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OTW Board Meeting
The first meeting of the all-new OTW Board of Directors (Matty Bowers and Atiya Hakeem) will begin at 09:00 UTC on December 16th. That’s 3 hours from now. The meeting is public and will be held in our Public Discussion chat room.
I hope to see you there!
So, this is how I spent my Sunday. (The missing time there is 6 hours, 1 minute, 48 seconds, so specifically I spent it “running a long way very slowly”.) It was a surprisingly enjoyable experience - the amount of support from all the volunteers and staff and spectators was truly amazing, and it didn’t even rain on us. :D
just an FYI non-profits still pay their chair members, so that 500k that AO3 get from you twice a year is def not spent on the website
This isn’t an official response, but I’ve been a volunteer and now a committee chair with the Organization for Transformative Works (AO3’s parent organization) for many years, and I can assure you that neither I, the other committee chairs, nor anyone on the OTW Board of Directors is paid.
Also, while OTW members are indeed generous, the org neither asks for nor receives $500,000 twice a year. The October drive total was $170,000 and the May drive total was around $100,000.
While 2015 is still ongoing, you can see the OTW’s 2014 expenses by looking for the “STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION” section of the OTW’s annual report. Previous years’ annual reports can be found on the OTW’s Reports and Governing Documents page, and @ao3org has a breakdown of projected AO3-specific expenses for 2015.
Darn it, I was going to buy a pony....
AO3 (and other projects) will keep running as usual. Learn more in this update from the OTW Board members-elect: http://bit.ly/1T2to24
I’ve put a lot of the last three years of my life into the OTW, and AO3 in particular. If it were in any danger, I’d be the first person to panic! We’re fine, everyone has been wonderfully supportive, the bills are being and will be paid, and we’ll sort things out as soon as we can.
OTW Board
A few things quickly:
We will have a Board come Dec. 15th.
Atiya and I are currently discussing what happens next.
AO3 is not going anywhere.
Neither is the OTW.
What Matty said. (I’m Atiya.)
We’ll keep everyone updated with more details as plans are (quickly) adjusted and things unfold.
One thing to keep in mind is that we don’t take office until December 1, with an overlap period until December 15.
Yesterday a candidate was removed from running in the OTW elections in a highly questionable way. We, the undersigned five candidates, regardless of our stances or platforms, would like to declare together that we condemn the treatment of this OTW volunteer, and the manner by which she was removed from the organization: without due process, consideration or respect.
Nikisha Sanders was removed from her OTW position without the due process that all volunteers and staff have a right to (source).
Despite Board’s claims, her position was considered staff by various committees, including Volunteers & Recruiting, Elections, and Development & Membership itself, where she served.
Her dismissal from the OTW voided her candidacy — a decision made by the Board, which includes a member who is a candidate herself. This appears to be a severe conflict of interest that was never disclosed or openly discussed by the Board, and there are no public records of any attempts at mitigating its effect.
The removal of Nikisha Sanders from the ballot now, after the elections process has already started, was ordered by the Board over the protests of the Elections team (source). This undermines the legitimacy, fairness and independence of these elections, and worries all of us, as candidates and as OTW volunteers.
We’d like to make a commitment that, whichever of us are elected, we will do everything in our power to introduce binding and strict policies for Board behavior, including rules governing confidentiality, conflicts of interest in personnel issues, and non-interference with the elections process. We understand that there are longstanding issues at play, both personal and organizational, but this must not prevent fair treatment or due process.
Signed: Alex Tischer Aline Carrão (LilyC) Atiya Hakeem (Lady Oscar) Katarina Harju (tinypinkmouse) Matty Bowers
With comment notifications, update alerts, challenge notifications and the daily kudos summary, we send out a lot of emails every day. The above chart is a snapshot of a 24-hour period on the weekend of September 12/13, including early Monday morning (in UTC time). The bars show the number of emails sent from our servers in one hour.
Most hours, we processed somewhere between 10,000 and 15,000 emails, with a spike between 3am and 4am on Monday (when was that where I live?) when we sent out 22,219 emails. That’s 370 emails a minute, or 6 emails a second.
AO3 needs your voice!
In the past few years, the Organization for Transformative Works (the nonprofit behind the Archive of Our Own, Fanlore, Transformative Works and Cultures and other projects) and its Board of Directors have had their fair share of successes—and some issues along the way, too. It’s OTW elections season now, and several candidates are running who have concerns about the organization’s sustainability and environment. Here are some key points:
The OTW needs a better, stabler structure for financial administration. We have no prospective budget, and all our finances depend on one treasurer. (Read more about this in Katarina Harju’s manifesto.)
We need transparency and communication between the Board and the rest of the organization, to end the current culture where all relevant discussions only happen behind closed doors. (Read more about this in Aline Carrão’s manifesto.)
We have to give our overworked volunteers the resources they need to do the work they signed up for. No more bills not paid on time; no more taking months to acknowledge a proposal or request. (Read more about this in Matty Bowers’s manifesto.)
