Today is the day I want to try and work out all the kinks and get
ready for the Awards Kick-Off by setting out some specifics.
To that end, I printed out a calendar of May-November 2004 , and
divided up the alphabet among 6 Author Approval volunteers.
Each of you will be in charge of contacting authors of nominated
stories and poems for authors whose names (first name or online name
as not everyone writes with a first name/last name name) begin with 4-
5 letters as assigned below:
Nerwin A-D
Viv E-H
Soledad: I-L
Stella M-P
and our newest volunteer (thanks!!!) Shiekdesigner: Q-U
I will take on V-Z
If anyone gets horribly overwelmed, call out for help and I'm sure
we'll find someone to take up some slack.
Presently, the Voting Season is from Oct. 1-November 15th. I don't
think it will get any shorter, but it might get longer, depending on
the poll. Thus I have sorted out the 6.5 weeks in that period and
how we might make the voting as organized as possible without taking
the fun out of it.
At ASC, they have four sections of voting: (TOS & ENT) (TNG & DS9)
(VOY & something else that I can't remember) and (MIS & OVR). They
each run in two week times, overlapping a week or so to all fit in
just over a month, I think.
So I have found a way to split ours: Races and Places (6 categories),
Genres (7 categories) and Time/Book (3 categories)
Races and Places Oct 1 - 15th (11:59pm Central US)
Genres Oct 16-Nov. 3rd.
Time/Book Nov. 1 - 15th
Genre has the most categories so it's getting about 2 weeks and 5
days. Races and Places has just one less category, so it is getting
2 weeks and 2 days. Time/Book has the fewest; it gets 2 weeks.
If we shorten Nomination Season or it seems that there are way more
stories in a category (like LOTR, for example) we will have to tweak
the schedule to compensate.
As it stands the FanArt contest will run from Nov. 15-30th and will
be simple vote, not comment. But first, we need something to vote
on. So encourage the people you know who are artistic to take up the
call. We need 12 more award banners than we needeed before (which
was already a lot) because we added two categories.
That's enough for right now.
--Ainaechoiriel