Reveal of Contributors' Names & Wrap-Up

[morbane]

I have made creators' names visible on the archive. Feel free to promote your work under your own name.

Thank you to everyone, especially to Measured_Words for tag wrangling, to silverr, Flamebyrd, fleurlb, Zdenka, seekingferret, Merfilly, merryghoul, and IShouldBeWriting for pinch hitting, and to seekingferret and Measured_Words for discussing rules with me before the start of this round. Thanks also goes to paraka, chestnut_filly, originally, and akamine_chan for discussing podfic with me, and hm_f for discussing art.

As usual, I really enjoyed running this exchange and I'm glad about everyone who participated. However, everything can be improved, and if the exchange didn't work for you in some way, I'm interested in hearing about that too. Feel free to comment on this post - anonymous comments are enabled, if you prefer.


So - there's a bit of a difference between running this while working more than full-time, and running this while working part-time, who'd have thought? :) I was sad I didn't write any treats or pick up any pinch hits, despite saying I intended to be the last-resort pinch hitter. Next year I should have a little more time. Don't worry, though I intend to keep commenting on this year's works.

(I should also confess that when I said "it seems like one pinch hit has been held up," that was due to a miscommunication. My fault, not the pinch hitter's.)

I think next year I will make the period between deadline and reveal a full week. That is easier on pinch hitters, and allows for more treating.

I know anon periods don't work for everyone. At present, I would like to keep one in this exchange, because I enjoy them a lot and they help me comment swiftly. But if there is a clear preference from participants that this should change, I will listen to you. And for those of you who dislike anon periods, if there's something else I can do that would make them less annoying, please suggest it.

This year, I included art and podfic. Do you have any thoughts on how that worked out?

Any general thoughts are welcome.

ETA

Please remember that if you defaulted and you do not comment on the gift(s) you received, you may not sign up to Jukebox again. To reverse that ban, comment on your gift. If there are extenuating circumstances, like unexpected triggers, please talk to me.

I expect to run this exchange at about the same time next year, though I may start one or even two weeks earlier.

Another general question: what kind of preferences do people have for the times of day, or time of week, that deadlines happen or collections are revealed? If you could name the perfect time for a deadline or reveal for you, what would it be? (Please state the region, of course.)

Don't forget to check out any thoughts people may have posted on the parallel journal, jukebox-fest.livejournal.com.

Comments

[morbane]

I was nodding along while reading this (well, with a few caveats) - and then pulled up a little short at your comment: (There shouldn't be an issue with the writer-podficcer team receiving one gift.) Really? You don't think someone who signed up with their writer friend, or their podficcing friend, would mind that someone was trying to tailor a gift to one or the other of them? Or, somehow, both of them?

I think that a 500-word minimum for a combined new-fic-and-podfic would allay both my doubts about some gifts being larger than others, and about some participants doing more work, or to a shorter timeframe, than others. I can already see how I would adjust matching. (I'm still a bit unclear on what my mod requirements would be for organising teams of people - I assume that, mostly, people who signed up to do this would already be used to working in teams and have a partner in mind? Or plan to do both parts themselves, of course.)

On the other hand, this is likely to facilitate podfficer participance outside of podfic-specific spaces, which I personally am invested in.

Indeed - and if Jukebox's current set-up is unfriendly or unappealing to podficcers, there's not much point in me saying that podfic is included.


We will definitely agree to disagree about 3 days being sufficient to get through the collection. :) I aim to comment heavily. Further, there was only one long-ish work this year; past years have had multiple long works.

[hagar_972]

Yes, I really think there shouldn't be a problem. I'm thinking of this very last purimgifts, where I had a team of two writers sign up as one, with the understanding they'll receive only one gift (per purimgifts definitions of "one"), without this being anywhere stated in the rules. People who're willing to sign up as a team to a mixed-mode exchange know what they're getting into, and the willingness to do that exists.

What I was thinking, with team signups, is that teams need to signup as already formed - i.e. writer and podficcer finding each other, then only one of them filling the form on AO3, noting that they're a team; the other part of the team would then need to verify via PM or email. This way matching can run precisely as it did before from a mod-perspective.

If you do want to also have team-matching, the people to talk to would be the retiring mods on PT-L; they made a mention of having a software they use to match participants (it'll be passed on to the inheriting mod team). I have no idea whether that'll be possible to integrate into the existing Jukebox structure, but they'll be your best resource to talk to.

That said, the nominations period can also be used for writers and podficcers interested in teamwork to find each other, possibly with a comm post designated for this ("If you'd like to do a writer/podficcer collab on Jukebox, comment here!").

And talk to Paraka again; she seriously knows what she's doing, and possibly she'd be willing to extend a question on your behalf to the PT comm or direct them here to talk about it. (PT is now beginning, so it's an excellent time to ask.)