Turing Fest

The collection is open! Go forth and revel in the robots.

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Note that if your gift contains a stated DNW, appears to be created as an attack against you personally, is a placeholder, or is otherwise egregiously unsuited to be a gift, please contact the mods privately at turingfestmod@gmail.com.

Thanks to everyone who participated, and enjoy the collection!

The deadline for posting assignments has passed. We have two gifters who've been granted extensions on their assignments, and two pinch hits (see below). If you uploaded your assignment on time and don't yet have a gift, you're in one of those two groups.

Gift reveals are scheduled for June 9 at 11:59 PM UTC. (Countdown here.) Pinch hits should be completed and uploaded by then. If they aren't, reveals will be delayed as needed.

To claim one of the pinch hits below, comment below with your AO3 name and the PH # you want to claim, or email turingfestmod@gmail.com with the same information.

PH #4 - CLAIMED

PH #5 - CLAIMED

There are 6 days and a few hours until your assignments and previously-claimed pinch hits need to be uploaded to the collection (fully published, not as drafts!). Countdown here.

We still have one pinch hit that needs claiming! It and any pinch hits that come in after this date will be due as soon as possible before June 9.

We have one new PH looking for a home! To claim it, comment below with your AO3 name and the PH # you want to claim, or email turingfestmod@gmail.com with the same information.

This pinch hit is due on the normal assignment due date of June 3, 11:59 PM UTC. Countdown here.

( PH #3 - CLAIMED )

It has been brought to my attention that the clock I was following to judge UTC time was in fact an hour ahead of UTC, due to daylight savings time. As a result, signups closed an hour earlier than 11:59 PM UTC.

This is entirely my mistake, and I'm terribly sorry for any inconvenience that resulted! Unfortunately, matching has already been run and signups have been sent, so I can't reopen signups. All I can do is offer my apologies and promise to make sure this doesn't happen next year.

The assignment due date will be June 3, 11:59 PM actual UTC time. Countdown here.

Signups will close tonight at 11:59 PM UTC, which is probably earlier than 11:59 PM in your timezone! You can see a countdown here to know exactly how much time you have left.

The current signup summary can be found here, and all requests can be found here. Make sure that you have at least one person that you can write/draw for! (But don't worry if no one is offering your fandoms - that's what pinch hits are for.)

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Tagset (List versions of: Original Work tags, Crossover Fandom tags)

Signup form
Tagset (List versions of: Original Work tags, Crossover Fandom tags)
Requests summary
Signup summary

Signups for Turing Fest 2018 are open! Go forth and request your robots.

Signups will close on April 22 at 11:59 PM UTC. (Countdown!)

Please make sure to read the instructions on requesting and offering. If there is an egregious issue with your signup (e.g. you request "Any" but then DNW one of the nominated characters, you don't have at least 3 unique fandoms, you indicate that you only want an unnominated character), the mods will contact you via email explaining the problem and asking you to edit your signup. If you haven't done so by the time signups close, your signup will be deleted.

We have decided to allow participants to request individual fandoms multiple times with different character/ship tags, as long as they have a total of 3 unique fandoms. This is to accommodate participants who want to request more than 10 characters/ships in one fandom, but don't want to request "Any" in that fandom.

Acceptable signup:

Request 1: Fandom A
Request 2: Fandom B
Request 3: Fandom C

Acceptable signup:

Request 1: Fandom A
Request 2: Fandom B
Request 3: Fandom B
Request 4: Fandom C
Request 5: Fandom C

NOT acceptable signup:

Request 1: Fandom A
Request 2: Fandom A
Request 3: Fandom B

Another important note: Traditionally, AO3 has had a signup summary page where you can see every single fandom that's being requested and how many offers it has. However, that page has been nonfunctional recently. The mods have created a handmade version of the signup summary here.

Comment down below or contact the mods at turingfestmod@gmail.com if you have any questions or encounter any problems while signing up!

Round three of tags that need to be edited or clarified! Keep in mind that if a tag needs clarification and we haven't heard from its nominator by the time signups are set to open, the tag may be rejected.

Tagset
Evidence post

Jump to tags that...
Need Clarification
Need Their Formatting Fixed
Need to be Rescued from All Media Types Limbo


Clarifications:

Transformers - All Media Types

• Blackout (Transformers) - Please nominate this character under a specific Transformers canon rather than All Media Types. (See the bottom of this post for the reasoning behind this.)

