Inside CoPress » editorial calendar http://inside.copress.org Radical transparency in progress Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:40:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 2006-2007 website@copress.org (Inside CoPress) website@copress.org (Inside CoPress) posts Where the team discusses the goings-ons of CoPress Inside CoPress Inside CoPress website@copress.org No no http://inside.copress.org/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpgInside CoPresshttp://inside.copress.org 144 144 Posts for the next three weekshttp://inside.copress.org/2009/06/12/posts-for-the-next-three-weeks/ http://inside.copress.org/2009/06/12/posts-for-the-next-three-weeks/#comments Sat, 13 Jun 2009 03:24:28 +0000 Emily http://inside.copress.org/?p=421 June 18th: Minn Daily App & How to Take Your Facebook Presense to the Next Level

  • This is huge. We really need to be talking more about this. I’m thinking someone can get in contact with someone at the Minn Daily and get details on the whole process from beginning to end. Because the project is open source, we can expect a lot more college media outlets to be doing this. Maybe the Minn can offer up some advice?

June 24th: Best of Student Media Podcasts

  • An in-depth look on what college newspapers are doing well. Are they daily? Weekly? Do the best podcasts include conversations between staffers on recent news? Are they interviews with staff members or news makers? On the tech side, what equipment do they use to record and edit?

July 1: Analytics – When to Know if You’re Falling Behind

  • Every industry has their standard (found out this summer 4 minutes is the average time visitors spend on cable news’ Web sites). What is it for college newspapers? How many pages does the average reader visit? How do you know when your site is falling behind?
]]> http://inside.copress.org/2009/06/12/posts-for-the-next-three-weeks/feed/ 1 May 17, 2009: End of the weekly callhttp://inside.copress.org/2009/05/18/may-17-2009-end-of-the-weekly-call/ http://inside.copress.org/2009/05/18/may-17-2009-end-of-the-weekly-call/#comments Mon, 18 May 2009 14:16:31 +0000 Lauren http://inside.copress.org/?p=369 Sunday night’s call was short and sweet. Although lacking in participants (indicative of the start of summer), it was a productive discussion that resulted in changes to the frequency of weekly team calls. Daniel, Joey, Andrew Spittle and I were in attendance.

Hosting

Although Miles wasn’t around to talk about hosting, Joey got a good start on revamping the demo site. He updated it with a Woo Theme template to better reflect the sites CoPress launches. The revamped demo site has a stronger emphasis on users’ ability to login and mess with the WordPress backend.

His goal for the week is to fix the thumbnails bug and feature formatting examples on the frontpage articles.

Community

There was a lot to talk about in the community portion of the call this week. Andrew Spittle kicked it off with a brief recap of his plans for the summer design workshop. The camp will take place May 28 to July 8 through a series of conference calls and screen-sharing sessions. We’ll start promoting the camp this week through a combination of a Facebook group (which Daniel will set up in association with the CoPress page) and a Google form (which participants will use to sign up).

Thursday at 8 a.m. PST, Joey, Daniel, Andrew and I will do a test run of Adobe Connect Pro to determine its support capacity for screen-sharing. Before fall quarter starts again, we’ll feature a wrap-up of the projects that resulted from the summer workshops.

Another topic that came up was regarding the hiring of a new community manager to take Greg’s place now that he’s crazily busy with Poynter and the Dallas Morning News. Daniel said we’d like to hire someone who will be proactive in bringing more people into the conversation; we seem to have hit a nice balance of only conversing with people we know.

The final topic in the community section was regarding the forum topics. Joey offered to take charge of the forum this week, but Daniel suggested holding off because they haven’t been generating much conversation. We decided to meet halfway and instead make this week’s forum question about why some topics don’t get responses. The goal is to determine what the community prefers.

Organization

Based in part on this week’s low turnout and the fact that everyone’s busy with summer obligations, we decided to reduce team calls to every other week. General topic calls will take place on the off-weeks.

Although we decided against an overall site redesign, Joey brought up a few goals he has for the CoPress site this summer. Joey took responsibility for overhauling the front page and hosting page. Another idea we’re going to look into is making the main nav bar visible on the wiki.

Editorial

Upcoming posts for this week include details on our search for a new community manager, Andrew’s post on the college web design camp, TWiC summer projects, uses for Laconica, and Friday’s “We Clicked On.”

Financial

Joey is still working with Bank of America. His goal for this week is to move all client information to Google Docs and to send financial information to Adam and Daniel.

]]> http://inside.copress.org/2009/05/18/may-17-2009-end-of-the-weekly-call/feed/ 2 40:32 Sunday night's call was short and sweet. Although lacking in participants (indicative of the start of summer), it was a productive discussion that resulted in ... Sunday night's call was short and sweet. Although lacking in participants (indicative of the start of summer), it was a productive discussion that resulted in changes to the frequency of weekly team calls. Daniel, Joey, Andrew Spittle and I were in attendance.HostingAlthough Miles wasn't around to talk about hosting, Joey got a good start on revamping the demo site. He updated it with a Woo Theme template to better reflect the sites CoPress launches. The revamped demo site has a stronger emphasis on users' ability to login and mess with the WordPress backend.His goal for the week is to fix the thumbnails bug and feature formatting examples on the frontpage articles.CommunityThere was a lot to talk about in the community portion of the call this week. Andrew Spittle kicked it off with a brief recap of his plans for the summer design workshop. The camp will take place May 28 to July 8 through a series of conference calls and screen-sharing sessions. We'll start promoting the camp this week through a combination of a Facebook group (which Daniel will set up in association with the CoPress page) and a Google form (which participants will use to sign up).Thursday at 8 a.m. PST, Joey, Daniel, Andrew and I will do a test run of Adobe Connect Pro to determine its support capacity for screen-sharing. Before fall quarter starts again, we'll feature a wrap-up of the projects that resulted from the summer workshops.Another topic that came up was regarding the hiring of a new community manager to take Greg's place now that he's crazily busy with Poynter and the Dallas Morning News. Daniel said we'd like to hire someone who will be proactive in bringing more people into the conversation; we seem to have hit a nice balance of only conversing with people we know.The final topic in the community section was regarding the forum topics. Joey offered to take charge of the forum this week, but Daniel suggested holding off because they haven't been generating much conversation. We decided to meet halfway and instead make this week's forum question about why some topics don't get responses. The goal is to determine what the community prefers.OrganizationBased in part on this week's low turnout and the fact that everyone's busy with summer obligations, we decided to reduce team calls to every other week. General topic calls will take place on the off-weeks.Although we decided against an overall site redesign, Joey brought up a few goals he has for the CoPress site this summer. Joey took responsibility for overhauling the front page and hosting page. Another idea we're going to look into is making the main nav bar visible on the wiki.EditorialUpcoming posts for this week include details on our search for a new community manager, Andrew's post on the college web design camp, TWiC summer projects, uses for Laconica, and Friday's "We Clicked On."FinancialJoey is still working with Bank of America. His goal for this week is to move all client information to Google Docs and to send financial information to Adam and Daniel. Medium,Priority website@copress.org no No April 19, 2009: Jibba Jabbahttp://inside.copress.org/2009/04/19/april-19-2009-jibba-jabba/ http://inside.copress.org/2009/04/19/april-19-2009-jibba-jabba/#comments Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:03:03 +0000 Daniel http://inside.copress.org/?p=310 We had a short call today that started about a half hour late because we had to discuss personnel issues off the record.

Daniel started the call off by suggesting that everyone should take the week off. This idea was quickly shot down as we realised there’s actually work that needs to be done. Goals for Miles include setting up two clients with new WordPress instances so that they can start working on their websites. Adam and Joey are going to get in touch with Albert so that they can make some serious improvements to our demo site by the end of the week.

We’ve also got an interesting editorial line up for this week. Joey’s going to publish a post tomorrow expanding on his thoughts that he published in the forum yesterday. Emily and Greg will be recording a TWiC tomorrow with some professionals to get there perspective on what they would do with their websites if they were incoming EICs. Emily is going to compile a story of the news organizations running WordPress that will run on Thursday too.

