Job: Graphic Artists

Works With: Webmasters/Accessibility, Design, & Technology

Description: We are currently seeking people to make graphics for two different uses.

1. The website committee needs a small graphic to serve as a bullet (somewhere between 16x16 px and 20x20 px) on our language switcher on the new, about to be launched website. The file type can be either png or jpg. We currently have a globe of the Earth, but if you can think of some other symbol that would clearly signify 'international', we are open to suggestions.

2. Accessibility, Design, & Technology is looking for people interested in designing icons to use as badges for beta testers, as a way to acknowledge service to the Archive and celebrate the first ever users. Icon should be a maximum of 100x100 pixels, with a maximum file size of 40kb. Formats supported are JPG, PNG and GIF, and the icons should refer in some way to the fact that this is for "Beta version 1.0."

How to Volunteer: Send an email to volunteers@transformativeworks.org or post a comment here. All comments on this post are screened in order to protect the privacy of volunteers providing personal information.

Please include the following information:

Your name (you may provide your real name or your fannish name--please consider what you feel comfortable using both inside and outside the organization):

Your email address:

Which kind of graphic you are interested in making (bullet or icons):

Please put "Graphic Artist" in the subject line of your email or LJ comment. Please do not include attachments or embedded links.

Please contact Volunteers for more information on file type, designs desired, etc.

Anyone can contact the Volunteers & Recruiting committee at any time by commenting on this post (all comments are screened) or sending an email to volunteers@transformativeworks.org

Job: Swag Graphic Designer

Works With: Development & Membership

Description: In preparation for our October donations drive, the Development & Membership committee is in search of graphics for use on OTW merchandise, such as mugs, tote bags, flash drives, etc. This is your chance to have your art immortalized forever on an umbrella!

How to Volunteer: Send an email to volunteers@transformativeworks.org or post a comment here. All comments on this post are screened in order to protect the privacy of volunteers providing personal information.

Please include the following information:

Your name (you may provide your real name or your fannish name--please consider what you feel comfortable using both inside and outside the organization):

Your email address:

Please put "Swag Designer" in the subject line of your email or LJ comment. Please do not include attachments or embedded links.

Send us your information by: The deadline for design submission is September 10th, 2008. Please contact Volunteers for more information on file type, designs desired, etc.

Anyone can contact the Volunteers & Recruiting committee at any time by commenting on this post (all comments are screened) or sending an email to volunteers@transformativeworks.org

Job: PHP Guru

Works With: Webmasters

Description: Webmasters is looking for a volunteer to provide PHP programming for website functionality, and possibly write patches for Drupal. We need someone with intermediate to advanced knowledge of PHP; experience with Drupal, particularly Drupal programming, would be a huge bonus.

Estimated Time Involved: Ideally, we need an initial 6-8 weeks of programming, followed by a six month commitment to help on an as needed basis. We are willing to divide these roles up between two or more people, so please feel free to let us know what your availability is, immediately and in the near future.

How to Volunteer: Send an email to volunteers@transformativeworks.org or post a comment here. All comments on this post are screened in order to protect the privacy of volunteers providing personal information.

Please include the following information:

Your name (you may provide your real name or your fannish name--please consider what you feel comfortable using both inside and outside the organization):

Your email address:

Description of your experience with PHP and Drupal:

Please put "PHP Guru" in the subject line of your email or LJ comment. Please do not include attachments or embedded links.

Send us your information by: This job is closed.

All volunteers will receive an email confirming their information has been received. If you do not receive an email by 11:59PM GMT on Friday, August 29th, 2008, please contact us.

Anyone can contact the Volunteers & Recruiting committee at any time by commenting on this post (all comments are screened) or sending an email to volunteers@transformativeworks.org

Job: Systems Committee Member

Description: Systems is looking for a few additional committee members to help with backend support, keeping the operating system and the application software up and running.

We are currently using Debian, but if you are otherwise competent with Unix, knowing Debian specifically isn't a requirement. The software packages we administer are: Mailman, Apache2, Mongrel, Rails, Drupal, Mediawiki, Postfix, mySQL, Awstats, Nagios, Request Tracker, rsnapshot, S3Sync and Logwatch. Experience installing, configuring and troubleshooting any of these would be good—you need not know them all. Apache would be a huge bonus.

We are also looking for a systems architect. If you have experience in this area, please contact us!

Estimated Time Involved: You should figure an average of three hours a week, including a weekly chat meeting, but the works tends to come in bursts—nothing for a while, and then many things all at once. Obviously, the more people we have, the more we can spread tasks out, and reduce the workload for all.

