Organization for Transformative Works

Spotlight on Abuse

The Abuse Committee is a new OTW committee dedicated to fielding the complaints that come in about content uploaded to the Archive of Our Own. We determine if complaints are about legitimate violations of the Terms of Service, and what to do about them if they are; our major goals are to adhere completely to the TOS, to make our reasoning and processes as clear and transparent as possible, and to keep every individual case that we work with completely confidential.

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Job Search: ADT Archivist

Job: ADT Archivist

Description: Our wonderful Documentation committee needs a volunteer to assist with the Accessibility, Design, & Technology committee meeting minutes. ADT is so prolific, it’s getting hard to keep up! No technical knowledge is required--all you need is the ability to summarize the meetings. Volunteers will get a beta account at the Archive of Our Own.

Estimated Time Involved: A few hours a week.

How to Volunteer: Use our contact form to send us the following information:

Your name (you may provide your real name or your fannish name--please consider what you feel comfortable using both inside and outside the organization):

Your email address:

OTW Files Amicus Brief in the Salinger Case

The OTW is proud to have been asked to collaborate with the American Library Association, the Association of Research Libraries, the Association of College and Research Libraries, and the Right to Write Fund on an amicus brief in the pending Salinger/60 Years Later case. The OTW's Rebecca Tushnet and Casey Fiesler collaborated with lawyers from Stanford's Center for the Internet and Society and the UC Berkeley School of Law to produce the brief, which was served on August 3, 2009. The appeal is scheduled to be heard in New York's Second Circuit Court of Appeals in early September.

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OTW Featured In OSCON Keynote

A belated congratulations to all of the OTW's technical women--coders, tag-wranglers, sysadmins, webmasters, etc.--and a belated thank you to Kirrily Robert for her terrific keynote presentation at last week's OSCON, i.e. the O'Reilly Open Source Convention. Kirrily's presentation, "Standing Out in the Crowd," about women in the open source community, focuses on the positive by taking OTW's all female open source Archive project and Dreamwidth's female dominance and focus on diversity as models for future action.

Kirrily's entire filmed keynote is now available on OSCON's blip.tv channel; its well worth watching in its entirety.

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