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National Comic Generation Month
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# NaCoGenMo 2015

National Comic Generation Month - based on [NaNoGenMo](https://github.com/dariusk/NaNoGenMo-2015).

## The Goal

Spend the month of November writing code that generates a comic of 150+ pages. This is in the spirit of [National Novel Writing Month](http://nanowrimo.org/)'s interesting [definition of a novel](https://nanowrimo.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/329132-why-50-000-words-and-how-do-you-define-novel) as 50,000 words of fiction.

## The Rules

The only rule is that you share at least one comic and also your source code at the end.

The source code does not have to be licensed in a particular way, so long as you share it. The code itself does not need to be on GitHub, either. I'm just using this repo as a place to organize the community. (Convenient because many programmers have GitHub accounts and the Issues section works like a forum with excellent syntax highlighting.)

The "comic" is defined however you want. It could be 150 repetitions of the same cat picture. It could literally grab a random webcomic from Keenspace. It doesn't matter, as long as it's 150+ pages.

_Please try to respect copyright._ I'm not going to police it, as ultimately it's on your head if you want to just copy/paste a Stephen King novel or whatever, but the most useful/interesting implementations are going to be ones that don't engender lawsuits.

This activity starts at 12:01am GMT on Nov 1st and ends at 12:01am GMT Dec 1st.

## How to Participate

[Open an issue](https://github.com/enkiv2/NaCoGenMo/issues/new) on this repo and declare your intent to participate. _If you already have some inkling of the kind of project you'll be doing, please title your issue accordingly._ You may continually update the issue as you work over the course of the month. Feel free to post dev diaries, sample output, etc.

Also feel free to comment on other participants' issues.

## Admins

Official admins for NaCoGenMo are @enkiv2 and nobody. We'll be doing our best to keep the issues section well organized and tagged.

## Resources

There's [an open issue](https://github.com/enkiv2/NaCoGenMo/issues/1) where you can add resources (libraries, corpuses, APIs, techniques, etc).

There are already a ton of resources on the old resources threads for the [2013 edition](https://github.com/dariusk/NaNoGenMo/issues/11) and the [2014 edition](https://github.com/dariusk/nanogenmo-2014/issues/1).

You might want to check out [corpora](https://github.com/dariusk/corpora), a repository of public domain lists of things: animals, foods, names, occupations, countries, etc.

## That's It

Have fun!