otw_news | Help Us (and the AO3) Grow!

Open Beta for the Archive of Our Own is entering its third week of booming growth, and we're all very excited by the positive, thoughtful, and constructive feedback we've been receiving from all of the new users. We've also been incredibly gratified by the groundswell of excited volunteers, eager to help us to make the Archive even better!

Happily, volunteer opportunities abound - particularly filling jobs in the infrastructure supporting the AO3. Organizing and communicating with our new volunteers is how our Volunteers & Recruiting Committee makes all our other work possible. Our Financial Committee makes sure the bills get paid, assuring a secure, stable home for all of that work. Both are vital to AO3 growth and sustainability.

If you're inspired by the AO3 project, and are moved to help us make it better, you may have just the sort of enthusiasm we can use! Volunteering in other capacities doesn't mean you can't also test code (banging on new features) or wrangle tags (helping to improve searchability) - many of us do both. Please take a look at the opportunities listed in our Willing to Serve post and help us to build stronger support for the AO3 by strengthening our organization. Send us a message to volunteer or to find out more!

As always, if you don't have the time or energy, but feel the impulse to be a part of what we're accomplishing, you can donate in support of our servers and our continued self-sufficiency - or just help spread the word to your friends and fannish communities!

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I've offered to volunteer a couple of times but never gotten a reply. I've kind of taken it as a good sign, that maybe the help isn't needed, but it would be nice if there were some kind of system acknowledging that the form was received, even if my services are not required at this time or whatever. Or maybe let people offering to volunteer know if there is a back-log on volunteer assignments. I could just go sign up to volunteer again but if my previous offers are sitting in a queue somewhere, I don't want to be cluttering up the inbox, you know?

♥ to AO3!

Hrmph! I'll go check up on this ASAP, though it wouldn't surprise me at all if Volunteers needs volunteers so we can respond to our volunteers for volunteers. Cause it would be a shame if we were losing volunteers to Volunteers because we don't have the volunteers! (That's the story of our life, though, as an all volunteer nonprofit!)

In which case I'm more than willing to volunteer to help volunteers volunteering to volunteer!

*eyes grammar suspicously*

Hi there. I'm really sorry you have not gotten a reply--we try to reply to everyone who contacts us. Please email me at kabessa at transformativeworks dot org with your skills/areas of interest, and we'll start from there!

Hello again!

Your response to the recent Willing To Serve post is here safe and sound. I think some of the confusion has come from the fact that while we advertise for people for the next term in November, we do not actually put the new committees together until January. This is in the Willing To Serve post, but I know that one line gets lost in all that info dump!

We do reply to everyone who volunteers (where we reiterate again that most committees will not add people until January), but it appears our response to you perhaps got nabbed by your spam filter. (If you did volunteer other times in the past, we have no record of it at all, so I suppose email problems again!)

So we double-secret try to let people know that there will be a gap of several months between when they volunteer and when we form the committees, but in this case both failed. /o\

I see you did not list VolCom as an area of interest--let me know if you think you would like to discuss it! (VolCom is one of the exceptions that adds people for the next term before the end of the current term, so the work would begin right away, and in particular would be heavy, all-hands-deck the week before Christmas.)

Okay dokey! Believe me I know the travails of email lost and found. I'll email you directly at your addy above so as not to clog up this post. :)

*whispers to you that volcom are the smof-- as well as awesome*

And come play with Fanlore too!

Hee-we've got another post planned for you guys! We didn't forget you.

<3 from Comm *g*

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