Popular Post Jordan aka FltAdmlWolf Posted July 9, 2023 Popular Post Posted July 9, 2023 Well, you've read all the winning presentations and hopefully taken home an award of your own. Now it's time to close with some acknowledgments. In years past, I've often detailed the incredible amount of work involved so you can get a sense of the scale. This time I'll avoid a long-winded narrative, but I would just offer the following: To make this Awards Ceremony happen, we must collect and collate all the nominations from over 100 members, sort them into groups depending on who reviews them, post them in a place where the reviewers can see and vote on them, gather the winner lists and get them all approved where necessary, then gather all the award presentations and format them, and finally make sure they're all posted and our records are fully updated on the wiki. Before and after all that there is prep and cleanup work, rallying the membership to nominate, providing clear and direct instructions, and more. It's a lot of work! Here's who we can thank for making it all happen: For the fourth year in a row, we owe enormous gratitude to Jo Marshall (Em), who has volunteered each of these last few years to lead the process of getting the Awards done as the Awards Ceremony Facilitator. As always, she is doing the impossible, managing all the pieces with grace and a smile. With so many moving parts involved, the EC and CC simply could not do this without an organized and efficient point person who can facilitate every step with ease. If you see Marshall around, please be sure to add your thanks for making this happen! And to Tomas Falt (Tom), who was this year's Awards Ceremony Deputy Facilitator to Marshall, assisting with sorting, compiling, tracking, posting – the whole pile of work involved in coordinating! Many thanks to him for everything he brought to the process. Next we would like to show our appreciation to the Awards Committee, who read every single nomination for the Special and Duty Post awards and then confer and vote on the winners of each. This is a heck of a lot of reading in a pretty short period of time, and they're asked to do a lot of careful consideration of who's earned each award. Thanks to the following people who ensured that the best candidates received recognition: Kalianna Nicholotti Wil Ukinix Serala Etan Iljor Quinn Reynolds Alora DeVeau Onto our fabulous, dedicated, and tireless Commanding Officers of the fleet, who not only do a huge amount of work to make the Awards Ceremony happen each year, but also do a lot of work between ceremonies, of course! Until you've earned your command, it's hard to imagine the myriad of skills required to be a great CO, but we're in constant awe of each of the people who lead our ships – the best game leaders we've ever had. Deep appreciation for their investment and loyalty in our community, and for everything they do to make sure that all of our members are recognized for their contributions. Let's not forget our First Officers, who play a big role in helping to choose the Staff Awards each year. While the Executive Council is the final word, we let the FOs have the first word in choosing each of the staff awards, and it's been so helpful to the EC to have this guidance to work from. Thanks to them for all that consideration, as well as what they do to support their COs and ships the rest of the year. From me, to the Executive Council: THANK YOU for everything you do to lead this community. Each member of the EC is carrying a piece of this community on their shoulders as they manage ships, taskforces, leadership discussions, and more – we owe them all a debt of gratitude for keeping this community on track. And to those who submitted a nomination for this ceremony: Thank you for your consideration and recognizing the work of others. You help the staff make this awards ceremony possible. I'd also like to take a moment to recognize all of our donors for the past year, including those whose names are not published below because they asked to remain anonymous, for contributing to the community's self-sustaining fund to maintain our website and other digital assets. Thank you so much! Yogan Yalu Genkos Adea Wil Ukinix Kalianna Nicholotti Jacob Horne Oddas Aria Serala Arturo Maxwell Nella Noxwyn Wyatt Ral Sarah Phillips Nolen Hobart Josh Herrick Elizabeth Snow Jo Marshall Loxley Our staff also wished to add these words of thanks to the permanent record of our awards ceremonies: FltCapt. Oddas Aria Gogigobo Fairhug, James, for being our Chief Morale Officer and constant OOC advocate - in both directions. Helping the staff promote OOC to the Denali Crew members, such as the Writing Challenge, Image Challenge, and more - making sure the Crew is informed and knows how to participate. At the same time, when OOC chatter comes up in any channel, ranging from Discord to the Google Groups, James is often the first to respond when someone has a question, needs a pep talk, or just a friendly face. This effort does not go unnoticed and is a significant help to the station, the rest of the staff, and the CO. Commodore Ossa V'Airu I'd like to recognize my excellent staff -- Amanda, Jay, Joel, Don, and Mikey, the lattermost of whom has also recently stepped in as first officer, as well as Jacob, formerly XO and recently on leave -- for spurring the 'Oumuamua to new simming heights (an average of over 200 sims per month through all of 2023 so far!), guiding their mentors patiently and effectively, and generally for being excellent simmers and companions on our adventures. And that's a wrap on the 2023 Awards Ceremony! I hope that this Awards Ceremony has helped you feel special, welcomed, and recognized. -FltAdml. Tristan Wolf 18
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