ukuloonie
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Howdo Ukuloonie here
I'm just getting ready for the new season and I was thinking that we need to iron out some guidelines to help new hosts or participants to get a better idea of what we do. I want to keep this as easy going as possible, cause otherwise it ain't fun and that is what this season is all about to have fun share your love for Music, The Ukulele and to get to know people you would never meet in any normal circumstance and to become more of a community.
Do any of these ideas sound good?
Do you have any other suggestions that I could include?
Most of these ideas we are doing already they just needed to be formed into a more cohesive manner.
Seasonistas:
These are ideas for shaping the Seasons challenges a little bit in the second year, so everyone has similar expectations. Notice the word is "guidelines," not "rules"---we're still the easy-going Seasonistas.
Should the Seasons be a separate section of the Forum like the Ukulele builders/Luthier lounge, Maybe lounge in the Seasons section?
GUIDELINES FOR HOSTS (not rules)
1. Seasons hosts should have the Seasonista experience. Only one posted video in a Season makes you a Seasonista, so jump in somewhere before you sign up to host.
People can host 2 times per season, people and can host a third just that they should be willing to share that week if a person who hasn't hosted at all that year would like to have a go. We get new people joining in all the time.
Would there be a better way to deal with this in the aloha spirit?
2. Hosts should at least acknowledge every entry and comment on it.
3. Hosts should make every effort to comment often. It feels much more like a party if the host comments regularly through the week. Working people may find it hard, but the host should try to check in daily and at least let participants know when the comments on all posts and the results are expected.
Maybe if you can't comment often, don't choose that week to host.
4. Hosts should try to wrap up judging/selecting fairly quickly. The Seasons are very fast-moving, and it will be simpler to keep track if they wrap up soon after the entry time ends. (Maybe the Saturday after it ends?)
This will simplify the confusing weekends.
5. Hosts should pay particular attention to new posters, because for many people, it takes nerve to reveal themselves in their playing. A warm welcome is likely to keep them coming back.
THEME
Try to choose a theme that has not been done before.
Some themes have been a particular artist (Woody Guthrie), a musical style (country, Latin-influenced), a musical era (British invasion), a musical effect (percussion), a natural element (rain), an abstract concept (home, dreams, heaven/hell), another language (French), multiple versions of one song (Take Me Out to the Ballgame), and let's-have-fun ideas (guilty pleasures).
TIMING
A Season begins on Saturday---and please late on Saturday evening in the US so the previous week is not disrupted early. It ends 8 days later on Sunday midnight (usually on Hawaii time).
PARAMETERS
Entries must be new recordings for the Season and must say so in the video. One entry per Season.
Beyond that, the host chooses what qualifies (e.g., one take only, costumes, multitracking, what earns bonus points). Sometimes a host rules out a song or two for being too obvious for the theme.
Bonus songs may have other parameters.
RECOMMEND A LIMIT to bonus entries per person---host to decide.
JUDGING
Choose any method. Judging on skill,Participants vote, selecting with thrown knives, participant votes, and drawing from a hat all have worked. Hybrid styles work too. (Participants of lower skill levels have a chance to win with drawings.)
PRIZES
Whatever the host wants to give. They usually have some relation to ukes, music, or the theme of the week. Sometimes they're jokes. Generally they are of little monetary value. The host sends them to the winners.
To the Participants:
Do you crave and enjoy feedback and encouragement? Every player does!
Boost your karma by commenting on entries, even those that don't seem special to you. Those players are doing their best at their own levels.
Try to comment in the thread without copying the video as the thread gets very long and heard to go through when looking for new entries.
I'm just getting ready for the new season and I was thinking that we need to iron out some guidelines to help new hosts or participants to get a better idea of what we do. I want to keep this as easy going as possible, cause otherwise it ain't fun and that is what this season is all about to have fun share your love for Music, The Ukulele and to get to know people you would never meet in any normal circumstance and to become more of a community.
Do any of these ideas sound good?
Do you have any other suggestions that I could include?
Most of these ideas we are doing already they just needed to be formed into a more cohesive manner.
Seasonistas:
These are ideas for shaping the Seasons challenges a little bit in the second year, so everyone has similar expectations. Notice the word is "guidelines," not "rules"---we're still the easy-going Seasonistas.
Should the Seasons be a separate section of the Forum like the Ukulele builders/Luthier lounge, Maybe lounge in the Seasons section?
GUIDELINES FOR HOSTS (not rules)
1. Seasons hosts should have the Seasonista experience. Only one posted video in a Season makes you a Seasonista, so jump in somewhere before you sign up to host.
People can host 2 times per season, people and can host a third just that they should be willing to share that week if a person who hasn't hosted at all that year would like to have a go. We get new people joining in all the time.
Would there be a better way to deal with this in the aloha spirit?
2. Hosts should at least acknowledge every entry and comment on it.
3. Hosts should make every effort to comment often. It feels much more like a party if the host comments regularly through the week. Working people may find it hard, but the host should try to check in daily and at least let participants know when the comments on all posts and the results are expected.
Maybe if you can't comment often, don't choose that week to host.
4. Hosts should try to wrap up judging/selecting fairly quickly. The Seasons are very fast-moving, and it will be simpler to keep track if they wrap up soon after the entry time ends. (Maybe the Saturday after it ends?)
This will simplify the confusing weekends.
5. Hosts should pay particular attention to new posters, because for many people, it takes nerve to reveal themselves in their playing. A warm welcome is likely to keep them coming back.
THEME
Try to choose a theme that has not been done before.
Some themes have been a particular artist (Woody Guthrie), a musical style (country, Latin-influenced), a musical era (British invasion), a musical effect (percussion), a natural element (rain), an abstract concept (home, dreams, heaven/hell), another language (French), multiple versions of one song (Take Me Out to the Ballgame), and let's-have-fun ideas (guilty pleasures).
TIMING
A Season begins on Saturday---and please late on Saturday evening in the US so the previous week is not disrupted early. It ends 8 days later on Sunday midnight (usually on Hawaii time).
PARAMETERS
Entries must be new recordings for the Season and must say so in the video. One entry per Season.
Beyond that, the host chooses what qualifies (e.g., one take only, costumes, multitracking, what earns bonus points). Sometimes a host rules out a song or two for being too obvious for the theme.
Bonus songs may have other parameters.
RECOMMEND A LIMIT to bonus entries per person---host to decide.
JUDGING
Choose any method. Judging on skill,Participants vote, selecting with thrown knives, participant votes, and drawing from a hat all have worked. Hybrid styles work too. (Participants of lower skill levels have a chance to win with drawings.)
PRIZES
Whatever the host wants to give. They usually have some relation to ukes, music, or the theme of the week. Sometimes they're jokes. Generally they are of little monetary value. The host sends them to the winners.
To the Participants:
Do you crave and enjoy feedback and encouragement? Every player does!
Boost your karma by commenting on entries, even those that don't seem special to you. Those players are doing their best at their own levels.
Try to comment in the thread without copying the video as the thread gets very long and heard to go through when looking for new entries.
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