:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Monday is good, that way I'll have a vague chance of participating! I shall be useless to you, I'm afraid, since I'll be in Berlin Wed-Sun. But whoo, let me pet your shiny usefulness! :D

[identity profile] blamebrampton.livejournal.com 2009-07-11 04:35 pm (UTC)(link)
It is so rare ... I say we begin Thursday in New Zealand and end Monday in Hawaii ;-)

[identity profile] blamebrampton.livejournal.com 2009-07-11 04:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I think Monday is a winner! And we need players!

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