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 What's International ReBoot Month?
International ReBoot month is an ongoing fan campaign to swell the ranks of its active fandom members by asking existing fans to introduce their friends to the series and its possibilities. By doing so, we hope to increase interest and demand, as well as breathe new life into its fan community. What better way to celebrate the series' tenth anniversary?
By friends, we don't mean your mother, your great-uncle, or your friend's younger brother. We need people who can and hopefully will contribute to the online fandom in a creative, significant way, either through discussion, fan art, fan fiction, or some other means; in other words, people you know who are probably already active within other fandoms in such a capacity. ReBoot fandom's main problem is that a lot of its older, active members have drifted away, leaving a significant void.
What's the deal with Hex being on all the banners?
We've decided to have a themed month for every month this year. The idea is to showcase individual characters, focusing on their best (and worst) episodes, distributing them to those who aren't so lucky, and discussing them on various boards. For the whole month, that character is the star, and this month the spotlight is on the wildly popular chaos virus, Hexadecimal. We're encouraging fans to write or recommend Hex-themed fanfiction, create artwork, videos, comics, you name it - even if it's just a short limerick. Anything goes!
How do I get involved?
There are a couple of ways: the single most important way is by simply grabbing a couple of your favourite Hex-centric ReBoot episodes and asking a few of your friends - who may or may not have ever heard of the show before - to watch them. One episode is roughly 20 minutes, so it's not a big sacrifice of their time. Get them intrigued!
Point them, or simply join us on the various boards - get talking about it! Start your own contests, or discussions. Even if you don't really like the character that much, at least support the principle behind it - because next month, it'll change again ;)
Webmasters and Mistresses: You can help out by publicising this event using one of the buttons below (or, if you don't like this design, you can create your own to use and send it in for putting up here). Use the button to link to this page.
Sita has created some lovely LJ icons, banners and images for use just about anywhere.
Look further down the page for more images that you can use in your LiveJournal, Web Blog, or as avatar images on message boards.
We also need distributors - fans who have episodes who can help other fans out who don't, so they can participate. If you're willing to help, please email me with the following:
What episodes you have
What country you're in and what countries you're willing to mail stuff to if applicable
What format they're in (VHS, MPEG, AVI, etc)
Your preferred method of distribution (FTP, VCD, CD, P2P software)
What you will accept as payment (such as blank CD's plus postage, or offerings of chocolate or fan art, for instance)
Your preferred contact email address
IMPORTANT NOTE TO POTENTIAL DISTRIBUTORS: We do NOT advocate bootlegging of Season 3 episodes, and as of right now there is a moratorium on season 4 VCD's (with exceptions, please click here for details) as these are already available on DVD in the USA. If we want the other seasons released eventually, we MUST encourage legitimate sales of existing DVD's. However, we are aware that not everyone can play American DVD's, so there MAY be exceptions based on country.
If you do decide to become a distributor, or you contribute to this event's organisation in any way (such as making icons), you can freely use this icon as an avatar, LJ icon or on your site:
I want to do this, but I don't have any episodes to share!
That's OK. We know how hard it is to obtain episodes; that's why we're trying to set up a distribution list for those of you who don't have ready access to them. Check back here regularly for updates to find out where you can get a couple. Please don't ask for entire runs of seasons - our distributors will have enough work to try and keep up as it is. Try to pick a couple of favourites and ask for those. You can always ask them at a later date if you can have a more complete set when they're not as busy.
What episodes should I show?
Good question - glad you asked. Choice of episodes is important. Don't, whatever you do, show "payoff" episodes - episodes that end an arc (like 'End Prog', for example!). The current list of recommendations includes the following:
'Racing the Clock'
'The Medusa Bug'
'Painted Windows'
'Sacrifice'
I want to help out in other ways - what can I do?
Great! Help is always appreciated :) You can help by being a distributor, advertising on your website, spreading the word, making banners, buttons or other graphics, or just raving about it on your LiveJournal, web blog, or forum - as long as it's sort of on-topic for the forum, that is. Please, please, please, respect posting rules at your various forums. You can get around them a little, however, if you decide to use one of the icons below that have been created as an avatar image:
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