At the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW), a lot has happened in the past few months. Here’s a look at some of the many new and interesting things the OTW has been accomplishing thanks to your support.
Our Systems team have been busy bees this semester! The number of fanworks on the Archive of Our Own is growing, as is the number of users and visitors. We need more space to store those fanworks, and more bandwidth to serve everyone. We also need faster computers that can search through the works quickly and answer more queries at the same time. Your donations help Systems purchase the machines we need to keep our projects running for fans like you! You can find a breakdown of our expenses for 2017 below. (For more specific information on the OTW’s finances, please refer to the 2017 budget.)
Several other teams have also been hard at work recently! The Legal committee has continued its work responding to fan questions and has filed amicus briefs in new cases, including Cross v. Facebook, “against overreaching right-of-publicity laws”. Meanwhile, the Archive of Our Own (AO3) reached 1 million registered users in October 2016 and is passing 3 million fanworks this month, another milestone!
Plus, Transformative Works and Cultures has released No. 23, a special issue all about Sherlock Holmes fandom, guest edited by Roberta Pearson and Betsy Rosenblatt. The issue includes articles on fan art and gender disparities in the fandom, as well as reviews of Sherlock-themed books. It even has special cover art! Transformative Works and Cultures, like all of the OTW’s projects, relies on your donations to publish these academic articles for current and future researchers!
It’s your help that makes all of this possible. To add your support to the important work that these teams do, please donate today!
Hello!
I seem to have a technical problem with this page: I’m not sure what is causing my issue, but I can’t see the expanses as mentioned in the text – I only see a big blank space. The same occurs when I visit to the linked website (https://www.transformativeworks.org/otw-finance-2017-budget/). The problem happens with different browsers.
I would have liked to see where the donations go to, could you please fix that? Thank you!
I’m not in any way connected to the AO3, but try opening the image directly: http://media.ao3.org/banners/news/2017_budget/01-budget_post_graphics__expenses.png
If you still can’t see it, the alt text lists the percentages:
Expenses by program: Archive of Our Own: 75.7%. Open Doors: 0.5%. Transformative Works and Cultures: 1.5%. Fanlore: 2.7%. Legal Advocacy: 1.2%. Con Outreach: 1.8%. Admin: 8.4%. Fundraising: 8.2%.