We’ve been using our new system of breaking down topics to be covered into 3 priority levels and endeavoring to keep the calls to 30 minutes. The system isn’t perfect, but it’s working well. We’re always sure to cover the important stuff, and get off the phone much faster than our old hour and 30 minute standard.

Site Design (fixing the 2am half-assing)

Today’s call started off with a full acknowledgment that our hosting page, while updated, is not nearly what we need it to be. Feedback provided:

• It’s not entirely clear that by signing up for hosting, the client should also be signing up for Priority Support. I don’t think we should manage hosting accounts if they don’t have priority support
• Signup form needs to be updated a bit so that we make sure we capture required information.
• In the school size calculator, Staff Size, can be mistaken for University staff, as in faculty, staff, etc. not newspaper staff.
• We should review why we limit database restores to 3? If the DB crashes or breaks after that we won’t do anything? It might become unlimited, as its a service that people are likely to never use, hopefully will never have to use, but should always be there for safety’s sake.
• Include a badge with “Prices starting at $50/month” that leads into the pricing page
• We should consider raising the basic setup cost to $200. $150 seems low
• Maybe make the graphic only over the left column, and move the links to the top of the right column.

Adam is going to take the lead on mapping out what we need to do, and Daniel will help with execution if needed. Any other feedback? Let us know in the comments.

Creative Commons, GPL, MIT, © (Legalese)

Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike. Our software licensing will be decided on a case-by-case basis, with a strong preference for open source software.

The real reason we wouldn’t release something we build as open source is because we don’t want to support it. Rest assured – we’re still real strong supporters of open source.

Financial (Light on numbers, heavy on Words)

There’s a fairly massive report coming about the research done for the Revenue Platform, pay attention to this blog and perhaps the main blog for updates.

Editorial (I can haz randomness)

Our planned editorial calendar for this week:

• Monday – This Week in CoPress
• Tuesday – roundup post of site launches
• Wednesday – Edu video #3
• Thursday – Best practices for commenting policies?
• Thursday – Adam has this
• Friday – We Clicked On

The forum discussion for this week will have something related to facebook apps.

One last thing worth mentioning: as Microsoft would say, we’re going to have a pre-alpha of the Connection Engine v0.1 ready to go this week. (Cheers to Miles!)

Here’s what we’ve got:

• Metadata in the header is configured incorrectly. I tried sharing a link on Facebook and it doesn’t pull a summary, the title tag, or any images. This might be a problem with our theme or with the SEO plugin we use.
• Switching out PodPress (if possible). I think PodPress is breaking with the theme too, and it might just be simpler to embed the MP3 file as an enclosure and use an audio player.
• Make the blog headlines more prominent on the home page. I’m open to ideas as to how this might be done.
• Revising the about page. I’m going to do some work on the bus on the copy, but we still need team bios and photos.
• Adding to the blog sidebar. It would be sweet to have a list of our most recent links, and a player with the most recent version of This Week in CoPress. There might be a plugin that does this, or it might be a little bit more difficult.

I’m also thinking that we should change the URI structure of the website a bit (so that our blog lives at copress.org/blog and we remove the “category” slug). We can wait until Sunday for this tho.

Anything I’m missing?