It's time to start planning for 3wfdw

[erda]

Hey everybody! Our Anniversary Fest will be starting Monday April 25th, and it's time to start thinking about what we want to do this year.

I'm not sure about putting up posts about communities like I did last year, since those posts are still available, and I feel like I would be treading a lot of the same ground. But I'm not sure what to replace that with if I don't do it.

It seems like I cannot keep up with my reading circle anymore, things have grown so much, but because of our overall smaller user base, community participation could use a boost, as well as just general commenting, so I was rolling around the idea of some small challenges in those areas. I would love to have some graphics that people could post to their journals for completing these small challenges, but I am not skilled in that area. Would anyone out there be able to help make us some graphics?

How do you all feel about friending memes this year? Would you prefer general ones, or themed ones, or something else? What about comment fic memes?

Feel free to add your own ideas, hopes and dreams (lol) in comments, but I make no promises.

As before I will be asking people to keep fest posts Dreamwidth only until the fest is over. This year I will be closing the comm after the fest, as it became very inactive over the past year, and I think sometimes less is more. I hope to open it every year around our open beta anniversary date, which charmingly is also my birthday, so that we can celebrate amongst ourselves every year.

And, of course, please signal boost the hell out of this post if you can.

ETA: I have a ton of ideas at this point that I think will be loads of fun!

Comments

[jae]

I like the idea of themed subscription memes! I do have one request, though: that we make a real concerted effort not to call them "friending memes" this time.

My reasoning: One of the very best things about dreamwidth is the fact that you don't have to give access to someone just because you want to subscribe to them, and when we use livejournal's terminology for the memes, we lose (or at least fail to promote) that distinction. I also think that calling it a "friending meme" makes it sound like you are obligated to both subscribe and give access, making people feel like it wouldn't be okay to just subscribe to people's journals. You know?

-J

[erda]

I see your point, it's just that subscription list sounds so impersonal to me, more like my RSS feeds than a group of people I enjoy a back and forth with. IDK, I have mixed feelings about this.

[jae]

Oh, I am not at all married to the term 'subscription meme', I just feel that it should NOT be called a 'friending meme' if it's on dreamwidth. (Ever! By anyone! Can you tell I feel strongly about this? *g*)

Anyway, I am certainly open to the meme or memes being called anything at all other than 'friending meme'.

-J

[foxfirefey]

Meet and Greets?

[erda]

I...kind of like that.

[jae]

I like it!

-J

[jae]

P.S. Circling meme, maybe? That way it suggests that sometimes people will just subscribe, and sometimes people will both subscribe and give access, and it's all okay.

Or, really, anything else...

[kiki_eng]

:) It could be called an "awesome new people meme" though that is admittedly kind of long and a bit silly.