Do you code for the Archive of Our Own or would you like to do so? Now is the time to learn how! Jenny, Training lead for the OTW's Accessibility, Design, & Technology committee, will lead a chat on coding for the OTW and the AO3, and also cover challenge moderation and challenge code. If you're a current coder, a new coder, or interested and curious about coding, this is the chat for you! If you've run a challenge on AO3 or want to learn more about how that works, this is the chat for you, too!

We're highlighting two recent news items that are of interest to fans — one encouraging, and one less so.

TWC editor Karen Hellekson explains in Breaking the primacy of print, her post to TWC's new Symposium Blog, exactly what's so awesome about the OTW's online, peer reviewed journal Transformative Works and Cultures, and why traditional academia needs to adopt more of our values: high quality peer-reviewed multimedia content presented to all, for free, under an open ac

Accessibility, Design and Technology would like to wish you a happy Ada Lovelace Day!

As the committee responsible for designing and building the Archive of Our Own, one of the largest female majority open source projects on the web, we're thrilled to have the opportunity to celebrate women in technology.

The first code for the Archive of Our Own was committed in January 2008. Some stats for the lifetime of the project: