28 July Reading Room: Poll

[tinturtle]

Four people have expressed interest in participating in some reading room discussions with me as facilitator (sc_fossil, macklingirl, byslantedlight, and myself). That seems like just enough to launch with, so I intend to make a first discussion post on Friday, 28 July. That way, conversation can take place over the following weekend.

My hope is to run a few reading rooms in conjunction with my current personal reading game, which involves reading a selection of fics from each year. Two fics that would align with my game progress are the 1991 stories Free Trader by Debra Hicks (26,454 words), a Star Trek TNG crossover AU, and November by Sebastian (22,626 words), a relationship and case story set after Discovered in a Graveyard. (November was the subject of a reading room discussion in 2009.)

If you are fairly sure you will participate in the July 28th reading room, please vote on which fic you would prefer to read. The poll will close this coming Friday night, North American Mountain time.

[Poll #2126343]

Comments

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Out of curiousity, which "North American time" do you mean? There's quite a difference between the time in the Aleutian Islands and the time in Greenland! 🙂

We've conventionally used "Pago Pago" time for challenges etc. in Dialj and CI5hq - which when I was working it out seemed to be the last place in the world to pass a particular deadline, which gave absolutely everyone a fair waking chance to meet the challenge deadline, but having checked Wiki I see it now defines "AoE" as a time convention — "Anywhere on Earth", (it equates to the time on the Howland and Baker Islands (taken by the US in 1935), which is the last place on the planet to pass a specific time).

I use "Lads' time" for the Christmas challenge because we have people from all over the world, and have to be more specific about a cut-off time for posting so that they didn't crash into each other with their posts.

But maybe AoE time would be a good measure — that way everyone, even in the last time zone on Earth, could just think "Well, deadline's passed..."!

[tinturtle]

Oh, hm. I definitely meant to type a “Mountain” in there. (Fixed now.) The exact time is deliberately vague, though. I will close it when I get the opportunity.

[cim3745.livejournal.com]

I would like to participate probably as an only reader. There might be more than only me doing this :-)

[tinturtle]

You can vote, too, if you want to.