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OTW October Drive – October 13-19 2016

Our October 2016 drive is now complete, and all of us at the Organization for Transformative Works would like to thank you for your participation and generosity. Together, we raised US$139,159.45 from 5518 individual donations!

Each and every participant in this drive has helped us continue to thrive as an organization, which means our projects and teams will keep growing and we’ll be able to do more outreach. Your participation has strengthened our community, allowing us to serve you better.

We’d like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to our returning members, who make what we do possible, and we are proud to welcome over 1200 new members to the OTW. We’re truly grateful to everyone who supports us, whether by donating, signal-boosting, volunteering, or encouraging our work. You’ve got our kudos!

Kudos growth graph on AO3, from zero in 2010 to over 60 million as of September 2016.
Growth graph for works and comments created each year on AO3, starting from zero in 2008 to over 500,000 works and 9.5 million comments this year alone.

(And don’t forget: even though the drive is over, you can contribute to the OTW at any time!)

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thominewt (cheolkwan) Thu 20 Oct 2016 12:42AM UTC

whats the money for again?

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1. BabyWithWings Thu 20 Oct 2016 01:54AM UTC
  
  To protect our works from being deleted due to copy write claims, among other things.
  
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2. jamethiel Thu 20 Oct 2016 02:15AM UTC
  
  Hi! I'm not affiliated with the AO3 in any way, I'm just a member.
  You can find the budget here: http://www.transformativeworks.org/2016-budget/
  Brief synopsis: the largest line item is for a professional paid programmer to refactor/improve/develop the code for the site. (As an IT professional, the amount for their salary is in line with what senior programmers get paid.) This is necessary because there's a lot to do and there's a limit to what you can ask of volunteers.
  Then you've got hardware costs, hosting costs and software costs.
  There's a bit of other miscellanea (legal costs, insurance, CPA.)
  The archive/OTW also tries to maintain a warchest so that if one of the servers absolutely dies, they have funds to purchase a replacement.
  I hope that helps!
  
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3. 1. Morbane Thu 20 Oct 2016 09:02AM UTC
    
    Well said.
    
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  2. Nissus Fri 21 Oct 2016 02:07PM UTC
    
    Thank you for summarizing this. :) Even though I didn't ask the original question, I appreciate it. :)
    
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silenceinmolasses Thu 20 Oct 2016 06:18AM UTC

Congratulations, everyone <3

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thunderstruckk Thu 20 Oct 2016 07:22AM UTC

Woo woo!

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Strawberryfusion Thu 20 Oct 2016 12:00PM UTC

Yay! Glad to see the fundraising raised enough money!
Plus especially awesome to see everyone keeps commenting more and more. More feedback means better stories and happier writers^^ It is a good thing to let writers know that you made them smile during a bad day even if it's a 500 word fluff drabble.
So yay this is all great news!:D

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tariana Thu 20 Oct 2016 01:27PM UTC

Glad you made it to the goal! Thank you for all you do for us!

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infiniteworld8 Thu 20 Oct 2016 09:05PM UTC

An excellent drive. I didn't get to contribute this time, but I'll make sure to do so next time

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1lostone Thu 20 Oct 2016 10:21PM UTC

That's pretty impressive. Kudos to everyone who donated (I am not one of those people, but I do try to contribute in other ways...) and to the volunteers who put this together and continue to be awesome!

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Infestation Thu 20 Oct 2016 10:33PM UTC

I may not have much money, but I had enough this month to make a donation! And I will do so again and again, whenever I have a little bit of money, because the OTW is doing a good thing!

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1. Nonymos Fri 21 Oct 2016 01:02PM UTC
  
  Hear, hear!
  
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amoeve Sat 22 Oct 2016 04:02PM UTC

So proud to be a member of such an amazing community :)

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LadyInGrey95 Tue 25 Oct 2016 03:11PM UTC

Hi AO3 Team!
I was ( and still am) unable to donate, but I still wanted to say thank you, because my life would be a whole lot shittier if not for
you, this website and the people writing great stories, my escape from reality.
So thanks, I hope you'll be around for a long, long time.

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