Digest: 03 Feb 2008
Digest for 27 January 2008 through 02 February 2008
Announcements:
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Challenge of the Month Poll
Voting will end soon. Click the banner to vote for January's winning story.
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Featured Story of the Month
Congratulations to all the authors! To access all the fics, please click the banner.
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Interviews
We conducted interviews with two of our staff members, Beta and Forum Captain DeenaS (deena_s) and Quidditch Coordinator Brumeux (brumeux77). Click the graphics below to read what they have to say.
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The Quidditch Pitch Is Hiring
The Quidditch Pitch is looking for enthusiastic volunteers to help run our ever-growing site. We have positions open in a number of areas. Take a look at the job descriptions and apply today!
We are desperately in need of staff for the following positions:
Assistant Technical Programming and Design Captain: This Assistant Captain reports directly to Dream_wia_Dream. You will assist with the technical aspects of the site. Including page creation, bug fixes, installation/upgrades to site & helping members, authors and staff with technical questions.
Assistant Admin Captain: This Assistant Captain reports directly to Annie. They assist in all administrative aspects of the site such as, but not limited to, managing Quidditch Coordinators, making announcements, coordinating conference materials, making arrangements with affiliates, The Quidditch Pitch, and the Captains Pitch, Google Group, and fielding questions from authors, members, and outside sources. This Assistant Captain assists in managing and maintaining Zazzle Store, moderating our podcast in Simons Flower's and Auntee Mame's absence, helping bring more members into the site and informing news letters of current happenings.
Quidditch Coordinators: Quidditch Coordinators help run the story queue and moderate in our Forums. Quidditch Coordinators are assigned one day a week to read stories submitted to The Quidditch Pitch. Based on our rules for submission, they approve or decline the submitted stories, sending ones that need beta work to the Beta Queue. Coordinators will also help moderate our forums one day per week.
Networking Staff: Our Networking Staff actively seeks out new affiliates, works with Annie and her assistant to organize challenges with affiliates, interview affiliates, keep affiliate page up to date on our site, and help affiliates with graphics requests.
Staff Artist: Our Staff Artist will create artwork for our podcast, logos, skins, our Zazzle Store, and other various special features we offer. They will also help maintain and moderate our art gallery.
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Story Categories
We are revising our story categories! Based upon feedback from our survey, we will be simplifying them as requested by our members and authors. Stay tuned for more information!
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Check Your Characters
We've discovered that a few characters changed their identities in the upgrade to eFiction 3.3. If Severus Snape, Nymphadora Tonks, Parvati Patil or Pansy Parkinson are characters in any of your fics, please double-check and verify they haven't decided to change personas. Snape has become Augustus Rookwood, Tonks has become Professor Sinistra, Parvati has become Abraxas Malfoy, and Pansy has become Ernie Macmillian. If you have any difficulties, please don't hesitate to contact The Captains.
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Donate
As the Quidditch Pitch has grown so have our expenses and with all the cost associated with running an archive we are in need of our members to help keep us online. So you'll see a Donate button both here and on-site.
We appreciate all your support in the past and in the future!
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New fics:
Bad Moon Rising
+ With (Former) Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies? by dianahawthorne
Hallowed Halls
+ Friends by Antosha
Remains of the Day
+ A Brief History of a Beautiful Friendship by gingerale
+ Driftwood by Pinguin
+ The Fruits of Ron's Labor by missgranger2
+ "I'll Sing You Lullabies" by oldenuf2nobetter
+ Jack of Hearts by tjwritter
+ Now or Never by queenb23
+ A Patronus for James by SwissMiss
+ Shine With the Rest by dianahawthorne
+ Strangers on a Train Platform by EmpressAimee
+ The Train to Hogwarts by humantales
Dark Tales
+ none this week
The Broomshed
+ Almost Like The First Time by ktmarsh
+ Chasing Happiness by Fizzmonkeys
+ Drunken Diplomacy by scribooty
+ A Lesson in Courage by annie
+ Nights of Gethsemane by starcrossed
+ A Quick Trip to the Loo by deenas
+ Smoking Up Bloody Ashes by Caducee
+ Special Gifts by oldenuf2nobetter
+ The Wireless by Amythis
+ Wolf and Willow by Antosha
Crossovers
+ none this week
Non-Fiction
+ none this week
Announcements:
.:
Challenge of the Month Poll
Voting will end soon. Click the banner to vote for January's winning story.
