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September Announcements
EVERYONE STAY TUNED!

September is PROJECT ROLL OUT MONTH here at OTW!

The second half of September will be one of the most exciting times in OTW's history. The Archive of Our Own is in testing and will begin its very first public beta this week! Invites will have to be very limited for a while as we get our first real-world performance results, but all will be welcome to read stories, post comments, and explore the archive. (PS: giving us lots of feedback including those exciting bug reports will be a good way to get an invite. :D)

The first issue of our journal, Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC) (http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc) is out as of today! (Read the full press release here: http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/announcement.) A new version of the OTW website at http://transformativeworks.org will be going live very soon (this new version contains a blog and rss feed that will allow us to move the OTW off Livejournal for good.) And the Fanlore wiki is finalizing its policies and will be ready for a soft launch and population of information.

October is our biannual MEMBERSHIP and VOLUNTEERS Drive!

With all our projects rolled out by October 1, we will then hold our second membership/donations drive. This is your chance to become a member if you aren't already (which will make you eligible to vote in the upcoming Board elections) or to donate money or time to support the OTW and its ongoing projects. We will also be having another volunteer drive, and we hope that you will declare yourself as "Willing To Serve" on one of our committees next year.

November is for ELECTIONS!

All members of the OTW will be able to vote in the Board Elections scheduled for November. After these elections, the OTW will take a brief hiatus to reconstitute itself, and the new Board will appoint or reappoint the next Committee Chairs who will rebuild committees to take us into our second awesome year of projects. Be a part of it!




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[info]caitiedidit
2008-09-16 04:46 pm UTC (link)
Exciting!

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[info]tacky_tramp
2008-09-16 05:11 pm UTC (link)
WAHOOOO! *crosses fingers for an invite*

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[info]zooey_glass04
2008-09-16 05:43 pm UTC (link)
Wooooo! \0/

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[info]minkhollow
2008-09-16 06:25 pm UTC (link)
ARCHIIIIIIIIIIIVE!
(That's the part I've really been looking forward to.)

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[info]parenthetical
2008-09-16 06:57 pm UTC (link)
Wooooooooo! \0/ \0/

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[info]meri_oddities
2008-09-16 08:25 pm UTC (link)
How does one get an invite to beta the archive?

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[info]ciderpress
2008-09-20 03:36 pm UTC (link)
Sorry for the late reply!

Just in case you haven't seen it, AD&T announced in the latest newsletter that account creation at the archive isn't open at the moment.

If that changes or the archive is opened to a wider, public beta in the near future, we'll let you know as soon as possible.

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[info]meri_oddities
2008-09-20 04:20 pm UTC (link)
Thanks for the info. I saw the update. I'll be waiting here to test with lots of real stories to upload when the beta is open to the public. Can you tell I'm excited about it?

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[info]dragovianknight
2008-09-16 11:46 pm UTC (link)
ARCHIVE. I have been waiting and waiting for this! (I use FF2, FF3, and the Chrome beta, and would be happy to beta test in any or all of them. I could possibly even be coerced into using IE7. For science.)

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[info]prehistoric_sea
2008-09-17 02:01 am UTC (link)
I hope that some invites go to people who write femslash.

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[info]dzurlady
2008-09-17 04:10 am UTC (link)
This is so cool!

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[info]scribblesinink
2008-09-17 02:32 pm UTC (link)
Just wanted to offer a public "Good Job!" to everyone involved, especially the coders and webmasters of the new version of the site and archive. Unfortunately, I haven't had as much time for testing as I'd hoped (and what little time I can spend on OTW has to go into translations atm), but what I'm seeing develop is just absolutely awesome!

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