Culture Committee

Uan-aa-Boa

OK - sorry to be a while there. We have some reservations about collective issue writing, as the majority view of Forest's editors is that this properly belongs on the Got Issues forum and that there is a potential for conflict of interest if editors are supporting drafting in another venue. We do have 3 editors willing to share tips and explanations and do a Q&A on issues related things. These are, however, the same 3 people who are the judging panel for Forest's writing competition, so I'm reluctant to ask them to carry the whole of this event as well.

I guess my question at this stage is what people like me and @Siwale, who are keen to support the event but have no issues expertise, can facilitate to broaden the range of what's on offer. Initial thoughts: (a) a poll where people can vote for their favourite issue (b) issue answering contest where people create a new puppet and have 1 week (or other agreed time period) to score as high as possible on Ransium's Greenness Index (c) stuff I hope other people can think of.

Thoughts?

Mount Seymour

Uan-aa-Boa (b) issue answering contest where people create a new puppet and have 1 week (or other agreed time period) to score as high as possible on Ransium's Greenness Index

I’ve always thought that would be quite a lot of fun to do (though I don’t know if it’s the right thing if our purpose in this event is to teach writing).

Uan-aa-Boa

Mount Seymour I know I've seen it somewhere - at the World Fair perhaps? Either way, while we do want to teach writing we don't want to land the whole project on the same 3 editors who will just have done the writing competition. So maybe a slightly broader range of issue themed features? Mind you, I always like Clear Cut Conundrum...

Mount Seymour

Uan-aa-Boa Oh— that’s right— I actually did come up with that and then do it at the fair! XD

Uan-aa-Boa

I'm actually culturally in awe of The Rejected Realms. They have a forum based book club currently reading Ursula le Guin (7 page short story for ease of access), a Choose your Own Adventure Game conducted by regional polls and apparently Diplomacy (the best board game ever) on some other platform.

Caracasus

I've gotten a whole bunch of entries so far that should keep us three in migraines for a while! About 6 at last count, most poems.

Mount Seymour

Caracasus I've gotten a whole bunch of entries so far that should keep us three in migraines for a while!

You mean to suggest they’re that bad?! ?

Caracasus

Mount Seymour nah just joking! Some really good stuff so far that I am genuinely looking forward to looking at in real detail.

Siwale

@Uan-aa-Boa Sorry for the late response! It's been a hectic month lol.

TNP would be more than happy to organize and run the issue-answering portion of the event. I think this would be an easy-to-enter event for participants and would provide simple, yet elegant, fun. We would also be happy to significantly assist with event promotion, graphics, and whatever other resources Forest's issue writers/editors would need for the issue workshop portion of the event.

We realize this event puts a strain on Forest's issue writers/editors since TNP doesn't really have any writers/editors to contribute, but are committed to easing the workload on them as much as possible.

Let me know what you think!

Uan-aa-Boa

Siwale That sounds extremely positive. Right now entries have just closed for the writing contest, so the editors (who are also the judges) are up to their eyes with that. Let's let them deal with that and catch their breath, then we'll try to take things forward.

Siwale

Uan-aa-Boa Any idea when the writing contest will conclude? I'm just trying to piece together a rough timetable. General Elections in TNP will start in the beginning of January.

Uan-aa-Boa

Siwale Winners will be announced on December 7th. I can see that mid to late December isn't the optimum time for an inter-regional event.

Escade

Hai, who would I talk to about inviting Forest to become a co-partner in an upcoming event!

Uan-aa-Boa

Escade Talk on! What do you have in mind?

Caracasus

Dec 7th is the plan. We've got all the entries, now we're marking them. Some really good stuff here frankly, it might be tough to pick overall winners!

Uan-aa-Boa

With not much response to my last message on the subject, and time running out on Siwale's term as TNP delegate, the prospects don't look good for the Forest/TNP issues themed event we had been discussing. I'm just not sure there exists a critical mass of enthusiasm for making this happen. There was zero interest in the multi-Pacific Discord based Harry Potter event, which I feel was entirely the right response.

Meanwhile I've had a message from Dead I Jack, Culture Officer from the Rejected Realms, who apparently has some ideas for possible events to discuss with us. I've invited them to either post those ideas here or TG them to me (in which case I'll post them here). We did include a commitment to joint events in our treaty with TRR and they do have an impressively rich cultural scene, so I hope that will present more of an opportunity,

I thought the writing contest was brilliant, both for what it was in itself and as a flagship event that attracted attention across a range of regions.

Uan-aa-Boa

Here's my most recent message from Dead I Jack.

*So we were thinking Forest is more of an onsite region so we wanted to do some kind of event that can be done on the NationStates onsite for something different as far as TRR is concerned.

One idea was to do a shared story telling thing on the RMB. It would be like one of those 1 sentence or 3 words type things. We could start a chain on both of our RMBs and participate in both via embassy cross-posting, or we could just do it on one RMB if that might be confusing.

The other idea was we could do a kind of flag/map contest. One concern with that though was there might be less actual interaction between members of each region.

As far as the timeline on this event. We have Rejectmas coming soon which is about us celebrating Rejecthood for the final week of the year, so if we were to do this it'd probably have to happen a week or two into the new year at the earliest.

I'm interested to see what feedback you have and if you have any other ideas to discuss.*

Turbeaux

Uan-aa-Boa Chain stories can be fun. I had a grand 'ol time with the fortunately/unfortunately thing that we had going on here!

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