OpenGeofiction
Two months ago, the OGN News blog (“World News” in the top menu) was set up for members of the community to share news stories from their countries with the rest of the world.
So far, 29 articles have been published by 10 users, an average of about one article every two days. The articles are sortable by country, author, and subject area.
Anyone who’s interested is welcome to join. And if there’s anyone with feedback, suggestions, requests for what you’d like to read about, etc, feel free to make a comment here, or send a message to the admin team.
Thanks to all the great authors for all their writing so far!
Discussion
Comment from Rasmus Rasmusson on 4 August 2015 at 22:32
Great initiative! I completely missed it so far though, so I set up an own newspaper for Řots (only two articles have been written there so far); I’d like to maintain the Řots newspaper page, but I’d be happy to copy any news added to that page to the OGN (it would become too complicated for those who are interested to follow various scattered news sites anyway, so OGN seems to be the perfect solution).
Comment from isleño on 5 August 2015 at 00:26
Yeah, I had noticed the Nekkā Tsōřts articles. If you’d like to post them on the OGN site, that would be great!
Instructions for how to start posting on OGN are here. There are also a number of people who signed up but haven’t posted anything yet, so hopefully we might get to see some stories from them soon.
Cheers,
isleño
Comment from deltanz on 5 August 2015 at 21:30
I like the idea so much! Just now I had the chance to post my first article, it was more of a test, but I think it looked good! Hope more and more users start posting there! :)
Comment from isleño on 6 August 2015 at 16:40
Awesome, thanks for making sure to use a free image, too. Looks great, deltanz!
Comment from deltanz on 7 August 2015 at 00:07
Thank you, isleño! I always use pixabay, there are plenty of free options there! :)
Comment from Luciano on 7 August 2015 at 00:22
It’s a good picture, but of course one of our geofictional hazards is that the pictures of these fictional places are “real” places and therefore there’s the inevitable fact that for some people the place will be familiar. I immediately recognized Philadelphia City Hall in that picture.
I think moving in the direction of extensive and talented photo-manipulation is the best solution, as Isleño or Paxtar are so good at doing. I have no talent in that area, so instead I just try to use my own photos as much as possible, but of course that’s not a great solution either, since the diversity of the real world places I’ve taken pictures of is a bit limited.
This is not a complaint, by the way. Just an observation.
Comment from Ernestpkirby on 7 August 2015 at 01:35
I try to either draw pictures, use a screenshot of the neighborhood on the map or use Keynote, PowerPoint or Paint to draw a related logo or something. Saves me the hassle of looking for free yet not easily recognized pictures. :P But I really like it when I see pictures people make originally (like the pictures of the Khaiwoon skyline in the wiki).