thuviaptarth | (no subject)

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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Right now my entirely unscientific survey indicates people are pro earlier signup and later delivery. This means we will have to wait on the seduction of fic writers to our rare fandoms, but I am okay with that. I can exercise patience and cunning if I try.

I'm planning on polling on this, but at some point after the reveals. Which reminds me, if I can get this !@#$@%^(# short story done, I need to crack open the PHP book so that there will be a shiny new website for signups next year. :-) (The signup page is 50% functional, no lie!)

I'm not sure you'll need to crack open the PHP? It sounds like the AO3 challenge-running code will be live by then, and even if they can't host vids, there's nothing to stop people from creating "stories" that are streaming vid URLs.

I hadn't even thought about that! But I'm nervous about committing to future code controlled by someone else whose functionality I don't yet know, and also if I run it through PHP/mySQL, I will be able to mass-generate assignment emails through the server, etc. (Although I imagine that's also functionality they have planned for AO3.) In any case, I've already got a useful chunk of it working, and it can't hurt for me to work out the code. Even if we end up going through AO3 instead, I've been wanting to learn PHP/mySQL for my own reasons, so the time won't have been a waste. (I learn better when I'm trying to do a project anyway. :-D)