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So I was reading my flist and there was a post lamenting the lack of fic for a festivids pairing and two posts mourning over post-VVC vid block, and of course there is also my post whining about how it is SO HARD to do festivids and Yuletide at the same time, and anyway this is my MAD GENIUS PROPOSAL which I suspect will go over way better with people who vid and fic than with people who just vid:

So this is my proposal: In 2010, we should start Festivids RIGHT AFTER VVC. Or maybe a little after. Like, September nominations and signup and November delivery. This way people can break the post-VVC block because PRESENTS! IN TINY FANDOMS! WITH A ONE-MINUTE MINIMUM! And this way also when you are requesting fiction for your teeny-tiny fandom for Yuletide, you can point to an illustration of just how awesome your teeny-tiny fandom source is. People who have not previously encountered your teeny-tiny fandom source may be inspired to try it out and/or sign up for it. (That was the year I finally got a Revengers Tragedy story for Yuletide. It's worked at least once! That is totally scientific proof.)

More vids, more fic, widely separate deadlines. It's the best of all possible worlds.

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I'm hesitant to make the golive date Dec. 25 for two reasons. The first and more important one is that it automatically ties the thing to Christmas, which I hesitate to do to non-Christian festividders. (I am a Christian, but I feel that if I were non-Christian, the date would just...yeah.)

The second reason is that typically for Christmas I am at my in-laws' in New York, staying at their house. The ergonomic situation here for my workspace is, ah, less than ideal, and I am vulnerable to being swooped away for pre-Christmas activities with my in-laws and family. Additionally, this is a little selfish, but I do Yuletide, and I do not want to have to give up doing Yuletide to administer Festivids. Either way, I am deeply unthrilled by the prospect of having to wrangle family time, Yuletide time, and Festivids admin stuff in the same time period. The mid-January date is good for me because I'll be back home by then. And I see

sweetestdrain has pointed out the academic calendar, which I hadn't taken into consideration (it's been a few years since college, I"ve forgotten the rhythms).

My current inclination is to start a couple weeks after VVC to give people a head start, but keep the January golive date. But I am open to further discussion.

I totally understand this. I just really hoped there'd be at least one year where I wouldn't feel left out because I'm a vidder. Maybe one year we could do a one year anon reveal on the 25th? I'd even volunteer to help in any way I could and maybe you could find others as well. I've just always wanted to experience a rare vids Christmas but I'm open to changing it to other dates for other holidays or in January or whatever.

Yeah, I'm concerned about a golive date that would be prior to Yuletide purely as a practical matter. I think asking people to create vids between Sept and November is difficult - having the holidays ensures that people will have more free time.

Belated comment is belated.

Edited 2010-01-04 01:11 (UTC)

September to November is actually about as much time as we had this year, but I'm not opposed to a later golive date. The student calendar and typical Western work schedule are compelling concerns.

I hate the idea of December 25 launch date for the same reason I hated the name "yulevid," but that doesn't seem to be likely.

Not in terms of absolute time - I mean what's happening in that time. Having the period between December 23 and January 3 is good because there's little work stuff (or, I gather, school stuff). People can focus on vids.

I can promise you that we are not going to have a December 25 (or other specific major religious holiday [1]) golive date. Full stop.