Isis Awards - Volunteer call!

[tielan]

The Isis Awards team is looking for volunteers - specifically, volunteers who have skills in maintaining websites, but other volunteers are welcome, too!

For those who aren't in the know, the Isis Awards are the awards for the less-popular heterosexual relationships in Stargate fandom.

When it comes to Stargate Fan Awards time, there are always one or two pairings that dominate the awards out of all proportion: rather than dumping all the 'oddball' pairings into one amorphous lump, the Isis Awards aims to treat these niche pairings as an individual category.

The awards are not a reflection of the show's canon, nor a slight or slur on the people who ship the pairings involved; it's just a set of fanfic awards that is aimed at pairings which have a smaller number of writers and fanfics, and might have trouble competing against more popular 'heavyweights'.

According to the volume of fanfic produced by fandom over the years, the two het pairings that are barred from the Isis Awards are SG1: Sam/Jack, and SGA: Shep/Weir. This is based purely on the volume of fanfic for these pairings, taken from observation of mailing lists, LJ communities, forums, and fic archives.

We could do with volunteers willing to help out, particularly in website skills, although we may later require assistance for nominations and counting.

Come sign up!

Comments

[thelana.livejournal.com]

Interesting. What are the problems with the website/what exactly is needed? I have to admit that I don't have much website experience, so I just assumed that one would reuse most of the website/the code from the previous years?

[tielan]

Mostly, we're rather short on people to adjust the code for the website, and the people who are presently involved in organising aren't website-knowledgeable in...scripts and...that funky stuff that happens behind the scenes...