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Nadiin-ji, perhaps it would be useful to have a separate forum for upcoming sci fi / fantasy events. And/or other events of interest. What do you think?
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Good idea. What sort of thing did you have in mind?
Upcoming known book releases perhaps? Convention dates, award announcements or suchlike? I agree it would be useful to have a place to consolidate such things.
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I know WindyCon is coming up next weekend (Nov 12, 13, 14?) in Chicago. My friend usually helps out there, as well as with Chicon, but he's got another committment and won't be at WindyCon. I can ask Mike for a list of the events he knows about, and if you'd like, I could post them in this thread.
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Gadgetnut, here's a start.
For Admins, would you like a separate category or thread for this subject?
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Perhaps a separate sub-forum might work best. We could use it to anchor separate threads / discussions by type: convention calendars, book release dates, movie / tv shows we're anticipating, and other relevant topics.
What does everyone think? What would be useful to you?
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Sounds good to me.
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What brought it to mind were two recent posts.
Kel J re: Orycon 42 in Whatever Else Floats Your Boat
byrdstation1 re: audiobook release for Resurgence and Divergence in The Cherryh Grove
They really made me think. Both of those are items that interest me and I thought probably others on the board. So a place to put them seemed like something to put to the membership. Everyone's ideas and information above are great. Thank you all! Surtac-nadi's description of an anchor forum for events, releases, movies, etc. is a much better and more expansive description of what I had in mind.
Admins, what do you think?
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gadgetnut wrote:
What brought it to mind were two recent posts.
Kel J re: Orycon 42 in Whatever Else Floats Your Boat
byrdstation1 re: audiobook release for Resurgence and Divergence in The Cherryh Grove
They really made me think. Both of those are items that interest me and I thought probably others on the board. So a place to put them seemed like something to put to the membership. Everyone's ideas and information above are great. Thank you all! Surtac-nadi's description of an anchor forum for events, releases, movies, etc. is a much better and more expansive description of what I had in mind.
Admins, what do you think?
Well Gadgetnut, between Spence and myself, you already have two Admins onside with the idea. Let's see - it's Friday afternoon here now in darkest Canberra. I'll take it to the Guild now for clearance / signoff overnight and if all is okay I'll set it up tomorrow morning my time. Thanks again for the idea.
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Truth told, I glanced about the forum for a place to post it and found nothing specific, so it ended up here. I think you all have a good idea and if you wanted to move my post to such a forum (or merge it with a stuck thread somewhere devoted to events, as an act stopping short of creating a whole forum), that would make sense to me.
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Thanks Kel, I shall move the post to the new sub-forum as you suggest.