Thank you so much for putting this together @crosheille and thank you for all the time you spent on this. It is really sweet and kind of you π.
I would like to volunteer βπ (not sure for which task yet) and I agree with @shanibeer that this will need more conversation to see what each of us who volunteers can help out with and how to go about doing this together.
I agree with using the SteemitMamas discord channel first for our initial discussions while we figure things out. Once we are more settled, we can look into creating a dedicated channel for NeedleworkMonday :) or maybe not if SteemitMamas works for everyone.
And like most of us in this community, I too will try to comment, upvote everyone's post in this tag. So, I think once we "see" things more clearly on who would like to contribute what, we can come up with a schedule or roster to take turns to do the curation, resteems, upvotes, maintenance and discord. We will probably have a curation, resteem team, a maintenance team and a discord team and etc.
But that would also mean, we may need some form of standard to ensure we are consistent in our replies, curation, upvotes, resteems (or maybe not :D - just based on our personal taste). The curation, resteem team must then agree who will be featured in the weekly curation post.
For the maintenance team, I think everyone who are regulars in this community can help to monitor this and report any abnormalities or abuse of the tag to the maintenance team who can then take action to give warning to the person.
The discord team can discuss how best to move forward with the discord channel - figure out how to create a channel, how to monitor, guidelines for the channel, etc.
As for projects/challenge ideas, we can have a bi-weekly or once a month challenge so that for the other weeks, our craftpals can showcase their personal projects while working on the projects / challenges. At the same time, projects / challenges will need to be applicable for all types of needlework so that it is not limited to just crochet or knitting or sewing that only some of us can participate in. I think @phoenixwren has started the ball rolling π with this week's upcycling contest-a fabulous idea! We can have small projects based on a featured post, e.g. @cryptocariad wrote a tutorial for a spectacle case, the project/challenge can be to create your version of a spectacle case (it can be crocheting, kniting, sewing, felting, any form of needlework) :).
That is my two cents for now :) Sorry for rambling away :D
Wow what great feedback you have given!! Thank you for your detailed ideas! No apologies necessary, I really appreciate you sharing your thoughts.
I agree as well. Hopefully soon we will be better able to communicate these ideas once we have a spot set for us on Discord...it is in the works as we speak (or type haaaa)! Thank you for your willingness to volunteer! π
Thank you for your support in this community. From the looks of it we might not have enough people right now to form teams but I am just excited to have even a few volunteer their time. So for those that are able to help weβll just have to share the tasks according to what each of us is willing and has time to do. I do love your team idea and as we grow Iβm sure there will be more volunteers where we can form them!
I agree that if anyone sees any irregularities they can report them and we can handle them from there. We can set a standard of how this should be handled as well.
One of the reasons I wanted to reach out about the projects/challenges was because it is a challenge in itself to include everyone in them. I really donβt want to do projects that only pertain to certain skills so I am loving the feedback on this. I absolutely LOVE your idea of having projects based on featured post!! What a genius idea!!! That would be a great way of encouraging others to give these projects a try!! π
I love our community!!! πβ€οΈ