Greg, Bryan, myself and others talked on twitter about the value of getting a masters vs. hitting the job market. Might be a good idea to bring this up as a podcast. Remember: we’re about serving student media, not just the techi stuff.
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CoPress strives to be transparent in all that we do. When we initially started having our weekly conference calls, we opted to not only open them up for anyone one to participate, but we recorded the calls and posted them online for anyone to listen into. Somewhere, somehow, along the way, we stopped posting those calls (though we did record most of them).
We’ve opened this blog on copress.org with the intention of correcting that error and using this place as a new line of insight into how we work. We regularly have internal communication on a variety of issues that we hope to move here to the so that we can get feedback from the community. Expect to see a post shortly on CoPress attending conferences.
CoPress Conference Call, Jan 12
Each podcast will have a short summary of the meeting attached to it.
Apparently, nothing gets us CoPress kids to be more efficient on a conference call than the promise of a twitter chat starting an hour into our 1.5 hour call. Today marks the first time we’ve actually adjourned a head of schedule.
Nearly the whole CoPress team was on the line to discuss a change to our internal structuring. With our organization rapidly growing, we’ve come to realize that a certain amount of bureaucracy and accountability are necessary that we just can’t provide with our current, loose, structure. We’ll be trying an ‘office hour’ system to ensure that someone is always manning the communications with the outside world and that we don’t communicate on top of each other. We’ll have refined titles/positions and the team members will be committing to a certain number of hours a week (probably 10-15+).
Following Google’s “don’t be evil” mantra, we decided to take the high road, and handle the IRS right.
Big news: we’ll be pooling our own money and incorporating CoPress shortly to put us on the path to become a recognized 501(c)(3). This is a very long, tedious, and expensive process, but ultimately we believe it’s the right path for CoPress to take.
As of this week, we have 3 confirmed customers for our beta hosting plan, and expect a lot more of our tentative papers to join them as colleges come back into session. These schools will be served under a hosting contract which will be finalized shortly.
If you’re a CoPress fiend, you might have noticed Adam’s post earlier this week asking for donations to send a CoPress team member to a couple of conferences in the near future. In retrospect, we realize this should have been posted on the main CoPress blog. This is the sort of thing that we hope our internal restructuring will ensure.
By the time we reached 8:07 #collegejourn was in full swing, and to avoid further distractions we deferred our discussion of grant applications to later in the week.
A thank you to generous Travis who has made a very large number of frequent flier miles available to CoPress for attending conferences.
And a note to anyone who is considering using CoPress hosting (or not). CoPress is a heavy user of Google Apps, a free service that manages your email, documents, calendars, internal wikis, and anything else (except, annoyingly, todo lists) that your paper might need. We’ll be encouraging anyone who signs up with us to take advantage of Google’s offering.
Cheers from balmy 12º Syracuse, NY!
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