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Responses to several items.

First, you are all welcome. I enjoy doing this sort of thing, and when
Angela (Elana) was copying and pasting those votes into M$ Word for the
counting, and said 'Can you do something to make this easier next
year?' ... Well, here we are, and it is running.

No, we don't have a list of last year's nominations on the site. You'll
have to search last year's site for them.

I can and will make changes to the site as we go along. First, I make
them on my PowerBook, excuse me ... development server, then update
them to the production server when I'm happy with them (and when I have
time).

That in mind, I may say "I've fixed problem A," but it may not be
available to you yet.

When there is a change, sometimes we'll add some text. The way the
system works, most of the text you see is in a separate language file.
If you see anything like S_USER_NAME, with all caps and underscores, it
means you need to reload the language file (link at center top of every
page). If it doesn't go away, send me the URL and the code, and tell me
what you think it ought to say, and I'll fix it.

I've re-worked the story nomination form to reduce or eliminate most of
the issues noted in today's emails. This has been uploaded.

There are some other issues, like the random number generator wasn't
working, so all the authors have been assigned to one Liaison! We'll
move some around. I tried to fix it, but it appears the fix isn't
working either.

Tidbits from the database:
216 unique story URLs (226 story IDs) (some mistakes in learning curve?)
94 unique authors
~60 authors are not MEFA members (yet)
11 unique nominators

Happy Reading!
Anthony