MeFi Projects sans Web

June 17, 2011 10:48 AM

Is there a place to post non-web projects that we have been working on somewhere in MeFi?

If there is, I can't find it.

I've made a guitar tab book that is available to buy and I'm unsure what the protocol for promoting this might be. IF at all.

posted by gonzo_ID to MetaFilter-Related at 10:48 AM (9 comments total)

During the holiday season we have the MetaFilter Shop. Usually what we tell people is to make some sort of little website for the item, but if there's a "here's where you can buy it" website with some content on it, you could submit that as a project.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 10:49 AM on June 17, 2011

To piggyback, there are a few times I would've loved to submit calls-for-participants for creative projects I've facilitated or been involved in to metafilter. I suspect there are enough folks involved in exciting non-internet-based projects here to warrant an expansion of the scope of 'Projects.'
posted by soviet sleepover at 4:19 PM on June 17, 2011

Metafilter is not the solution to all problems.
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 4:45 PM on June 17, 2011 [2 favorites]

Speak for yourself.
posted by cjorgensen at 5:55 PM on June 17, 2011

I get that the word Projects could sort of lead that way, but asking for people to collaborate is really not at all the same as a space for people to announce their finished things. Right now this is not a directions we're planning to go with it. You can use Jobs if it's a more gig-like thing but otherwise, yeah, MeFi just doesn't do everything, as much as we might like it to.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 5:56 PM on June 17, 2011

Couldn't you link the book in your profile?
posted by bleep at 6:44 PM on June 17, 2011

I think we need a place like this for self-links, but I thought that was Projects. Why not just open it up to everything?
posted by Lovecraft In Brooklyn at 4:59 AM on June 19, 2011

People announce books they've written in Projects all the time. Some recent examples: 1 2 3
posted by Georgina at 7:44 PM on June 19, 2011

I think we need a place like this for self-links, but I thought that was Projects. Why not just open it up to everything?

There's already a place for "everything". It's called "the rest of the internet".
posted by EndsOfInvention at 4:17 AM on June 20, 2011