General update
Dec. 26th, 2019 09:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
doranwenThe Yahoo Groups fandom rescue project is still ongoing, and we do still need help, should anyone want to venture on over to the Discord and volunteer (you'll find the current Discord invite at the top): https://yahoo-geddon.tumblr.com/
For anyone who has a Yahoo ID, you should request their data here (do it as soon as possible - deadline is Jan. 31 but I wouldn't push it in case there's an issue with yours): http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/getmydata
You can donate part or all of the data you get to the fandom rescue project or to the Internet Archive.
And this is a tutorial I wrote (complete with screenshots, suitable for Windows, Mac, and Linux) for importing the mbox files that come in that data into a program to read them: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dXeXfY5Huri_8NTUn4hl-iUZq9MMRL1Qbo7bp5YZpmE/edit
As far as me personally, I'm plotting my projects next year (outside of the work ones I need to do):
Exchanges: Chocolate Box (already in noms!), Every Woman, AUex, Multifandom Tropefest, Yuletide.
Anything else is up in the air or a definite "no". I had too many this year, not as far as writing went (didn't feel burned out, necessarily), but I ran out of time to do everything I wanted to non-exchange-wise (Yahoo Groups didn't help). And those five are the ones I love the most - the shippyness, the female focus, the AUs, the tropes, and the rare fandoms. (Hopefully I won't cause so many initial pinch hits this year! Me and my love of rare fandoms... /o\ )
Fic: Get back to writing non-exchange fic. I'd like to pick up Rookie Blue again, I've had a decent break from it, but I want to get back into it. Still love the fandom so much (I just love so many that I have to give all of them attention, like a parent spending time with all their children, lol).
Website: Hoping to get my website back up and running with some interesting plans.
Fic database: Get back to working on the database (I haven't even read new fic, other than my exchange gifts basically, for several months thanks to Yahoo Groups), finish going through Matrix fic, move on to other fandoms.
Further archival / fandom rescue: There's a lot of talk regarding the next move but no concrete plans for how to tackle things quite yet. But I have an IA account and may start contributing some things there. I have some ultra-rare things they might be interested in, from an obscure game for the Amiga, to hard-to-find songs and films, to various collections of things.
For anyone who has a Yahoo ID, you should request their data here (do it as soon as possible - deadline is Jan. 31 but I wouldn't push it in case there's an issue with yours): http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/getmydata
You can donate part or all of the data you get to the fandom rescue project or to the Internet Archive.
And this is a tutorial I wrote (complete with screenshots, suitable for Windows, Mac, and Linux) for importing the mbox files that come in that data into a program to read them: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dXeXfY5Huri_8NTUn4hl-iUZq9MMRL1Qbo7bp5YZpmE/edit
As far as me personally, I'm plotting my projects next year (outside of the work ones I need to do):
Exchanges: Chocolate Box (already in noms!), Every Woman, AUex, Multifandom Tropefest, Yuletide.
Anything else is up in the air or a definite "no". I had too many this year, not as far as writing went (didn't feel burned out, necessarily), but I ran out of time to do everything I wanted to non-exchange-wise (Yahoo Groups didn't help). And those five are the ones I love the most - the shippyness, the female focus, the AUs, the tropes, and the rare fandoms. (Hopefully I won't cause so many initial pinch hits this year! Me and my love of rare fandoms... /o\ )
Fic: Get back to writing non-exchange fic. I'd like to pick up Rookie Blue again, I've had a decent break from it, but I want to get back into it. Still love the fandom so much (I just love so many that I have to give all of them attention, like a parent spending time with all their children, lol).
Website: Hoping to get my website back up and running with some interesting plans.
Fic database: Get back to working on the database (I haven't even read new fic, other than my exchange gifts basically, for several months thanks to Yahoo Groups), finish going through Matrix fic, move on to other fandoms.
Further archival / fandom rescue: There's a lot of talk regarding the next move but no concrete plans for how to tackle things quite yet. But I have an IA account and may start contributing some things there. I have some ultra-rare things they might be interested in, from an obscure game for the Amiga, to hard-to-find songs and films, to various collections of things.
