Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-188432-20131022030303/@comment-188432-20131101233105

Just got word today from Kate that we're pushing this back to 2014. We're going to use it in the fallow first half of the year when Doctor Who slips from everyone's radar between the Christmas special and the start of series 8. We know we're going to get a lot of eyeballs on the site around Christmas. So it makes more sense to use it to try to drum up some business in those "lean months".

And, as it turns out, we're going to need the extra time. Just look upthread. We could go in scores of different directions, so we're going to need some time to whittle this down.

There's also a pretty heavy graphical burden with this thing. If you look at the Game of Thrones example, we're going to have to provide a boatload of images.

So here's the game plan:


 * Suggestions for awards categories will be left open until 1 December. We then vote on the categories.  Whichever get the highest vote count will make it into final awards contest.
 * Once the categories are finalised, we'll then hold nominations. The top six nominees in each category will then become part of the final awards contest.  Nominations will close on 7 January 2014.
 * At this point, we go to work. We'll need to find pictures for each and every nominee — which will probably be something like 100-200 images, since we'll need to find a picture for the nomination page, and then a different picture for each nominee for the winner's page, in case that nominee wins.
 * The whole contest should be presented to Kate by 21 January 2014, allowing her to run it at any point thereafter.