NarraScope’s financial report is up: https://narrascope.org/images/NarraScope-2024-Finance.pdf
Also, if you’re interested, a year-by-year summary of the conference finances: https://narrascope.org/images/NarraScope-History-Finance.pdf
(Remember that 2020 and 2022 were all-online, and we skipped 2021.)
Today is the last day of my term on the IFTF Board of Directors. (I'm still around in other capacities though.)
I am delighted, yes I said delighted, to announce that today is my last day on the IFTF board of directors. I have been on the board since the beginning -- that being 2016 -- but now I depart. With me ends the era of the oh-gee IFTF founders. ...
We are now launching our search for the next IntroComp organizer!
Details on how to express interest and the anticipated next steps are posted on http://introcomp.org.
The deadline for expressing your interest in being considered is Wednesday, April 19, 2023.
Repeating yesterday's news:
IFTF says hello to its new president, Justin Bortnick. Justin has been part of the NarraScope committee since we started that up, so he's no stranger to helping run things around here.
And at the same time, goodbye to Jason McIntosh, founding board member of IFTF and its first (and up until now only) president.
Dear friends, Monday was my final day as president of the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation (IFTF). My pride at what IFTF has become is eclipsed only by my gratitude that I got to help lead it for so long. I’ve helmed the organization for seven on-paper years, but I count it as eight, with IFTF’s five co-founders spending much of 2015 cooking up the thing before we pulled the tarp off in the springtime of the following year. That lets me divide my tenure into two tidy four-year halves,...
Putting together my final @IFTF monthly board meeting agenda as its president; my term ends in a few weeks.
I'll have more to say about it, and more "officially", in the days to come, but I already feel seized by gratitude. I am so happy at how IFTF has grown since 2016, and I know it'll keep growing under fresh leadership.
I feel certain that co-founding this organization will have been one of the best things I did with my life.
It's been a while since I've done a #ConnectionList #Introduction #FollowFriday post, where I use my large follower count to more richly connect us, so here's some folx you might like to follow on the #Fediverse 
@Rushkoff writes books about #media, #technology and #society and is #Professor of Media Theory and #digital #economics at #CUNY #Queens, and works with the #IFTF
@FAccT is the @ACM conference on #fairness, #accountability and #transparency primarily in #MachineLearning and #ArtificalIntelligence.
@drclaireh is a #corpus #linguist specialising in deception, manipulation and agression online.
@mucephie is June Parsons and they are into #astrophysics at @yorkuniversity - author of dorado.py for observatory #data 🐍
@eirliani is a Doctoral #PhD student at #Harvard and is into #DataScience and #HumanRights
@pyconau is the official #PyconAU conference account #pycon #python 🐍
@jadedarko is passionate about the #environment and #SocialJustice and she is a full-time #Python and #Django #dev
That's all for today, don't forget to share your own #ConnectionList so we can connect the more richly ❤️
IFTechFoundation
Andrew Plotkin
jmac
Kathy Reid
marina gorbis
Pinkunz 🙃
Judith Pintar