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NomNom (nom)

NomNom is an implementation of the nomination and voting portion of the Hugo Award. The Hugo Awards are the most prestigious award in Speculative Fiction, voted on by members of the World Science Fiction Society (WSFS) each year at the Worldcon.

NomNom was originally created at the request of the Glasgow 2024 Worldcon's chair, Esther MacCallum-Stewart, and her WSFS Administrator Nicholas Whyte, but with the intent to be a solution suitable for any Worldcon that chooses to use it.

It has a few useful features for that purpose:

  • It can be integrated with convention registration so that members do not need a separate password or to use an email login for nominating or voting (although they may need one to access registration!)
  • It is extensively customizable for each convention; a convention gets their own extension to the code that they can style and lay out as suits them
  • The Hugo Administrative team can customize the presentation of the ballot and much of the layout of the finalists directly from the administrative page
  • It offers administrative controls around validating votes and nominations
  • Several standard reports for the administrator are baked in and can be scheduled for delivery to configurable recipients. Other reports can be added by the convention.

... and probably more.

Starting a New Convention

See Getting Started

Contributing

Contribution is explained in the developer documentation