Volunteer

Interested in helping out with OTW or one of the projects? Volunteers of all backgrounds and from all countries are welcome. All meetings and communications are conducted online. Contact the Volunteers & Recruiting committee and let them know if you have a particular interest or expertise in a particular subject area. You can also view volunteer job postings on any of the sites where the OTW posts community updates.

The OTW committees and working groups are:

Abuse

2010 chair: Elizabeth Yalkut
Handles abuse functions for the Archive of Our Own, such as complaints and Terms of Service violations.

Accessibility, Design, & Technology

2010 chair: Zooey Glass
Coordinates software design and development on behalf of the Organization for Transformative Works. The main project currently occupying the Committee is the creation of an open-source software package, OTW-Archive, to build and support the Archive of Our Own.

Communications

2010 chair: Francesca Coppa
Handles press releases, newsletters, blog posts, media contacts, and other tasks related to promoting our various projects. Additionally, promotes communication within the OTW itself, keeping information flowing between the various committees.

Content

2010 chair: Rebecca Tushnet
Designs and implements the Terms of Service and other content policies for the Archive of Our Own.

Development & Membership

2010 chair: Allison Morris
Handles fundraising and membership-building for the organization. Also maintains our secure database of member and donor information, and ensures that each member is able to vote in OTW elections.

Documentation

2010 chair: Margie
Creates and stores internal reference materials and documentation for OTW projects and committees. Aids internal transparency and continuity by building and maintaining a robust knowledgebase.

Financial

2010 chair: Sheila Lane
Tracks spending, writes checks, maintains financial records, and develops a budget for the OTW.

International Outreach

2010 chair: Julia Beck
Works to increase the international visibility and accessibility of OTW and its projects.

Journal

2010 chair: Karen Hellekson
Administers Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC), an international peer-reviewed twice-yearly academic online journal in the field of media studies. This involves administering TWC's open-source journal software (OJS), considering submissions, and working with authors and content as necessary. We also shepherd documents through OJS for peer review, revision, copyedit, and layout.

Legal

2010 chair: Rebecca Tushnet
Advises the Board and various committees on legal matters and liaises with outside legal counsel. Mostly comprised of legal professionals.

Open Doors

2010 chair: Heather Cook
Open Doors works to preserve at-risk fanworks of all kinds.

Support

2010 chair: Ira
Handles communication between users and the various teams involved with the Archive of Our Own. The Support team helps to resolve technical problems experienced by users and passes on users' feedback.

Systems

2010 co-chairs: Sidra & Arrow
Manages servers and infrastructure for the OTW and its projects.

Translation

2010 chair: Julia Beck
Coordinates volunteer translators and liaises with other committees to make their projects and documents available to an international audience, and may also provide feedback on a range of related issues, like testing translation interfaces. This includes the OTW website, Elections material, and Membership drives.

Vidding History

2010 chair: Francesca Coppa
Documents the 35-year history of fan vidding.

Volunteers & Recruiting

2010 chair: Franziska Mattkay
Recruits and manages volunteers and staffers for all committees and projects, sets them up in the organization, and tracks their service. Volunteers also maintains a large database of volunteer records, posts job notices on the OTW website, and manages the end-of-term committee staffing drives and change-overs.

Webmasters

2010 chair: Kristen Murphy
Manages the OTW's informational websites and maintains the software packages that run transformativeworks.org and associated sites (Drupal), Open Doors (HTML/Drupal), Transformative Works and Cultures (OJS), and our donation and membership database (CiviCRM).

Wiki

2010 chair: Meri
Maintains the Fanlore wiki. This includes supporting Fanlore wiki editors, as well as establishing a flexible infrastructure to define and organize the wiki's content.