Spin-offs and related activities (admin issue)

[cpressey]

Last year, there were several spin-offs of NaNoGenMo. Anticipating the possibility of this happening again, the purpose of this issue is to have a place to advertise and catalogue them and/or other NaNoGenMo-related activities.

I'll list some historical spin-offs here, and any current spin-offs or related activities can be announced in further posts on this issue.

• NaNoWriMo deserves mention since it's what NaNoGenMo spun off from.
• NaMoDiGenMo 2014 -- a sort of unorganized, emergent subgenre within NaNoGenMo 2014 where an unusually large number of participants did something based on Moby Dick.
• NaOpGenMo 2014 -- instead of a 50k-word novel, spend the (last half of the) month of November 2014 generating a 2.5-hour-long opera.
• NaPoGenMo 2015 -- spend the month of April 2015 writing code that generates a poem. (Held in April to coincide with National Poetry Month)

[cpressey]

PROCJAM 2015 starts on November 7 2015 and lasts for 9 days.

[cpressey]

I've just created a repo for NaOpGenMo 2015. I don't know how much time I'll have to contribute or administrate it, but if, after generating your novel, you think it would make a good libretto... or if you just want to generate some music instead of some text... feel free to open an issue on it.

[enkiv2]

Do all november generative music experiments go under NaOpGenMo even if
they are not truly operatic (i.e., if they omit lyrics)? Or, should
generative music be it's own thing?

Some of the most interesting things in NaNoGenMo2014 were graphic novels,
which of course could not meet the 50k word criterion. A NaCoGenMo with a
150 page qualification (i.e., approximately what a volume of manga from
Tokyopop would contain, or a trade paperback of a DC or Marvel comic
collecting part of a normal run rather than a shorter miniseries) might be
interesting in of itself.

If you or Mike don't have a particular interest in hosting these, I can.

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I've just created a repo for NaOpGenMo 2015
https://github.com/cpressey/NaOpGenMo-2015. I don't know how much time
I'll have to contribute or administrate it, but if, after generating your
novel, you think it would make a good libretto... or if you just want to
generate some music instead of some text... feel free to open an issue on
it.

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[cpressey]

@enkiv2 That's kind of like asking if generative text experiments go under NaNoGenMo even if they are not truly in the form of a novel.

From NaOpGenMo-2015's README (unchanged from last year):

The "opera" is defined however you want. It could be 50,000 beats of middle C played on a clarinet (or, if you are the sort of person for whom an opera must include singing, 50,000 chants of "Meow!" by a tenor.) It could literally grab a random opera from Project Brandenburg The Internet Archive. It doesn't matter, as long as it's at least two and a half hours long.

[enkiv2]

OK, so all generative music experiments can go under NaOpGenMo

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@enkiv2 https://github.com/enkiv2 That's kind of like asking if
generative text experiments go under NaNoGenMo even if they are not truly
in the form of a novel.

From NaOpGenMo-2015's README (unchanged from last year):

The "opera" is defined however you want. It could be 50,000 beats of
middle C played on a clarinet (or, if you are the sort of person for whom
an opera must include singing, 50,000 chants of "Meow!" by a tenor.) It
could literally grab a random opera from Project Brandenburg The Internet
Archive. It doesn't matter, as long as it's at least two and a half hours
long.

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[enkiv2]

Here's a spinoff for comics / image-related generated art with multiple
pages: https://github.com/enkiv2/NaCoGenMo

The rules are the same as NaNoGenMo, with the 50k word requirement replaced
with a 150 page requirement.

On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 10:09 AM John Ohno john.ohno@gmail.com wrote:

OK, so all generative music experiments can go under NaOpGenMo

On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 10:07 AM Chris Pressey notifications@github.com
wrote:

@enkiv2 https://github.com/enkiv2 That's kind of like asking if
generative text experiments go under NaNoGenMo even if they are not truly
in the form of a novel.

From NaOpGenMo-2015's README (unchanged from last year):

The "opera" is defined however you want. It could be 50,000 beats of
middle C played on a clarinet (or, if you are the sort of person for whom
an opera must include singing, 50,000 chants of "Meow!" by a tenor.) It
could literally grab a random opera from Project Brandenburg The
Internet Archive. It doesn't matter, as long as it's at least two and a
half hours long.

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