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I. SPOTLIGHT ON GOVERNANCE
Board finished their letter for the 2024 Annual Report. They also approved the OTW signing another letter opposing online ID checks, approved several payment requests, and began planning for their next public Board Meeting. They also continued work on multiple ongoing projects with the Board Assistants Team and Roadmap Team, including Crisis Procedures, Cybersecurity Audit, and Paid Staff Transition projects.
Based on the lessening workload for the Webs committee and following internal discussions with multiple committees, Board announced in late February that Webs would be decommissioned. Moving forward, Systems will handle requests that would have gone to Webs and take over the remaining duties of Webs.
II. AT AO3
In March, Accessibility, Design & Technology focused on deploying bug fixes, improvements for tag wranglers, and groundwork to enable translation of email text. They also announced comment rate limits would be put in place for logged in users, aimed at preventing spam comments.
Open Doors finished importing the older works of Due South Seekrit Santa, an annual Due South gift exchange!
In February, Policy & Abuse received 2,807 tickets, while Support received 3,709 tickets. Tag Wrangling wrangled over 470,000 tags, or approximately 1,100 tags per wrangling volunteer.
III. ELSEWHERE AT THE OTW
Fanlore continues to host monthly themed editing challenges, with April's focusing on expanding stubs. They also prepared for their upcoming themed month for May: Creatures!
Legal responded to a number of user queries in March and has been closely tracking many legislative proposals that could affect fans and fan expression online.
TWC announced the publication of Volume 45 of Transformative Works and Cultures, a special issue on Sports Fandoms, guest-edited by Jason Kido Lopez and Lori Kido Lopez.
IV. PREPARING FOR DRIVE
In March, Development & Membership prepared for the April membership drive; they worked with external vendors to order new premiums, and collaborated closely with Communications and Translation to prepare news posts.
In preparation for the April membership drive, Finance worked on finalizing 2024 accounting and the 2024 budget.
V. IT'S ALL ABOUT THE PEEPS
Volunteers & Recruiting conducted recruitment for 3 committees in February: Open Doors, Policy & Abuse, and Tag Wrangling. From February 19 to March 18, Volunteers & Recruiting received 128 new requests and completed 117, leaving them with 66 open requests (including induction and removal tasks listed below).
As of March 18, 2025, the OTW has 862 volunteers. \o/ Recent personnel movements are listed below.
New Committee Chairs/Leads: Brian Austin (AD&T), Bilka (AD&T QA&T Lead)
New AD&T Volunteers: Bilka (Senior Volunteer)
New Communications Volunteers: Aditi Paul, Caitlynne, and callmeri (Media Outreach Volunteers); an (Posting Specialist)
New Fanlore Volunteers: 1 Chair Assistant
Departing BAT Volunteers: 1 Project Specialist
Departing Communications Volunteers: 1 Posting Specialist and 1 Graphics Designer
Departing Communications News Post Moderation Volunteers: Kate G (Moderator)
Departing Development & Membership Volunteers: 1 Convention Specialist
Departing Fanlore Volunteers: 1 Graphics Designer
Departing Open Doors Volunteers: 1 Import Assistant
Departing Policy & Abuse Volunteers: 1 Volunteer
Departing Tag Wrangler Volunteers: antonomasia (Tag Wrangling Supervisor and Tag Wrangling Chair Assistant), Lou Stina Forest and 1 other Tag Wrangling Volunteer
Departing Translation Volunteers: Sil (Translator)
Departing TWC Volunteers: 1 Copyeditor
For more information about our committees and their regular activities, you can refer to the committee pages on our website.
The Organization for Transformative Works is the non-profit parent organization of multiple projects including Archive of Our Own, Fanlore, Open Doors, Transformative Works and Cultures, and OTW Legal Advocacy. We are a fan-run, entirely donor-supported organization staffed by volunteers. Find out more about us on our website.