ADMIN: Official change of ownership
Hi everyone
Effective immediately, campylobacter is the OFFICIAL owner/maintainer of this community. As we all know, Campy has been acting in this capacity for a long time, and I just needed to get off my backside and make the changes in the community settings.
I'm not great at writing concise personal thoughts, so please bear with me.
I created daniel_vala back in 2005, just as I was about to start the 7-day drive from Arizona to Pennsylvania. All my belongings were in the rental truck my husband was driving. I was in our car with a few personal items and the laptop. Every evening at whatever hotel we were at, I got online and was astounded at how quickly the group was growing. Apparently, I wasn't the only one to see the potential in this pairing of opposites. Thank you, everyone, for your support. A community can only exist through its members. A special thank you to those of you have contributed on a regular basis.
At the time I created this community I was deep into various fandoms, and not just within the Stargate community. I wrote fanfiction for several pairings on a regular basis. I've seen the good and bad sides of fandom. Like many others, I'm a survivor of more than one fandom war. I've made online friendships that lasted for a season and friendships that look like they'll last for years to come. But people change, and over time my interests have changed. The piece I wrote for the recent Month of Love challenge was the first piece I'd written in 5 years. I've not even read any fanfic during the last 12 months. My leisure time is spent reading offline fiction and non-fiction and working on some scrapbook projects. My life has also changed. This summer, I finally made it back to the UK for the first time in 16 years. Now that we've made this overdue trip, my husband and I have some big decisions to make. We know we're going to move soon, we just don't know where. Either way I've got a lot of 'stuff' to clear out. After this decision is made, we'll start considering adding children and/or dogs to our family.
While I've drifted, Campy has done a fantastic job of keeping this community going. She originally came on board as a co-moderator but has done far more than that. She has stepped up and filled in the gaps during the Month of Love challenge. She has kept conversation going, and made friends with many of you. As some of us know, she has also gone through some major life changes during the past two years. Things that make my emergency surgery of last summer seem very, very insignificant.
Campy thoroughly deserves to be the official owner.
So, thank you campylobacter for EVERYTHING you've done. I really do appreciate it. I hope everyone will continue to support her as she takes daniel_vala forward.
Best to all
Sally (aka Matt)
Effective immediately, campylobacter is the OFFICIAL owner/maintainer of this community. As we all know, Campy has been acting in this capacity for a long time, and I just needed to get off my backside and make the changes in the community settings.
I'm not great at writing concise personal thoughts, so please bear with me.
I created daniel_vala back in 2005, just as I was about to start the 7-day drive from Arizona to Pennsylvania. All my belongings were in the rental truck my husband was driving. I was in our car with a few personal items and the laptop. Every evening at whatever hotel we were at, I got online and was astounded at how quickly the group was growing. Apparently, I wasn't the only one to see the potential in this pairing of opposites. Thank you, everyone, for your support. A community can only exist through its members. A special thank you to those of you have contributed on a regular basis.
At the time I created this community I was deep into various fandoms, and not just within the Stargate community. I wrote fanfiction for several pairings on a regular basis. I've seen the good and bad sides of fandom. Like many others, I'm a survivor of more than one fandom war. I've made online friendships that lasted for a season and friendships that look like they'll last for years to come. But people change, and over time my interests have changed. The piece I wrote for the recent Month of Love challenge was the first piece I'd written in 5 years. I've not even read any fanfic during the last 12 months. My leisure time is spent reading offline fiction and non-fiction and working on some scrapbook projects. My life has also changed. This summer, I finally made it back to the UK for the first time in 16 years. Now that we've made this overdue trip, my husband and I have some big decisions to make. We know we're going to move soon, we just don't know where. Either way I've got a lot of 'stuff' to clear out. After this decision is made, we'll start considering adding children and/or dogs to our family.
While I've drifted, Campy has done a fantastic job of keeping this community going. She originally came on board as a co-moderator but has done far more than that. She has stepped up and filled in the gaps during the Month of Love challenge. She has kept conversation going, and made friends with many of you. As some of us know, she has also gone through some major life changes during the past two years. Things that make my emergency surgery of last summer seem very, very insignificant.
Campy thoroughly deserves to be the official owner.
So, thank you campylobacter for EVERYTHING you've done. I really do appreciate it. I hope everyone will continue to support her as she takes daniel_vala forward.
Best to all
Sally (aka Matt)