Full schedule, in UTC
Nominations: Friday Sept 8 - Saturday Sept 16
Sign-ups: Sunday Oct 1 - Monday Oct 9
Assignments out by: Sunday Oct 15
Madness opened and all prompts revealed: Wednesday Nov 1
Default deadline: Monday Dec 11
Assignment deadline: Monday Dec 18
Stories revealed: Monday Dec 25
Madness stories revealed: Tuesday Dec 26
Authors revealed: Monday Jan 1
All deadlines will be at 9am UTC on the stated dates. Reveals of stories and authors will also be at that time. This may be earlier than 9am in your time zone - it may even be the night of the previous day.
This schedule has not changed from the previous post.
We will post
https://www.timeanddate.com/ countdowns for each part of Yuletide as it comes up. UTC / Universal Coordinated Time / GMT does not have a summer/winter daylight savings shift, so if your region does, your relationship to UTC will change then too.
Official Platforms
The full Yuletide rules are on AO3 at
http://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2017/profile. Nominations, sign-ups, and stories will all be submitted through AO3.
All mod announcements are posted to both
http://yuletide_admin.livejournal.com and
http://yuletide_admin.dreamwidth.org. This is done manually. When there's a high volume of discussion, we will ensure the posts link to each other.
Announcements here are also pushed to
Twitter and
Tumblr - hello if you clicked through from a link there! The links in those profiles will be updated shortly.
We will not keep up a sticky post of links this year.
There are also less-official communities,
http://yuletide.livejournal.com and
http://yuletide.dreamwidth.org, where a lot of discussion and participation happens.
For live chat, there are
IRC (old and well-loved, does not require an account), and Discord (
invite link) (new and bare but at least not bear-ful, requires you to sign in).
We are aware that LiveJournal brought out a new TOS this year, and consequentially, many users have left the site. We intend to continue using it this year, but hold an open discussion (at some point in Oct/Nov/Dec) about what sites to use, going forward. We will not make any changes until January. It is our aim to support, but not require, our participants' continued use of LiveJournal during Yuletide 2017.
Pinch Hit Group
Pinch hits will be run through Google Groups this year.
https://groups.google.com/group/yt-ph.
We will also shortly announce this to the Yahoo group.
Mod Hat Shuffle
Happily, no mods are leaving the team. However, Jenn_Calaelen will take a supporting role as a tagmod this year, and NightsMistress will take on mod duties. A toast to both of you for the work you have taken on. hhertzof and Morbane will continue in their mod roles. Welcome, NightsMistress - and I'm really glad not to be saying goodbye to Jenn.
Eligibility Rules
Will go up in the next admin post (v.soon).
Meanwhile, you're very welcome to comment here, or to frolic generally at
LJ /
DW / IRC / Discord.