Creatures Caves

(Some links to the older CCSF planning:
Past planning thread
Past survey with long responses
Past survey with graph)

It's been a number of months since the initial planning thread, and there really hasn't been a lot of discussion about this years CCSF, outside of a few possible submissions. So I figured I'd get the planning started again by starting this thread. Currently, CCSF 2014 lacks a theme, a time, and a definite list of coordinators. To help with this a little, I made a poll to see when, where, and how long it should go on for. There's also a place for theme, contest, and activities suggestions, if I set the poll up right.

We didn't really choose the coordinators in the last thread, which is probably why most of this hasn't already been planned out yet. So we need volunteers to be a coordinator. We also need someone to make the website, if this years CCSF is going to be hosted on a different site.

We don't have a theme. To help start the brainstorming process, here's some of the past themes: nature, celebration, community, Creatures future, natural selection/ecology, "back to our roots," time, and new worlds. This year might also be the 10th CCSF, if the wiki has all of the CCSF dates. So does anyone have any suggestions for the theme?

We also haven't decided on a time. The preferred July/August months, voted for on the previous survey, have already zoomed by. So that leaves us with October, November and December, and maybe September. Then there's how long it should go on for. Two weeks is the most popular answer in the old survey, and it's the usual length. Then again last year was pretty quiet when it came to releases.

We also haven't decided where it could be hosted. The three main options here are hosting on it's own site, Blogger or on CCaves. Most CCSfs have been hosted on their own site, and it seems to always work well. Then there was the one host on Blogger that worked well enough. The last one was hosted on CCaves, and it worked well, but people seemed pretty mixed when it on the last survey. Perhaps a nice middle ground would be a CCaves host site closer to the stand alone sites. It would still be hosted on CCaves, but with a different "theme" from the usual beautiful blue. There would be links to individual categories, like agents, adoptions, artwork, and contests. That way we could have a different look from CCaves, but still have the convenient download links and newsfeed on CCaves.

Lastly, there is the fun part of a CCSF to consider, the releases and activities. There's the obvious releases like breeds, metarooms, and agents that make up the releases for each day. There there's the smaller releases like Creature packs, artwork, and stories also help make the CCSF as amazing as it is. There's the activities and contests to think about. I'd like to see the coloring pages make a comeback this year, and maybe the haiku and screenshot contests.

~~tl;dr~~ In summary, we need ideas for the theme, need to decide on the time, how long it should run for, and for some people to volunteer to be a coordinator. Also vote for when, where, and how long the CCSF will be. Be sure to add some suggestions for a theme and a contest or another activity!