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You may or may not know this, but in addition to founding OTW, Naomi Novik is also one of the most prolific coders behind the Archive of Our Own - she's been responsible for (among other things) the importing code, which allows you to migrate works over from other sites, the downloading code (omnomnom, delicious mobi files!), and the collections ( Read more... )

Three reasons to donate to OTW during its current membership drive:

1) We've had two separate offers from people willing to match donations, one of which is in memory of Sandy Herrold. It would be wonderful to max those out! You can also make your own donation in honor or in memory of Sandy or other friends/family members/fellow fans ( Read more... )

Signs that you spend too much time doing OTW work: LJ goes down for a few days and you're mildly inconvenienced. Campfire goes down for half an hour and you go into massive withdrawal ( Read more... )

I volunteered with OTW as a coder at the beginning of 2008, and since then I've become a senior coder on the archive project, a member of the AD&T committee, and now the AD&T co-chair. (AD&T = Accessibility, Design and Technology, the committee responsible for archive design and development.) I've put an enormous amount of time and energy into my ( Read more... )

So I'm the co-chair of the OTW Accessibility, Design and Technology Committee this year, which I keep meaning to post about, and which I keep being distracted from posting about by ever-increasing amounts of AD&T work. (AD&T is the committee responsible for design, coding and testing for the Archive of Our OwnIn that capacity, and in honor of the ( Read more... )

OTW is having its March membership/fundraising drive!


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OTW has a poll open to name our new servers, and voting ends tomorrow! There are a lot of fan favorites on there, and I'm one of the people who has to use these names to remember which server to log in to for what, so this is of more than academic interest to me. :D ( Read more... )

So, last week, the Second Circuit reversed the injunction against 60 Years Later Coming Through the Rye, which is a sequel of sorts to The Catcher in the Rye, in which, from what I can tell, a 76-year-old man named "Mr. C" becomes aware that he's a fictional character and eventually meets up with his creator, a thinly-veiled version of Salinger, ( Read more... )

I missed One Night Fandoms: A Tribute to Yuletide by
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