The Organization for Transformative Works

Hey guys, it's the OTW's biannual membership drive!  If you can, please donate to support the AO3 so fandom will continue to have a stable home.  The OTW is something I believe passionately in because I want us to own the goddamned servers.  I want your stories and vids and art to still be there tomorrow, in ten years, in fifty years.  If you can donate then please do.  If you can't, that's ok.  It's a group effort, and those that can have got you covered.

I don't talk about it much on this journal, but I've been a supporter from the beginning by donating a little money every year.  I've always wanted to volunteer my time to help build the AO3 but didn't because I worried about having enough time to dedicate.  But this whole fuss over Delicious lately made me remember how much I believe in owning our own space.  The AO3 has a bookmarking feature (among many other features), which they plan to develop into something better in the future.  But they need help to do it; ideas from Archive users about what they want (about everything, not just bookmarks), coders to build it, testers to test it, money for servers to host it.  I can't do all of that, but I can do a lot.  And I realized that no one else is going to do it for me.  If I want it done, I have to roll up my sleeves and help.

So now I'm part of the Tag Wrangling and Testing teams!  I joined during a busy patch for me IRL so I haven't gotten through all the training and welcome info yet, but I look forward to really getting into the business of working for the Archive.