On 24-3-2013 20:30, Christian Froeschlin wrote:
> Stephen wrote:
>
>> As always, your comments are appreciated.
>
> I think a good mix would be
>
> 1 week   - doodle topic for people with commitment phobia
> 2 months - room for traditonalists
> 6 month  - diligent scene builders with availability issues

The problem with 1 week is the "fixed" return period of 2 months for 
each challenge. Assuming that we cannot make significant changes to the 
site building, this would pose a problem.

6 months, imho, seems a bit too long. I am afraid people will forget 
about it before the challenge is ended, rushing in during the last two 
weeks to finish a scene started six months before but forgotten in 
between. Personally, I would suggest 4 months as the longest challenge.

>
> I'm not quite sure how you intend to handle submissions with
> multiple contests. I reckon the submission periods should not
> overlap either? Depending on the constraints a 6 month pattern
> could fit multiple shorter contests.

This is a problem I thought of waking up suddenly this night. ;-) Not 
sure how to solve that elegantly presently indeed.

>
> BTW: Do you have access to the data generated by the contests?
> It sounds like the site is very much hanging on the goodwill of
> an unknown entity and it would be too bad if all the images
> will be lost at some point in the future without backup.

Not sure. The data may disappear, but so did most of the IRTC data, or 
am I wrong there? That data seems to be only partially available nowadays.

Thomas

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