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Hey guys,

I've talked to both Ainae and Anthony, and we've agreed to extend
voting season through this weekend. That means you can now cast votes
until midnight CST on October 2. (Just to be clear, this is the
midnight between October 2 and October 3 -- Sunday night for those of
us in the US.) Remember, this timezone is GMT-6:00.

The contingency plan for the last day of voting will be the same as
posted a few days ago. Just substitute "October 2" everywhere you see
"September 30".

Cheers,
Marta

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Marta <melayton@gmail.com> wrote:Hey guys,

I've talked to both Ainae and Anthony, and we've agreed to extend
voting season through this weekend. That means you can now cast votes
until midnight CST on October 2. (Just to be clear, this is the
midnight between October 2 and October 3 -- Sunday night for those of
us in the US.) Remember, this timezone is GMT-6:00.

The contingency plan for the last day of voting will be the same as
posted a few days ago. Just substitute "October 2" everywhere you see
"September 30".

Cheers,
Marta




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That's terrific! Just to be clear, does that mean that after the
30th we have to cast our votes via an e-mail to the group, or can we
vote normally on the site up until the new cutoff? Obviously that
would be the most convenient way, but I realise it may not be
possible.

I am concerned with being able to get into the voting site to see the
stories I haven't done, and to access the links. It would be much
easier to continue voting if we can still access at least that
information, even if we can't vote at the site.

Marigold

> Hey guys,
>
> I've talked to both Ainae and Anthony, and we've agreed to extend
> voting season through this weekend. That means you can now cast

votes

> until midnight CST on October 2. (Just to be clear, this is the
> midnight between October 2 and October 3 -- Sunday night for those

of

> us in the US.) Remember, this timezone is GMT-6:00.
>
> The contingency plan for the last day of voting will be the same as
> posted a few days ago. Just substitute "October 2" everywhere you

see

> "September 30".
>
> Cheers,
> Marta

--- In MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com, "merrygoldgamgee" > That's terrific!
Just to be clear, does that mean that after the

> 30th we have to cast our votes via an e-mail to the group, or can

we > vote normally on the site up until the new cutoff? Obviously that

> would be the most convenient way, but I realise it may not be
> possible.

It's my understanding that you'll continue to vote normally (on the
database) until the new deadline of midnight, the end of October 2.

*IF* there are problems with the system on that day, Oct 2, *then*
post the story name and id, author, review, error URL and error to
this list in order for it to be counted.

Sulriel

On 28 Sep 2005, at 16:53, merrygoldgamgee wrote:

> That's terrific! Just to be clear, does that mean that after the
> 30th  we have to cast our votes via an e-mail to the group, or can we
> vote normally on the site up until the new cutoff? Obviously that
> would be the most convenient way, but I realise it may not be
> possible.
>
> I am concerned with being able to get into the voting site to see the
> stories I haven't done, and to access the links. It would be much
> easier to continue voting if we can still access at least that
> information, even if we can't vote at the site.
>
> Marigold
>

Assuming I understood Anthony correctly you should still be able to
vote on October 1 and 2 just like you can today. You should still be
able to log into the site and enter your views, just like normal. He
just changed the date when the website would move into the next "phase"
and wouldn't allow voting to continue anymore.

The thing about posting to the Yahoo group - if there is a problem on
October 2 with the website, follow the procedures that I emailed out a
few days ago. Stuff has to be either posted to the website, or emailed
to this Yahoo group (with an error that you got) by midnight October 2,
CST.

Does that make sense? It is complicated and I'll be glad to clarify.

Marta


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Marta is correct. On the MEFA2005 site, I changed the voting season end
date to 10/2/2005, so you can continue using the MEFA2005 site.

Voting now ends at the midnight between 10/2 and 10/3, Central Daylight
Time, which is GMT - *5*.

(Marta, CST is GMS-6, and we spring forward, getting closer to GMT
during the summer, so it's GMT - 5 now. I always have to stop and
figure it out again.)

(I had to do some other stuff behind the scenes to make it work
smoothly, but it wasn't much. Mostly it was just changing the date. The
other stuff involved the dates associated with tentative reviews, which
had been using 10/1 and 10/2, but needed to be moved to 10/3 and 10/4,
but I already had something set up to make that change, so it was
easy.)

