(no subject)
May. 31st, 2008 01:06 pm![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
podmod.livejournal.com posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
amplificathonokay, as we are about to wrap up (though everyone has LOADS of time to record/post more. just saying), i have some preliminary poll results to share, and i can also tell you some of the conclusions the mods have already made about how this has all gone this year, and how we are likely to move forward.
1) early on in the challenge, i received a very nice, very helpful suggestion about fandom tags. i (me,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
general_jinjur) shot it down. i'm not sure why, in retrospect. tags are necessary. i think i was just being weird and defensive. :/ we are currently putting fandom tags into place, and we will add tags as we go next year. (credit goes to both twasadark and jadesfire2808 for this suggestion.)
2) we are working on a scheme of points for length. yes, we agree that it's necessary. but i want to make this very clear: short podfics are completely valid by the terms of this challenge. ficlets are awesome. my personal suspicion is that if we had disallowed or discouraged them during this iteration of the challenge, we would simply have wound up with fewer podfics, not more long podfics. we are working on putting together some ficlet anthologies to address the concerns of listeners who want something long enough for a commute. yes, i think we would all like to encourage longer recordings - but we really don't want to discourage new readers, and i think short fics are a way in for them.
3) after the challenge is over, we do have many ideas for moving forward, some from feedback, some from the hivebrain. we're currently consensusing about them, you'll hear soon. we do want to continue to encourage people to make recordings, and to discover rare fandom fic, and to build community, and to have stuff to listen to. on that tip,fish_echo mentioned the librivox project - it's not fannish, and wouldn't include unpublished original fic, but i think it does sound appealing. :) also, it's a way to create/find/share audiobooks that you can listen to while carpooling, which podfic might not necessarily be suited to. :p
4) the poll! it's still open. please fill it out - replies are all private, so feel free to say what you think (i promise that if you make me cry, i will keep that private, too. heh.)
if you said yes to a physical prize, please fill out the address answer! or email us, audmod at gmail. or email me, jinjurly at gmail.
if you volunteered to create an internet deliverable prize, expect to be contacted pretty soon. :)
if you have feedback you don't want to leave in a poll, please comment or email.
i am very grumpy today. my apologies if that comes across here. it's not you, it's me. y'all are awesome.
1) early on in the challenge, i received a very nice, very helpful suggestion about fandom tags. i (me,
general_jinjur) shot it down. i'm not sure why, in retrospect. tags are necessary. i think i was just being weird and defensive. :/ we are currently putting fandom tags into place, and we will add tags as we go next year. (credit goes to both twasadark and jadesfire2808 for this suggestion.)2) we are working on a scheme of points for length. yes, we agree that it's necessary. but i want to make this very clear: short podfics are completely valid by the terms of this challenge. ficlets are awesome. my personal suspicion is that if we had disallowed or discouraged them during this iteration of the challenge, we would simply have wound up with fewer podfics, not more long podfics. we are working on putting together some ficlet anthologies to address the concerns of listeners who want something long enough for a commute. yes, i think we would all like to encourage longer recordings - but we really don't want to discourage new readers, and i think short fics are a way in for them.
3) after the challenge is over, we do have many ideas for moving forward, some from feedback, some from the hivebrain. we're currently consensusing about them, you'll hear soon. we do want to continue to encourage people to make recordings, and to discover rare fandom fic, and to build community, and to have stuff to listen to. on that tip,
fish_echo mentioned the librivox project - it's not fannish, and wouldn't include unpublished original fic, but i think it does sound appealing. :) also, it's a way to create/find/share audiobooks that you can listen to while carpooling, which podfic might not necessarily be suited to. :p4) the poll! it's still open. please fill it out - replies are all private, so feel free to say what you think (i promise that if you make me cry, i will keep that private, too. heh.)
if you said yes to a physical prize, please fill out the address answer! or email us, audmod at gmail. or email me, jinjurly at gmail.
if you volunteered to create an internet deliverable prize, expect to be contacted pretty soon. :)
if you have feedback you don't want to leave in a poll, please comment or email.
i am very grumpy today. my apologies if that comes across here. it's not you, it's me. y'all are awesome.
(no subject)
Date: 2008-05-31 07:15 pm (UTC)Laurie