weekly summary: founding through 2007.06.03

[ainsley]

edit: information regarding the poll updated at 21.54 EDT on 2007.06.04.

key posts

astolat clarifies posting guidelines and the project's current status. The key points:

• please do not make a new top-level post here without running it by the moderators, unless it's a post you've been asked to do
• after gchick posts her summary of the original discussion here,

Comments

[astolat]

This rocks! Thank you!

[ainsley]

Thank you for giving me the opportunity!

I'm working on the final URL poll now; it'll be up sometime during prime-time TV on the East Coast.

[astolat]

Actually, I just went and looked at the poll, and let me save you the time -- the separation there is clear enough to pick out the ten most popular or so, and we need a pretty good list to go to the lawyers with anyway, as a formal trademark search might KO a bunch of them. Yay!

[ainsley]

I had it mostly finished, but that does make sense. If it's okay with you, I will update this post to reflect that:

• the voting has closed
• there will not be a second poll, because
• you and the lawyers will discuss the top ten suggestions (without regard to .com/.net, et cetera, as that is also part of the necessary discussion with them)
• those top ten were fanarchive, archiveofourown, fan-archive, ourarchive, byfansforfans, the-multiverse, transformativefiction, fanfictional, fictorium, and thefanworks.

Additionally, I had taken all of the suggestions and placed them in order of votes received, so if you want a tidier list of all votes to take to the lawyer, I can e-mail it to you.