Election 2026: this time, it's 2026

[Narv]

Hello everybody -- sorry as usual to keep you all waiting on this, and sorry especially to our extraordinarily patient admins @Drífa @Pele Alarion and @Silky Gooseness who have been stoically bearing an interminably extended admin term while I bumbled around with IRL distractions and did not set up this election. But now I am ready to set up this election.

Like last time, I'm not totally sure how this will go given the numbers we're working with, but we can figure it out together. We'll start out as usual with this:

Ballot Request / Nomination Form

Wherein you can request a ballot link to your email and nominate yourself or others for a term in the admin team.

Then I'd also like to use this thread if anyone has any thoughts on the admin election process in general, whether it's about something like term lengths, team size, the concept of democracy in general as it applies to internet fan forums... anything that's on your mind. One thing I'd say for this upcoming term, for anyone considering running: I hope to get back to something closer to the 6 month range going forward, but realistically with election process and life timing I think it might be realistic to say that the next cohort of admins might expect to be on the hook for the rest of 2026 -- but this is very much negotiable and really up to the team themselves (short of installing themselves as admins for life etc, i guess, though that would free up my schedule a bit......)

Thanks all and please let me know any questions or if anything is acting up with the above form. Otherwise, I'll have an update in the next week or 2 as we collect nominees!

[Silky Gooseness]

Thank you, Narv

[Drífa]

Narv,

[Moriel]

Thank you Narv!

[Narv]

Update: Thanks everyone who responded on the form so far. It got more soak time than I intended as I wound up very swamped with RL things the last few weeks -- but I can report that we have some confirmed nominees and some potentials that's I've reached out to, so hopefully we'll moving to the next phase shortly. And if you're just seeing this and think you wouldn't mind being on the admin ballot, feel free to send in the form and let me know!

[Drífa]

Thanks, Chef!