BEGINNERS ONLY

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To be created/developped and updated BEGINNERS ONLY, or BEGIN, projects are some EASY projects which have been set aside for our newest volunteers. These books contain most of the elements proofers deal with most frequently, such as end-of-line hyphenation, "unclothed" dashes, page headers, "spacey quotes," wonky punctuation, and scannos/stealthos you can really sink your teeth into.

New volunteers in P1 are asked to limit themselves to a small number of pages (15-20 pages) in any BEGIN project, then to move on to another BEGIN, a Newcomers Only, or any other project. After reaching a page-limit threshold (rumor has it at between 40 and 50), BEGIN projects become no longer accessible by that particular P1er.

Once a BEGIN project has completed P1, it moves to P2 where it is labeled as MENTORS ONLY (or MENTOR), and mentors proof the work and send encouraging, detailed feedback to the appropriate P1ers. This feedback process can take up to a week, since the whole project must finish P1 before moving on to P2.

To help these books move into P2 relatively quickly, they are usually separated into parts of about 100 pages each. When all of a given book's parts are finished in F2, a friendly squirrel reassembles the book into a whole and it is made available to a post-processor.