This is the place to ask questions about the calendar, voting, etc.

General Info:

- Voting ends October 15, 2003. I expect to have it available a week or two after that.

- The Calendar will be available for purchase from our CafePress Store for $16.99.

- CafePress handles the money, printing, and shipping.

- Proceeds ($2 per calendar) will be sent directly to Goosemoose to help pay for our administrative costs. Keep in mind, there is a "volume bonus," so if we sell enough of them, they give us extra money.

Any other questions? Fire away!

I'm curious....After the selections are made and the calendar goes to press and all of that good stuff, will we be told who the rats belong to?  I mean, a few are pretty obvious, but some of those pictures are of rats that I'd never seen before.  Will credit be given where credit is due?

If the sales are good, will we be doing this next year?

Thanks, kmw, for fielding the first few. Yep, I didn't work all my "magic" on the photos yet (though I have for some). Date stamps will be removed, colors corrected, etc.

Credit will be given to the photographers on each photo on the printed calendar, including the rats' names, the name of their guardian, and where they live.

kmw is right... I am keeping the identities of the photographers and names of rats secret for now, for a reason -- I want people to pick their favorite photo, not their favorite rat or board member.

If sales are good or bad, we will probably do it again next year.

One vote per username. If another member of the household wants to vote, they need to register for the forum themselves.

If I find people creating extra usernames, though, so they themselves can vote more than once, they will not only lose ALL their votes, but they may also lose access to the forum permanently. We don't allow multiple usernames per person.

I really want to use the picture september/october #5 on my website and a couple others. Who can I ask for permission??  

Bingo. I am the only person in the community (other than the photographer) who knows who took it, and it's going to stay that way until October 15th.

Thanks.

Uh, who said some of Suebee's rats are pictured?  :huh: I don't even know what her rats look like.

And for crying out loud, Suebee is putting this all together for us!! How dare you say it's not fair for her rats to be included. For all the time and effort she's put into this I'd say she deserves her rats on the front of the calendar! Geez, some people...

I could have easily just filled it all with my own rats, and not even bother with asking for entries and having a contest. Would have been FAR less stressful on my part.

Yes, this is true. But it was admitted to me by someone on my own staff that they did not know any of the pics were mine.

I still don't understand why this is even an issue. Who honestly cares?

If you don't like it, don't vote for me, or don't buy one. Honestly, I don't care. I want the  best pictures to win, and want to raise money to support forum costs. My meager contributions are only TWO of 48 entries -- and MANY MANY of them are far superior to mine. Let the best photos win. Period.

Edit: For the record, ratsrule.com and goosemoose.com/rfc are not the same. ratsrule.com is my own site, that I run myself. This site is run by Goosemoose.

Well, I guess that debate is over.

I think it's going on the Cafepress store, right?

Thanks. Silly me, now I see it.