The length of commitment is up to you, and we encourage staffers to take breaks from the Org when they need them. If you think you can offer us a few months, we'll take them!

How to Volunteer: Send an email to volunteers@transformativeworks.org or post a comment here. All comments on this post are screened in order to protect the privacy of volunteers providing personal information.

Please include the following information:

Your name (you may provide your real name or your fannish name--please consider what you feel comfortable using both inside and outside the organization):

Your email address:

Applicable experience:

Please put "Systems Committee" in the subject line of your email or LJ comment. Please do not include attachments or embedded links.

Send us your information by: This job remains open.

All volunteers will receive an email confirming their information has been received; please give us up to five days to reply.

Anyone can contact the Volunteers & Recruiting committee at any time by commenting on this post (all comments are screened) or sending an email to volunteers@transformativeworks.org

Job: Volunteer XHTML/CSS Coder

Works With: Naomi Novik -- Accessibility, Design, & Technology.

Description: Do you know HTML and CSS, either really well or want to learn more? Do you like building websites? The OTW is looking for more front end coders! Come and work with our irresistibly enthusiastic team as we bring the Archive of Our Own to life! You'll learn how to create accessible sites compliant with the latest Web standards and best practices, how to use the incredibly cool Scriptaculous Javascript tools and embedded Ruby in your webpages, and how to work with web application coders.

Skills Required: HTML and CSS knowledge and a deep-seated urge to write clean and readable web code. General comfort with software tools and picking up new things from tutorials.

Experience with accessibility and Web standards, and any experience with XHTML, Javascript, Ruby, PHP, or Perl is all a plus. No visual design skills or graphics tools necessary (though they certainly don't hurt), as our front end layout is being created by our user interface designers, so the job will primarily be to implement a design, given pictures of what it should look like.

Estimated Time Involved: 5 hours/week on average.Because of the investment in setup and training time, we ask that you be
willing to give us a year if at all possible!

Other Information: Ideally you will be working with the same setup as the Volunteer Ruby Coders, in which case there will be a steep setup process just to get all the software tools installed on your system and working. However, unlike with the Ruby on Rails coders, this is not as critical, because if this setup isn't feasible for you, you can just create static html and CSS files and hand them over to the Ruby on Rails coders to be integrated into the application. Although that way you don't get the really great fun of seeing your webpages live and working with the database code instantaneously as you write them. *g*

How to Volunteer: Send an email to volunteers@transformativeworks.org or post a comment here. All comments on this post are screened in order to protect the privacy of volunteers providing personal information.

Please include the following information:

Your name (you may provide your real name--please consider what you feel comfortable using inside and outside the organization):

Your email address:

Relevant experience and credentials (fannish and/or real life):

Computer system (hardware -- CPU, RAM, disk space -- and operating system
with version):

Amount of time per week you can contribute:

Length of commitment you can make:

(Optional) What you are particularly interested in working on (if you have a preference):

Your time zone*:

Please put "XHTML/CSS Coder" in the subject line of your email or LJ comment!

Deadline for Application: Ongoing

*For chat scheduling purposes, so the committee can schedule online meetings at a time that's convenient for everyone. You can find your time zone here. Example: GMT -05:00

Anyone can contact the Volunteers & Recruiting committee at any time by commenting on this post (all comments are screened) or sending an email to volunteers@transformativeworks.org

Job: Wiki Beta & Population

Works With: Wiki Committee

Description: The Wiki Committee is seeking volunteers to help with the exciting new Fanlore wiki! We need your help both to look over and beta-read our policies and guidelines, and to make sure they work in practice. We’re planning for Fanlore to hit the ground running when it soft launches, which means we’d like to fill it up with some tasty material before going live.

During this stage, you’ll be working closely with the Wiki Committee – helping us to polish up the policies, providing your feedback, helping the technical folks on the committee to build in features that will enable and support future contributors and readers alike to best make use of Fanlore.

You don’t need to have prior experience with wikis – after all, a variety of experiences in testers with result in better feedback! All you need is to be willing to learn, both by exploring on your own and by engaging in any training or instructions provided. We’re after folks who:

• Are excited to strenuously explore the Fanlore wiki and its policies
  
  
• Will give feedback on the way the policies, guidelines, structure and technology do or do not work for them
  
  
• Can participate in group discussion (via a chat room format) of their experiences and opinions
  
  
• Have time for this over the next couple months and are reliable about responding to email requests.