The OTW needs a vision aligned with our projects’ goals, and transparent policy decisions that reflect our volunteers’ concerns. Our projects—including the AO3—and the volunteers who work on them often suffer due to lack of support from the Board. (Read more about this in Lady Oscar’s manifesto.)
We need a Board that understands and respects each project’s different goals instead of imposing increasingly complex bureaucracy and hoops for committees to jump through. More cooperation and trust would benefit everyone. (Read more about this in Alex Tischer’s manifesto.)
In order to face these issues, it’s crucial that we have a representative Board of Directors committed to make changes to the status quo. It’s time for the OTW’s annual elections for the Board of Directors, and we need your vote. If you donated US$10 or more within the past year and chose to become an OTW member (or do so before September 30, 2015), you have the right to a vote in our November 6–9 elections.
We need your help to change the OTW for the better. If you have the right to vote, come November 6, please step up and make your vote count.
Matty Bowers, AO3 Abuse and Support
Aline Carrão (LilyC), OTW Translation, Tag Wrangling and AO3 Support
Atiya Hakeem/Lady Oscar, AO3 Support and Accessibility, Design & Technology
Katarina Harju (tinypinkmouse), AO3 Abuse and OTW Translation
Alex Tischer, OTW Translation, Tag Wrangling and AO3 Support
AO3 needs your voice!
Reminder: Any AO3 apps you might find in your app store of choice are unofficial and not supported by us.
The Archive does not currently have a standalone mobile app available for download in any app store. If a third-party app or website requests your AO3 login information, please proceed cautiously and be aware that you are doing so at your own risk. While there are no known security issues at this time, you should always change your password if for any reason you believe your account may have been compromised.
All current information regarding AO3 and mobile apps is available in our app tag.
Just saying, though, guys: if you put up an app, even a not-free app, that let me use search filters on mobile (or a mobile version of the site!) I would buy it in an instant.
You can filter on mobile! When browsing a user or tag work list, use the “Filters” button at the top of the page to make the filters slide in from the right.
Reminder: Any AO3 apps you might find in your app store of choice are unofficial and not supported by us.
The Archive does not currently have a standalone mobile app available for download in any app store. If a third-party app or website requests your AO3 login information, please proceed cautiously and be aware that you are doing so at your own risk. While there are no known security issues at this time, you should always change your password if for any reason you believe your account may have been compromised.
All current information regarding AO3 and mobile apps is available in our app tag.
The OTW needs volunteers for web design, tag wrangling, strategic planning & AO3 documentation. Click if that might be you, or pass it on if it’s not! http://bit.ly/1eLyL0R
Infographic to celebrate 1 million fanworks on AO3. AO3 Deviantart
A lovely summary of AO3! \o/
We’re starting the year with a much needed performance fix, a major update of our Rich Text Editor, and a few importing fixes to make the lives of our Open Doors team a little easier. We have many big plans for the next several months and are also working continuously, and often invisibly, on upgrading and improving our server setup. For downtime announcements (both planned and unplanned), please watch our @AO3_Status Twitter account.
If you’re a regular Archive visitor or if you follow our AO3_Status Twitter account, you may have noticed that we’ve experienced a number of short downtime incidents over the last few weeks. Here’s a brief explanation of what’s happening and what we’re doing to fix things, mirrored from the ...
Help the OTW grow! We need volunteers in several areas — could this be you? http://bit.ly/1doDOm6
Hugo Award Nominations: Best Related Work - Archive of Our Own by The Organization for Transformative Works.
The Archive of Our Own is eligible in the Best Related Work category.
Archive of Our Own is a fan-created, fan-owned, fan-operated multi-fandom archive and a project of The Organization for Transformative Works. More information about AO3’s creation and maintenance is available on Fanlore.
This probably seems a little weird as a nomination, but the rules for Best Related work are as follows: Any work related to the field of science fiction, fantasy, or fandom, appearing for the first time during the previous calendar year or which has been substantially modified during the previous calendar year, and which is either non-fiction or, if fictional, is noteworthy primarily for aspects other than the fictional text, and which is not eligible in any other category. Emphasis mine, although I would argue that the AO3 qualifies under the “is either non-fiction” bit, too.
I think the Archive of Our Own is pretty damn notable, friends. It made Time’s 50 Best Websites in 2013! As of writing this, it has 256,339 users and is home to 14,110 fandoms. Last year during our October drive, we raised US$44,594.05 in order to keep owning our servers. Clearly, we are pretty rad, and our archive is pretty rad, too. It deserves to be celebrated and recognized.
The AO3 has drastically changed my fannish life: between having a place to store all my work, the ability to download stories to read on my mobile devices, features like kudos that make appreciating works easier than ever, and fan work exchange features that have kept the exchange I co-own going strong for several years, it’s an integral part of my fannish life. I can’t imagine what I would do with it and am super thankful for the teams that keep it going. Thanks, AO3 Committees! <3
More information about participating in the Hugo Awards is available via minorearth’s Hugo explanation post and thehugoawards.org; there’s a spreadsheet with potentially eligible media/creators available on google docs. :D
The thing I've always wondered
…is if there were an AO3 app, what would it do?
