Welcome to Yuletide 2006! Sign-ups are now open!

[elynross]

The sign-up page is live and ready for actionYou must be 18 or older to participate. If you're new to Yuletide, please take a look at the FAQ! (Note, this has not yet been updated specifically for this year, and still contains some misleading info - there are no prequalifying requirements if you have not participated in the past, or missed last

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[darthfox]

First: you continue to be awesome; you and astolat and the original tzikeh and whoever-all else is working on Yuletide now, y'all ROCK the MOST. Thank you over and over and over for everything you do. [I was going to go on and say something about how nothing I'm about to say should be read as criticism, and then express some v. mild concern about the signup deadline -- and therefore the assignment distribution -- creeping later annually. But then I did the research and found the following:

• in 2004, the signup deadline was November 8; we had assignments on November 9. Hot damn!
  
• in 2005, the signup deadline was November 7; we had assignments on November 14, which, at the time, I don't know about anybody else, but I really felt the five-day difference in the writing period (on account of December 21 never moves [g]).
  
• so this year, the signup deadline is November 8, and I was all set to have something about, as I say, date creep, but there's no real need; only with the understanding that this is not anybody's day job and therefore just because the

[darthfox]

Er. That is, I was going to say blah blah mild concern, and then I did the research and found blah blah blah, so my concern is even milder than it was going to be before, but still felt the five-day-less pinch, would like to pre-emptively or proactively (or a word like that) stop any potential incipient date creep, because it's not that it is a problem, and not even that I foresee a problem, but I can imagine a time when it could be a problem, and would like to prevent such a thing rather than solve it when it comes around.

Including all the bits makes it make more sense, I think. [knocks self in jaw]

[elynross]

Just posting this here, in case anyone else reads and has concern: Assignments will go out by November 7th, the deadline is December 19th, so you'll have six weeks to finish your story!

Last year's pinch was unfortunate, but unavoidable. I shall endeavor to not let it happen again!

[selkiechick]

Done and Done. I asked for the knids of things I would love to read, but don't wrote well, and signed up for everythign I thought I could possibly pull off.

Woo hoo.

[yueni]

^^ Ditto.

[enigel]

Whoa! Mad props and huzzah for the different highlighting and displaying the number of requests/offers on the fandom requests page! Shiny unadvertised surprise there. :)

[astolat]

:D

[killabeez]

YAY! Thank you! {{{{}}}}

[elynross]

I'm so glad you're playing this year!!!

[ekaterinn]

Yay - now I just have to figure out what to request and sign up for! Thanks again for y'all's hard work - this is defintely the one thing that I'm always excited about during the holiday season! (I'm doubly happy this year because my sister said she'll sign up, so I got to spread the yuletide joy. ^_^)