[Dargon-writers-list] Status-VMC

[William Donahue]

Victor, will you get of your backside and do something, please?!

Seriously, though, wow. Very impressive amount of effort you're putting 
in for the group. Thanks.

Victor Cardoso wrote:
> Suppose I should put out a status report!
> 
> Biggest news was that I've got 99% of the redesign done. We should be 
> good to switch the site over to Redesign-A in a couple of weeks. This 
> will open the door to establishing more links with other sites via a 
> blogroll, and I'll start implementing monthly recruitment posts in 
> Craigslist and other venues to try and get some new writers interested. 
> I'm excited!
> 
> Following that, I'll start converting the archive of our old stories 
> over to the redesign. I've created a number of scripts that can convert 
> the issue and story pages fairly quickly. I imagine I'll start having 
> more problems the further back I go since I have no doubt that the 
> formatting will change, but now that I've got the hang of regular 
> expressions (more or less) it seems to be easier. I've already converted 
> volumes 21, 20, and 19 but I have to work with Liam and Orn on how we 
> want to deal with them. I'd like to move issues out of the main DZ 
> directory and into a subdirectory, but we have links to those stories in 
> the database and out on the web. Moving them into a subdirectory will 
> probably mean writing some redirects and updating the database. I'll 
> think more about that later.
> 
> I set-up a Google Group and Yahoo Group, neither of which seem to get 
> much traffic. I was hoping that listing the site in the group's 
> directories might get us a little bit of action, but nothing so far.
> 
> Facebook has gotten us 24 referral visits. I'm going to do some Facebook 
> advertising to see if I can get our fan count out.
> 
> I've investigated advertising in some program books at local sci-fi 
> conventions in Michigan. Could also host some events or sponsor 
> something. I'm thinking about it.
> 
> I have a programmer making a mod for the SMF forums so that every post 
> can be e-mailed to a list server address. The current set-up only 
> notifies you of the first new post but no subsequent posts. That should 
> be done in two weeks.
> 
> I've been working on my Nar-Enthruen stories (there will be two at this 
> point). Hopefully I can get a draft out in the next 30 days.
> 
> And that's about it. I think. If there's anything else, I'll let you 
> guys know!
> 
> -v
> 
> -- 
> *Victor Cardoso*
>  Ann Arbor, MI
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