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Very soon, I'll be cleaning off the Staff page on the MEFA web site.
We'll start over with this year. Feel free to re-volunteer if you
volunteered before. This year, I'll only put out the call as
particular volunteers become necessary.

Staff positions of a more permanent nature:

Moderators. I'm one, of course. Sulriel is another. I'd like at
least one more. Someone on the other side of the world would be great
(to be able to handle things if necessary when we Americans are
sleeping).

Promotional Representatives. This is ongoing and easy. If you like
the MEFAs, spread the word! Do update the database to show who's
been contacted and what not. Add Links to the Links section as well.
And if you get another site or group to affiliate (swap
links/banners), let me know so I can get their banner up on the MEFA
website.

Awards Site Administrator: The Awards Site (as I'll call it for now)
is not the same as the MEFA website or the MEFAwards Yahoo site. It's
the automated site we hope to have for the awards! And that means
that this position is already filled by Anthony! I'll send you an
invite to the MEFAStaff group, Anthony.

Seasonal Volunteers presently recruiting:

Author Contactors: Author Contactors will be the same as last year,
only this time you'll have a canned e-mail you can use. (I need to
work on that one.) We'll divide up the first letters of author's
names (first letter of first name since not all use two names) among
the volunteers. Then you will contact the author that correspond to
your letters to get permissions, categorizations, etc. You will then
forward those permissions to me for archiving and update the 2005
Nominations datebase on the MEFAwards yahoo site to show that Yes,
the author did approve (and put the date in).

Nomination Engineers: Nomination Engineers will be the gatherers of
nominations. Since we won't have categories yet at this stage, we
don't need categorizers here. Like with the Author Contactors, we'll
divide up by 1st letters (of titles, minus the words "The", "A",
or "An"). You will gather nominations from posts to this list (that
correspond to your letters)and 1) enter them in a spreadsheet and 2)
enter them in the 2005 Nominations database on the MEFAwards yahoo
site. You will also be in charge of double-checking to be sure that
nominated stories (within their letters) are actually eligible (by
checking the previous nominations database and the 2004 WIPs and
making sure any nominations comply with the rules).

If you'd like to Volunteer, say so and I'll send you an invitatation
to the MEFAStaff group (unless you're already a member from last
year).

Other positions that will likely come available later in the year:

Categorizers (to help sort out categories. I expect a lot less
manipulations this year)

Quality Control (to be intentional at checking for errors--not typos--
in the check ballots)

Vote Counters (just like it sounds)

As always, things will change when and if the automated site is
officially running. Until then, we proceed as if we won't have it
and will be doing things manually, like last year but with the
changes that came from the Post Mortem.

--Ainaechoiriel
MEFA Admin and Founder

> Moderators. I'm one, of course. Sulriel is
> another. I'd like at least one more. Someone on
> the other side of the world would be great (to
> be able to handle things if necessary when we
> Americans are sleeping).

I'm in Australia - what would this involve???

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> Promotional Representatives. This is ongoing and easy. If you like
> the MEFAs, spread the word! Do update the database to show who's
> been contacted and what not. Add Links to the Links section as well.
> And if you get another site or group to affiliate (swap
> links/banners), let me know so I can get their banner up on the MEFA
> website.
>

Ainae, I have two Yahoo groups where I'm an active participant, and
I'd be glad to post announcements (assuming the moderators agree): the
Stories of Arda list, and ChristianTolkienFans, which is a more
general list where several people write and read fanfic (Lindelea is
also a member, for instance). I also wouldn't mind taking the HASA and
HA promotion off your hands, if you'd like to delegate that.

> Seasonal Volunteers presently recruiting:
>

<snip>

> Nomination Engineers: Nomination Engineers will be the gatherers of
> nominations. Since we won't have categories yet at this stage, we
> don't need categorizers here. Like with the Author Contactors, we'll
> divide up by 1st letters (of titles, minus the words "The", "A",
> or "An"). You will gather nominations from posts to this list (that
> correspond to your letters)and 1) enter them in a spreadsheet and 2)
> enter them in the 2005 Nominations database on the MEFAwards yahoo
> site. You will also be in charge of double-checking to be sure that
> nominated stories (within their letters) are actually eligible (by
> checking the previous nominations database and the 2004 WIPs and
> making sure any nominations comply with the rules).
>

I'm interested in helping out with this, but it's contingent on me
getting a technical problem solved - right now I use an Apple laptop.
AppleWorks, the office program, has a spreadsheet that should be able
to save as and open excel spreadsheets, but for some reason my file
format translators are missing. I have been on the phone with Apple TS
several times, and they've been very helpful - I've just been too busy
to spend the time on resolving it like I should. I expect to get this
resolved in the next few days, but if for some reason I'm *not* able
to save a spreadsheet as .xls, I don't think you'll be able to use me?

