That’s somewhat like what I want, but not quite. The differences:
Not all candidates for Project of the Week end up in their own topics. Sometimes a user will post a picture of a neat project as part of a related topic. I don’t really want to limit nominations to topics.
I still like the nomination process, whereas the voting plugin “nominates” all the topics in the selected Category (Categories?). I feel that User A nominating User B’s project helps add to the very positive vibe of the Maslow Community.
I will take a look at the voting plugin to see if there are elements I can use in my project, though, so thanks for the suggestion!
What would be nominated other than topics? Users themselves? Posts? You’ll have to have a vote/nominate button somewhere. Where do you envision that landing?
Having built a lot of plugins for fun and for hire, I would highly suggest sticking to topics. If you vote on posts, the next natural question is: how do you view posts in rank order?
That dictates a need to reorder a stream of posts. Having done that once (and once was all it took), you’ll need to set aside a hefty budget to commission it.
If at all possible, I would look for a way to set up multiple categories within a parent Nominations category.
That certainly would be a lot easier. I think there is something about the nomination-poll process that makes receiving the Project of the Week more of an honor, though.