The OTW Board has had a number of discussions in the past months related to elections and Board workload. We'd like to talk about the three main results of these talks: we have decided to

The OTW Board announces with regret the resignation of Sidra, the co-chair and technical lead of our Systems committee, who has been one of our senior technical staff members from our early days. She has supported virtually all our projects with her vast technical skills and immense generosity with her time, and has been one of the foremost contributors to the Archive of Our Own.

As an organization designed to support the fan, we're aware of the importance of following fandom as it migrates across social networks. That's why we've rehabbed and redesigned our Tumblr. By following transformativeworks you'll get our OTW blog posts along with photos, gif sets, quotes and all the cat macros that make Tumblr great.

For everyone who uses IRC and has been looking for ways to join in conversations with OTW volunteers, look no further! The OTW is now registered on Freenode at #otw-dev.

This channel is a new option for OTW volunteers, particularly those who work in our Systems and AD&T committees, to keep in touch with each other. It will also allow interested people outside the org to meet us! We don't guarantee that there will always be someone in there, but we hope people will find the additional contact point useful.