> Categorizers (to help sort out categories. I expect a lot less
> manipulations this year)
>

This was perhaps my favorite part of the awards last year. I'd love to
help with this, too.

Marta
--
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Naresha [mailto:north_shore_fruitcake@yahoo.com.au]
> Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 8:26 AM
> To: MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [MEFAwards] Call for 2005 Staff Volunteers!
>
>
> > Moderators. I'm one, of course. Sulriel is another. I'd like at
> > least one more. Someone on the other side of the world
> would be great
> > (to be able to handle things if necessary when we Americans are
> > sleeping).
>
> I'm in Australia - what would this involve???

Not a whole lot. Approve requests for membership, keep the peace, keep an
eye out for sock-puppets or vote stacking. And mostly just when Surliel
and I are not around. Say, you see that there's a new member request and no
one has approved it for a few hours. Might most likely mean Sulrial and I
are asleep or otherwise not around. Then you can approve them. Or say,
someone steps on someone's toes and it begins to run amok and Sulriel and I
don't reply fo ra few hours.... (Something of this anture happened once last
year, though I can't remmber the topic so much as the fact that by the time
I caught up with in the morning, several people had already unsubbed in a
huff.) Beingthat your time zone is quite far off from ours, you might be
likely to be up when we're note.

How does that sound?

--Ainaechoiriel

MEFA Admin and Founder

"This evil cannot be concealed by the power of the Elves," Elrond said, "for
it is Windows-compatible, and freeware at that." --H.F.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marta Layton [mailto:melayton@gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 4:29 PM
> To: MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [MEFAwards] Call for 2005 Staff Volunteers!

>
> Ainae, I have two Yahoo groups where I'm an active participant, and
> I'd be glad to post announcements (assuming the moderators agree): the
> Stories of Arda list, and ChristianTolkienFans, which is a more
> general list where several people write and read fanfic (Lindelea is
> also a member, for instance). I also wouldn't mind taking the HASA and
> HA promotion off your hands, if you'd like to delegate that.

Thanks! I hereby knight you as a Promotional Representative!

> > Seasonal Volunteers presently recruiting:
> >
> <snip>
> > Nomination Engineers:

> I'm interested in helping out with this, but it's contingent on me
> getting a technical problem solved - right now I use an Apple laptop.
> AppleWorks, the office program, has a spreadsheet that should be able
> to save as and open excel spreadsheets, but for some reason my file
> format translators are missing. I have been on the phone with Apple TS
> several times, and they've been very helpful - I've just been too busy
> to spend the time on resolving it like I should. I expect to get this
> resolved in the next few days, but if for some reason I'm *not* able
> to save a spreadsheet as .xls, I don't think you'll be able to use me?

Well, as long as you can convert it to a comma separated text file, it
should be okay. We just have to make sure all commas in the actual fields
are turned into semi-colons. Or use a different delimitter.

> > Categorizers (to help sort out categories. I expect a lot less
> > manipulations this year)
> >
>
> This was perhaps my favorite part of the awards last year. I'd love to
> help with this, too.

Great. I'll sign you up as a Categorizer as well as Promotional
Representative. We'll wait on the Nomination Engineer until we know we can
get the spreadsheets compatible.

I've added you to the Staff page! I'll upload the edited Staff page as soon
as I'm done burning the DVD I'm working on.

Thanks, Marta! You were a big help last year so I very much appreciate you
volunteering this year!

--Ainaechoiriel

MEFA Admin and Founder

"This evil cannot be concealed by the power of the Elves," Elrond said, "for
it is Windows-compatible, and freeware at that." --H.F.

http://gabrielle.sytes.net/mefa The Middle-Earth Fanfiction Awards

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