Squidge.org Needs YOU!

[squidgestatus]

There's a lot going on with the world these days, and Squidge.org is no exception. We are in need of some volunteers, so if you have some time to donate to an awesome non-profit please consider applying for one of these.

Gundam Wing Archivist

The Gundam Wing Addition archive will be coming to SquidgeWorld.org! The current archive is being maintained, though because we believe we lost the owner, the stories need to be salvaged. While this can typically be done by anyone, it would be best if someone who was familiar with the Gundam Wing fandom head up this project. This is so characters, situations, etc. that are known to GW fen, someone without knowledge of the fandom might miss these details. The process will be similar to importing works into the SquidgeWorld from other archives (AO3, AdAstra, Dreamwidth, etc.) with the archivist importing stories for other users. While the complete number of stories is unknown, it appears there are about 110 individual users with stories archived at Gundam Wing Addition, with an estimated 2,500 stories.

In order to volunteer, we only need your username and email address. If you do not have a SquidgeWorld account, we will provide you with one, but also provide you with an account to import GW Fanfiction so that it doesn't get tied to your original account.

 

Squidge.org Treasurer

Are you good with numbers? While Squidge.org is pretty well run, we do need officers to head up our non-profit. It appears that we are in need of a new treasurer. Duties for the treasurer include being part of discussions of fundraising, being a part of our financial software (QuickBooks), and in certain cases, paying the bills that come our way.

In order to volunteer, you must be in the United States, and we do need to list your legal name on our incorporation and legal documentation including yearly taxes and business license filings. If desired, we can completely keep your fandom and real-life names completely separate. You'll receive an email address at our non-profit (SquidgeLLC.org) and we have Board meetings about once a year or so.

 

Abuse Committee

While we've not had much abuse, recently we've had a few hacking attempts and one person who was banned for disrespecting others. The Squidge.org Board was used as a defacto Abuse Committee, but we would like to put together an official group. This would take very little time, and would constitute discussing abuse issues as they come up. In the last 29 years, we have had 3 different user issues (one person who gave their username & password to a group pf people, one person who shared CSEM, and one person who continually abused others through horrific comments) so it is quite rare. However, we would like to "get ahead of the game" and put together an abuse committee just in case.

Duties will be as listed above; be on the lookout from email and weigh in with your opinion on if someone's actions constitute abuse and if suspensions should be permanent or temporary.

 

That's currently it! We will also be announcing the importation of both the NCISFiction.com archive and the Multi-Fandom MPreg Archive into SquidgeWorld Archive pretty soon, though those are a technical need as they will be imported to the archive via scripting, not a manual process.

If you are interested in either of these opportunities, please respond to this post, or you can contact me at either boardwalter@squidgellc.org or walterh@squidge.org

Comments

[senmut]

Signal boosting. I don't know the fandom, and I am not gifted in the other opportunities.

[squidgestatus]

Thank you for the signal boosting!

[ilyena_sylph]

oh my gods, you're getting Gundam Wing Addiction?!?!?!?

Excuse me while I weep in relief.

I can provide advice and information, but you do not want to trust me with anything about importing or anything that requires me to know coding.

[squidgestatus]

I'm really happy that we can help! I hate losing archives to the ether - it's just awful. All those wonderful fanworks just....gone. :(

The archiving part of this doesn't require coding. If you've ever posted a fic to AO3 or SquidgeWorld, then you know how to archive. But we'll take any help we can get - thank you!!!

[juniperberry]

LOL, I'm also a bit agog. Gundam Wing Addiction? Having that archived somewhere that cares about fic archiving would be great! Alas, I only read in that fandom canon-blind, and my coding is still very rudimentary.

(Also oooof I did not need a reminder that Gundam Wing Addiction first went up in 2000....)

I'll reblog the post you made about it on tumblr, I know I follow a few other anime-fans who were either very into it or who would at least have heard of it.

[squidgestatus]

Coding not necessary for the Gundam Wing archiving - if you've ever posted a fic to AO3, SquidgeWorld, or AdAstra, then that's all you need to know. Thank you for reblogging!!!!

[kalloway]

The current archive is being maintained, though because we believe we lost the owner, the stories need to be salvaged.

I'm admittedly a little concerned about this. If this is a situation where the archive may go poof when domain renewal rolls around, wouldn't trying to get the entire site onto the Internet Archive be a more prudent path? Or is this being done at the request of someone currently maintaining the archive in the owner's place? Have any of the archived authors been contacted about importing their own works?

[squidgestatus]

The archivist has disappeared, and someone took over paying for it. We shouldn't have an issue with the archive just disappearing, but I'd still rather us get the stories into SquidgeWorld as soon as possible.

This is being done at the request of someone who stepped in to take over the bills once the archivist disappeared. And as far as I can see, there's no way to contact the individual authors; that data isn't kept face-up in the archive. It may be behind the scenes, but since we don't have access to that part of the archive, there's not much we can do other than re-archive the entire system into SquidgeWorld.

[kalloway]

Thank you for the clarification!

[nagi_schwarz]

I realize I've been an absolutely trash archivist but I think I'm coming out of my baby fog and can help more and also I adore Gundam Wing and it was one of the first fandoms I ever wrote in as a high schooler and I would love to help.

[squidgestatus]

NOT Trash! You helped archive so. many. fics! Fics that were missed when Peja's archive went from flat text to a database-driven archive. You were amazing and I appreciate it!

If you'd like to help, that would be amazing! This one is only slightly different than what you did last time. I can set up a little tutorial, then set up a special account for archiving & the collection.

[nagi_schwarz]

I am definitely down to help!

[squidgestatus]

So I was able to get the issue resolved with the Gundam WIng imports. I don't know if you still have free time (I know you're dealing with personal stuff) but if you do, I could definitely use the help. Let me know!

[nagi_schwarz]

Yes! I am still down to help. I want to get a lot more active about posting on Squidgeworld.

[sl_walker]

I'm down to help with the abuse committee and any importing, though my time constraints are pretty serious right now.

[squidgestatus]

Thank you! I'm putting together an email in a bit so be on the lookout! :)