I'm sorry to hear that you're sick. I hope you get better soon.
yay perl script! (grin) Seeing as you mod a Python community, I was hoping that you would not be daunted by a perl script. As I said, it isn't properly documented; I'd like to fix up the help before I send you a copy, is that okay? And I'll probably need an email address to send it to.
if you just tell me the rough timeframe in which you want reminders done I'm considering, as suggested in response to ilthit above, that it might be better to make challenges be nine days long rather than two weeks. The new scheme would be: 1) Post the challenge on the first Friday of the month 2) Post a reminder on the Wednesday 3) Close entries on the following Sunday 4) Post the voting poll on the Monday after that (for me that might be a Tuesday, because my Mondays are busy).
The reasoning behind this idea is that (a) two weeks is too long, people procrastinate and end up not doing it, (b) making it nine days and posting the challenge on a Friday gives people two weekends to work on it, since some people (such as me) work full-time and can't do icon-making during the week as easily as on a weekend, (c) one reminder should hopefully be enough. I should probably do a poll about it. I still think one challenge a month is enough; people do have a life and probably don't want to be making icons ALL the time. 8-)
But if I'm going to do that, I'll have to revise the perl script a bit. (The script doesn't do the actual posting, but it creates the most of the text for the various posts)
As for #6, my cunning method was to use the "interests" tags, find people who are interested in "icons" (and other similar interests, such as "photoshop"), and look at their profiles to see if (a) they are actively posting, (b) they mention that they make icons or have tagged posts which display icons that they have made. Then I use the community invitation facility to invite them. I did a big blitz of that just after I posted the current challenge, and a fair few people did join.
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Date: 2009-07-20 10:46 am (UTC)yay perl script!
(grin) Seeing as you mod a Python community, I was hoping that you would not be daunted by a perl script. As I said, it isn't properly documented; I'd like to fix up the help before I send you a copy, is that okay? And I'll probably need an email address to send it to.
if you just tell me the rough timeframe in which you want reminders done
I'm considering, as suggested in response to
1) Post the challenge on the first Friday of the month
2) Post a reminder on the Wednesday
3) Close entries on the following Sunday
4) Post the voting poll on the Monday after that (for me that might be a Tuesday, because my Mondays are busy).
The reasoning behind this idea is that (a) two weeks is too long, people procrastinate and end up not doing it, (b) making it nine days and posting the challenge on a Friday gives people two weekends to work on it, since some people (such as me) work full-time and can't do icon-making during the week as easily as on a weekend, (c) one reminder should hopefully be enough.
I should probably do a poll about it.
I still think one challenge a month is enough; people do have a life and probably don't want to be making icons ALL the time. 8-)
But if I'm going to do that, I'll have to revise the perl script a bit. (The script doesn't do the actual posting, but it creates the most of the text for the various posts)
As for #6, my cunning method was to use the "interests" tags, find people who are interested in "icons" (and other similar interests, such as "photoshop"), and look at their profiles to see if (a) they are actively posting, (b) they mention that they make icons or have tagged posts which display icons that they have made. Then I use the community invitation facility to invite them. I did a big blitz of that just after I posted the current challenge, and a fair few people did join.