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.

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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!