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Title: Keyboard of the Month - January - Vote
Post by: katushkin on Sat, 11 February 2017, 00:51:00
Late as always, here we are with the first vote of year number three for Keyboard of the Month.

Thank you to everyone who nominated boards this month, we had a total of ten boards nominated this month, a new record! Of those ten we do have a shortlist, and the three boards up for your vote this month are:

jlv's double action keyboard

(http://i.imgur.com/CTqOgTN.jpg)

His project thread can be found here! (https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=87139.0)

Drclick's Do2

(http://i.imgur.com/TecgH5T.jpg)

Some more pictures are in the mail thread here (https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=33130.msg2341467#msg2341467)

adamski07's Project Cosmos

(https://i.imgur.com/pBYH0e0.jpg)

Cosmos thread is here (https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=86019.0)

The poll will last seven days, so good luck to all the participants!
Title: Re: Keyboard of the Month - January - Vote
Post by: infiniti on Sat, 11 February 2017, 01:56:17
Voted! :thumb:
Title: Re: Keyboard of the Month - January - Vote
Post by: Gatix on Sat, 11 February 2017, 02:46:28
Voted! Tough choice
Title: Re: Keyboard of the Month - January - Vote
Post by: ba7777 on Sat, 11 February 2017, 02:50:18
voted and some of my shot for DoDo (https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=43865.msg2349728#msg2349728) :D
Title: Re: Keyboard of the Month - January - Vote
Post by: Cocopah on Sat, 11 February 2017, 02:58:50
Wow, theres some heavy hitters this month.
Title: Re: Keyboard of the Month - January - Vote
Post by: adamski07 on Sat, 11 February 2017, 20:19:17
Thanks for the nomaination and to those who voted for Cosmos. :) Hoping to start my next proj soon. :)
Title: Re: Keyboard of the Month - January - Vote
Post by: kurplop on Sun, 12 February 2017, 17:35:12
A hard choice for me between flawless execution and innovation.
Title: Re: Keyboard of the Month - January - Vote
Post by: rowdy on Sun, 12 February 2017, 19:41:02
Another fairly easy one to pick :D
Title: Re: Keyboard of the Month - January - Vote
Post by: OfTheWild on Wed, 15 February 2017, 02:50:32
Quote from: kurplop on Sun, 12 February 2017, 17:35:12
A hard choice for me between flawless execution and innovation.

Truth.

In the end, the engineer in me won out though.  :thumb:
Title: Re: Keyboard of the Month - January - Vote
Post by: katushkin on Sun, 19 February 2017, 16:06:31
Congratulations to Adamski who is January's winner! A great project, and a well deserved winner :) Thank you to all the finalists for their fantastic boards, stay tuned next week for the nomination thread for February to go up :)
Title: Re: Keyboard of the Month - January - Vote
Post by: ba7777 on Sun, 19 February 2017, 17:06:21
Congratulations!
Title: Re: Keyboard of the Month - January - Vote
Post by: UsualSuspectXXX on Sun, 19 February 2017, 17:21:28
Not quite what I was expecting but congrats Adamski. It's a really pretty case.
Title: Re: Keyboard of the Month - January - Vote
Post by: Coreda on Sun, 19 February 2017, 17:53:29
I keep missing these voting threads :( Would be good if they could be linked in the nomination thread as I'm auto subbed to them when I post.

Edit: looks like I can be notified of entire sub-boards. Done!
Title: Re: Keyboard of the Month - January - Vote
Post by: katushkin on Sun, 19 February 2017, 18:05:33
Quote from: Coreda on Sun, 19 February 2017, 17:53:29
I keep missing these voting threads :( Would be good if they could be linked in the nomination thread as I'm auto subbed to them when I post.

Edit: looks like I can be notified of entire sub-boards. Done!

Sorry dude, I will make sure to do that from now on.
Title: Re: Keyboard of the Month - January - Vote
Post by: rowdy on Sun, 19 February 2017, 19:39:44
Congrats adamski :)

However, 55957 GH members, 3704 active members in the past 7 days, and only 53 votes?
Title: Re: Keyboard of the Month - January - Vote
Post by: xondat on Sun, 19 February 2017, 20:03:09
Quote from: rowdy on Sun, 19 February 2017, 19:39:44
Congrats adamski :)

However, 55957 GH members, 3704 active members in the past 7 days, and only 53 votes?

