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OTW Board Meeting, April 18, 2026
The OTW Board will be holding its next public meeting at 01:00 on April 18, 2026 UTC (what time is that for me?). This meeting will be held in the Board Discord server. The server will have a team of moderators and a set of rules (including question rules) and community guidelines. The server will remain open even after the meeting, but the channels for meeting and asking questions will be read-only. Board will be posting replies to questions that do not get addressed during the scheduled meeting two weeks after the meeting in the server’s #questions-answers channel. The agenda will include: Decisions made since… Read more
Update on Our 2020 Commitment from the OTW Board, Chairs & Leads
In 2020, the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW) made a commitment to our users, members, and volunteers that we would work towards making our organization and our projects more welcoming and inclusive to fans of color, and preventing and combating racist harassment on our platforms. We provided an update on this work in 2023, acknowledging that progress had not been as fast as we had hoped, sharing details of the changes that had been made by that point, and laying out the road ahead. Today we are delighted to share that we have fulfilled the last of the promises we made to you back in… Read more
Resignation of OTW Directors, December 2025
The Organization for Transformative Works (OTW) Board of Directors is saddened to announce that Erica Frank and Kathryn Soderholm have resigned from their roles as Board Directors for personal reasons. Their resignations are effective as of December 11, 2025. Erica was elected to her seat in 2024, and her term was set to end in 2027; her seat will be filled in the upcoming election as a one-year term. Kathryn was elected to her seat in 2023, and was already scheduled to be replaced in the upcoming election. In the meantime, both of their seats will remain vacant. We would like to thank Erica and… Read more
Resignation of OTW Director, April 2025
The Organization for Transformative Works (OTW) Board of Directors is saddened to announce that Zixin Zhang has resigned from her role as a Board Director for personal reasons. Zixin was elected to her seat in 2023 and her resignation is effective as of the 28th of April, 2025. As her term was set to end in a few months, her seat will be left open until this year’s OTW elections and filled via the normal election process. We would like to thank Zixin for her service as a member of the Board and for her years as an OTW volunteer. We wish her all the… Read more
OTW Board Meeting on November 12
The OTW Board will be holding its next public meeting from 1:00-2:00 AM UTC on November 12 (what time is that for me?). This meeting will be held in the Board Discord server. For those who have attended meetings before, Board is making several changes regarding how the Board Discord is set up and how the meetings are run: we now have a dedicated team of moderators, and a new set of rules and community guidelines. Additionally, the server is now a community server, which will remain open after the meeting for questions and answers. The agenda will include: Decisions made since the last public… Read more