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 ====== Axanar Launches New Fulfillment Platform ====== ====== Axanar Launches New Fulfillment Platform ======
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 <wrap lo>//Main article: [[perks|What's Up With the Perks?]]// \\ <wrap lo>//Main article: [[perks|What's Up With the Perks?]]// \\
 //See also: [[axanar_finances|In Wake of Perk Problems, Peters Claims Axanar is Broke]] and [[terry_mcintosh|Axanar Tech Chief Resigns]]//</wrap> //See also: [[axanar_finances|In Wake of Perk Problems, Peters Claims Axanar is Broke]] and [[terry_mcintosh|Axanar Tech Chief Resigns]]//</wrap>
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 +//**__ __**// <wrap lo>**By [[user>cpedraza|Carlos Pedraza]]**</wrap>
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 Axanar fulfillment director Diana Kingsbury informed donors that it has launched a software platform it hopes will address its inability to maintain a database enabling the production to ship long-delayed perks to contributors. Axanar fulfillment director Diana Kingsbury informed donors that it has launched a software platform it hopes will address its inability to maintain a database enabling the production to ship long-delayed perks to contributors.
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 [{{ ::watters-dianaprime.jpg|**TEAMWORK** Axanar's new chief technologist, Bill Watters (left), and its fulfillment director, Diana Kingsbury. <wrap lo>(//Photo: Axanar website//)</wrap>}}] [{{ ::watters-dianaprime.jpg|**TEAMWORK** Axanar's new chief technologist, Bill Watters (left), and its fulfillment director, Diana Kingsbury. <wrap lo>(//Photo: Axanar website//)</wrap>}}]
  
-====== Ares Digital 2.0 ======+===== Ares Digital 2.0 =====
  
 In a post September 9, 2016, on the Axanar Donors Facebook page, Kingsbury announced: In a post September 9, 2016, on the Axanar Donors Facebook page, Kingsbury announced:
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 The resignation in May 2016 by chief technologist, [[terry_mcintosh|Terry McIntosh]], amid growing donor complaints of its delivery capabilities, left Axanar's perk fulfillment in a state of disarray. Its new technology chief, Bill Watters, stepped in to build a new system to deal with old and error-ridden donor data getting in the way of shipping perks that didn't depend on completion of the long-delayed //Axanar// feature film. The resignation in May 2016 by chief technologist, [[terry_mcintosh|Terry McIntosh]], amid growing donor complaints of its delivery capabilities, left Axanar's perk fulfillment in a state of disarray. Its new technology chief, Bill Watters, stepped in to build a new system to deal with old and error-ridden donor data getting in the way of shipping perks that didn't depend on completion of the long-delayed //Axanar// feature film.
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 +==== Dispute Over Ares Digital Name ====
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 +On Facebook, [[face>groups/CBSvsAxanar/permalink/1302209003123800/?comment_id=1302412453103455&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R7%22%7D|McIntosh claimed]] he owns the Ares Digital name for the system he designed for Axanar (not as a work for hire), and is considering legal action for its continued use by Axanar Productions: "Attorney is already prepping the lawsuit," McIntosh posted.
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 +He said he instructed his attorney, "Sic 'em." In reply, McIntosh added his attorney questioned the intelligence behind Axanar's continued use of the Ares Digital name.(([[face>groups/CBSvsAxanar/permalink/1302209003123800/?comment_id=1302412453103455&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R7%22%7D|Terry Mcintosh post to CBS/Paramount vs. Axanar Facebook page]], 9/9/16.))
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 +==== Unlicensed Software? ====
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 +McIntosh went on to allege Axanar was using an unlicensed template for the design of its new Ares Digital platform:
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 +> Just received an email from the creator of the retail HTML theme that I purchased and modified for Ares Digital's use and the author and his firm have confirmed that they (Axanar, [CTO] Bill [Watters], Alec, or anyone remotely close) did not purchase a license to use it... so there's ANOTHER copyright infringement at play. They say that they'll pursue their interests.(([[face>groups/CBSvsAxanar/permalink/1302209003123800/?comment_id=1302412453103455&reply_comment_id=1302874749723892&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R9%22%7D|Terry McIntosh post to CBS/Paramount vs. Axanar Facebook page]], 9/10/16.))
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 +These new developments were just the latest events in the debacle Ares Digital is turning out to be for Axanar.
  
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 Finally, she reassured donors that once they complete their user profiles, "the patches from the Axanar Kickstarter will start shipping!"(([[http://www.axanarproductions.com/drum-roll-please/|"Drum Roll, Please," post by Diana Kingsbury, Axanar Fulfillment Blog]], 9/9/16.)) In June, Kingsbury had [[http://www.axanarproductions.com/mid-summer-update/|advised Indiegogo donors]] that none of the perks from the 2015 [[axanar_indiegogo_details|Indiegogo campaign]] had been manufactured, so none of those donors were likely to see their perks for some time, if ever. Finally, she reassured donors that once they complete their user profiles, "the patches from the Axanar Kickstarter will start shipping!"(([[http://www.axanarproductions.com/drum-roll-please/|"Drum Roll, Please," post by Diana Kingsbury, Axanar Fulfillment Blog]], 9/9/16.)) In June, Kingsbury had [[http://www.axanarproductions.com/mid-summer-update/|advised Indiegogo donors]] that none of the perks from the 2015 [[axanar_indiegogo_details|Indiegogo campaign]] had been manufactured, so none of those donors were likely to see their perks for some time, if ever.
  
 +<wrap em>UPDATE</wrap> On January 29, 2019, [[production update 3|Peters announced]] the Indiegogo patches had finally been manufactured and would soon be shipped to waiting donors.
 ===== Few Perks ===== ===== Few Perks =====