Mid-year pico - when to do it?

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

All right, folks, since altariel the Generous raised me in power, here is your chance to vote for the month in which the mid-year pico should take place. Let's your voices be heard. :)

[Poll #1841411]

I hope I've done this rightly - we'll see as soon as it posts.

Comments

[lolmac]

Either works for me, so I ticked both.

(If you want a poll with only one answer permitted, choose 'radio buttons' when you create it. However, I do polls like this frequently, and I'd have used ticky boxes in this case myself.)

(Another frequent-user tip: once you've answered the poll yourself, monitoring the results becomes much easier.)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the tips; techno-wheenie as I am, every suggestion is welcome. ;)

[lolmac]

On fic_rush, I occasionally do a Sudden Death Smackdown when I really need people to choose one or the other. But it can be very useful also to know how many potential participants really are okay with both options.

One additional tip (for future reference only): once a poll has been created, you can't make any changes to the poll itself, including fixing typos. You have to live with it, or delete and start over. (Yup, I found that one out the hard way.)

[el-staplador.livejournal.com]

I've chosen July, but there's really not much in it. I was *this* > < far away from ticking both.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

That's quite all right - if we come up 50-50 we'll ask those who checked both to choose. And if that doesn't work, either, we can always toss a dime. Or I can abuse my newly won powers and decide. ;)

[lolmac]

Remember to practice saying 'bwahahaha' so you're ready for your first abuse of power. You don't want to lose the moment with insufficiently maniacal laughter.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I'll try to remember that.

[elmey.livejournal.com]

I didn't know we could tick both! So I did June, but I can live with July.

[azdak.livejournal.com]

I'm away for three weeks of July, so I only ticked June :-)

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Eh, I'm away for 2.5 weeks in June. Sigh.

[azdak.livejournal.com]

Then you should tick July!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Would it be possible to run 2 picos: Team June and Team July? Different organisers, everyone who wants to do June do June, everyone who wants to do July do July - and if you want to do both, do both!

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of suggesting something similar. I'm not sure when exactly I'm back from holiday, but I'd be willing to help out on Team July.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I'm all for it. I'll be glad to organize June. EVen the greater part of July, if needs must be. For the rest, someone else will have to jump in.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Your decision, if you're the one doing the organising! :-)

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

I'm willing to help out for most of July, though I won't be around for the first couple of days.

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

I chose June and July because I'll fall behind in June and will need July to accomplish whatever it is I hoped to accomplish in June:)

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

This seems a sound logic.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Only that it brings us to 50-50, which doesn't really decide things.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

I didn't do it, guv!

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

How about Altariel's suggestion upthread of Team June & Team July?

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Works for me, as long as someone takes over for me between July 8 and July 14.

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

At the rate I write, every month is a pico month:)

[muninnhuginn]

And I'd do either June or July, too. We're still tied.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Or last two weeks of June, first two weeks July?

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Second week of July isn't good for me, as I'll be off-country, but if someone takes over, we can do that, too.

[elmey.livejournal.com]

If we want to go that route, I can do second week of July posts. We should put the idea up to see the reaction--this post is pretty far down in everyone's queue by now.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Very elegant solution!