Not wanting to jump the gun as has been maligned here previously (when I was only contributing), but I actually need some input as I expect my previous between-season vacations might actually be completely filled with work, and I am now the showrunner. TBH I'd be really happy to take sidecar-gunner seat and support another more-available member, but I am more concerned with making the annual event go smoothly than any other concern, and toward that goal I will take the wheel until someone else shows a vested interest
I remember previously some members disliked the year-end season as the end-date as that caused them to not be able to bid as much.
In this case I agree, having a sooner auction would spread out my time to make and test contributions.
I have a lot of things that even last year I didn't complete for the auction to the point now I don't even expect to complete 1/2 of the backlog of mod\solder\homebrew\refurbish\reshell projects I want to contribute. I'll be making multiple of these so I can keep one of the many projects I've invested in. This is another poll I will create and populate, tho I'll populate it when the first poll gets some results so I can gage how much time I might have to complete them.
If I fail to complete any, I have some cool other stuff that should be desirable to members.
While I brought this topic up, I don't have any charity picked, so I plan to make another poll that i"ll link closer to the decided on end-date that this poll will decide.
The polls cannot be modified or created separately, so I will be editing this post with links below when I create them: Please message me if you want to gage your possible contribution's appeal in one of the subsequent polls