]]> http://inside.copress.org/2009/04/19/april-19-2009-jibba-jabba/feed/ 0 25:30 We had a short call today that started about a half hour late because we had to discuss personnel issues off the record.Daniel started the ... We had a short call today that started about a half hour late because we had to discuss personnel issues off the record.Daniel started the call off by suggesting that everyone should take the week off. This idea was quickly shot down as we realised there's actually work that needs to be done. Goals for Miles include setting up two clients with new WordPress instances so that they can start working on their websites. Adam and Joey are going to get in touch with Albert so that they can make some serious improvements to our demo site by the end of the week.We've also got an interesting editorial line up for this week. Joey's going to publish a post tomorrow expanding on his thoughts that he published in the forum yesterday. Emily and Greg will be recording a TWiC tomorrow with some professionals to get there perspective on what they would do with their websites if they were incoming EICs. Emily is going to compile a story of the news organizations running WordPress that will run on Thursday too. Medium,Priority website@copress.org no No Django shortens conference calls (apparently)http://inside.copress.org/2009/02/08/django-shortens-conference-calls-apparently/ http://inside.copress.org/2009/02/08/django-shortens-conference-calls-apparently/#comments Mon, 09 Feb 2009 05:27:40 +0000 Joey http://blog.copress.org/?p=87 Today marked the first stab at our new conference call format: each director spoke on their area of responsibility for a time. Time limits were enforced — though this was mostly because we had scheduled another conference call with 7 django (and one ruby on rails) newspaper CMS developers. With that impetuous, we were insanely efficient on this call, which is why this summary will read as many short points — that was the nature of the call.

Hosting

Miles has been hard at work, and we expect to sign several new clients soon. The Whit transition went very well, and the support for them has been minimal of late.

Looking toward the immediate future, we recognize that the revolution theme we used for The Whit has limitations and probably ought to be re-examined for the future. This process might be rolled into an attempt on our part to partner with some theme providers.

Editorial

A pat on the back to ourselves on publishing all five days last week, that’s been our goal all along, and we’ve now officially done it, and we plan to do it again this week.

Noting that there is an AP style guide for print products, there probably ought to be a blogging style guide (mostly for links) online. CoPress has started a wiki page for this and hopefully it turns into a useful resource.

Operations, Financial, Community

The core team will be establishing office hours so that people on the team (and eventually the community) will know times when they are sure to be able to get ahold of us. 

We’re excited to have Drew and Jared taking a bigger role on the team, we’re looking forward to their expertise :)

CoPress is launching our first donation campaign tomorrow. We’re looking to get some seed funding to offset the cost of the hosting setup. The campaign is structured so that all you have to do is give a few dollars — anything helps!

One last quick note on the website: we recognize that the forum is too complex right now. We’ll be scaling it back to make it easier to use.

The call finished just before 8:00 EST — the fastest call CoPress has ever accomplished!

]]> http://inside.copress.org/2009/02/08/django-shortens-conference-calls-apparently/feed/ 0 00:01:01 Today marked the first stab at our new conference call format: each director spoke on their area of responsibility for a time. Time limits were ... Today marked the first stab at our new conference call format: each director spoke on their area of responsibility for a time. Time limits were enforced mdash; though this was mostly because we had scheduled another conference call with 7 django (and one ruby on rails) newspaper CMS developers. With thatnbsp;impetuous, we were insanelynbsp;efficientnbsp;on this call, which is why this summary will read as many short points mdash; that was the nature of the call. Hosting Miles has been hard at work, and we expect to sign several new clients soon. The Whit transition went very well, and the support for them has been minimal of late.Looking toward the immediate future, we recognize that the revolution theme we used for The Whit has limitations and probably ought to be re-examined for the future. This process might be rolled into an attempt on our part to partner with some theme providers. Editorial A pat on the back to ourselves on publishing all five days last week, that's been our goal all along, and we've now officially done it, and we plan to do it again this week.Noting that there is an AP style guide for print products, there probably ought to be a blogging style guide (mostly for links) online. CoPress has started a wiki page for this and hopefully it turns into a useful resource. Operations, Financial, Community The core team will be establishing office hours so thatnbsp;people on the team (andnbsp;eventuallynbsp;the community) will know times when they are sure to be able to get ahold of us.nbsp;We're excited to have Drew and Jared taking a bigger role onnbsp;the team, we're looking forward to their expertise :)CoPress is launching our first donation campaign tomorrow. We're looking to get some seed funding to offset the cost of the hosting setup. The campaign is structured so that all you have to do is give a few dollars mdash; anything helps!One last quick note on the website: we recognize that the forum is too complex right now. We'll be scaling it back to make it easier to use.The call finished just before 8:00 EST mdash; the fastest call CoPress has ever accomplished! Medium,Priority website@copress.org no No