Janelle Monae - Works - SOLVED

SCP Foundation - SOLVED

Takeshi Kovacs Trilogy - Richard Morgan - SOLVED

Marvel Cinematic Universe - SOLVED

Formatting issues:

If you have an unapproved nom in any of the fandoms below, it is because you formatted it incorrectly. Please put "group: " before relationship noms, and provide a fandom in parentheses for every member of a Crossover Fandom relationship tag. Shortening things is fine if you run up against the AO3 character limit for tags:

• Robot Series - Isaac Asimov


• Original Work


• Crossover Fandom

All Media Types fixes:

There are currently four approved fandoms in the tagset that end with "- All Media Types." While presumably a useful tool for AO3 wranglers, AMT tags cause issues in tagsets where characters show up in places they shouldn't be. As such, the mods need to move characters out of AMT and into more specific fandoms. As the mods are not experts on every franchise, please let us know which specific canons the characters below would best be categorized under (if a relationship includes characters from separate installments, "Crossover Fandom" is the correct answer):

Terminator - All Media Types

• T-800


• T-950

Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types

• group: Grievous | Qymaen jai Sheelal/Obi-Wan Kenobi

Star Wars Legends - All Media Types

• WeeGee (Star Wars)


• HK-01


• group: Kyle Katarn & WeeGee


• group: C-3PO & Jarred Sneel

Star Wars - All Media Types

• group: C3PO/R2-D2 & BB-8


• Group: C-3PO/R2-D2


• Group: BB-8 & R2-D2


• GNK Power Droid

The nominations have been pouring in, and we're delighted to see them all! There are a few that remain unapproved because we have questions about them or need their formatting to be fixed, and here they are:


Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) - SOLVED

Future History - Robert A. Heinlein - SOLVED

Psycho-Pass - SOLVED

Crossover Fandom (1) - SOLVED

Crossover Fandom (2)
For all of the nominations below, please provide fandoms in parentheses for every member of the relationship. Shortening things is fine if you run up against the AO3 character limit for tags:

• Group: Han Solo (Star Wars Original Trilogy) & Cassian Andor & K-2SO (Rogue One)


• Group: Han Solo (Star Wars Original Trilogy)/Cassian Andor/K-2SO (Rogue One)


• Group: Janet (The Good Place) & Bartleby & Loki (Dogma)


• Group: Janet (The Good Place) & Crowley & Aziraphale (Good Omens)


• Group: Janet (The Good Place) & Gabriel & Michael (Dominion)


• Group: Luke Skywalker (Star Wars Original Trilogy) & Cassian Andor & K-2SO (Rogue One)


• Group: Luke Skywalker (Star Wars Original Trilogy)/Cassian Andor/K-2SO (Rogue One)

Nominations are open for business!

Turing Fest 2018 tagset

If you have any questions about noms that aren't answered below, comment on this post (anon is enabled) or email turingfestmod@gmail.com.

Important notes:

> Any canon can be nominated so long as it has at least one character that fits the theme of this exchange (and one of those characters is being nominated, whether solo or in a relationship tag). There are no requirements for media type, fandom rarity, or canon completeness.

> "Robotic" characters, for the purposes of this exchange, are characters in the realm of AIs, robots, androids, mecha, machines, cyborgs, and any other technology-focused characters.

> The mods want this to be a laid-back exchange in which fans can celebrate their favorite robotic characters. We trust that everyone is nominating in good faith, and we aren't interested in rigidly examining nominated characters to see if they meet strict standards of robot-ness. If you think canon treats them as appropriately robotic, go ahead and nominate them. The only time the mods might question or reject nominations is if the character appears to be egregiously not robotic - e.g. 100% human characters, or otherwise completely human characters with single prosthetic limbs who aren't treated by the canon as "cyborgs."

> If you think a google search for "[canon name] [character name]" would confuse the mods about whether a character you're nominating fits the theme of this exchange, feel free to comment on the Evidence Post and give us a heads-up. We will also have regular clarification posts throughout the nominations week, if we have questions about anyone's noms (or need them to make corrections to their formatting).

To reiterate the rules post:

> Each participant can nominate up to 10 fandoms, with up to 20 characters/ships in each fandom.

> To simplify things for the mods, relationships between two or more characters are still nominated as individual "characters." To nominate a relationship, nominate them by putting "group: " before their names, in the following format:

group: Character A/Character B

or

group: Character A & Character B

or

group: Character A/Character B & Character C

etc.

> There are two types of relationships you can nominate: Romantic relationships are indicated by a / sign between the characters' names. The / indicates that you want the relationship between the characters to be romantic and/or sexual. Platonic relationships are indicated by an & sign between the characters' names. The & indicates that you want the relationship between the characters to be friendship or familial.

> Please nominate crossover relationships under the fandom "Crossover Fandom." When nominating them, please use the format "group: Character A (Fandom 1)/Character B (Fandom 2)."

> Please nominate original characters and relationships under the fandom "Original Work." Using descriptive character names is a good idea. "Female Android" and "Robot Dog" are pretty vague, while "Female Android Assassin" and "Robot Seeing Eye Dog" give a better idea of what potential requesters/offerers would want out of those characters. Note: If you want to request an original relationship but only want it in a particular gender combination, it is your responsibility to nominate that gender combination. DNWing a particular gender combination after requesting a gender-neutral ship tag will not be an enforceable DNW.

> For simplicity's sake, please nominate all real-life robots and AIs under the fandom "Technology RPF."

Nominations will close on close on April 13 at 11:59 PM UTC. (Countdown!)