Frederick the Great discussion post 9

[cahn]

...I leave you guys alone for one weekend and it's time for a new Fritz post, lol!

I'm gonna reply to the previous post comments but I guess new letter-reading, etc. should go in this one :)

Frederick the Great links

Comments

A couple of logistics questions

[cahn]

1. Mildred, can I link your Fritzian library at the link post? Wanted to ask before I did that. I guess one needs permission but I could put in a note to ask you about that :)

2. I've been wondering: should we make a DW community? I should say that I definitely do not mind At All hosting it on this DW! (I feel like one of those French salon people :D ) I was just thinking it might make it slightly easier for e.g. other people to find our discussions? (Although I suppose iberiandoctor got sucked in because it's here and not in a community, so there's that :D )

Re: A couple of logistics questions

[mildred_of_midgard]

1. Hmm. I've been thinking about that. If the contents were entirely public domain, I wouldn't mind. But a couple files are not, and I'm iffy. I suppose I could move those into a different folder shared with just you two, and make the rest publicly available (and read-only). It could be like the Hogwarts library, with a restricted section.

(Btw, your links post is missing posts 6-9. I suppose you could just link to the tag now that there is one?)

2. Re the community, I'm leaning toward keeping things here for several reasons:
a) Keeping everything in one place, since we can't import our existing 9 posts.
b) I don't feel like DW communities are so active that a niche topic like this is going to get much more activity than it would get just from the three of us telling our respective followers about it? I could be wrong.
c) We have a really good alchemy and momentum going here that I'm reluctant to mess with, unless there's something specific about this environment that other people are finding a problem. It's really working for me.

But if the team votes for a migration, I will follow you along and may even end up grateful, who knows. :) (I am currently grateful my wife at the last minute talked me out of the place we almost moved to this year and into a different place.)

(I feel like one of those French salon people :D )

I feel like I called you our salon hostess at one point! Or if I didn't, I certainly thought about it. And selenak is obviously our reader, and we have a royal patron. That just leaves me. The librarian? Making information available is turning out to be my superpower. :D

Re: A couple of logistics questions

[cahn]

1. I think that is a great solution.

(Yeah, I think it makes more sense to just link to the tag at this point!)

2. It looks like there is not a great impetus for a migration, but I wanted to bring it up in case people were interested in that. I agree not being able to import the posts is kind of a bummer, and it's true that it might disturb this magic alchemy that we have here without mercury I might add

I think you did call me the salon hostess! I'm just feeling it even more since I have been reading the Emilie bio (which I've finally finished but it will take me a while to write it up -- you and selenak do this so quickly, I am in awe)

Re: A couple of logistics questions

[mildred_of_midgard]

1. Will put organizing it on my list then, and let you know when it's done! Hopefully today, although comments are moving fast, lol.

2. magic alchemy that we have here without mercury I might add

Laughed so much, you have no idea. Poor Fredersdorf!

Totally looking forward to the write-up whenever you have time! It's selenak you should be in awe of; I have no job at this time and virtually no other hobbies. Also virtually no family in terms of demands on my time. I have two things: health problems, and Fritz fandom. And if it weren't for our magical alchemy, I would be in a much unhappier place.

We have the healthy, mercury-free kind of alchemy!

Constitution of the Fritz Salon

[iberiandoctor]

The salon's consulting attorney here, reporting for duty.

LMK if there are legal queries and I will either provide my views (which shall not amount to legal advice in anyone's jurisdiction) or the quality-controlled views of others, or vaguely gesture in the direction of applicable textbooks!

Re: A couple of logistics questions

[mildred_of_midgard]

It occurred to me that if we ever wanted to consolidate a "best of" collection of our work, we could put *that* into a community called Rheinsberg (journal title "1740 and All That").

It would also give us a chance to solve some of the problems with linking people to our current threads, which is that most of our comments assume knowledge of previous discussion. When someone went to copy a comment into Rheinsberg, they could add supplementary notes, links, and required reading as needed.

Thoughts?

ETA: Of course, we do run the risk of splitting discussion if we *do* get attention there and people leave comments and questions. But at least the main posts could be a little more polished and work as standalone pieces.

Re: A couple of logistics questions

[selenak]

That is a good idea. When I linked iberiandoctor to the Marwitz transcriptions, for example, they were in two different posts, and in a few more months I wouldn't be able to recall anymore where I'd made them. It would be far easier if we pulled the information/quotes from various discussions together and reordered them by topic. For our own future references as well as for potential readers.

Re: A couple of logistics questions

[mildred_of_midgard]

Agreed. We'd also be able to tag them!

Rheinsberg

[mildred_of_midgard]

Okay, I took the liberty of creating a rheinsberg community! I only spent about five minutes putting some bare bones together, because we should all have equal input.

I've invited you both as administrators so you can make whatever changes you want.

I debated "1740 and All That" as a community title, but while it's clever, it's not very informative to the uninitiated and probably won't draw people in. (Do we want that?) If anyone thinks of something that isn't boring but still tells people it's the place to get your Fritz fix, go for it.

[ETA: Aha! It's the community description, not the title, that shows up in search results. So I've set our description to "Frederick the Great" and our title to "1740 and All That". Feel free to offer improvements.]

I listed only a handful of interests; not sure how many of our less famous historical figures we want to list there. I used the English names because it's an English language community and they have the greatest chance of matching on people's searches, even if we use "Heinrich" and "Maria Theresia" in the actual posts.

I've made it so that only select members can post, which so far means the three of us.

Go wild!

Re: Rheinsberg

[selenak]

Posted a selection of Wilhelmine-Fritz correspondance and Lehndorff Diary transcriptions already!