Napsal uživatel .elizabethyalkut dne 20 Září 2009 - 2:40dop..
Thanks for coming to us with your concerns, Katja!
Membership in the OTW and having an account on the Archive of Our Own are in no way related, both to protect the privacy of our donors and members and to ensure that access to the Archive of the Our Own is not a financial matter for any fan (who has internet access, at any rate). Membership confers the right to vote in OTW elections and supports the organization’s work financially. This has always been the case.
The OTW firmly supports the right of users to separate fannish and nonfannish identities. Donating to the OTW and using the OTW’s services are entirely separate — if you choose to donate or become a member (and we're so thrilled you have!), you do not need to tell us your fan identity, and we will not have any connection between your fan identity and your financial information or real-life identity.
The FAQs on this site discuss this, as in the following: “We hope to move to open beta in late 2009. At this time we’ll be able to welcome lots more users to the Archive; we’ll still need to manage the load on our servers, so we’ll be using an invitations system. You’ll be able to add your name to a queue, and we’ll periodically send out invitations to people on that list depending on how many new users the site can take. We’ll let people know more information on how this will work when it becomes available.” (http://transformativeworks.org/node/744) Further, we will never charge a fee to use any of our services (http://transformativeworks.org/node/66).
In fact, I just ran the numbers as of today (we've run them exhaustively in the past few months, as I'm sure you can imagine), and even if every OTW member signed up to be added to the queue of account-holders immediately, we would still be able to handle the volume and more; that’s why we’ve waited until we had our own co-located servers to go to Open Beta. I honestly wouldn’t be too concerned about being too far down on the list!
Elizabeth Yalkut, Development and Membership staff
Thanks for coming to us with
Thanks for coming to us with your concerns, Katja!
Membership in the OTW and having an account on the Archive of Our Own are in no way related, both to protect the privacy of our donors and members and to ensure that access to the Archive of the Our Own is not a financial matter for any fan (who has internet access, at any rate). Membership confers the right to vote in OTW elections and supports the organization’s work financially. This has always been the case.
The OTW firmly supports the right of users to separate fannish and nonfannish identities. Donating to the OTW and using the OTW’s services are entirely separate — if you choose to donate or become a member (and we're so thrilled you have!), you do not need to tell us your fan identity, and we will not have any connection between your fan identity and your financial information or real-life identity.
The FAQs on this site discuss this, as in the following: “We hope to move to open beta in late 2009. At this time we’ll be able to welcome lots more users to the Archive; we’ll still need to manage the load on our servers, so we’ll be using an invitations system. You’ll be able to add your name to a queue, and we’ll periodically send out invitations to people on that list depending on how many new users the site can take. We’ll let people know more information on how this will work when it becomes available.” (http://transformativeworks.org/node/744) Further, we will never charge a fee to use any of our services (http://transformativeworks.org/node/66).
In fact, I just ran the numbers as of today (we've run them exhaustively in the past few months, as I'm sure you can imagine), and even if every OTW member signed up to be added to the queue of account-holders immediately, we would still be able to handle the volume and more; that’s why we’ve waited until we had our own co-located servers to go to Open Beta. I honestly wouldn’t be too concerned about being too far down on the list!
Elizabeth Yalkut, Development and Membership staff