ADMIN: Fandom eligibility

[elynross]

There are thousands of people watching this comm, and they are here for the awesome of brainstorming and chat and recs and all the other fun satellite stuff that comes along with Yuletide each year. That makes us super-happy, and we welcome all the ways in which people make their Yuletides even more awesome and fun -- with the following exceptions

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[darthfox]

Is there a postal address at which I can send you and/or astolat (and whichever of your deputies you name) something lovely and/or delicious?

I'm asking this quite seriously.

[boosette]

third!

[lionpyh]

Fourthed. Absolutely. This is a pretty backbreaking labor of love and there cannot be enough thanks for it.

As an aside to fellow participants, because Glory Osky did that discussion pick up after I went to bed last night: yes, Hetalia et alia should not have been nominated; yes, I agree, it's valid and necessary to point that out; but after that, leave it at that, trust in the mods. We haven't seen the signup sheet yet! No one knows better than the people who are assembling this that using AO3 as the determinative has its flaws.

[boosette]

Once they move nominations to AO3 someone (god help me I may learn ruby on rails and do it myself) can code a "Yuletide Fandom Big List" with fandoms cycling off the big list for reconsideration 5- or 10- years after the canon closes or if there hasn't been significant activity on AO3 in 2-3 years, so that big fandoms would kick back a "sorry, Fandom X is not eligible for Yuletide please nominate another" error when someone tries to nominate a fandom on the list.

As of now, a lot of what I'm seeing from the BAW a big fandom snuck through BAW camp is a slightly more eloquent version of "EVERYONE STOP HAVING FUN".

It is remarkably simple to neither nominate nor offer to write in big fandoms for Yuletide.

[astolat]

COOOOOME AND CODE IT IS FUNNNNNN *channels the unicorns from the Charlie video*

I actually even have the nominations code designed, there just wasn't enough time to deploy it before we needed to do noms this year. :D

[boosette]

Do you have any recs for "Ruby for People Whose Coding Skill Is State of The Art HTML Circa 1997" style books & such? Because I'd definitely like to come in with more knowledge than I have, after the massive task of making yuletide work this year is through. (I do have an "I want to volunteer!" ticket in the system from a week or two ago.)

(Also a coding language to add to my CV.)

[rebecca2525]

Try this http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/ for an intro to Ruby, and this http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html for an intro to Rails (once have some Ruby basics down). Should any of this seem frightening/not doable when you look at it on your own, though, don't despair! We do have additional internal training material and are always willing to help you through it!

[lionpyh]

The thing is that I sympathize entirely with the BEGONE SPRAWLING FANDOM sentiment and agree that Yuletide should be kept to fandoms whose rareness is harder to question, in part the presence of a fandom in Yuletide serves as a signal boost, almost a rec for the fandom itself, and also for the obvious, oft-repeated reason of no one would write for it if not for this exchange. That is what I adore about Yuletide – that is, to me, the raison d'être of it, I understand the feeling of not wanting it muddied with, you know, the tromping boots of the hoi polloi. I am totally a cranky reactionary exclusionary Scrooge at heart. BUT. BUT BUT BUT. 1., As you have noted, if I do not want anything common!, I have but to not request it, and 2., it seems presumptuous not to mention ludicrous to imagine that the mods are not paying attention to this or that they are somehow working against the 'Yuletide spirit'. So as I said I believe it is a good idea to point out fandoms which our organizers may not have realized are quite unquestionably large:

[boosette]

I sort of figure ... yuletide is a benevolent dictatorship, and what I see is the reading in of malice aforethought to their actions in striking/not striking $fandom.

Which is pretty ridiculous, especially when the choice is between a real possibility of No Yuletide At All vs Yuletide that Can't Please Everyone All The Time. (Possibly a false binary, but I know that if I were in charge I probably would have quit around 2005.)

[p_zeitgeist]

Fourth! And my cookies are of the awesome. Just saying.