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

Handles abuse functions for the Archive of Our Own, such as complaints and Terms of Service violations.

Accessibility, Design, & Technology

Handles the design and creation of software and interfaces for most projects of the organization, with emphasis on accessibility to the widest group of users.

Communications

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

Designs and implements the Terms of Service and other content policies for the Archive of Our Own.

Development & Membership

Handles fundraising and membership-building for the organization. Also maintains our secure database of member and donor information, and works with Elections each year to ensure that each member is able to vote in org elections.

Documentation

Runs our internal wiki (not Fanlore), where we store reference materials and documentation.

Elections

Develops policies and systems for the annual Board elections, works with Volunteers & Recruiting to recruit candidates, works with candidates to get platform information and provides this to the membership.

Financial

Tracks spending, writes checks, maintains financial records, and develops a budget for the organization.

Journal

Administers Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC), an international peer-reviewed twice-yearly academic online journal in the field of media studies. This involves maintaining 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

Advises the Board and various committees on legal matters and liaises with outside legal counsel. Mostly comprised of legal professionals.

Open Doors

Open Doors works to preserve at-risk fanworks of all kinds.

Systems

Manages servers and infrastructure for the organization and its projects.

Translation

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

Documents the 35-year history of fan vidding.

Volunteers & Recruiting

Recruits and manages volunteers and staffers for all committees and projects, sets them up in the Org, 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

Keeps the website running smoothly and helps committees get their FAQs, blog posts, and Web pages out into the wider world.

Wiki

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.