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Company Credit

• Baby’s First Year: What more is there to say? Happy birthday, FujoCoded! 🍼
• Coding Transitions: As you might know, Fandom Coders will be our next project to graduate—that is, become its own sociocratic community led by its own members. This month, we’ve reviewed all applications and put together a team of members to carry out the transition and figure out all the next steps… together!
• FujoLounge: We’re now ready to put Real Subscriber Data® into our database, after which we’ll be able to start testing our $upporters-only portal. March is always our busiest month (👀), but we hope to soon have an extra treat for those who contribute to our cause with their Patreon support.
• Speaking Up: This will be a busy year for speaking engagements. Not only has Ms Boba been invited again to speak at Citrus Con (June 20th–22nd), she’ll also be an official speaker at the first ATmosphere conference next week! Read below for a few more details!
• April’s Wise: At this point, we know you know: our yearly April 1st event draws near… What will it be? Well, it’s a surprise! Fortunately, a sweet, sweet surprise.

Recent Progress on Our Backerkit Campaign

• New Outlines: We’re getting ready to tackle our first “hired gig” for a learn.fujoweb.dev article: our introductory(ish) guide to JavaScript development with NPM. One step we took this month: our outline for the article is ready, and we shared it with a few chosen friends for initial feedback.
• New New Outlines: The next article in our pipeline of rewards is about handling those crucial confrontations that arise when people tackle ambitious goals together (like ours)! After reading through the book, our comms lead Dove has brainstormed ways to condense and adapt the advice to fandom’s needs. (Sounds like you could have used that advice? Read the next section for ways to help!)
• Baby’s First Contract: We got our first artist contract officially signed! The legal ducks dance happily in their row 🦆🦆🦆

What’s Next for the FujoCoded Backerkit

• Baby’s First Writer: Once we’re done gathering all the feedback, we’ll face an important choice: should we spend more time brainstorming, or are we ready to throw ourselves into hiring our first writer? Look out for the answer (and a potential call for resumes) next month!
• Trust Relationships: To fully land our article on conflict, we want to do some “market research” and learn more about how confronting (or being confronted by) fellow fans has gone for our audience.
  
  Relevant experiences include:
  
  
  • Contributors backing out of fanwork commitments during events/exchanges
  • Organizers of fandom events, fandom servers, etc., struggling to delegate responsibility for getting things done or follow up on unfinished delegated tasks
  • Moderators confronting server members or event participants over their conduct
  • Beta reader arrangements gone sideways
  • Any situation in which a fandom commitment was dropped with little or no warning
    
    
• If you have experience with any sort of fandom confrontation like this, or a fandom confrontation that really needed to happen but didn’t, then Dove would love to talk to you! Please reach out to [email protected] to get in touch.

Around the FujoVerse

• Talkin’ Ship: This year, Ms Boba is going to present at not one, but TWO conferences (so far!). Not only will she be speaking at Citrus Con in June, but she’ll be giving an updated version of her talk about fandom and Open Protocols at the ATmosphere conference, the first conference about ATProto, the protocol behind social apps like Bluesky.
• Technically Committed: Speaking of ATProto, Ms Boba is now officially a member of the Technical Steering Committee for the “community Lexicons” initiative. As part of her role, she’ll be helping define community-led practices and data types for social apps built on ATProto. She’s also bringing some of our sociocracy practices into the mix!
• Private Talk: During the ATmosphere conference, there’s going to be a lot of talking all around. Developers from across the web will be meeting up to discuss and gather feedback on many different topics that are relevant to the future of independent socials. The Bluesky team will also be gathering feedback and discussing use cases for their upcoming work on private data. While she doesn’t promise, Ms Boba might send out updates on her own Bluesky account.

FujoStore Highlights: Restocks, Sales, and Limited-Time Offers

You can help!

• Newsletter Writer (💰): Do you know how to engage an audience? Do you have a penchant for writing cursed puns? Do you want some behind-the-scenes deets on all we’re up to? We’re looking to hire a newsletter writer! Whether you’re a hobbyist seeking a challenge or a professional writer seeking an itty-bitty-hyper-tiny gig as an enrichment activity, whether English is your native language or "fanfictions taught you well", get in touch with us if you’d like to, well, take my job.
• Fannish Conflict Advisors: We’re looking for people willing to tell us more about how confronting (or being confronted by) fellow fans has gone in critical moments! If you organize fannish events and are struggling to delegate, or if you struggled with zine participants backing out during events/exchanges, or you have experience with these sorts of fandom confrontations that either happened or needed to happen (but didn’t), hit us up!
• Permanent Call for Artists: A few people asked if they could submit their art resume even “off season”. The answer is yes: we always welcome artists dropping their contacts in our Artist Business Card Drop-Off form. We will ask around for specific qualifications when actively looking, but we always source from our whole roster of friends and friends-to-be!

That’s All, Folks!

Winter break is long behind us, and it’s time to face the music! After a wonderful weekend representing FujoCoded at the 35th Annual Escapade Convention in Los Angeles, we’re back to work on all our ongoing projects, filled with new enthusiasm after some inspiring con-nections (😉) with fellow fujin. No matter what the world throws at us (and, boy, is it throwing!), we’re committed to our mission of empowering fujoshi & friends to build a better web together.

