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waffles:
I wasn't saying that you submit something. The point being made was that someone whose opinion is under-represented can always submit something themselves, thus equalising the opinions - I am assuming.

Plus if we have to vote for every writer then that would mean more or less no one-off things, unless you want a constant vote on who should write.

penultimate.forme:
Oops, sorry guys. Fede, I already responded to your email before I saw this.

Everything is coming together rather chaotically, as that tends to be my workflow at this point in time. I have a lot going on, and I'm trying to push the release of the zine as rapidly as possible--as a result, this doesn't really allow for a democratic process.

I agree in theory, this is an awesome idea, and I can incorporate that in future issues when I get shit together and have a more organized basis for releasing each issue. Right now, I'm still trying to nail down the format of the zine, and unfortunately this includes a lot of spontaneous decisions on my part. I haven't quite made anything official, and haven't sent waffles a solidified prompt or anything. That's something I'm generating tonight, and since nobody else has contacted me about submitting articles for the zine, I assumed waffles was the only person interested.

In the future, I can generate this prompt much earlier in the planning stages, and post it on the forums as an "open response" format. Ideally, for me, I would prefer to have 2 complimentary articles on opposing pages by 2 different authors. This still leaves choosing whose 2 to display a tricky decision, and while for me, it's easier to choose the authors based on my decision, I'm at odds with the idea of making a zine that's for a community that doesn't get a say in the decisions being made as to what content is displayed.

Personally, not knowing any of you, I'm unsure as to how to proceed with a democratic process. Would open IRC "meetings" be something anyone would be interested in? I don't have the time to moderate this process, per se, so the resulting free for all might be chaotic. I'm open to suggestions, though.

penultimate.forme:
I agree with having a forum based poll instead of IRC meetings.
I need to figure out how many people are interested in being a featured writer, first, because that determines how many deliberative processes would be practical to employ.
I'm tentative to the idea of having a pool of "guaranteed" writers, as this binds them and becomes more of a "job" than simply contributed volunteer content. Since I would be working on a personal deadline for each issue, the idea of becoming a staff manager isn't appealing to me. Additionally, this implies there are more than 2-3 people interested in contributing this specific type of content, so we'll have to see how this pans out. I have a feeling that the people who contribute, consistently, over time, will become featured writers just by default, but we'll see.

For now, how about I do this. After the first issue comes out, I'll generate the theme/prompt for the second issue. (With maybe the theme being chosen by poll/suggestion, not sure yet.) Writers who are interested can propose in the forum with their idea/outline/concept for the piece. After about a week of accepting initial ideas, I'll put the proposals to poll, and  choose whoever wins out. Depending on how this process goes, I can tweak it further for issue 3.

Just thinking about how that will play out, mostly I'm worried about not getting enough participation to merit a deliberative process. Another factor that adds into the confusion of forum polling is the fact that I'm also advertising the zine on tulpa.info, so I'm not sure how to account with vote duplicity and all. Since tulpa.info has a larger userbase, I'm feeling like posting it over there as opposed to here might be the best option just in the interest of getting enough votes to justify the voting. I'll post the link over here too, so anyone who's not prone to using/can't use tulpa.info could just post a reply with their opinion.

I'm considering making the article a 2-page spread, so that up to 2 pages of writing will be accepted. If it's less, than I have more room for white space in the layout to play with. This opens the possibility of opposing articles (each 1 page) being published alongside one another: so one person could propose for 2 different related articles, or 2 authors could propose for 2 different related articles as a team.

My skype username is penultimate.forme if anyone wants to contact me that way. I'm not around on IRC but if anyone wants to have some sort of meeting-type deal for whatever reason, I'm open to that. My current timeline for the first issue is in about a week.

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