Beta Mailing List

[dark_administrator]

Hello doers of darkness! We're excited to announce Chromatic Beta, a mailing list centering around chromatic sources where you can offer or request beta services for a particular fandom or culture, ethnicity, language, religion or other identity. Our goal is to promote responsible portrayal of chromatic characters among others in fanworks.

We use the term "chromatic" as an umbrella definition for "person of color", "non-white", "multiracial", "indigenous", "sourcelander", "hyphenate", "diasporian", etc.; while we acknowledge that it has shortcomings. Similarly, we accept that there is a certain flattening in our "white/Western/other" terminology.

The mailing list is open to anyone who is looking for a beta or interested in offering beta services. You can join the list here. To request a specific beta service, please make a new post by either using Google Groups' posting interface or by sending an email to chromatic-beta AT googlegroups DOT com with "Beta Request: [brief request summary]" as the subject tagline and the following info:

Contact information: (an e-mail address, a Dreamwidth/LiveJournal/etc. account that receives PMs, an IM account and/or other kind of communication tool, etc.)
Type of beta service(s) requesting: (amv/compilation/fanvid/mv/songvid, artwork, graphics, meta, podfic, stories and/or other type of fan activities & works; particular fandom and/or culture, ethnicity, language, religion or other identity; etc.)
Relevant info: (optional: any notes you want to add about what type of beta-ing you're needing, etc.)

If you need to maintain anonymity because the fanwork in question is for an anonymous challenge, there are several options:

• using Google Groups' posting interface, choose "Chromatic Beta <chromatic-beta [AT] googlegroups [DOT] com>" under the drop-down menu for "From:" section and your message will be sent under the group's email letting you, hopefully, maintain anonymity or
  
• you can contact us at darkadmn AT gmail DOT com and we can act as a go-between

Do remember that no beta is a Magical Minority Fairy. They are not a representative or an omniscient being of their culture/ethnicity/language/religion/identity nor are they responsible for what your fanwork may ultimately portray. It's important to do some research and leg-work before asking a beta for help.

To offer a beta service, please make a new post by either using Google Groups' posting interface or sending an email to chromatic-beta AT googlegroups DOT com with "Beta Offer: [brief offer summary]" as the subject tagline and the following info:

Contact information: (an e-mail address, a Dreamwidth/LiveJournal/etc. account that receives PMs, an IM account and/or other kind of communication tool, etc.)
Type of beta service(s) offered: (amv/compilation/fanvid/mv/songvid, artwork, graphics, meta, podfic, stories and/or other type of fan activities & works; particular fandom and/or culture, ethnicity, language, religion or other identity; etc.)
Relevant info: (optional: any notes you want to add about what you can beta, etc.)

We hope this group will provide a useful resource for everyone!

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