12-16-2014, 07:47 AM
Hi There, Welcome to OA!
As Steve says, the project is still quite active, although things are a little quiet just at the moment due to a mix of the upcoming holidays (some folks are traveling or visiting family or whatever and so aren't active right now), time of day, and just general fluctuations in list traffic. We're all volunteers here, so OA basically gets done as a spare time activity
Regarding your ideas, please feel free to post them to the General Setting Discussion forum for initial consideration and discussion. Once things have been hashed out there, you can then convert them into an EG entry and post in the EG section. That generally triggers another round of discussion and possible final tweaks and revisions before the finalized article goes into the pipeline for addition to the setting.
If you want, you can also just post an EG from the get go, assuming you're comfortable with the style and such. That will still trigger discussion and suggestions for modifications, and probably some revisions before final submission, so it's all good in the end.
Along with the EG entries, there's also Voices:Future Tense, which is our ezine where members inclined to do stories and artwork get to have their stuff presented.
Finally, if you're looking for hard science SF, we can likely recommend a number of books of various levels of 'hardness'. Just ask and folks will be happy to offer suggestions or point you at relevant parts of the website.
Hope this helps and if you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to post em in the relevant sub-forums or whichever one you think works best.
And once again, Welcome to OA
Todd
As Steve says, the project is still quite active, although things are a little quiet just at the moment due to a mix of the upcoming holidays (some folks are traveling or visiting family or whatever and so aren't active right now), time of day, and just general fluctuations in list traffic. We're all volunteers here, so OA basically gets done as a spare time activity
Regarding your ideas, please feel free to post them to the General Setting Discussion forum for initial consideration and discussion. Once things have been hashed out there, you can then convert them into an EG entry and post in the EG section. That generally triggers another round of discussion and possible final tweaks and revisions before the finalized article goes into the pipeline for addition to the setting.
If you want, you can also just post an EG from the get go, assuming you're comfortable with the style and such. That will still trigger discussion and suggestions for modifications, and probably some revisions before final submission, so it's all good in the end.
Along with the EG entries, there's also Voices:Future Tense, which is our ezine where members inclined to do stories and artwork get to have their stuff presented.
Finally, if you're looking for hard science SF, we can likely recommend a number of books of various levels of 'hardness'. Just ask and folks will be happy to offer suggestions or point you at relevant parts of the website.
Hope this helps and if you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to post em in the relevant sub-forums or whichever one you think works best.
And once again, Welcome to OA
Todd