I've just recovered from Katsucon 17 to bring you this update of how the panel went. It was decent, even though from our end it took me about 15 minutes to get everything set up due to the fact my laptop was booting slowly than normal, even though we did not gotten to the imageboards we wanted to. Most of the discussion was about the nature of the imageboard culture itself than the imageboards, and also about our website.
Personally, we can do better and I'm doing an improved version of the powerpoint come next convention.
Also, we finally got a twitter and email set up, particually for
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Twitter: [at]YotsubaSociety
Email: yotsubasocietycontact[at]gmail.com
In addition I'm holding a staff drive for archivers and historians, and I'm personally announcing that grey is one of the first archivers of Yotsuba Society.
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Not really. That's the name of the hotel and convention center.
Here is the entire application for both the archivers and historians,
Archivers:
Yotsuba Society Historians research and analyze the content, culture, and historical events of the Western Imageboard culture. A major goal for each one is to produce one major paper per month, along with a small article once per week based on the threads and content from those threads. In addition, they should be able to to write a short, one page paper on any thread or material they deem essential to YS for the archives.
In addition, they research the chan culture and history via the internet and the threads provided by the Archivers or via their own gathering. They also expected to intereact and cooperate with other historians and archivers of YS.
Historians are not moderators, but they do have access to a private staff board and have access to a ## YS Historian capcode.
Historians once hired will be general historians. After six months, they can elect to become a resident historian.
Requirements:
1. 18 years of age.
2. Have experience with writing and research.
3. Have a good command of English along with use of MS Word or similar word processing software for the writing short one page papers, and short and long form articles
4. Has general knowledge or have experience in the imageboard culture.
5. Use of photo editing software for annotating captures of threads
Historian application
1. Real First and last name*
2. Online username
a. Irc nick
b. Forum/imageboard username/tripcode
3. Age
4. Why do you want to be an imageboard historian?
5. Any channing experience? If so, which chans and boards specifically
6. Writing samples?
7. Any experience in writing?
*Please note that if object to putting your real first and last name for any good reason, we will not count that against your application.
Archivers:
Yotsuba Society Archivers maintain the Yotsuba Society Archives, which contains threads from the imageboards, textboards, and irc chatlogs, and anything related to the Western Imageboard Culture. A major requirement is to make research notes on each thread possible for other historians to view and analyze to help make their papers. In addition, they recivie saved threads and images from the various imageboards and then store them, make copies of threads they receive from various sources via any means, such as CD or DVD discs, or an external hard drive.
The Archivers will maintain the Yotsuba Society archives which will launch in the future.
Archivers are not moderators, but do have access to a private staff board and have access to a ## YS Archivist capcode. Archivers will first start off as general archivers, then they can focus on one imageboard and/or site after six months.
Requirements
1. 18 years of age
2. Have some experience with writing
3. Have a good command of English
4. Have a external hard drive and/or recordable CDs/DVDs to back up and regularly keep backups of threads and pictures
5. Has general knowledge or have experience in the imageboard culture.
6. Use of photo editing software for annotating threads and ms word or similar word processing software for research notes
7. Previous experience as a archivist.
1. Real First and last name*
2. Online username
Irc nick
Forum/imageboard username and tripcode
3. Age
4. Why do you want to be an imageboard archivist?
5. Any channing experience? If so, which chans and boards specifically
6. Do you have any secondary storage for the threads you save?
7. Writing samples?
8. Any writing or research experience?
*Please note that if object to putting your real first and last name for any good reason, we will not count that against your application.
Please send either application to yotsubasocietycontact[at]gmail.com