There are that many active members? ****ing hell. 53 votes is lazy.

Edit: nick mentioned that there have been artisan sales, so that's going to skew the active count.
Title: Re: Keyboard of the Month - January - Vote
Post by: katushkin on Sun, 19 February 2017, 20:08:50
Quote from: rowdy on Sun, 19 February 2017, 19:39:44
Congrats adamski :)

However, 55957 GH members, 3704 active members in the past 7 days, and only 53 votes?

Yeah, it's something that's always been in my mind. I don't really know how to convert that amount of members into votes. It's not through lack of visibility with the sub-forum being so close to the top.

I don't really feel I can advertise it on Reddit because its a Geekhack only competition. I try to push it on my own social media as and when I remember, but I don't feel it gets a lot more people through the door.

Less than 2% of active members in the last week voting though is a really terrible ratio. I guess I could add thread in Off Topic to discuss ways to publicise? But I kinda feel bad doing that as well because I have my own sub forum here...
Title: Re: Keyboard of the Month - January - Vote
Post by: nickheller on Sun, 19 February 2017, 20:12:50
I personally almost always browse by "Spy on the latest forum posts" so if this thread doesn't get posted in I wont see it. Maybe you could set up like a group pm reminding people each month?


EDIT: Or maybe I should set up notifications for this board  :))
Title: Re: Keyboard of the Month - January - Vote
Post by: rowdy on Sun, 19 February 2017, 20:49:19
Quote from: katushkin on Sun, 19 February 2017, 20:08:50
Quote from: rowdy on Sun, 19 February 2017, 19:39:44
Congrats adamski :)

However, 55957 GH members, 3704 active members in the past 7 days, and only 53 votes?

Yeah, it's something that's always been in my mind. I don't really know how to convert that amount of members into votes. It's not through lack of visibility with the sub-forum being so close to the top.

I don't really feel I can advertise it on Reddit because its a Geekhack only competition. I try to push it on my own social media as and when I remember, but I don't feel it gets a lot more people through the door.

Less than 2% of active members in the last week voting though is a really terrible ratio. I guess I could add thread in Off Topic to discuss ways to publicise? But I kinda feel bad doing that as well because I have my own sub forum here...

At least half are probably accounts that have not logged in for a year.

Then there's always some that are away, on holiday, busy, don't have internet access and so on.

But 53 votes is still pretty poor.

A lot probably do use the Spy, although these threads should be bumped up to the top from time to time.

Unless we can get people to advertise in their signatures?

(Discounting those who have signature display turned off, like me.)
Title: Re: Keyboard of the Month - January - Vote
Post by: UsualSuspectXXX on Sun, 19 February 2017, 20:56:40
Quote from: rowdy on Sun, 19 February 2017, 20:49:19
(Discounting those who have signature display turned off, like me.)

But you've got such a long signature ಠ_ಠ
Title: Re: Keyboard of the Month - January - Vote
Post by: katushkin on Sun, 19 February 2017, 21:28:53
Signatures are turned off by default in Tapatalk as well if I remember correctly? I could set some sort of PM system up but I think many people might think that's a bit too intrusive. I guess we could have an option to opt out, but I think some people might have a specific dislike of the competition but yeah.
Title: Re: Keyboard of the Month - January - Vote
Post by: rowdy on Sun, 19 February 2017, 21:57:51
Or we could casually drop it into conversations in other threads!
Title: Re: Keyboard of the Month - January - Vote
Post by: UsualSuspectXXX on Sun, 19 February 2017, 22:01:25
Quote from: katushkin on Sun, 19 February 2017, 21:28:53
Signatures are turned off by default in Tapatalk as well if I remember correctly? I could set some sort of PM system up but I think many people might think that's a bit too intrusive. I guess we could have an option to opt out, but I think some people might have a specific dislike of the competition but yeah.

I would advise afghans a PM blast. I think the general concensus would be rather negative.

Quote from: rowdy on Sun, 19 February 2017, 21:57:51
Or we could casually drop it into conversations in other threads!

I think this is really the best idea.
Title: Re: Keyboard of the Month - January - Vote
Post by: Urbi on Wed, 22 February 2017, 17:48:59
For me it's #1. I love the custom switch and the wood backplate.