[SKRIVA] Om EAPA - gå gärna med!

From: Ahrvid <ahrvid@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "skriva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <skriva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 11:55:26 +0100
Nedan en sak jag skrivit för bl a 
http://scifiportal.eu/pioneering-eapa-10th-anniversary-arriving-ahrvid-engholm-sweden/
 för  att se om det går att värva nya medlemmar. Saken är den att EAPA riskerar 
att läggas ned utan nytt friskt blod. Och det precis som man kan fira 10 
år...och det vore trist! Vad EAPA och det här med APAs är förklaras i början - 
det har en lång historia! Det är på engelska då det är vad man helst bör skriva 
på i EAPA (men man har hittills haft iaf två svenska medlemmar och en dansk, 
oaktat att jag inte har riktig koll på medlemskadrar genom åren). Den som 
skriver något som kan passa i detta sammanhang (och det kan vara praktiskt 
taget vad som helst), fundera på att gå med! Kontaktperson under punkt 3. --AE
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Pioneering EAPA 10th anniversary arriving
- but will it be the last?

When everyone talks about apps, don't forget APAs! The idea of an "Amateur 
Press Association" (APA) for amateur writers and publishers, began in the US 
and the UK in the late 19th Century. See eg 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_press_association .
APAs spread to science fiction fandom in the 1930's with Fantasy APA in 1937,  
soon followed by others - and HP Lovecraft had already been heavily involved in 
the old APA world. The idea is simply to produce amateur publications and send 
copies to a central Official Editor (OE), who collates them into mailings for 
all members. 
It can be seen as an early very slow and manual Internet on paper... Nowadays 
it can be done through the net itself.  EAPA (Electronic APA) was possibly 
first (at least in fandom) a decade ago. Its 120th monthly (= 10 years) mailing 
is coming up in April.
But it may be the last.
The OE has to step down for private reasons and membership has dropped. In the 
last mailings the few remaining members have discussed What To Do. No one has 
yet been willing to take over as OE and more members are desperately needed. If 
you're interested you can study the "open mailings" of EAPA here: 
http://www.efanzines.com/eapa/
The October mailings are usually open, others are password protected. It's been 
suggested to make all mailings open. Anyone who could step in as new OE would 
probably have the final say about that and other administrative changes. If 
you're interested in joining and help EAPA to survive (against odds that 
unfortunately seem bleak at the moment) the requirements are easy:

1. Write an electronic "mini fanzine" of at lest one page. Contents can be 
virtually anything, but fandom and related stuff is often discussed. Comments 
to previous mailings are common. (It has happened that members short on time 
have written just a few lines in a big typeface...)

2. Make a PDF-file of it, which can be done directly in many word processors or 
be easily produced by seperate programs, downloadable for free on most 
shareware sites.

3. Send it the first day of at least every second month - or every month if you 
prefer - to the OE chuck.connor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (note: for use only until 
April). Shortly, you'll have a file with the new thrilling EAPA mailing!

To write at least something every second month shouldn't break anybody's back - 
so don't hesitate! There are no membership fees. And, of course, it may be 
practical to write in English, though the rules don't mention language. 
(Members have this far tended to be from the UK, North America and the Nordic 
countries, but it would be exciting to connect to other regions!)
See it as doing a small blog by other means. A way to get to know new fans. 
Test ideas and thoughts in a more informal environment. A place dump those 
interesting pictures you don't know what to do with (reduce them first to keep 
the PDF to a reasonable size). Or that text your cat wrote when it played with 
mouse and keyboard.

--Ahrvid Engholm

(In EAPA since 2011. Join to read my excellent, exclusive minizine 
Intermission!)

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