Well, people could participate as sourcers too, maybe. You could pair up a sourcer and a vidder. Like, I don't have a vast DVD collection but I do have an 8mb connection (and a hacker partner who writes me bots to crawl for torrents \o/), and there's always YouSendIt. And single episode vids would be perfectly acceptable, I think. So... maybe it would be a kind of Social? Spooltide: The Vidders Fling. Pair a vidder with a viewer somehow- they could collaborate as much or as little as they wanted - beta-ing...hmm.

I think the only way it would work would be to expand the pool of participants somehow. Maybe a buddy system *would* work - it'd be a great way to get more people into/involved in/included in vidding, actually - short vids, guaranteed audience, built-in-beta, a mix of experienced vidders and newbies... I could throw together a guide to free and open source vidding software no problem and the organisers would have to be open to doing some technical support but that's ok. I have long since come to terms with my duty as tech support for the world at large. *g*