• July, 2009 Newsletter, Volume 31

    By .fcoppa on Friday, 17 July, 2009
    Tags: Newsletter

    Welcome to OTW's July, 2009 newsletter. Get status reports and updates on all your favorite OTW projects and committees right under the cut!

  • Terms Of Service Update for the Archive of our Own

    By .fcoppa on Tuesday, 14 July, 2009
    Tags: Archive of Our Own, Discussion

    The OTW's Content Policy is pleased to put the following updates to the Archive's Terms of Service forward for two weeks of public discussion. The full Terms of Service can be found linked on the archive page, but for clarity, all emendations and new policy items are listed below the cut.

  • Announcing: OTW's GeoCities Rescue Project

    By .fcoppa on Monday, 13 July, 2009
    Tags: Fannish Endings, Announcement, Open Doors As we reported earlier this year, GeoCities, which hosts many fannish resource pages and archives, announced that it will be closing down at the end of the year. They've now announced a more specific date: October 26, 2009. In response, the Open Doors Committee of the OTW would like to announce our GeoCities Rescue Project. If you are the owner of a fanfiction archive or resource, meta or other fannish page on GeoCities and you are looking to house your fiction or other content, the OTW can help!

  • Archive News #3 - How is the Archive developing? + More about tags!

    By .fcoppa on Thursday, 9 July, 2009
    Tags: Archive of Our Own, Archive Update

    Welcome to our third Archive news post! These regular posts are a venue for us to answer some frequently asked questions about the Archive of Our Own. Questions about the Archive Roadmap, Tags, and Warnings...right under the cut!

  • Archive News #2 - Tags

    By .fcoppa on Wednesday, 24 June, 2009
    Tags: Archive of Our Own, Archive Update

    Welcome to our second Archive news post! These regular posts are a venue for us to answer some frequently asked questions about the Archive of Our Own. Everything you wanted to know about tags--right under the cut!

    Please leave your questions about the Archive in comments and we’ll answer them in upcoming posts. (This is a space for more general questions – if you have specific comments about the design or usability of the Archive please send feedback on the Archive site itself, so it goes into our bugfix and design process).

  • Notes from the Open Video Conference, Day Two

    By .fcoppa on Wednesday, 24 June, 2009
    Tags: Conferences, DMCA, Takedowns, Event, Vidding, Remix

    Summary of a couple of panels on Day 2:

  • Notes from the Open Video Conference, Day One

    By .fcoppa on Saturday, 20 June, 2009
    Tags: Conferences, Event, Vidding Francesca Coppa, Naomi Novik, and head coder Elz spent the day at the Open Video Conference in NYC today. The conference is primarily about building architecture for online video as well as open source software more generally, so you can see why we were interested. (We're keeping a close eye on the emerging technologies that might make a Vidding Archive Of Our Own more feasable and efficient.) Some highlights from today's programming: Independent Video Platforms: Representatives from various independent video spaces, mostly dealing with issues of social justice or alternative media, showcased their sites.

  • Job Search: Experienced XHTML/CSS Coder

    By .KA Bessa on Friday, 19 June, 2009
    Tags: Archive of Our Own, Volunteering

    Job: Experienced XHTML/CSS Coder

    Description: We're now much further forward with the Archive, and we're badly in need of some front end skillz! The illustrious lim wrote the main style sheets for the Archive, but now that those are in place, we have many other front end jobs. The lovely Flamebyrd has been doing sterling work on some of these, and we're jazzed about the fact that Hope recently joined us to work on skins for the Archive, but there's a lot of work to do and we've yet to perfect our cloning technology. So, we're looking for people to work on some of the following:

  • Announcing: The Fan Culture Preservation Project!

    By .fcoppa on Wednesday, 17 June, 2009
    Tags: Announcement, Open Doors, Zines

    The OTW is pleased to announce that we will be partnering with the University of Iowa to create a Fan Culture Preservation Project.

  • June, 2009 Newsletter, Vol 30

    By .fcoppa on Wednesday, 17 June, 2009
    Tags: Newsletter

    Get updates on all your favorite OTW projects and committees: right under the cut!

    Abuse:

    Abuse has been hard at work getting boilerplate texts written to efficiently handle user complaints and concerns. We are combing through drafts to ensure we are clearly communicating with users regarding areas of difficulty and the terms of service.

    ADT/Archive:

    AD&T are busy negotiating with a co-location facility to work out our requirements and costs - Network ports! Power consumption! We're about to spend a lot of money so we want to spend it wisely (thank you so much for supporting us in making this dream a reality).

    The draft Open Beta plan is getting fleshed out and we're busy making a list of features we have to finalise. I feel a blocking Open Beta list coming on...

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