October Drive - Celebrating our Vidding Roadmap!

[allisonmorris]

The final project we have time to talk about during this drive is one of the newest and, we think, one of the most exciting. Our Vidding Roadmap. What's that? An economy pack of assorted awesome things -- initiatives that will serve a purpose beyond vidding, and which we believe will educate, advocate, and entertain. It includes a portal for learning about vidding, aimed at the curious, whether they are coming from inside fandom or from outside; a safe, stable place to store vids for the future; a way to share multimedia fanworks; and integration of multimedia into the Archive of Our Own.

The educational Vidding Community Resource Site is in development right now. The Dark Archive is also getting very close to reality. Video embed functionality for the AO3 is being coded and tested as we speak.

The Torrent of Our Own (TO3), however, is a more complex project. We are developing a bittorrent tracker for fair-use transformative fanworks, including fan vids, fic trailers, political remix, AMVs, machinima, and other forms of transformative digital media. This is a way to share our work with each other that isn't an afterthought to someone else's aims. A way that is designed for us, built by us, and owned by us. Running on our servers, with our advocacy behind it. After all, the vidding community has been increasingly disrupted by inaccurate content-filtering systems, the commercial failure of small streaming sites, bullying cease and desist letters, and wrongful DMCA takedowns. The TO3 will provide a stable, scalable home for vids; because torrents work best when there are high levels of collaboration and participation, we can open the network to any and all forms of fair use digital video and audio.

Our Vidding Roadmap, all of its parts, is a big project. It's one we believe there is a pressing need for. Preserving our work, advocating for its legitimacy, and building for the future.

Donate to the OTW now.


Mirrored from an original post on the OTW Blog.

October Drive - Celebrating our Vidding Roadmap!

[allisonmorris.livejournal.com]

The final project we have time to talk about during this drive is one of the newest and, we think, one of the most exciting. Our Vidding Roadmap. What's that? An economy pack of assorted awesome things -- initiatives that will serve a purpose beyond vidding, and which we believe will educate, advocate, and entertain. It includes a portal for learning about vidding, aimed at the curious, whether they are coming from inside fandom or from outside; a safe, stable place to store vids for the future; a way to share multimedia fanworks; and integration of multimedia into the Archive of Our Own.

The educational Vidding Community Resource Site is in development right now. The Dark Archive is also getting very close to reality. Video embed functionality for the AO3 is being coded and tested as we speak.

The Torrent of Our Own (TO3), however, is a more complex project. We are developing a bittorrent tracker for fair-use transformative fanworks, including fan vids, fic trailers, political remix, AMVs, machinima, and other forms of transformative digital media. This is a way to share our work with each other that isn't an afterthought to someone else's aims. A way that is designed for us, built by us, and owned by us. Running on our servers, with our advocacy behind it. After all, the vidding community has been increasingly disrupted by inaccurate content-filtering systems, the commercial failure of small streaming sites, bullying cease and desist letters, and wrongful DMCA takedowns. The TO3 will provide a stable, scalable home for vids; because torrents work best when there are high levels of collaboration and participation, we can open the network to any and all forms of fair use digital video and audio.

Our Vidding Roadmap, all of its parts, is a big project. It's one we believe there is a pressing need for. Preserving our work, advocating for its legitimacy, and building for the future.

Donate to the OTW now.


Mirrored from an original post on the OTW Blog.

Less than one hour left! October Drive and the OTW by the numbers!

[allisonmorris]

It's been an exciting October drive, and we have less than an hour left -- we close things up (and stop marking donors as eligible to vote!) at midnight UTC tonight (What time is that where I am?)

We thought we'd give you a last minute reminder, and ask you to help make this drive our most successful to date. And while we do that, we wanted to share a few numbers!

As of right now, the OTW has 677 voting members in good standing, hailing from 32 countries across the globe. We've raised US$13,793.46 from 269 separate contributions, with an average donation amount of US$51.28. We had two donation matching grants -- one for US$2,000 and one for US$2,200. 74 of our donors during this drive opted for a premium.

And a few numbers about the OTW! Right now, we are comprised of 89 staff in 17 committees. We're strengthened by the time and hard work of around 300 coder and tester volunteers, 32 translation volunteers, and 95 active tag wrangling volunteers. We put in a lot of hours! But they go by quickly and productively, and we haven't counted them up. :)

( To wrap up, how about a few numbers about the AO3? )

You still have time! Please donate -- we would love to count you in.

Mirrored from an original post on the OTW Blog.

Less than one hour left! October Drive and the OTW by the numbers!

[allisonmorris.livejournal.com]

It's been an exciting October drive, and we have less than an hour left -- we close things up (and stop marking donors as eligible to vote!) at midnight UTC tonight (What time is that where I am?)

We thought we'd give you a last minute reminder, and ask you to help make this drive our most successful to date. And while we do that, we wanted to share a few numbers!

As of right now, the OTW has 677 voting members in good standing, hailing from 32 countries across the globe. We've raised US$13,793.46 from 269 separate contributions, with an average donation amount of US$51.28. We had two donation matching grants -- one for US$2,000 and one for US$2,200. 74 of our donors during this drive opted for a premium.

And a few numbers about the OTW! Right now, we are comprised of 89 staff in 17 committees. We're strengthened by the time and hard work of around 300 coder and tester volunteers, 32 translation volunteers, and 95 active tag wrangling volunteers. We put in a lot of hours! But they go by quickly and productively, and we haven't counted them up. :)

( To wrap up, how about a few numbers about the Archive of Our Own, for trivia value? )

You still have time! Please donate -- we would love to count you in.

Mirrored from an original post on the OTW Blog.

Thank you!

[allisonmorris]

The OTW's October 2010 membership and donation drive has come to a close.

We've been thrilled by the response, and will be busily double-checking our figures for a few days. We want to be sure to count our donors who used eChecks and physical checks, the ones who donated by surface mail as well as those who took advantage of our online donation system. We'll give you a full report as soon as we can be sure of the information.

Please keep donating! Donations after this point will not qualify you to vote in 2010, but they will qualify you to vote in 2011, and they will go far to support our work.

Thank you again for your generosity, for your attention, and for your support.

Mirrored from an original post on the OTW Blog.

Thank you!

[allisonmorris.livejournal.com]

The OTW's October 2010 membership and donation drive has come to a close.

We've been thrilled by the response, and will be busily double-checking our figures for a few days. We want to be sure to count our donors who used eChecks and physical checks, the ones who donated by surface mail as well as those who took advantage of our online donation system. We'll give you a full report as soon as we can be sure of the information.

Please keep donating! Donations after this point will not qualify you to vote in 2010, but they will qualify you to vote in 2011, and they will go far to support our work.

Thank you again for your generosity, for your attention, and for your support.

Mirrored from an original post on the OTW Blog.