A belated congratulations to all of the OTW's technical women--coders, tag-wranglers, sysadmins, webmasters, etc.--and a belated thank you to Kirrily Robert for her terrific keynote presentation at last week's OSCON, i.e. the O'Reilly Open Source Convention. Kirrily's presentation, "Standing Out in the Crowd," about women in the open source community, focuses on the positive by taking OTW's all female open source Archive project and Dreamwidth's female dominance and focus on diversity as models for future action.

Kirrily's entire filmed keynote is now available on OSCON's blip.tv channel; its well worth watching in its entirety.



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Fans of vidding might be interested in the short documentaries about individual vidders being made over at the Vid Commentary LiveJournal community. The first of these, a profile of vidder kiki_miserychic is now available either as an embed or as a download.

The entire Vid Commentary community is devoted to encouraging fans to write or record commentary/analysis on vids they didn't make. Vidding fans should go, read, and try sharing their own analyses of these complex and layered fanworks!

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Fans of vidding might be interested in the short documentaries about individual vidders being made over at vid_commentary. The first of these, a profile of vidder kiki_miserychic is now available either as an embed or as a download.

The entire vid_commentary community is devoted to encouraging fans to write or record commentary/analysis on vids they didn't make. Vidding fans should go, read, and try sharing their own analyses of these complex and layered fanworks!

Mirrored from an original post on the OTW Blog.

The OTW is proud to have been asked to collaborate with the American Library Association, the Association of Research Libraries, the Association of College and Research Libraries, and the Right to Write Fund on an amicus brief in the pending Salinger/60 Years Later case. The OTW's Rebecca Tushnet and Casey Fiesler collaborated with lawyers from Stanford's Center for the Internet and Society and the UC Berkeley School of Law to produce the brief, which was served on August 3, 2009. The appeal is scheduled to be heard in New York's Second Circuit Court of Appeals in early September.

While the OTW isn't typically interested in defending commercial uses, we obviously do have a stake in the way courts define transformative use. We participated to support the position that the really restrictive definition adopted by the district court (seeing transformativeness very narrowly as parody and nothing else) be reversed on appeal. The New York Times and Public Citizen also filed amicus briefs.

For more information:

• Download a .pdf of the amicus brief (right-click and save).


• Read attorney of record Anthony Falzone's blog post about the brief, Confusion Over Copyright Injunctions And Other Restraints Of Speech.

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Job: ADT Archivist

Description: Our wonderful Documentation committee needs a volunteer to assist with the Accessibility, Design, & Technology committee meeting minutes. ADT is so prolific, it’s getting hard to keep up! No technical knowledge is required--all you need is the ability to summarize the meetings. Volunteers will get a beta account at the Archive of Our Own.

Estimated Time Involved: A few hours a week.

How to Volunteer: Use our contact form to send us 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 "ADT Archivist" in the subject line.

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 using our contact form.