H-MY_5776 v0.1: PDF / WORD.

I did not add the Mi Yodeya one that's listed below the list because I didn't notice it. If y'all think it should go in, let me know.

TODO (not exclusive):

- Edit intro to reflect the second edition.

- Consider adding a plug for other pubs at the bottom of the last page, below the end of the Credits

- Proofread.

@Scimonster

It's a cool 52 pages, which is divisible by 4, which is good for booklet printing. Any changes that change the number of pages should, ideally, result in a net change, mod 4 pages, of 0.

I. Love. This. Book. @Scimonster (and unpingable Monica), thanks very much for pushing it forward. We really are on our way to publishing a full-fledged book, some day.

OOPS! I put Maror before Motzi-Matza. Add fixing that to the TODO.

Thanks! I haven't looked at it yet; will do after Shabbat bli neder.

Also, I think I'd re-arrange Nirtza: Moshiach, 2 * Chad Gadya, Mi Yodeya, rather than 2 * Chad Gadya, Moshiach, Mi Yodeya.

@IsaacMoses thank you for your work on this! I'm looking forward to reading through it all.

@MonicaCellio My pleasure. Like I said, I love this stuff.

@IsaacMoses so do I. I think we will make a really wonderful haggadah someday!

The first edition had 27 Q&As (consolidated from 31 original posts). This one has 37. Word count's up past 18K.

I'm thinking that maybe after this is done, we should open a Meta post for rolling edited content for a Hagada, where people can add new posts over time, as they see new material on MY.

@IsaacMoses That's an excellent idea IMO.

@IsaacMoses I think that's a good idea.

Ninjaed.

Expanding on the idea further, the same format could maybe be used to slow-grow other publications in parallel. If such a post accumulates enough edited content at a fitting time, then we write an intro, do the copy/paste, proofread, and publish.

Like a question-catalog, but with content-editing.

Yes, agreed. I started a post to collect links (not actual edited content) for Sukkot a couple years ago but it hasn't collected much; maybe it would be better to actually do the edits.

I'd thought that dropping a link is easy compared to editing, but dropping a link also doesn't generate as much engagement.

@MonicaCellio I'm thinking that if it's all done in one post, the link-dropping could go into a list in a section of the question post, with each list item to be marked as it's edited once, then twice. The Sukkot list you started could be remade into a kickstarted one of these.

... As could the Sci-Fi catalog, if we want to make a somewhat less conventional digest. (Though I really think there's more value in ones dedicated to holidays with labor-prohibitions.)

If we templatize this process, it could potentially make the publication-generation process a bit more democratic. Already, we've had @Scimonster step up and commit to making a project happen, but with a templated publication-production kit, people could start their pet projects without committing up-front to herding a whole thing through by a deadline.

@IsaacMoses good idea! That way people who just want to drop a link can do so, but it's all in one meta post where people can find the pieces more easily.

@IsaacMoses some unconventional publications can be used for outreach, maybe. Like the short-form Purim one -- one sheet of paper so you can give it to all your friends, and it advertises the full one (and other stuff). Thinking out loud here, a sci-fi catalog could be spread around at some SF cons, maybe ones in areas with larger Jewish presence. Don't know; haven't thought about it.

@IsaacMoses that's a good idea. If curating/editing is an ongoing process then the process of making a specific publication happen is lighter, so more people might step up, if we made it easy for them to know what to do.

@MonicaCellio Balticon! I'll be there are lots of Jews there.

"bet"

@IsaacMoses there was a sizable contingent the one time I went to Balticon, yes.

Oh wait, maybe twice -- I also went to a Worldcon down there, but can't remember if it was Baltimore or DC. Probably doesn't make a difference.

Hmmm... Balticon's happening in about 7 weeks...

@IsaacMoses are you likely to go? (I won't be there.)

Wow, 50th year!

@MonicaCellio Unlikely. I've never gone to a sci-fi con before. If I had specific business there, it wouldn't be too hard for me to visit, since it's not far and on a long weekend.

... If any active Yodeyans do go, just meeting them could be sufficient business for me :)

@IsaacMoses gotcha. I couldn't tell from your previous comment if you did SF cons at all. (I used to attend a few a year, the ones with good music programming in particular, but I've kind of drifted away.)

@MonicaCellio I just hear about them in my sci-fi podcasts

@IsaacMoses especially for a con over a three-day weekend, so meeting up on Sunday is feasible. That's harder for regular-weekend cons if people are packing up and leaving mid-day.

And yes, the chance to meet other active Yodeyans can justify an excursion. :-)

Looks like last year, Balticon coincided with Shavu'ot, so they did a SF+Judaism Tikun Leil Shavu'ot.

Oh wow, I hadn't heard about that! That would have been fun. I wonder if materials are available. (I will try to remember to ask my Silver-Spring-area SF-fan friend, who AFAIK didn't go or he would have said something, but he might know the organizers, maybe.)