Song of the Week NEEDS YOU!

With Mo0's resignation after Song of the Year, and _DH_'s leave to spend time with his new wife (or husband; hey, I don't know), Song of the Week is low on staff members. So we need some new ones! Here are some of the tasks that can be taken care of (and by multiple people, too):

• Thread creation and upkeep at one or more forums.
• Nomination management: Culling all forums for nominations, updating the Nomination Queue, restricting nominations in co-ordinance with the thread manager(s), and taking care of week rollovers.
• Vote tallying at all forums: Need to be able to use Excel, OpenOffice Calc, or another spreadsheet type.
• Information researcher: Making sure each track has all the correct information for artist, album, track title, catalog number, etc.
• Voting tracks preparation: Properly tagging all of the tracks with ID3v1/ID3v2/APE and MP3Gain.
• General wiki maintenance: Update the front page as needed, keep an eye on recent changes, ban spammers, clean up dusty old articles (the "Song of the Week" article still needs to be properly divided up into smaller articles).
• Programmer to clean up my n00b php code and/or add more functionality to the site.
• Graphic designer to add more styles to the site and/or create a redesign if able.
• Someone to create the Song of the Year award graphic (yes, this still has gone unaccomplished).

And of course, being on staff means working with CHz and TCK. They run a tight ship, so you'll need to co-operate with (and learn from) both of them.

Also, since they're really in charge (I don't do much more for Song of the Week than the average participant), they can fill you in better on the details of what duties they really need or don't need, as well as adding to or modifying this list. They can answer all of your questions as well (if not better) than I.

So that's about it. If you're interested in helping out with Song of the Week, just post here, let us know what you're interested in doing, and we'll consider you.

Thanks!

Jam it back in, in the dark.

So you guys don't even use a spreadsheet anymore? Let's hope Mo0 didn't do any more miscounts

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Kanji

Hmm, what exactly does that have to be? I could take a stab at it, but I'm not sure what is supposed to be made. :z A little icon? A banner? etc.

An icon that is either 24x24 or 32x32. If you put a lot of detail into it, 64x64 might be doable. For reference, here is the current Song of the Week Battle award. (It's nothing fancy, but I'd be willing to toss it if someone made a better version.) In any event, the Song of the Year award should look nicer than this.

By the way, thanks for everyone who offered help with SotW so far, I'll comment more on this later.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Elorin, you were helping out on staff for a little while once before, so I think you should be a shoe in. Drakken and Klondike would be nice help as well. I'll talk to CHz about this.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

No, but there should be some made soon. Perhaps we could set up a meeting in #sotw?

I was speaking idiomatically.

I'm all for what CHz proposed. Klondike, you can talk with me via PM or IM and I'll get your site permissions set up. In the meantime, everyone should register at the wiki if they have not already done so. Contact me or CHz afterward and we will give you sysop priviledges.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?