Thanks To Everyone!

[francescacoppa.livejournal.com]

Thanks to everyone who participated in the OTW's recent membership drive: by posting about the drive or about the org, by sharing one of our awesome lolcats, and most especially by donating. It will take a few days for the last promised donations to clear, and then your humble DevMem team will take a few days off to decompress, but we hope to post soon with some nifty statistics and graphics so that you can share our glee.

A few folks contacted us late in the drive to say, "I'm not able to donate now, but I hope to have the money to donate sometime soon -- can I still donate after the drive is over?" The answer is yes! Our formal March 2009 membership drive has ended, which means we'll stop proclaiming the awesomeness of the OTW quite so loudly from the rooftops, but you can support the OTW with a donation at any time.

Thanks for being a part of the OTW!

The Development/Membership Committee of the OTW: Carla, Elizabeth, Ignaz, Monica, Rachel, Shoshanna, and Vera

Mirrored from an original post on the OTW Blog.

Comments

[starwatcher]

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Question: So I've finally donated, and joined, and I have a username and password. Is the Archive ready for anyone to upload their fanfic, or are we still working on the beta testing? *shrug* I'm not quite sure what to do now.
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[elizabethyalkut.myopenid.com (from livejournal.com)]

Hi, starwatcher307, thanks for joining the OTW! Your membership is totally unconnected to use of any of our services (Fanlore, the Archive of Our Own, Transformative Works and Cultures, transformativeworks.org), and simply gives you a vote in annual Board elections; my guess is that your user name and password are for transformativeworks.org so that you can leave authenticated comments on our blog. The Archive is still in beta testing, and we're working hard to get it to the point where we can open to everyone who wants an account there.

I hope this clears up your question!

Elizabeth Yalkut, Development & Membership committee

[juniperphoenix]

my guess is that your user name and password are for transformativeworks.org

That's correct. Your transformativeworks.org username and password can be used on the main OTW website to leave authenticated comments, upload a userpic, and set your preferred language.

You can create a separate account (with the same username, if you like) on Fanlore, and on the Archive once it opens up for account creation.

Kristen, Webmasters committee