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dingsi: FONSFAQ Projects Masterlist

FONSFAQ stands for "Frequently (Or Not So Frequently) Asked Questions" (about a particular topic). Someone hosts a topic, preferably one per entry, and then in comments people can ask - i.e. leave prompts - or claim some issue relating to the topic that they have always wanted to explain/write about. The host then collects the links to all essays that people have written in reply to the prompts and everybody has a lot to read and learn!

I would kind of like to do a FONSFAQ but I don't know what I'd be enough of an expert in. :\ Maybe New Orleans?

dw_nifty: Your own domain as an OpenID in two lines*

I just set up OpenID at my woefully out-of-date but pithier URL of http://metawidget.net. Like my e-mail over there, the idea is to future-proof my online identity: I more or less own my own domain, whereas it is possible that Dreamwidth, myOpenID, Livejournal or whoever else will do something I don't like (or just be reduced to a smoking crater by a DDoS or an antitrust lawsuit or something). Through the miracle of OpenID delegation, if I get sick of whatever site is doing the OpenID listing, I just fire them, change these two lines, and keep my OpenID. Also, it might motivate me to clean up my site, archive some stuff, and all that.

leverage_flashfic! First prompt goes live on April 25th.

frequently (or not so frequently) asked questions: NEW ORLEANS

Welcome to the post where you get to ask questions about New Orleans! Inspired by assorted other FONSFAQ projects, originating with dingsi, who is maintaining a masterlist.

Any topic is fair game, as long as it relates to New Orleans. I personally am qualified to say stuff about:

schools (I went to a Catholic school, a non-religious private school, and a public school)

history (especially free women of color before the Civil War, considering I just wrote 30 pages about that topic)

culture

food (although you may be getting my typescript of my mom or sister's answer)

And, as that last parenthetical aside suggests, I am willing to consult with my sister (another born-and-raised New Orleanian now living elsewhere) and my parents (who both live there now).

harpers_child has also volunteered to answer questions. Other people can volunteer, too! Volunteering can be as minimal as answering one question and you don't need to pre-register or anything. This post is happening in my journal because it needs to happen in somebody's journal; this is not my pet project that I am all possessive about. Feel free to link as widely as you desire and contribute however works best for you.

To ask a question: leave a top-level comment with PROMPT in the subject. One question per comment, please.

To provide an answer: post your answer to your own journal. Then reply to the question-comment with a link.

You may post questions starting now; I would encourage you to post answers during the three_weeks_for_dw period of April 25th through May 15th.