Turing Fest

Authors have been revealed and gifts should no longer be anonymous, unless the gifter has chosen to remain so.

Thank you to everyone who participated this year. We hope you had a wonderful time with your robots!

Fun fact: Three days from today, June 23, is the birthday of the Turing Test's namesake. Happy early birthday, Alan Turing, and thank you!

Works reveals for the 2021 round of Turing Fest will occur in a little over 24 hours, on June 13 at 11:59 PM UTC! Here's a link to the countdown timer.

Mods are available at turingfestmod@gmail.com to answer any questions or concerns.

Assignments are due in a little over 1 day, at 11:59 PM UTC on June 6! Here's a link to the countdown.

As always, you may reach the mods at turingfestmod@gmail.com with any questions or concerns.

Signups for Turing Fest 2021 are now open! Go out and release your robotic requests into the world.

Please review the Rules & FAQ for a refresher on how the signup process works! If your signup doesn't comply with the rules, we will reach out to you at the email address associated with your AO3 account and let you know it needs to be edited.

If you have any questions, please comment on the Rules & FAQ post or email the mods at turingfestmod@gmail.com .

Quick links:

Signup form
Request summary
Signup summary

Signups close on May 2, 11:59 PM UTC. (Countdown timer!)

The 2021 tagset is here and open early!

If you think the mods will have a hard time determining whether any of your nominated characters/ships are eligible for this exchange, please leave us a comment here on the evidence post at the time that you submit your nominations!

We will probably have some questions about nominations, or need nominations to be corrected if they're in the wrong format. Please keep an eye on this journal for clarification posts throughout the nominations period.

Reminders from the rules:

Nominations is the process of electing characters/ships that can be requested and offered in this exchange. You cannot request or offer characters/ships that haven't been nominated. Nominations open on April 11 10 :), and close on April 18 at 11:59 PM UTC. This may be earlier than midnight in your timezone.


> 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. If you have a gender preference for an original ship (e.g. you want "Navigation AI/Spaceship Pilot," but only if they're both female), the onus is on you to nominate the ship with genders included in the names (e.g. nominate "Female Navigation AI/Female Spaceship Pilot"). The mods will not honor a DNW for a specific gender combination when requesting a gender-neutral ship.

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


If you have any other questions, please comment below!

Welcome to the fourth round of Turing Fest, a fanwork exchange for robotic characters!

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

By signing up for this exchange, you're committing to create a gift for at least one person, and receive a gift in return. Gifts can be either fanfiction (800 words minimum) or fanart (at least finished lineart, on unlined paper if drawing traditionally).

This exchange shifted to a later schedule last year, but this year will return to a schedule more closely resembling the original (slightly earlier) 2018/2019 schedule! Additionally, we have changed our time zone from CST to UTC. Otherwise, we remain the same Turing Fest you know and love and we are so happy to be back. The rules and requirements are identical to the previous year's.



Important Links & Contacts


Dreamwidth community (you are here!)
AO3 Collection
AO3 Tagset

Mod email: turingfestmod@gmail.com



Schedule

Nominations open - Sunday, April 11
Nominations close - Sunday, April 18 (11:59 PM UTC)
Signups open - Monday, April 19
Signups close - Sunday, May 2 (11:59 PM UTC)
Assignments due - Sunday, June 6 (11:59 PM UTC)
Gift reveals - Sunday, June 13 (11:59 PM UTC)
Author reveals - Sunday, June 20 (11:59 PM UTC)

We're using UTC as the timezone for deadlines, which means the actual deadline may be earlier in your timezone! Countdowns will be posted for all major deadlines, so you can have an easy reference and make your plans accordingly.


( Eligibility )

( Nominations )

( Signing Up )

( Assignments )

( Defaulting )

( Pinch Hits )

( Treats )

( Other )

If you have any other questions or concerns, feel free to comment on this post (anon is enabled) or email the mods!