Finish-a-thon 2009 Sign Ups!
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Announcing... finish-a-thon 2009! Yes, we're doing it again.
Remember all those poor, neglected plot bunnies that have been starving from lack of attention, because all those ficathons kept on having higher priority? The stories you wish you could finish, if only you could find the time? Well, fear not, the finish-a-thon is coming to the rescue!
The finish-a-thon is a ficathon, with all the ficathon-like things like deadlines and fellow volunteers to encourage you, but with this ficathon, you write your own ideas. But since part of the encouragement of a ficathon is writing things for other people, what we're going to do, is vote for which story ideas people should write.
This year we're doing it a little differently; I have set up a website to facilitate the ficathon, including a handy-dandy sign-up form which should make entering all the information easier.
Thank you to all the people who helped me test it; the test data is all deleted now, so if you "signed up" in the test, then you now need to sign up for real (if you're signing up, that is).
Dates
Sign-ups end:
Australia - Saturday 21st March 2009, 8am
Rest of World (GMT) - 20th March 2009, 10pm
Stories due:
Australia - 27th May 2009, 10am
Rest of World (GMT) - 26th May 2009, midnight
(more detailed date information is in the Rules and FAQ page)
Edited to add: Note that you can edit your sign-up information as much as you want until the sign-up deadline, at which point editing will be disabled.
Announcing... finish-a-thon 2009! Yes, we're doing it again.
Remember all those poor, neglected plot bunnies that have been starving from lack of attention, because all those ficathons kept on having higher priority? The stories you wish you could finish, if only you could find the time? Well, fear not, the finish-a-thon is coming to the rescue!
The finish-a-thon is a ficathon, with all the ficathon-like things like deadlines and fellow volunteers to encourage you, but with this ficathon, you write your own ideas. But since part of the encouragement of a ficathon is writing things for other people, what we're going to do, is vote for which story ideas people should write.
This year we're doing it a little differently; I have set up a website to facilitate the ficathon, including a handy-dandy sign-up form which should make entering all the information easier.
Thank you to all the people who helped me test it; the test data is all deleted now, so if you "signed up" in the test, then you now need to sign up for real (if you're signing up, that is).
Dates
Sign-ups end:
Australia - Saturday 21st March 2009, 8am
Rest of World (GMT) - 20th March 2009, 10pm
Stories due:
Australia - 27th May 2009, 10am
Rest of World (GMT) - 26th May 2009, midnight
(more detailed date information is in the Rules and FAQ page)
Edited to add: Note that you can edit your sign-up information as much as you want until the sign-up deadline, at which point editing will be disabled.
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Date: 2009-03-14 03:15 am (UTC)Avon and Vila in drag, along with Soolin, join an all-female band on Gauda Prime to escape Federation troopers. I've had a couple of requests for this one although executrix already wrote a very good "Some Like It Hot" pastiche.
LOL! That sounds like it could be very silly. And Avon would hate every minute of it.
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Date: 2009-03-16 09:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-14 03:16 am (UTC)You Can Share Mine.” Alan and Margaret Eppes often take their 3 year old son Don with them on peace marches. At one of them, the Eppes wind up marching next to Naomi Sandburg and little Blair. The boys hit it off, and Don offers to share his daddy with Blair, who doesn’t have one. Then Alan gets arrested, and Blair uses his mighty 5-yr-old wisdom to comfort Don, who is terrified that he’s not going to have a daddy either. Told from young Don’s POV.
Awwwwwwww!
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Date: 2009-03-14 07:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-14 01:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-14 10:28 pm (UTC)(grin) I thought it was a win-win situation for everybody. It's a win for me, because the sign-up information is basically in a database that I can run custom "reports" for, and it's a win for everyone else because it makes it so much easier to update one's sign-up information, and one can see it right there on the page, instead of worrying whether the organiser noticed one's follow-up correction comment or not.
but you can edit sign up information for everyone
Yes, I'm aware that editing is wide open; the back-end engine is a wiki, so the easiest thing to set up is to have editing just on or off. It would have been a huge hassle for everyone (me included) if I had decided to be paranoid about security; as it is, I set up one level of anti-spambot protection, and that was it. But yes, it is a good point.
What I could do is:
1) Just before sign-ups end, post a reminder to people to double-check their sign-up information.
2) When sign-ups close, disable the "open edit" facility (I was intending to do this anyway)
3) Post an "emergency correction" post, in which people can tell me about any malicious changes that might have happened at the last minute. I will then revert their entry to the previous version. I won't do the editing for them, I'll just revert to an earlier "pristine" version (which I can do, because it is a wiki and it has version history).
4) Post the polls.
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Date: 2009-03-15 07:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-14 04:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-14 10:31 pm (UTC)I have now updated the FAQ.
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Date: 2009-03-14 10:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-10 06:10 pm (UTC)Please do you have an email address where I can reach you and explain why?
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Date: 2009-05-11 10:51 pm (UTC)