FujoCoded, LLC: Company Credit

• Lounging around: Our programmer-for-hire Ria has made some great progress on the $upporters-only section of FujoCoded.com. She’s calling it the FujoLounge! It will feature some exclusive goodies for our Patreon members 😎
• All grown up: We’re transitioning the Fandom Coders server to sociocratic self-governance! To facilitate the transition, we’ve been recruiting server members to be on the transition team. Soon, we’ll be meeting to put that team together!
• Bsky Business: Our founder Ms Boba has been making connections with the BlueSky developers community in order to, among other things, ensure fannish interests are represented in the  BlueSky ATprotocol development ecosystem. ATprotocol Dev hosted her for a Tech Talk about the importance of getting fans involved in decentralized web development.

FujoCoded went to Escapade 2025

• Guiding lights: Since this was our first con, we weren’t sure what would sell. We came equipped with Fujoboards, T-shirts, tote bags, notepads, stickers, prints, and even catboy bathwater, but our best seller was actually printouts of the digital preview of The Fujoshi Guide to Web Development Vol. 0 Issue 1: Git. So thrilled to confirm that a wider audience is also eager for FujoGuide!

• From paddles to panels: When not selling cheese paddles with con partner Dove, our founder Ms Boba led three different panels: Personal Fannish Websites, Creating a Fandom from Scratch, and BlueSky & Decentralized Social Networks. Read more in the Around the FujoVerse section below. 
•  Coloring Preview: We also donated some coloring pages to the conference for people who like to keep busy while listening to panels, thus creating an accidental preview of our future coloring book reward! Here’s a screenshot of a colored page kindly donated by DarkDanc3r!

Recent Progress on our BackerKit Campaign

• In’n’Outline: As you may recall from December, we interviewed entry-level npm users about the difficulties they encountered while learning npm. A volunteer used those notes to write an outline for a very long npm article; we’re now editing the outline for a second review pass.  It will likely end up split into a series, just like our Terminal quickstart!

What’s Next for the FujoCoded BackerKit

• Ma’am, I am the (package) manager: When we’ve collectively agreed our outline for the package manager npm is fit for purpose (and our legal contracts have passed the final lawyer review), we’ll hand it off to a real life tech writer to manage the article-writing for us.
• Scheduling Conflict: Our founder Ms Boba will be lending some of her favorite reading material on conflict resolution to our communications coordinator Dove who is currently reading over it and brainstorming what we most want to cover in the Conflict Resolution article you helped us fund as a stretch goal.

  Around the FujoVerse 

• Bonus Bsky Business: If you’d like to learn more about the Tech Talk our founder Ms Boba gave to BlueSky’s ATprotocol development team, you can watch the talk on YouTube, see the slide deck with the talk transcript, or read about it on BlueSky’s ATprotocol development site.
• Escapade 2025: Our intrepid founder Ms Boba spoke at several of Escapade’s unique discussion-style panels. These panels gave us a chance to absorb new info from the collective wisdom of the fannish hivemind, and to help dispel confusion around the future (and present) of decentralized socials! Read on for details:
  • What’s Up with BlueSky (and Decentralized Social Networks)?: “What is BlueSky and how is it different from (or similar to) platforms like Tumblr, Twitter, or LiveJournal/Dreamwidth? And how is it different from other efforts to create decentralized social platforms like Mastodon? But most importantly, can fandom use it, and should we?” (Hosted by Ms Boba)
  • The Fujoshi Guide to Web Development - Building a Fandom from Scratch: “Come hear about our adventures attempting to build a “slash fandom” from first principles (for a good cause), and let’s talk about what makes fandoms and ships stick!” (Hosted by Ms Boba)
  • Personal Fannish Websites: “What types of personal fandom websites have existed throughout the online ages? Characters and ship shrines, art galleries, quizzes…and what else? What new types of websites would be fun to see? Any websites you miss?” (Hosted by Ms Boba & Elf Herself)
•  At ATprotocol: In service of advocating to make Bluesky friendlier to fujin and the transformative fandom community as a whole (as well as the time-honored practice of networking), Ms Boba will be attending @tmosphere Conference—the very first ATprotocol Dev conference!—in March. 

• After a healthy crop of two-stream weeks during which we developed our BlueSky experiments, our founder Ms Boba will be returning to a one-stream-per-week cadence as we gear up for our annual April event.
• You can always get updates on Ms Boba’s streaming schedule on her website. 

• Thursday, February 13 @ 3pm PST: Fanworks Labeler Wrap-Up: NixOS Edition
• Thursday, February 20 @ 3pm PST: Fanworks Labeler Wrap-Up(?)
• Thursday, February 27 @ 3pm PST: BobaBoard Special

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You can help!

• BACKGROUND ARTISTS - URGENT!!!. Specifically, we need an artist who is experienced with room interiors. Think VanillaWare games  or Lo-Fi Girl—shallow perspective with a foreground character.
• Graphic artists: Can you do cool typography for stickers and beyond? FujoCoded wants YOU!
• Animators & GIF creators: Can you do minor “idle” animations for static scenes, like OG Neko Atsume, A Young Man Stands In His Bedroom, or the cat’s tail in Lo-Fi Girl? Do you know someone who can? Send them our way!