Small Web September: Retrospective & Feedback!

[enchantedsleeper]

As I mentioned in the Wrap-Up Post for Small Web September, now that the event is all done and dusted, I'd love to know if anyone has any thoughts or suggestions to share! (It's totally okay if you don't, of course!)

This is the first time that the event has been run, and I'd be excited to run it again next year if there's interest. But I'd also love to know if there's anything that people would like to change, add, or do differently. Freeform thoughts are incredibly welcome, but I've also come up with some prompts/questions if you're not sure what aspects of the event to feed back on:

• What did you think of the event format? (Regular 'check-in' posts with engagement/replies in the comments)
• What did you think of the check-in frequency? (Weekly check-ins for a total of 5 during the month). Too many/too few/about right?
• What did you think of the themes (goal-setting, troubleshooting, recs, etc.) - are there any others you'd like to see?
• What did you think of the timing and duration? (I like the name "Small Web September", but I'd still be open to feedback about how September works for everyone, timing-wise! And who knows, maybe there'll be ideas for events at other times of the year... 🗓️)
• Do you have any other thoughts or suggestions?

Thanks in advance for anything you'd like to offer! 😊

Comments

[fred_mouse]

I appreciate that the event ran, I failed to engage in the way I hoped to, and I wish I had any idea how to get that engagement from me. The weekly posts were good; I could possibly benefit from more frequent if I was actually making progress, because I'm very much a small wins type person, but I wouldn't want to ask for that given I don't know if it would work -- I do know that another community that posts daily has motivated me to work on other projects; possibly if I had linked my neocities as a craft project that would have helped.

Timing wise - I don't have any strong opinions. Length wise - maybe on the short side for the goals I set myself, which is a me problem.

[enchantedsleeper]

Thank you for the thoughts! <333 At the beginning kalloway and I debated whether to have posts that were more frequent, but since this comm has historically been pretty quiet, we were worried about suddenly flooding the comm. Next time this event runs, we could potentially have more, though I think there's also some merits in spacing them out so that people have time to make progress in between. But it was nice that people created other posts for the comm in between to provide spots to chat.