Writers of Color 50 Books Challenge

Thanks to those who gave input on how all y'all want the LJ and DW instances of the community to relate to each other; I'm interpreting the quietness of that discussion as a sign that most people are pretty okay with the thoughts already there.

Based on that, what we're going with for now is to run the two comms as sister communities under one management. We're going to strive for no duplication of new content between the two communities, so that members can follow both without being spammed with content they already saw. (Which we won't be able to pull off perfectly, because--) We're also going to have Dreamwidth act as a permanent archive of all activity at both platforms, by regularly importing the LiveJournal community into the Dreamwidth one.

So, the details:

• Mod-posts will be cross-posted.
  
  
• Do not cross-post book reviews, etc. Please presume that people who want to see the posts being made on the other site are either already subscribed on the other site or are following the RSS feed.
  
  
• Feeds of the Livejournal Community:
  http://community.livejournal.com/50books_poc/data/rss (for feedreaders)
  50books_poc_feed (for dreamwidth users)
  
  
• Feeds of the Dreamwidth Community:
  http://50books-poc.dreamwidth.org/data/rss (for feedreaders)
  50bookspocdw (for livejournal users)
  
  Note concerning the feed of the Dreamwidth Community: the community importer retains the dates of the original posts when it runs an import; the RSS feed syndicates all recent-date posts, and does so as it comes to notice their existence. Thus, it appears that on days that we run the importer, the DW RSS feed will notice all recent originally-on-LJ posts, and publish them to the RSS feed. Which means that yes, on days that we run the importer, you'll see a 'burp' of recent-ish posts to the LJ community popping up in the feed of the DW community.
  
  We don't know how to make that not happen. We're hoping that, since the community importer is brand new and there are presumably other communities dealing with this, that there will be some demand for a technological tweak to make that not happen. We'll keep you updated. If it proves to be intolerable, let us know.
  
  
• Commenting on the other platform: Both Dreamwidth and Livejournal accept OpenID logins; both Dreamwidth and Livejournal logins act as OpenID logins. Which means you can use your LiveJournal ID to comment on Dreamwidth posts, and vice versa.
  
  LiveJournal's OpenID FAQ.
  Dreamwidth's OpenID FAQ.
  
  Notice that both sites will send you notifications of replies to your comments, if you give them an email address to send those replies to. They'll also let you have a few userpics, and some other "almost like having a username on that site" kinds of privileges.
  
  At the moment, Dreamwidth is also letting people create accounts without an invite code, if you'd rather just have a Dreamwidth account. You can also get invite codes at dw_codesharing. (Or ask me; I've got a handful I haven't used, and am happy to give them to 50books-poc folks.)
  
  
• Imported posts: LiveJournal posts imported to Dreamwidth are attributed to an OpenID account associated with your LiveJournal username. Dreamwidth is working on a way to let Dreamwidth users "claim" their OpenID Livejournal accounts, but that's not yet live.
  
  (More info about community importing: Happy Holidays, Have a Shiny Thing; Community Importing is Live; Community Import FAQ.)

As always, if anything above seems unclear, incorrect, unworkable, or a bad idea, please let us know. I'll be updating the FAQ and community sidebars a bit later.

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(As you can prolly tell from this post, hah!)

We've noticed that there are a lot of people around Dreamwidth who used to be members of the LJ comm 50books_poc, but who nowadays pretty much don't use LiveJournal for anything ever. This comm is for you. It's also for those of you who simply prefer to do your chromatic book blogging here, rather than there.

(And a fast introduction for those of you who don't know what 50books_poc is: it's a challenge to read books by chromatic authors. The original challenge was to read fifty books (however you want to define a book) within one calendar year of your choice, but we're just as happy to have you write your own challenge, or even participate in a no-challenge way. Basically, we just want a space where people are reading books by authors of color, and then talking about them, and we want more people to be reading more books by chromatic authors. If a challenge is going to make you less likely to do that, then don't do a challenge, just read and talk about books. If a challenge is going to make you more likely to do that, then do a challenge.)

oyceter, carene, and I are looking for input on how to manage the two sites with respect to each other. Should the two sites be mirrors of each other? Should they be independent/parallel under one management? A hybrid of the two? Something else? Please talk among yourselves about what you'd like to see (either here or on Livejournal), and we'll use that to put together some concrete proposals.

(Also, signal boosting! If you know where and how we should be doing that, please let us know! Or just go out and boost the signal yourselves, that's good, too!)

In the meanwhile, please do consider this comm open for business. The FAQ and posting rules from the LJ comm applies (and we'll set up a mirror of the FAQ over here once we make a decision about the technical issues around crossposting and importer and whatnot).

If you've got any questions for us, please drop them in the comments!