Webmasters Committee

Volunteer Recruiting: Testing Volunteers & Web Developer Staff

We would like to thank everyone who responded to our previous call for Support Staff. The chairs are reviewing applications and should be contacting people within the next two weeks.

Today, we're excited to announce the opening of applications for:

  • Testing Volunteer - Closes May 27th
  • Web Developer Staff - Closes May 27th

We have included more information on each role below. Open roles and applications will always be available at the volunteering page. If you don't see a role that fits with your skills and interests now, keep an eye on the listings. We plan to put up new applications every few weeks, and we will also publicize new roles as they become available.

All applications generate a confirmation page and an auto-reply to your e-mail address. We encourage you to read the confirmation page and to whitelist volunteers@transformativeworks.org in your e-mail client. If you do not receive the auto-reply within 24 hours, please check your spam filters and then contact us.

Note: We are continuing to work on a set of Volunteering Frequently Asked Questions that we hope to have posted within the next few weeks. If you have any questions about volunteering for the OTW, please let us know.

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Planned Downtime - transformativeworks.org

The OTW website and the Elections and Open Doors subdomains will be down for planned maintenance for approximately seven hours on Wednesday 24 October. The downtime is scheduled to begin at 1700 UTC (see what time this is in your timezone), though there is the possibility the site may be taken offline earlier as the process is being coordinated with our managed hosting provider.

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Behind the scenes with the Webmasters

OTW elections have always been a bit complicated given the challenges of both preserving voter privacy and ensuring that elections are fair with an entirely virtual organization. We've implemented procedures surrounding our election technology to assure that the results of the vote are verifiable, that there are multiple corroborating sources to disallow any possibility of tampering, and that we have created an audit trail.

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Comment notifications on OTW website temporarily disabled

From the Webmasters committee:

Users of the transformativeworks.org news blog have reported seeing an "access denied" message when attempting to unsubscribe from comment notifications. This unfortunately coincides with a large influx of spam comments, which is resulting in lots of unwanted e-mails for users who are subscribed to notifications. To protect our users' inboxes from further spam, we have temporarily disabled comment notification e-mails while we work on the problem. We will post an announcement when notifications become active again.

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Welcome to the new OTW website!

The Webmasters are pleased to announce the launch of the new website and blog.

http://transformativeworks.org

In addition to a facelift, the website now has several spiffy new features that increase the ease-of-use of the site. The most important of these is the blog, which will be taking over from otw_news as our primary information service. It will also allow all comments to be centralized in one (non-LiveJournal) location hosted by OTW itself.

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