IFComp is now part of IFTF

Starting today – well, starting several days ago, really, with some minor website updates still pending – IFComp now operates under the stewardship of The Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation, a new, charitable nonprofit organization that seeks to help maintain and preserve the software and services that make modern IF possible.

What does this mean to you, the IFComp participant? Not a whole lot, really – none of the competition’s rules or policies are changing as a result of this, and IFComp is led by the same team of volunteers. But, as I wrote on the intfiction.org forum post announcing IFTF to the community:

Through IFTF, IFComp can now effectively own its own code and copyrights. Community-provided funding (and, where applicable, tax-deductible volunteer work) can significantly broaden IFComp’s own technological and organizational potential. And formally transferring the ownership from an individual to a nonprofit company also grants IFComp a new measure of safety and stability. I see all these as infrastructural improvements that IFComp, important as it is to the IF community and the world beyond as well, has long deserved.

So there you have it. And, of course, if you love IFComp, you now have a new way to support it through donations to IFTF, for which we would be humbly grateful.

Please feel free as always to direct any questions about IFTF or IFComp’s relationship with it to us at ifcomp@ifcomp.org.

30 June 2016
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