Once voting season is done, the 'review' links will go away, but the
rest of the site will still work. You'll still be able to browse
through the stories and read the reviews (and tentative reviews should
show up in the lists).

When counting is done, and all the rankings have been assigned,
(mostly via the computer, but there'll be some hand-checking and all,
and the banners have to be voted on as well, nominally 10/15 or 10/16),
the results pages will show up, and you'll be able to see the winners.

Later,
Anthony

On Sep 28, 2005, at 6:18 PM, Marta Layton wrote:

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> On 28 Sep 2005, at 16:53, merrygoldgamgee wrote:
>
>> That's terrific! Just to be clear, does that mean that after the
>> 30th  we have to cast our votes via an e-mail to the group, or can we
>> vote normally on the site up until the new cutoff? Obviously that
>> would be the most convenient way, but I realise it may not be
>> possible.
>>
>> I am concerned with being able to get into the voting site to see the
>> stories I haven't done, and to access the links. It would be much
>> easier to continue voting if we can still access at least that
>> information, even if we can't vote at the site.
>>
>> Marigold
>>
>
> Assuming I understood Anthony correctly you should still be able to
> vote on October 1 and 2 just like you can today. You should still be
> able to log into the site and enter your views, just like normal. He
> just changed the date when the website would move into the next "phase"
> and wouldn't allow voting to continue anymore.
>
> The thing about posting to the Yahoo group - if there is a problem on
> October 2 with the website, follow the procedures that I emailed out a
> few days ago. Stuff has to be either posted to the website, or emailed
> to this Yahoo group (with an error that you got) by midnight October 2,
> CST.
>
> Does that make sense? It is complicated and I'll be glad to clarify.
>
> Marta
>
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So along with two extra days for voting (Hooray on that!!!) does that mean we also have two extra days to get banners in? Or will banner voting start as scheduled?

Thundera


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-- Marta Layton <melayton@gmail.com> wrote:

On 28 Sep 2005, at 16:53, merrygoldgamgee wrote:

> That's terrific! Just to be clear, does that mean that after the
> 30thý we have to cast our votes via an e-mail to the group, or can we
> vote normally on the site up until the new cutoff? Obviously that
> would be the most convenient way, but I realise it may not be
> possible.
>
> I am concerned with being able to get into the voting site to see the
> stories I haven't done, and to access the links. It would be much
> easier to continue voting if we can still access at least that
> information, even if we can't vote at the site.
>
> Marigold
>

Assuming I understood Anthony correctly you should still be able to
vote on October 1 and 2 just like you can today. You should still be
able to log into the site and enter your views, just like normal. He
just changed the date when the website would move into the next "phase"
and wouldn't allow voting to continue anymore.

The thing about posting to the Yahoo group - if there is a problem on
October 2 with the website, follow the procedures that I emailed out a
few days ago. Stuff has to be either posted to the website, or emailed
to this Yahoo group (with an error that you got) by midnight October 2,
CST.

Does that make sense? It is complicated and I'll be glad to clarify.

Marta


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Hi All

> Voting now ends at the midnight between 10/2 and 10/3, Central

Daylight

> Time, which is GMT - *5*.
>
> (Marta, CST is GMS-6, and we spring forward, getting closer to GMT
> during the summer, so it's GMT - 5 now. I always have to stop and
> figure it out again.)

Hi All

Just to clarify, CDT is GMT-5, but in Europe we're also on Daylight
Savings Time (which we quaintly call British Summer Time in the UK).
This means the difference between the local time where the MEFA server
is based and the local time in the UK, Ireland, Portugal and a few
other places in the very West of Europe is still currently 6 hours.
For most of Europe, the difference is still curently 7 hours.

Our clocks always seem to "spring forward" on the same date in Europe
and the US. The fun starts when ours in the Europe occasionally "fall
back" a week earlier than the US. However, checking at the sites
below, we seem to be in step this year, and as the "fall back" occurs
at the end of October, I don't think it should affect any MEFA
seasons.

You can find more on which countries observe daylight savings time, by
how much and when the changes occur from

http://www.timeanddate.com/time/aboutdst.html
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/
http://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst2005b.html

HTH

Cheers, Liz