Saturday March
3rd, 2001.
TifaIA, Dragit, mckitlk.
Mckitlk's friend got back to her with
a name idea for the web ring she's thinking of starting. She likes it, but
hasn't yet had time to research it.
Tifa has continued working on her site, and has most of the bugs fixed.
We discussed what she should do with the IA petitions she's collected.
She's going to scan them into her computer for backups, and then mail
copies to both DreamWorks and Steven Spielberg. Jason will send her a file
for the online petition, which she can include.
Jason has been unable to find a good web host that will let him use CGI
scripts. However, he's trying CGI-For-Me, the site that previously hosted
the online petition. He's waiting for confirmation of his membership. That
site has a history of crashing and wiping out files, however. If he does
set up the petition there, he plans to back it up frequently.
Saturday March
17th, 2001.
TifaIA, mckitlk.
Mckitlk had a chance to do some
research on her friend's idea for a web ring. She's not quite sure it will
work, but plans to check it out some more. She hopes to get the ring going
soon.
Tifa hasn't mailed the petitions yet, because she hasn't received a copy
of the online petition from Jason. She plans to check with him about it.
She came up with the idea of trying a 'Procott' for IA. It's intended to
be the opposite of a boycott -- fans will agree to buy sponsors'
products, and let the sponsors know what they're doing and why. A similar
idea was used by the Sailor Moon fans and was one reason they were
successful in getting that show renewed. Tifa thinks is that we can vote
on which products to procott, and possibly we can do several over a period
of time. This will be a good tie-in for IA's 3rd anniversary this summer.
She'll check with her Sailor Moon contact for more information, and then
put up a post about it on the message board.
Saturday March 31st, 2001.
TifaIA, mckitlk.
Tifa has received a copy of the
online petition from Jason. She'll make a copy and then send it to
DreamWorks and to Steven Spielberg. She'll also post the information she
received from her Sailor Moon contact regarding the procott they used to
help get their show renewed.
Mckitlk has set up her web ring, _Ozzie and Harriet's Place, on Yahoo.
She's received her first site submission but hasn't yet had time to check
it out.
Combo Log
Saturday, April 14th, 2001; Saturday, April 28th, 2001; and Saturday, May
12th, 2001.
TifaIA and mckitlk attended all
three meetings. Psycho-Mime was at the two April meetings. AJN/Darth Oosha
attended the April 14th meeting. Dragit attended the meeting for
April 21st. Lost Mind attended the May 12th meeting.
For anyone who uses an IRC chat
program (such as mIRC) to access the chat room: The channel has been
changed from #invasion to #ia. This was done beginning with the April 28th
meeting. Jason and Tifa said the #invasion channel had been taken over by
others when they were there on April 21st.
AJN: There was still a copy of an IA tape available on eBay that day. As
he indicated on the WB message board, he'll be making copies of his tape
to give to other people who ask for them. He also made the point that
registering on online forums with IA names can help to draw attention to
our show.
Jason: The IA website received 24 hits that week. He sent a copy of the
online petition to Tifa to be mailed to DreamWorks and Spielberg. He found
that the CGI-For-Me site will no longer work for the online petition
because the owners made changes that prevent email addresses from working.
Mckitlk has offered to host the petition on her site until a better
solution can be found. Jason is to send her a list of the information he
needs so he can modify his scripts to work at that location. Mckitlk also
sent him the URL for a Java hosting site, but it doesn't support the kind
of CGI scripts used for the petition. She may be able to write a Java
equivalent.
Mckitlk: She'd gotten a site submission for her webring, but had to turn
it down because of unacceptable content and has had no more submissions
since. She's looking around again to see if there are any other webrings
she can join. As of the May 12th meeting, Jason had sent her the list of
information he needed to modify the scripts for the petition, and she's
sent it to him.
Tifa: She mailed the petitions to DreamWorks and Spielberg. Right after
that, someone returned an additional petition. She plans to send the
petitions again and will include the new one.
Saturday, May 26th, 2001.
TifaIA, mckitlk.
Tifa has been updating her site. She
also sent out an email to fans who haven't been on the WB message board,
to ask for any remaining petitions they might have lying around. She plans
to send another mailing to Spielberg and DreamWorks, including the new
petitions she receives.
Discussion turned to whether we should continue with the "Save IA"
meetings and group efforts. The consensus is that we probably don't have
enough of a fan base left to warrant it. Mckitlk will write a message on
this and get Tifa's input. She'll then post the final draft on the WB
message board and email it to the fans on her list. |