Estimated Time Involved: At least 5 hours per week for 1 month.

Other Information: If you’re interested, there will be opportunities to stay on the Fanlore wiki in an ongoing role, which will probably require approx 3 hours per week, depending on what you sign on for. Note that there will be more variety in the roles available in the future: you may wish to focus on outreach, on gardening, or only on adding more material from your own fannish community. If you’re interested in an ongoing involvement beyond the initial beta-testing, feel free to drop volunteers an email at any time. Otherwise, information about the different roles and positions available will come out as we get closer to the launch date.

How to Volunteer: Send an email to volunteers@transformativeworks.org or post a comment here. All comments on this post are screened in order to protect the privacy of volunteers providing personal information.

Please include the following information:

Your name (you may provide your real name or your fannish name--please consider what you feel comfortable using both inside and outside the organization):

Your email address:

Any prior experience working with fannish histories or wikis (of any topic)?

Any particular area of working on a wiki that you’re more interested in (be it technical, policy, content, or particular content)?

Please put "Wiki Volunteer" in the subject line of your email or LJ comment. Please do not include attachments or embedded links.

Send us your information by: 11:59PM GMT on Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 CLOSED

All volunteers will receive an email confirming their information has been received. If you do not receive an email by 11:59PM GMT on Thursday, July 3rd, 2008, please contact us.

Anyone can contact the Volunteers & Recruiting committee at any time by commenting on this post (all comments are screened) or sending an email to volunteers@transformativeworks.org

Join the Jedi Council! (oh, okay: Join our Ruby on Rails Coding Team!)

We've worked out a bunch of tutorials, our initial team is zooming along, and we are ready to recruit some more help!

If you have experience coding, or have the time and willingness to learn, please join us! The things you'll learn:

• - Working with version control and a team of fellow programmers and testers
  
• - Using the awesomely cool Ruby on Rails programming framework
  
• - Working with databases
  
• - Creating a secure, scalable web application

And most cool of all, you will be helping us build an amazing open-source archive system for yourself and your fellow fans, while you build your own skills and resume. \o/

A note: If you're in school and looking for a cool summer project, we can work with you to make this an internship, possibly even for credit depending on what your school expects for these.

What you need:

• - A chunk of time at the start to get through setup
  
• - Either willingness to learn and a bunch of time, or previous coding experience
  
• - Comfort with basic (web-browser-based) chat
  
• - Comfort following long step-by-step tutorials and installing sometimes-complex software
  
• - The software does not require any particular os and includes:
  Subversion client
  Mysql 5.0
  Ruby and Rubygems
  Rails
  Aptana RadRails IDE
  (Don't worry, it's not as scary as that might look!)
  
• - To be happy to help fellow coders when you can
  
• - To be willing to ask for help when you need it :D
  
• - A Google Account (a gmail.com or googlemail.com address is enough, or you can sign up for one), which you are willing to use for OTW work.

What you *don't* need:

• - Experience with any specific tools or programming language
  
• - A lot of consistent time -- it is okay to come, take an assignment and do it, do something else for a few weeks, come back and take another, etc. (Note, however, if you don't have coding experience, this gets harder -- it is much better to be doing a little bit each and every week than letting long gaps happen before you do some work, in terms of learning.)

How to Volunteer: Send an email to volunteers@transformativeworks.org or post a comment here (comments are screened for privacy). Give us your name and your Google Account email, and let us know you are interested in joining the coding pool.

Please give us an idea of your background and experience, and how much time you have available -- this will let us determine whether you are a Padawan, a Jedi, or a Jedi Master. :D

You will be added to our mailing list, and we'll start you off on our tutorials!

Send us your information by: This is an ongoing project, and there is no deadline. Please feel free to volunteer at any time!

ETA. May 2nd: Edited to add software requirements.

Job: Archive Usability Design Volunteer

Works With: Accessibility, Design, & Technology committee.

Description: If you are the sort of person who goes to a website and says, "Really, that CANCEL button should be blue, and on the right," you're the sort of person we'd like to help us make the Archive of Our own easy and fun to use.

We're looking for people who are detail-oriented, patient, comfortable drawing and reading diagrams, and interested in thinking about site construction in terms of making it easy for the user. Some education or professional background doing information architecture/interaction design/UCD greatly appreciated, but the beginner willing to learn is welcome as well.

Estimated Time Involved: Volunteers will be asked to take on a specific part of the design, which can vary depending on the time commitment available. "Available a few hours per week long-term" is probably preferable to "available many hours a week short-term."

