1) Why make a SEN History?
I have a personal reason. I've seen the organization, growth, and eventual splintering and shrinking of all-volunteer, creative-geared organizations happen twice now and for (IMO) similar reasons. I'm looking to avoid this pitfall with my own all-volunteer organization. History is doomed to be repeated if not learned from! A number of you may have similarly applicable examples to research for occasions in your own life. Also, I'm sure a number of us have been wondering what this site was like before we came here. I think I have a pretty good idea about what happened since July 2005, but before that, I really don't have much more than vague notions.
2) How to organize the history?
There are a number of ways this could be done, and you all are welcome to suggest structuring ideas, but here's a few that came to mind: A) Chronologically (We could do chapters based on 2003, 2004, 2005, etc., for instance). B) By Subject (Focusing on specific forums, events, public movements). C) Biographically (Focus on people deemed significant enough to warrant having interlinking biographies written about them).
3) What falls into SEN's history and what doesn't?
There have been events significant to SEN that started outside of the forum itself. I know that a number of SEN's founders got their start at a different forum (Blizzforums?) where they talked about forming SEN. And of course, Maplantis was significant to SEN"s history. We should be in agreement here. Without focus, this project will be too large and unmanageable.
4) How to update it?
The history should have a means for future editors to keep it updated, so that the history doesn't stop at the end of 2009, for instance.
If there are anymore significant discussions, let's have them now. I'd be happy to serve as chief editor, but I'm happy to do some research too and if anyone else is interested in editing, please say so. Here's some sources for history that will be of interest:
http://www.staredit.net/?faq=13
http://doodle77.dyndns.org/staticsen.php
http://www.staredit.net/maplantis/
http://blizzforums.com/showthread.php?t=2758 (I'm not sure how to find other topics by SEN members)
Let's do this thing! Once we have some volunteers and a good idea about organization, this thing should come together faster than you think!
Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Dec 27 2009, 11:51 pm by Doodan.
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