From dls at davidstreever.com Mon May 1 15:28:58 2017 From: dls at davidstreever.com (David Streever) Date: Mon, 1 May 2017 15:28:58 -0400 Subject: [Friends of IFTF] April Newsletter from the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation Message-ID: Dear friends of IFTF, Thank you for your responses to the last newsletter, especially to the many people who reached out to volunteer or to help. We’re currently seeking an organizer for our Accessibility Testing Project, a.k.a "The Testathon", a community effort to make sure that Interactive Fiction is open and accessible to everyone. Our existing committee, formed last October, needs an organizer to coordinate meetings, make decisions, and resolve disagreements. Please see Andrew Plotkin’s blog post ( http://blog.iftechfoundation.org/2017-04-19-more-volunteer- seeking-the-accessibility-project.html) if you need more information, and reply to this email to volunteer. In Foundation news, we announced our open books policy, one part of our transparency goal, in a blog post by Flourish Klink. We will be providing an accounting of incoming and outgoing funds, volunteer time, spending rates, and an overall financial health assessment. You can read the post in our April 7th entry (http://blog.iftechfoundation. org/2017-04-07-openbooks.html). We've also been working with Mark Musante (markm) to take ownership of the IFComp.org domain, which he has maintained for many years as a contribution to the community. We're happy to announce that the transfer has been initiated and we will maintain the domain as part of our organizational mission to preserve and support interactive fiction. Many thanks to Mark for his years of stewardship. In other IFComp news, the survey results have been tabulated and analyzed by IFComp organizer Jason McIntosh, who reveals common threads in his blog post (http://blog.iftechfoundation.org/2017-04-14-ifcomp- surveying-2016-and-pondering-2017.html). Overwhelmingly, respondents wanted more dialogue, communication, and reviews, leading Jason to announce that 2017 will be the year of the review for IFComp. The 23rd IFComp opens to entries on July 1st this year. In broader interactive fiction news, this year’s Whitney Biennial featured two Twine works by Charity Heartscape Porpentine. Twine creator and IFTF board member Chris Klimas links to an interview and provides more context on this big moment for Interactive Fiction and one of Twine’s most well-known authors. See our April 2nd blog entry ( http://blog.iftechfoundation.org/2017-04-02-interactive- fiction-appears-at-the-whitney-biennial.html). Please respond if you can volunteer for the Testathon, or have any feedback on the IFTF or this newsletter. Thank you for your support and continued interest in IFTF! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: