FujoCoded, LLC: Down to Business

Welcome fujoshi, fudanshi, fujin, and friends/allies to our first dedicated newsletter for FujoCoded, LLC!

About This Newsletter

After our well-deserved break (and some time heads down in logistics), we’re finally back with regular communications! Keeping with our new projects-wide schedule, this newsletter will go out to our subscribers once a month.

In the near future, you can expect to see the following:

• Updates on the followthrough for the FujoCoded LLC BackerKit campaign
• Updates on the production of the Fujoshi Guide to Web Development
• Up-to-date info on our streaming schedule and other initiatives we’ll be running

Other content will be added in the future as our little venture spreads its wings and takes flight.

If you receive backer updates for either the FujoGuide or the FujoCoded LLC campaign, you’ll notice that the relevant sections in this newsletter will be recycled into our monthly campaign updates to save our comms team time and effort. So you don’t have to read through multiple emails hunting for extra content—it’s all here, baby!

FujoCoded LLC Backerkit Campaign

Recent Progress

With guidance from folks who’ve shipped rewards for other campaigns, we’ve made some impressive strides toward fulfillment for those of you who backed our campaign. To date, we have:

• Made a detailed fulfillment plan, including a breakdown of all tasks needed and an aspirational timeline to help us pace ourselves
• Ordered samples of both T-shirts and tote bags to double-check sizing, quality, and placement of the graphics
• Commissioned art for the promised bonus “Over 9000!” Boba-tan sticker to commemorate raising over $9000 to launch Fujocoded, LLC!

We’ve also started putting the money you all helped raise to its intended use: working on getting our shiny new company ready to go. Here’s what that looks like so far:

• Started informally talking to the folks who contacted us to offer legal services—thanks for all your help getting the word out!
• Researched legal precedent regarding for-profit organizations and volunteer labor to make sure we do right by our generous community contributors… and to make sure we can ask smart questions when we talk to our legal counsel 🤓
• Began working on an “Article” section to fujoweb.dev. In the future, that’s where you’ll be able to find the articles we’re going to commission with the money you helped us raise.

What’s Next

There’s lots left to do, but we know what our next steps are:

• Prepare the BackerKit backer survey so that everyone gets their rewards in the size, color, and design they want, shipped to them as cheaply as possible
• Officially reach out to legal counsel to finalize employment contracts for future FujoCoded contract workers
• Stream the completion of the hidden Sponsor Wall section of the FujoCoded home page. This will be in just a hour on Twitch!

FujoGuide Kickstarter Campaign

Recent Progress

Though we did take a few weeks to focus on launching FujoCoded, LLC, we’re back at it with more progress on the Fujoshi Guide to Web Development:

• Vol. 1, Issue 1: Git is being prepared for early release to our KickStarter backers so that we can get feedback from all of YOU while we are working on the final art! Instead of final art, the early release version will have Ms Boba’s hilarious sketches, which should honestly count as bonus content 👍
• Vol. 1, Issue 2: GitHub is (almost) entirely written! Ms Boba put her head down and powered through the Guide’s main scenario, leaving just the “extra credits” sections to be finalized before our first beta round (soon to be scheduled). Excited to see how this issue’s exercise resonates with our readers!
• We have started work on the FujoGuide wiki, which will house any and all online reference content mentioned in the text of the guide itself.

What’s Next

• The text-and-sketches early-release version of Vol. 1, Issue 1: Git will be sent out as a PDF to KickStarter backers via BackerKit’s reward delivery tool. We don’t have an exact date, but our wide-eyed idealist dream is to get it to you around the end of June 🤞
• Vol. 1, Issue 2: GitHub will be handed over to a volunteer for high-level “alpha” feedback so we can make adjustments prior to the first round of beta reading. We’ll also start planning the schedule of our first beta feedback round.
• Next Thursday, Ms Boba will be livestreaming a look at how we’re using Astro to build FujoGuide’s print layout and web version at the same time! Since our streams will focus on the work we must do for fulfillment, expect FujoGuide to pop up from time to time. Check out the schedule below, and come say hi!

Hang Out with FujoCoded on Twitch 💬✨

For the rest of May and through all of June, Ms Boba will be streaming only once a week while she focuses on fulfillment for the recently concluded BackerKit campaign to launch FujoCoded LLC, and on wrapping up the writing for FujoGuide Volume 0.

There may be an extra bonus stream here or there, so keep an eye on our social media! You can check Ms Boba’s “streaming schedule” page here.

Currently, the schedule is as follows:

…and that’s all for this month, folks! Thanks for your continued interest and support—we couldn’t do what we do without you cheering us on.

See you next month,
The FujoCoded LLC Team
(several raccoons in a trench coat)