Other Information: Must be able to attend online chat meetings.

How to Volunteer: Send an email to volunteers@transformativeworks.org or post a comment here. All comments on this post are screened in order to protect the privacy of volunteers providing personal information.

Please include the following information:

Your name:

Your email address:

Any usability design experience, fannish or real-life:

Please put "Archive Usability Design" in the subject line of your email or LJ comment. Please do not include attachments or embedded links.

Send us your information by: 11:59PM GMT, Thursday, May 8th, 2008 Closed

All volunteers will receive an email confirming their information has been received. If you do not receive an email by [three days from deadline], please contact us.

Anyone can contact the Volunteers & Recruiting committee at any time by commenting on this post (all comments are screened) or sending an email to volunteers@transformativeworks.org

Job: Content Policy Focus Group

Works With: Content Policy.

Description: We are looking for volunteers to take part in roundtable discussions and reviews of the Archive of Our Own content policy. This round of discussions will cover the policy in its entirety. We are especially interested in people who have experience in drafting abuse policies, but it's not required!

Skills Required: Good communication skills.

Estimated Time Commitment/Length of Commitment: Up to 2-3 hours/week throughout May.

Other Information: Must have ability to participate in online chats.

How to Volunteer: Send an email to volunteers@transformativeworks.org or post a comment here. All comments on this post are screened in order to protect the privacy of volunteers providing personal information.

Please include the following information (note: we are asking for additional information for this job, in order to ensure a representative sample):

Your name (you may provide your real name or your fannish name, but please give us the one you feel comfortable using both inside and outside the organization):

Your email address:

Up to five fandoms you are most active in:

Any relevant experience, real-life or fannish:

The country you live in:

Your time zone:

Please put "Content Policy Focus Group" in the subject line of your email or LJ comment!

Send us your information by: 11:59PM GMT on Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Closed

All applicants will receive an email confirming their application has been received within 24 hours of close of deadline for this job. If you do not receive an email, please contact us.

For chat scheduling purposes, so the committee can schedule online meetings at a time that's convenient for everyone. You can find your time zone here. Example: GMT -05:00

Anyone can contact the Volunteers & Recruiting committee at any time by commenting on this post (all comments are screened) or sending an email to volunteers@transformativeworks.org

As part of our plan to move our base of operations off LiveJournal, the OTW is putting together a webmaster team to build and maintain our website. We have positions for people with a variety of skills--the main requirements are free time and enthusiasm! The webmaster team will keep our current website updated, while designing and implementing the next version, which will run on a Content Management System (CMS). We are currently in the process of choosing a system.

• Website Updaters
  Do you know enough HTML to make a basic webpage or to format a LiveJournal post? Are you reliably online and willing to take one week-long rotation a month to help out with keeping our website and our FAQ up to date? Please volunteer to be a Website Updater! This is a long-term position, and we are looking for a big group of reliable people to share this responsibility.
  
  
• Website Designers
  Do you love putting together cool websites? Design one for us! It needs to be readable, accessible, and written in XHTML/CSS. We'll be taking your design and implementing it in a Content Management System. This is a short-term job, and perfect for someone who wants to be involved but can't make an ongoing time commitment.
  
  
• CMS Maintainers
  Do you have experience with a Content Management System like Drupal or Radiant or Mephisto, or would you like to learn? If you've ever set up and worked with a tool like WordPress on your own site, this is pretty much the same idea. CMS Maintainers must be reliably online and willing to be responsible for one week-long rotation each month. This is a long-term position, and we'll be happy to provide help and support if you like the idea of learning how!

Estimated Time Involved: Could be as much as five hours a week, including a weekly committee meeting of one to two hours.

How to Volunteer: Send an email to volunteers@transformativeworks.org or post a comment here. All comments on this post are screened in order to protect the privacy of volunteers providing personal information.

Please include the following information:

Your name (you may provide your real name or your fannish name--please consider what you feel comfortable using both inside and outside the organization):

Your email address:

Which position/positions you are interested in:

Any relevant experience you would like to share with us:

Please put "Webmaster Team" in the subject line of your email or LJ comment. Please do not include attachments or embedded links.

Please note that the deadline for this position has closed.

All volunteers will receive an email confirming their information has been received. If you do not receive an email by 11:59PM GMT on April 8th, 2008, please contact us.

Anyone can contact the Volunteers & Recruiting committee at any time by commenting on this post (all comments are screened) or sending an email to volunteers@transformativeworks.org