thefourthvine | Poll: Yuletide! Yay!

I am very excited about

yuletide, and I've been bouncing around like a crazed thing since I signed up. (This is the Anticipation phase of Yuletide. Yes, there are phases of Yuletide. Yes, I have actually written them down. I know, I know, so pathetic, but it's an important thing to me, okay? I was never that excited about the holidays as a kid, but as an adult, Yuletide makes me absolutely delirious with joy.)

Anyway. I deal with the Anticipation phase (This is actually Anticipation Part One, because sign-ups are still open. When they close, I will start hard-core Anticipation. It is dangerous to come within seven feet of me during that time.) in many ways, but in part by refreshing the requested fandoms list, so that I can admire the shiny numbers climbing ever higher. (Plus, this year, there is a festival of gold and green to admire there. You can even see how many people asked for and volunteered for a given fandom. It is the coolest thing ever!)

But the site went down briefly today. Suddenly, I had no outlet for my Yuletide glee. Hence, this poll.

And if any of you have friends listers who are also doing Yuletide, I'd love it if you'd point 'em over here, 'cause I don't know how many of my own friends listers are. (You all should, though. You get a story! In a tiny fandom of your choosing! And you can write a story that will make someone else's heart sing! And this year there is no qualifying requirement! Go, sign up, and then come back and take the poll!)

Yeah, yeah. 'Tis the season to abuse exclamation marks and the Create Poll function on LJ. Happy holidays!

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I could cover the hosting, if it ever happens. It does sound kinda cool, although I agree there would have to be some kind of restriction, or possibly 'you can request if you can deliver the source'. Although that would make it less secrete. Perhaps people could request it, and for obscure stuff mail source to third party volunteerers in their area, who could send it out... *head goes boom*

I can't spell. :( That should be secret & volunteers.

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*

Hmm. Yes. Maybe if we got people to make several requests, like Yuletide, but ask that at least one is for something well known/easy to get hold off, as a fallback if vidders can't get source/inspiration.

And I'm sure people would be interested in helping out even if they weren't vidding! Like arranging sorce, or betaing or whatever.

And there'd definetly be interest from newbies.

Spooltide is a fantastic name. :)

I would be willing to help organise it, but my vidding knowledge is only beginning to move into 'intermediate' from 'ok, I've opened the program! ...now what?' so I'd be of limited help there.

I offered further (vaguely incoherent) ideas for source connections in Spooltide here (http://thefourthvine.livejournal.com/64503.html?thread=2483447#t2483447). It's such a cool idea, and I think it would be totally possible next year.

Maybe even this year, especially if you made the deadline at the end of January. (It doesn't have to be on Christmas day just 'cause it's called Spooltide, right?)

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.

If you do this, I totally want to be a buddy. (Although your problem would likely be finding vidders, not buddies.) And I would also help with whatever stuff I could. Which is not much, admittedly.

I really like the idea of the buddy system.

*stumbles back into thread*

(I started thinking about what sort of resources we'd need and then I started thinking "why don't I have a resource page, and then I was totally writing a huge resource page for my vid site omg. *pants*)

hihihi! *g*

Right, gosh. OK. I have a pass/fail calculus exam at the end of January and so I'm not volunteering to run a vidding extravaganza then. However! I will totally do it next year, or possibly for another holiday thing, like Valentine's Day (Dinner and a Movie!) or Spring Equinox or May Day or...something! Maybe even this year for Twelfth Night if...wha..I dunno. Sorry. Am bozeyed.

I like the buddy/pairing idea. We should do that. It would be all friendly and yay.

Er, I mean to say, if *you* want to run it then I will help (I'll write a site etc) but I'm not leading it because omg exams.

Hmmm why am I not getting notified of lj messages?
Anyway! I still love this idea for next year or for Valentine's or for any other holiday but I don't know where I would begin running it. Like I said before, I am useless being an organiser. I will be up for helping out in any way I can but I can't be the one in charge. I just know I will be completely sucky at the job...

Maybe we should poke

thefourthvine and get her to make a poll to see if there is much interest generally?

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