I'm still fine to do the PPC and young writers, as well as answering the questions, as long as you don't want it before the end of April :) On the other hand, I see you've mentioned the 10th of May, so that's fine (I hope). Depends how many holidays I get flooded with in between.

~DF

...and I have a transcript of what I plan on reading. I'd like you to look it over before I read it, if you don't mind.

Is there a deadline? Because I'll probably never write it if I don't have a deadline. I am a horrible procrastinator, so if left to my own devices it'll never get written.

I was thinking a brief overview of OFUs and OFU writing, then a comparison with PPC writing. Good?

I'll answer the "everyone questions" here, if you don't mind. Feel free to edit for length.

1. How I found the PPC...that is a long story. It starts in late 2011 - no, earlier. Much earlier, when I first started to read fanfiction. I was browsing fanfiction on Deviant Art (a rather stupid idea, in hindsight), and came across a fic involving my favorite Star Trek character and also Lust Object, Lt. Commander Data. Unfortunately, said fic was plotless smut between Data and a female character I'd never seen before, who had no character development whatsoever. Then and there I vowed to hate those sorts of characters for eternity. Later, I found a fanfiction called The Official Fanfiction University of the Federation - a one chapter beginning to a Star Trek: TNG OFU. It seemed to me to be a godsend, and I left a glowing review and waited for an update. It never came.
~skip a couple years~
My sister and I got Kindle Touchs, which have rudimentary Internet. Fanfiction is very comfortable to read on them, and she asked me for fic recs and I went to find the Official Fanfiction University of the Federation. In rereading it, I noticed a recommendation for OFUM in the author's note, and went to read it. I thought it was awesome, and went to find the second part. There was a crossover chapter with HFA in the second part, so I read HFA, which had references to the PPC. I found the Original Series on Miss Cam's website, and somehow found the wiki. From there, I found my way to the Board, and here I am.

2. I decided to stay because I'd been lurking around the wiki, and I'd gotten the impression that you guys were pretty awesome. I became aware of the PPC sense of humor, developed agents, found badfic to spork, etc., before posting on the Board. So posting on the Board was really just a way of alerting you to my membership.

3. Lots more newbies have joined, and a lot of them are Star Trek fans. And lookit! World-Jumper and DawnFire already have Permission! The newbies grow up so fast...

4. Jay and Acacia...hm. Just that I'm grateful to them for starting this awesome community.

The OFUM one? It looks like it's still open?

I'd like to claim it. I can write it if you want me too, and can video myself talking. Whatever you need, and such.

Also, kind of cool to see the postcard exchange on here. I got at least two people in trouble with their parents for that one. Still, it was fun. I think I tried to do three too soon after two, but I'm thinking I might try it again soon.

I should be able to answer the 'everyone' questions at least. I'll record it as audio, assuming that I work out how to - do you have a preferred file format (or any to avoid)?

I'm still up for this, definitely. My only query is "Is there any particular excerpt from Rambling Band that's been selected to read, or should I just choose a section?"

Because I'm the type who'd end up reading the whole thing, left to my own devices. :P

I'm also willing to fill in for any of the others that need it, at our director's discretion. Preferences are OFUM, Reorg or TVTropes.

*scoops up mini-boarder Myrddyn, then begins to grumble because she starts to question where the "y" actually does go in her name for a minute*

Well I suppose since I've volunteered to be a reader, I can read my own piece about OFUM. XD I'd be happy to take on DawnFire's - How the PPC impacts young writers, if it's not volunteered for already, and things needing voice that wind up unclaimed later are fine to send my way too. :)

*wanders off to email Huinesoron since she claimed to be up to voice acting* Totally launching my career with this!

If you're not looking for anything too dramatically detailed, I could probably make a drawing or two in the next month or so.

If you were even looking for drawings. And if no one else is available to draw, since the majority of people here are probably better artists than me.

I'm around to do whatever needs doing, by which I mean whatever nobody else wants to do.

I should maybe contribute to this, seeing as I've been around for a good deal of it. ^^;

I AM the webmistress over at The Lost Tales, so I can give you something about that. There's not really much to say, though—GeoCities announced its death throes, there was a scramble to grab stuff, and a bunch of it ended up there, with more ending up on the PPC LJ and/or individual archival LJs (Calista did a bunch of this, IIRC) and/or your webplex. I actually found a lot of the material I ended up with was already on ff.net or hosted by Miss Cam, which was a bit frustrating after I'd put the work in. Some of the unique items I've got there actually went missing separately from non-GeoCities sites, like the original APD missions and Teena and Wyldehorse's spinoff. Odd Lots going down prompted more of the same, and I think you grabbed all or most of the stuff hosted there, right?

What other kinds of things do you want to know? I guess I could talk about re-hosting and editing TOS...?

I actually put together an <a href="http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/TVTropes">article about us and TV Tropes on the wiki a while back, so if you don't mind me submitting that, I could cover that section, too.

I am unsure whether I want to, or even can, read aloud. I have a mic, but it hasn't been very reliable lately, and anyway I sound dumb in recordings.

Also, is anything more slated to go into the How We Write featurette, like how missions work, or Permission? Speaking of which, where does Jay and Acacia's departure and the first Permissions Givers fit in? What about the first elected rather than appointed PGs? What about the So Sue Me incident, which made us re-think the definition of "Mary Sue"?

... And shutting up now before that list of questions gets any longer.

I'll come back with some answers to the Everyone questions a bit later, or e-mail them to you.

~Neshomeh