:.
.:
Featured Story of the Month
Congratulations to all the authors! To access all the fics, please click the banner.
:.
.:
Interviews
We conducted interviews with two of our staff members, Beta and Forum Captain DeenaS (deena_s) and Quidditch Coordinator Brumeux (brumeux77). Click the graphics below to read what they have to say.
:.
.:
The Quidditch Pitch Is Hiring
The Quidditch Pitch is looking for enthusiastic volunteers to help run our ever-growing site. We have positions open in a number of areas. Take a look at the job descriptions and apply today!
We are desperately in need of staff for the following positions:
Assistant Technical Programming and Design Captain: This Assistant Captain reports directly to Dream_wia_Dream. You will assist with the technical aspects of the site. Including page creation, bug fixes, installation/upgrades to site & helping members, authors and staff with technical questions.
Assistant Admin Captain: This Assistant Captain reports directly to Annie. They assist in all administrative aspects of the site such as, but not limited to, managing Quidditch Coordinators, making announcements, coordinating conference materials, making arrangements with affiliates, The Quidditch Pitch, and the Captains Pitch, Google Group, and fielding questions from authors, members, and outside sources. This Assistant Captain assists in managing and maintaining Zazzle Store, moderating our podcast in Simons Flower's and Auntee Mame's absence, helping bring more members into the site and informing news letters of current happenings.
Quidditch Coordinators: Quidditch Coordinators help run the story queue and moderate in our Forums. Quidditch Coordinators are assigned one day a week to read stories submitted to The Quidditch Pitch. Based on our rules for submission, they approve or decline the submitted stories, sending ones that need beta work to the Beta Queue. Coordinators will also help moderate our forums one day per week.
Networking Staff: Our Networking Staff actively seeks out new affiliates, works with Annie and her assistant to organize challenges with affiliates, interview affiliates, keep affiliate page up to date on our site, and help affiliates with graphics requests.
Staff Artist: Our Staff Artist will create artwork for our podcast, logos, skins, our Zazzle Store, and other various special features we offer. They will also help maintain and moderate our art gallery.
:.
.:
Story Categories
We are revising our story categories! Based upon feedback from our survey, we will be simplifying them as requested by our members and authors. Stay tuned for more information!
:.
.:
Check Your Characters
We've discovered that a few characters changed their identities in the upgrade to eFiction 3.3. If Severus Snape, Nymphadora Tonks, Parvati Patil or Pansy Parkinson are characters in any of your fics, please double-check and verify they haven't decided to change personas. Snape has become Augustus Rookwood, Tonks has become Professor Sinistra, Parvati has become Abraxas Malfoy, and Pansy has become Ernie Macmillian. If you have any difficulties, please don't hesitate to contact The Captains.
:.
.:
Donate
As the Quidditch Pitch has grown so have our expenses and with all the cost associated with running an archive we are in need of our members to help keep us online. So you'll see a Donate button both here and on-site.
We appreciate all your support in the past and in the future!
:.
New fics:
Bad Moon Rising
+ With (Former) Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies? by dianahawthorne
Hallowed Halls
+ Friends by Antosha
Remains of the Day
+ A Brief History of a Beautiful Friendship by gingerale
+ Driftwood by Pinguin
+ The Fruits of Ron's Labor by missgranger2
+ "I'll Sing You Lullabies" by oldenuf2nobetter
+ Jack of Hearts by tjwritter
+ Now or Never by queenb23
+ A Patronus for James by SwissMiss
+ Shine With the Rest by dianahawthorne
+ Strangers on a Train Platform by EmpressAimee
+ The Train to Hogwarts by humantales
Dark Tales
+ none this week
The Broomshed
+ Almost Like The First Time by ktmarsh
+ Chasing Happiness by Fizzmonkeys
+ Drunken Diplomacy by scribooty
+ A Lesson in Courage by annie
+ Nights of Gethsemane by starcrossed
+ A Quick Trip to the Loo by deenas
+ Smoking Up Bloody Ashes by Caducee
+ Special Gifts by oldenuf2nobetter
+ The Wireless by Amythis
+ Wolf and Willow by Antosha
Crossovers
+ none this week
Non-Fiction
+ none this week